Women, Gender and Sexuality in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

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Upcoming Meetings

There are no currently scheduled upcoming events.

Past Meetings

  • May 5, 2023

    “Being Natural”: Science, Environment, Sexuality and the Life of Marston Bates"
    Megan Raby
  • April 7, 2023

    "Classification Challenges: Precarity, legibility, and gendering expert labour"
    Drew Danielle Belsky
  • March 3, 2023

    "“The Sun Tells Its Own Story:” Seeing and Unseeing the Environment Through Maria Mitchell’s Solar Photographs"
    Allison Fulton
  • February 3, 2023

    "Visceral Attraction: Dissection and Desire in Japan, 1879-1930"
    Kandra Polatis
  • January 6, 2023

    "Bringing the History of Mathematics Home: Entangled Practices of Domesticity, Gender, and Mathematical Work"
    David E. Dunning and Brigitte Stenhouse
  • December 2, 2022

    Melina Packer shares a work in progress from her new project, a critical race feminist history of hunting dog breeding and training called Bred in Captivity. 
     

     

     
  • November 4, 2022

    "Mutual Influence: Anna Weber-van Bosse, the “Self-Organized” Network and Conceptions of Species Associations 1868-1899”
    Emily Hutcheson
     
     
  • October 7, 2022

    “Women work particularly well in community organizations”: Cultivating Community and Consumerism in the Comanche County REA Women’s Club, 1939-1940
    Victoria Plutshack, Ashton Merck, & Jonathon Free 

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Group Conveners

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    Leah Malamut

    Leah Malamut is a PhD candidate in the Program for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She is broadly interested in the intersections between women, gender, and non-human nature in the modern history of the life sciences. Her dissertation investigates humans and bees as co-creators of natural knowledge, a process that is reciprocally influenced by human concepts of gender and bee sex differences. She holds an MA from the University of Minnesota and a BA from the University of Chicago.

     
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    Samantha Muka

    Sam Muka (she/her) is an assistant professor of STS at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. Her first book, Oceans under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2023. Her current work explores the history of artificial reef and coastal restoration projects in the coastal United States.

     
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    MaryKate Wolken

    MaryKate is a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota (HSTM). Her developing work investigates the construction and role of the reproductive female body in the post-Enlightenment Iberian-Atlantic world; in a larger sense, she is intrigued by questions that interrogate health, medicine, and gender. She has earned a MA from the University of Minnesota and holds a BA from Creighton University.

     

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