- Ph.D. University of Minnesota, History of Science, Technology and Medicine, 2006.
Dissertation: "Feminist Eugenics in America: From Free Love to Birth Control, 1880-1930."
Advisor: Sally Gregory Kohlstedt.
- B. S. with Honors, University of Wisconsin-Madison, History of Science, 1999.
Honors Thesis: "Creation Science turns to Popper: McLean vs. Arkansas, 1981."
Advisor: Lynn K. Nyhart.
- Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University, 2006-
- Instructor, College of Liberal Arts Honors Program, University of Minnesota, 2004
History of eugenics, women and gender in science, history of women's reform, history of American life and social sciences, intellectual and social history of the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Articles
"The American Eugenics Movement" in the Blackwell Companion to the History of American Science, ed. Mark Largent (forthcoming 2008).
- Book Reviews and Other Short Entries
Book review, Suzanne Le-May Sheffield, Women and Science: Social Impact and Interaction, in Isis (2008) 99:386-7.
Book review of Laura Briggs, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico in Journal of the History of Biology (2006) 39:423-4.
"Frances Acton, Ellen Grundy, Annie Lorrain Smith," The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists. (Thoemmes Press, 2004).
- Selected Presentations
"Sexual Eugenics in Progressive Era America" Fourteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, as part of the session: Sexual Science Revisited, Chair/Commentator: Cynthia Eagle Russett, Minneapolis, MN, June 12-15, 2008.
"Making Marriage Scientific: Eugenic Marriage Laws in America," Southern HoST conference, Atlanta, Georgia, April 12, 2008.
"Breeding a New Man for the New Woman: Eugenics and Feminism in Progressive Era America," Science, Technology, and Society Program, Spring Speaker Series, Colby College, March 16, 2007.
"Fleet-footed Suffragettes and Male Beauty Preserves: Eugenic Anxieties about the New Woman," keynote lecture, Phi Alpha Theta Banquet, Mississippi State University, November 29, 2006
"Eugenics as an answer to the 'Woman Question' in late 19th century America," History of Science Society, Minneapolis, MN, presented November 4, 2005 as part of the session Defining Deviance: The Many Meanings of Eugenics in American Social Reform and Social Science, Chair: Daniel Kevles, Commentator: Hamilton Cravens.
"'Woman is the Race': Grassroots Eugenics in 19th century America", International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Guelph, ON, session on the Politics of Evolution, Race and Reform, Chair: Mark Largent, July 2005.
"'The greatest danger to Eugenics': Disciplining Eugenics in the Early 20th Century" Columbia History of Science Conference, Friday Harbor, WA, March 2005.
"Margaret Sanger, the Eugenicist" Women and Gender Historians of the Midwest, Chicago, IL, June 2004.
"Women 'waking up' and Moving the Mountain: The Feminist Eugenics of Charlotte Perkins Gilman" Comparative Women's History Workshop, University of Minnesota, November 2003.
"Moses Harman, Free Love, and the American Journal of Eugenics" Midwest Junto for the History of Science and Technology, Minneapolis, MN, April 2003.
"Revisioning Clarence Darrow and the Scopes Trial" Midwest Junto for the History of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa, April 2002.
Humanities and Arts Research Program (HARP) Grant, 2008-2009
Grant-in-Aid, University of Wisconsin Library, Summer 2008
American History to 1877, Women in American History,History of American Popular Culture, Readings in History of Science and Technology, US History 1877-1917, Readings in Women in American History
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