Amy Gangloff

Education
Academic Career
Research Interests
Presentations
Courses Taught

Education:

• Ph.D. in History, SUNY-Stony Brook.
  Major field: American Science, Technology, Medicine, and Gender. Advisor: Nancy Tomes
  
  Medicalizing the Automobile: Public Health, Safety, and American Culture, 1920-1967.
  
  
• Graduate Certificate, Women's Studies, 2001.
  
• Bachelor of Arts in History, The Pennsylvania State University, 1996.
  
• University Honors Thesis-"Bloody Buckets: The 26th Infantry and Combat Experience During World War II."

Academic Career:

• Adjunct Instructor, Department of History, SUNY-Stony Brook, 2003-06

Research Interests:

• United States, 20th Century social and cultural history, medicine, science and technology, public health, gender studies

Presentations:

"Bodies in Motion: Automobile Accidents, Crashworthiness, and Changing Notions of the Body, 1941-1954,  American Association for the History of Medicine, Rochester, New York, April 2008

Panel Organizer: "Everyday Risks: Pedestrians, Automobiles and the Enclosure Movement,  American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., January 2008 Participants: John Burnham, Joel Tarr, and Chris Warren Paper: "Medicalizing the Automobile: Hugh De Haven, Public Health and the Traffic Safety Act of 1966 

"Medicalizing the Automobile: Hugh De Haven, Crashworthiness,  and the Traffic Safety Act of 1966,  Society for the History of Technology, Washington, D.C., October 2007

"Medicalizing the Automobile: Crashworthiness, Public Health and the Traffic Safety Act of 1966,  First Regional Southern History of Science and Technology Conference, April, 2007

"The American Disease: The Automobile, Safety and Federal Regulation, 1956-1966,  The Car in History, University of Toronto conference, May 2005

"Community Outreach between High Schools and Colleges,  Mid-Atlantic National Women s Studies Association, Philadelphia Community College, Philadelphia, February 2003

"The Politics of Teaching about Women and AIDS,  National Women s Studies Association, Albuquerque, June1999

"The Body of America: Race, Blood Donations, and Nationalism in New York during World War II,  Conference on the History of the State of New York, June 1999

"One Pint, One Life: Blood Donations, Citizenship, and Race from 1939-1945,  American Association for the History of Medicine Annual Meeting, Rutgers, May 1999


• Courses Taught:
  
  Courses Taught: History of medicine, women s history, history of popular culture, history of public health, American history since 1877, 20th century American history