Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, American Culture, and History; Co-director, Reproductive Justice Faculty Program at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender
Surface Mail: 505 S. State Street | 3722 Haven Hall; Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045
phone: 734.936.5902
hours: Mondays, 12pm - 2pm
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.
Affiliation(s)
Faculty: Department of American Culture (AC), Latina/o Studies (LS)
Faculty Affiliate: Department of History
Faculty Affiliate: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine
Faculty Affiliate: Department of Women's Studies
Director: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) at the International Institute
Co-director: Reproductive Justice Faculty Program at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender
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
