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History of medicine, reproductive politics, and race and racial classification.

• Affiliation(s)

  • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Department of American Culture
  • Department of History

• Fields of Study

  • History of medicine
  • Reproductive politics
  • Race and racial classification.

• 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).

• Education

  • Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1999

• Awards

  • 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
  • Co-recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award in Health Policy Research to conduct a study of the qualitative dimensions of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic in 50 U.S. cities