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CURRICULUM VITAE
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Robyn L. Rosen 159 Tunnel Hill Road
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(W)Department of History |
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Education
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Ph.D., Department of History, S.U.N.Y. Binghamton, 1992
Major Field: U.S. Women's History; Minor Field: Comparative Women's History Dissertation: "Federal Responsibility or Governmental Tyranny: The Reproductive Reform Impulse and the Welfare State, 1917-1940" Advisor: Professor Kathryn Kish Sklar MA, S.U.N.Y. Binghamton, 1988 Major Field: Comparative Women's History BA, Brandeis University, 1986 Major: American Studies; Minor: Women's Studies |
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Teaching Experience
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1994
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Assistant Professor of History, Marist College, Poughkeepsie,
NY
Courses: U.S. History 1865- the Present, U.S. History 1945- Present, America in the 1960s, Origins of Modern Times, History of American Feminism, Introduction to Women’s Studies, History Capping, History of American Manhood, U.S. Women's History Survey |
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1991-94
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Connecticut College, New
London, CT
Courses: Race and Gender in U.S. History 1865- Present, Introduction to Women's Studies, Feminist Perspectives on Mothering, History of the German Women's Movement |
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1993
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Western New England College
Course: U.S. History, 1945-Present |
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1986-88
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Teaching Assistant, Department of History, S.U.N.Y. Binghamton
Courses: Modern American Civilization, Introduction to Women's Studies, The Holocaust |
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Publications
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Book manuscript, Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights:
Reformers and the Politics of Maternal Welfare, 1914-1940, forthcoming,
Ohio State University Press, "Women and Health" series
“Federal Expansion, Fertility Control, and Physicians in the United States: The Politics of Maternal Welfare in the Interwar Years,” Journal of Women’s History 10:3 (Autumn 1998): 53-73 "The Paradox of Maternalism: Elizabeth Lowell Putnam
and the American Welfare State," co-authored with Sonya Michel, Gender
and History 4:3 (Autumn 1992): 364-85 |
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Reviews
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Review of Martha Hodes, ed. Sex, Love and Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History Multicultural Review (June 2000): 74 Review of Joanne Goodwin, Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform American Studies Journal 44 (Winter 99/Spring 00): 58-59 Review of Theda Skocpol, Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective Journal of Social History (December 1996): 521-23 Review essay on Michael Katz ed., The Underclass Debate:
Views from History and Moore and Pinderhughes, eds., In the Barrios: Latinos
and the Underclass Debate Journal of American Ethnic History (Winter 1996):
101-104 |
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Papers & Presentations
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Panel organizer, “Our Students, Ourselves: Introducing
Women’s Studies to Undergraduates,” presented at the National
Women’s Studies Association Conference, Boston, MA June 2000
"Private Concerns, Public Health: Political and Ideological Conflicts Between the American Birth Control League and 'Progressive Maternalists' During the Interwar Years" presented at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Toronto, CA April 1999 "Politics, Tactics, and Legacies from the First Wave of American Feminism," presented at Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY March 1999 "A History of Welfare," presented at a Town Hall Meeting in Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY December 1998 "Human Rights and Women," presented at the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill Elderhostel Program, Hyde Park, NY November 1998 Comment on "Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Catholic Church: Politics, Policy and Propaganda," presented by Allida Black at a conference on FDR, the Vatican and the Catholic Community, Hyde Park, NY October 1998 “Mothers, Babies, Medicine, & Freedom: The Conspicuous Absence of Sex in the Early Birth Control Movement,” presented at the S.U.N.Y. New Paltz Women’s Studies Conference, New Paltz, NY, November 1997 “Maternal Welfare--Then and Now,” presented at the Women & Society Conference, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY, June 1997 “A History of American Feminism,” presented to the Girls Leadership Workshop, Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill, Hyde Park, NY, June 1997, July1998, June 1999 “Horizontal Hostilities and the Politics of Maternal Welfare in the Early Twentieth Century,” presented at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, IL, November 1995 “Women’s Political Reform Movements and Coalition Building in the Early Twentieth Century,” invited presentation at the New School for Social Research, NY, NY October 1995 "Feminism: Lessons from the Early Twentieth Century," presented at the Socialist Scholars Conference, NY, NY, April 1995 "Illegitimacy, State Responsibility and the Reform of Marriage: Ethel Dummer's Feminist Critique of the Children's Bureau," presented at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Washington D.C. March 1995 Chair and Commentator on panel, "Women's Politics in the Early Twentieth Century," Upstate New York Women's History Organization's 1994 Conference, Binghamton, NY, November 1994 "Women and Public Policy: An Historical Perspective," presented at the Women in Public & International Affairs' speakers series, Columbia University, NY, NY, March 1994 "Suffrage & Anti-Suffrage Politics in Massachusetts,"
invited presentation at the Dalton Free Public Library, Dalton, MA, October
1993 "The Chivalry and Treachery of Doctors: The Influence
of the Organized Medical Community on Infant and Maternal Welfare Reform
in the U.S., 1917-1940," presented at the annual meeting of the American
Association for the History of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, May 1991 |
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Awards and Honors
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Project Director, National Endowment for the Humanities
Focus Grant, "Introducing Human Rights and the Humanities to First
Year College Students," Spring 2000
Faculty of the Year, Marist College, 1996-97 Extraordinary Performance Award, Marist College, 1995 Certificate of Appreciation for Teaching, Marist College,
May 1995 Schlesinger Library Dissertation Research Grant, Radcliffe College, 1990 Peacock Memorial Award, Department of History, S.U.N.Y. Binghamton, 1990 Dissertation Year Fellowship, S.U.N.Y. Binghamton, 1989-90 Research Assistantship for the Sojourner Center for Women's
Studies and for Professor Kathryn Kish Sklar, S.U.N.Y. Binghamton, 1988-89 Teaching Assistantship, S.U.N.Y. Binghamton, 1986-87, 1987-88 Giller Sagan Prize Endowment in Women's Studies, Brandeis
University, 1986 |
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Academic & Community Service
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Reviewer, Journal of Women’s History, 1999 Member, Planning Committee for the Girls Leadership Workshop, Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill, 1999- present Director, American Studies Program, Marist College, Spring
1999- Present Grant reviewer, FDR Library, Hyde Park NY, 1996- Present Curriculum Committee, Marist College, 1996- 1999 Health Benefits Committee, Marist College, 1995-6 Women’s Studies Advisory Board, Marist College, 1994-Present
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