Marissa Nichols is a PhD candidate studying the history of public health and nursing in modern Mexico. Set in twentieth-century Oaxaca, her dissertation examines the role of visiting nurses and Indigenous health promoters in state-led rural health programs. She argues that nursing work reshaped how Indigenous communities and municipal authorities interacted with the state in mid-century Oaxaca. Her dissertation focuses on Mixtec and Mazatec communities and explores themes of gender and authority, development, and language/translation. Her research has been generously supported by a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (U.S. Department of Education), H-31 Pre-Doctoral Grant (American Association for the History of Nursing), Professional Development Support Funds (Emory University), and George P. Cuttino Scholarships (Emory University). For teaching, she received the Martha and Bill Dobes Outstanding Graduate Teaching Fellow Award (Emory University).