• Ph.D., American History, The University of Illinois at Chicago, 2013
  

• Master of Arts, U.S. History, University of Oklahoma-Norman, 1997
  

• Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude, History, University of Oklahoma-Norman, 1991
  

• International Baccalaureate Diploma, United World College-USA, Montezuma, New Mexico, 1986

• Oral Historian, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Baltimore, MD, May 2024-present.

• Assistant Professor NTT, History Department, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, 2015-2024.

• Consultant/Oral Historian, The Bakken Museum, Minneapolis, MN, March 2017-April 2018 and Jan-Dec 2023.

• Contract Historian/Writer, National Library of Medicine, Exhibitions, Bethesda, MD, September 2014-2017 

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Gender & Women’s Studies Department, MSU-Mankato, MN, 2013-14

• Instructor, Minnesota Correctional Facilities, Faribault & Red Wing, March 2013-July 2013

• Lecturer, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department, UW-La Crosse, WI, 2003-2011

• Program Director, The Self-Sufficiency Program, UW-La Crosse, WI, 2002-2011

• District Field Executive, Girl Scouts of Riverland Council, La Crosse, Wisconsin, April 2001-July 2002

• “Labels, Language,” co-authored with Claire Clark, in Do Less Harm: Ethics for Health Historians forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2025. 

• Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State, University of Minnesota Press, 2021.

• “Seen and Heard: Using Digital Community Engagement to Reconnect Communities and Enrich History Pedagogy,” in Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy, Rebecca Wingo, Jason Heppler, and Paul Schadewald, editors, University of Cincinnati Press, April 2020. DOI: 10.34314/wingodigital.00006

• “Remembering Camp Scott,” Oklahoma State University Library, Digital Archive, 2019.

• Minnesota Made, Exhibit Historian, The Bakken Museum, Minneapolis, MN, April 2018-December 2019. 

• “Women with a Point! & AccessWorks: A Harm Reduction Archive,” April 2018.

• “Remembering Rondo: An Inside View of a History Harvest,” American Historical Association magazine, Perspectives, March 2017. 

• “Domestic Violence: A History of Reform and Activism in the United States,” Permanent Digital Higher Education Curriculum Module for the National Library of Medicine exhibition, Confronting Violence: Improving Women’s Lives, September 2015.

• “Dan Sheridan, R.N. Collection,” Editor and Digital Content Scholar, National Library of Medicine, October 2017.  

• “Oral History Lifespans: A Framework for Learning, Evolving, and Connecting,” Oral History Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, October 20, 2023. 

• “Narrative Interventions: Opioid Reckoning in the Land of 10,000 Rehabs,” Alcohol & Drugs History Society Biannual International Conference, Mexico City, June 15-17, 2022. 
  

• “Not an Elegy: Oral Histories of the Opioid Epidemic,” Center for Southwest Studies, Texas State University-San Marcos, TX, November 15, 2021.

• “Moving Stories from the Opioid Epidemic: Harm Reduction, Recovery Support, and Community Arts,”

• Oral History Association Annual Conference, October 12, 2021.

• “Empathy Included: Oral Histories and Digital Archives in Community-Based Projects,” Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship Summer Institute, Invited Speaker and Mentor, July 27, 2021.
  

• “The Minnesota Opioid Project: Stories of Trauma, Stigma, and Healing,” VA Medicine Grand Rounds, Invited Speaker, May 7, 2021.

• “Women of Substance: A Story of Harm Reduction & Syringe Exchange in the Land of 10,000 Rehabs," November 2019, Humanities Colloquium, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN.

• “The Minnesota Opioid Project,” Program in the History of Medicine, Noon Hour Lecture Series University of Minnesota, December 3, 2018. Minneapolis, MN

• “The Minnesota Opioid Project: Listening Our Way Through Crisis and Healing,” Oral History Association Annual Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, October 13, 2018.

• “Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy” and “Ethical Considerations in Community Partnerships,” Digital Liberal Arts Professional Activities Workshop, Macalester College, May 14-15, 2018.

• “At the Crossroads of Race and Urban Renewal: Documenting the Past, Engaging the Present, and Creating the Future Through Public Scholarship and Community Engagement” Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI, October 6, 2016.

• “Confronting Violence: Exhibitions + Partners for Change,” Mid-Atlantic Associations of Museums Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, October 21-23, 2015.

• “There’s No Badge for This: Transgressing Violence & Healing from Tragedy—A Feminist History Project,” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, San Juan, PR, November 2014. 

• “Junior Girl Scout, Troop #277, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1977,” The Loft Literary Center Mentor Series, Author Reading, Minneapolis, MN, January 2013.

• “Claiming an Education: How the Self-Sufficiency Program Empowers Women, Creates Community and Brings Diversity to the University,” University College Dublin, School of Equality Studies Conference: “Creating Change: Feminism, The University and Society.” March 11-12, 2011, Dublin, Ireland.

• “Class in the Classroom,” College of Liberal Studies Inclusive Excellence Presentation for Faculty, UW-La Crosse, February 8, 2011. 

• “‘Every Stitch and Step of My Life’: How Trauma Changed Girls’ Lives after the 1977 Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders,” Society for the History of Children & Youth Annual Conference, UC-Berkeley, July 12, 2009.

• “How Do I Get There From Here?: The Self-Sufficiency Program as a Bridge for Pre-College Student-Parents,” Student Parent Support Symposium, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, June 24, 2009.

• “The Self-Sufficiency Program: One Story,” Presentation to the Wisconsin Board of Regents Annual Meeting, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, December 2, 2008.

• “Girl Scouts on Trial: Safety, Security, and Liability after the 1977 Camp Scott Tragedy,” UIC Institute for the Humanities, Graduate Student Conference, University of Illinois at Chicago, March 2006.

• “Creating a Space for Mind Hunger,” at UW System Annual Women’s Studies Conference, UW-Stout, Menomonie, WI, October 2003.

• “Women’s Studies in Action: Keeping Social Change at the Center,” National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 2003.

Opioid Reckoning community presentations/book talks ongoing since 2021:

• Ridges and Rivers Book Festival, Twin Cities Jewish Community Mental Health Education Conference, Ramsey County Public Library Author Series, Rochester Public Library, Red Wing Public Library

• “Love, Fury, and Self-Care: How Mothers Are Navigating the Opioid Epidemic,” Moms For All Paths, Solvang, CA, online presentation, December 8, 2021.

• “The United States of Addiction: Reckoning with Opioids in ‘The Land of 10,000 Rehabs,’” St. Thomas Selim Center Speaker Series, October-November 2021

• “Minnesota Opioid Project: Listening My Way through Crisis and Healing,” Faculty and Staff Wellness Lunch, Macalester College, November 30, 2017

• “Non-traditional Adult Women College Students in the U.S.,” Women’s Studies Outreach Programme, Loreto Centre – Crumlin, University College Dublin, March 14, 2011. 

• “Setting the Table, Sharing A Meal: Reflections on Mind Hunger,” YWCA Tribute to Outstanding Women Award Speech, November 11, 2010. 

• The Self-Sufficiency Program’s Locally Grown Scholarship Breakfast, Organizer & Host, 2006-2010.

• Minnesota Book Awards 2022 Finalist, Emilie Buchwald Award for Nonfiction for Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss & Redemption in the Rehab State (2021).

• National Council on Public History, 2021 Book Award, “Seen and Heard: Using Digital Community Engagement to Reconnect Communities and Enrich History Pedagogy,” in Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy, Rebecca S. Wingo, University of Cincinnati; Jason A. Heppler, University of Nebraska at Omaha; and Paul Schadewald, Macalester College (University of Cincinnati Press, 2020)

• Minnesota Campus Compact President's Award: The Civic Engagement Steward Award for "Remembering Rondo,” a public history practicum with a community History Harvest, November 2017

• Non-Fiction Award Winner, The Loft Literary Center Mentor Series, 2012-2013

• Community Development Award, Tribute to Outstanding Women YWCA of the Coulee Region, 2010

• Board of Regents Diversity Award Nominee, University of Wisconsin System, 2010-11

• Oswald Family Foundation Grant, “Minnesota Opioid Project: 1980-2019,” Oral History Project.

• UW-La Crosse International Development Fund Grant to attend Creating Change: Feminism, The University and Society, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, March 11-12, 2011. 

• University Fellow, University of Illinois at Chicago Graduate School, 2004-2009. 

• Park, Jaeyoon. “No Single Path: Review of Amy Sullivan's Opioid Reckoning.” Theory & Event 25 (1): 225–29. 2022.

• New Books Network Podcast, Opioid Reckoning, Interview with Claire Clark, PhD

• Scott, Paul. “Opioid Reckoning Calls Out the 12 Steps in an Age of Fentanyl,” Rochester Post Bulletin, Dec 3, 2021.

• Narrative Medicine Workshop, Columbia University, March 19-21, 2021

• Academics for Black Survival and Wellness Online & Zoom Workshop, June 19-26, 2020.

• Digital Medical History, Workshop at National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, April 2016

• Urban Faculty Colloquium, Civic Engagement Center (August 11-13, 2015) 

• Digital Liberal Arts Faculty Workshop: OMEKA, Reclaim Hosting (Fall Semester 2015)

• Associated Colleges of the Midwest Faculty Career Enhancement Program, "Digital Storytelling and the Liberal Arts: A Curriculum Development Workshop" (Fall 2015, culminating Jan 7-8, 2016)

• Century College, Transition to Work/Succeeding in Life, Instructor Training, 2013

• Shakopee Women’s Prison, Volunteer Training, 2012

• LGBTQQIAA Reading Group, UW-La Crosse, 2010-11

• White Privilege Conference, Minneapolis, MN, April 2011

• EPAG ad hoc Curriculum Committee, Macalester Strategic Plan

• Awards Committee, College of Behavioral & Social Sciences, MSU-Mankato

• Curriculum Committee, Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies Dept., UW-La Crosse 

• Steering Committee, Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies Dept., UW-La Crosse 

• Pride Center, Faculty/Staff Mentor for LGBTQIAA students, UW-La Crosse

• Provost’s Enrollment, Assessment & Recruitment Committee, UW-La Crosse

• Self-Sufficiency Program Advisory Board, Chair (2002-2011)

• United World College-USA Alumni Affairs Committee Member (2010-2012) 

• Coulee Region Social Justice Coalition Board Member (2001-2004) 

• Monroe County Teen Pregnancy Prevention Committee (2001-2002)

• Oral History Association

• Alcohol and Drugs History Society

• National Council on Public History

• American Association for the History of Medicine