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U.S. Gender & Sexuality


Alumna
Ph.D. History, 2009

In June 2009, I graduated from UCSB with a Ph.D. in History and a doctoral emphasis in Feminist Studies. I am currently Hench Post-dissertation Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society, where I am revising my dissertation, "Riotous Flesh: Gender, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice, 1830-1860," for publication.

Dissertation Title

  • Riotous Flesh: Gender, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice, 1830-1860

Teaching Fields

  • U.S. Women's History
  • Nineteenth Century Social History
  • History of Sexualities
  • Feminist and Queer Theory
  • History of Medicine

Courses Taught

  • History/Feminist Studies 159c
    Women in 20th Century US History
  • Feminist Studies 186
    Fat Love: Size as a Category of Feminist Inquiry

Teaching Assistantships

  • Women's Studies 150
    Sex, Love and Romance in the Modern World
  • History 17A
    American People until Sectional Crisis
  • History 17B
    American People: Sectional Crisis through Progressivism
  • History 17C
    American People since Progressivism
  • History 4B
    Western Civilization
  • Women in Politics and Society (SFSU)

Publications

  • "Counterproductions: A Review of Donna Dennis' Licentious Gotham"
    common-place.org Volume 9: Number 4.5 (September 2009).
  • "The Trials of Frederick Hollick: Obscenity, Sex Education, and Medical Democracy in the Antebellum United States"
    Journal of the History of Sexuality 12:4 (2003) 543-574.
  • "Sex Education"
    In American History through Literature, 1820-1870, edited by Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert Sattelmeyer (Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006) pp. 1065-1069.

Awards

  • Lancaster Prize
    UCSB's Outstanding Dissertation in the Humanities, 2008-2009
  • Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship
    American Antiquarian Society
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship
    Massachusetts Historical Society
  • Jane S. DeHart Award
    Outstanding Research in Women's and Gender History, UCSB
  • Sexuality Research Fellowship
    Social Science Research Council

Conferences & Presentations

  • Berkshire Conference in the History of Women
    Program Committee Member; Facilitator: "Transfeminism: History, Activism, and Identity Across Gender"
  • Organization of American Historians
    Presenter: "Bodies of Knowledge" in "Beyond Suffrage: Nineteenth-century Women's Activism" Session
  • Colloquium in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology at University of Delaware
    Guest Presenter: "Bodies of Knowledge: Women's Ideas, Healing Practices, and Activism in the Popular Health Movement"
  • SHEAR (Historians of the Early American Republic)
    Presenter: "The Man on the Make in the Popular Health Movement: Frederick Hollick and the Birth of Obscenity"