Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture and Women's and Gender Studies; Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
About
Professor Stern is the author of the prize-winning book Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America, (University of California Press, 2005).
Her latest book is Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012) is a Choice 2013 Outstanding Academic Title in Health Sciences.
Award(s)
2006 American Public Health Association’s Arthur Viseltear Prize for outstanding contribution to the scholarship on the history of public health (for Eugenic Nation)
Emma Thornbrough Prize for the best article in the Indiana Magazine of History in 2007
2012 John P. McGovern Award in Family, Health, and Human Values (University of Houston)
Field(s) of Study
Health and society, reproductive politics, genetics and social justice
