Professor Goan is a specialist in twentieth century US history, with specific interests in gender, Appalachia/Kentucky, and medical history.  Her first book  Mary Breckinridge: The Frontier Nursing Service and Rural Health in Appalachia (University of North Carolina Press), was published in 2008.  The University Press of Kentucky will publish her second book, A Simple Justice: Kentucky Women Fight for the Vote, in November 2020.  Dr. Goan is working closely with the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Project (see https://networks.h-net.org/node/2289/pages/91162/ kentucky-woman-suffrage-project) to help mark the hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment.