On Leave 2022-2023
Education
M.A. University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1996)
Ph.D. Rutgers University, History (2003)
Courses
HIST 152 / WGSS 152 SEM
The Fourteenth Amendment and the Meanings of Equality (not offered 2022/23)HIST 155 TUT
School Wars (not offered 2022/23)HIST 253 LEC
Modern U.S. History (not offered 2022/23)HIST 479 SEM
Recent U.S. History: The 1970s and 1980s (not offered 2022/23)Biography
Sara Dubow graduated from Williams in 1991, and received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2003. Before joining the Williams History department faculty in 2007, she taught at the Brearley School, Hunter College High School, and Hunter College. Her research and teaching interests examine the intersections of gender, law, and politics in 20th century U.S. history. Her book Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America was published in 2011 by Oxford University Press.
Selected Publications
Ourselves Unborn: Fetal Meanings in Modern America, Oxford University Press, 2011
Research Interests
Modern United States History; Legal and Political History of Race, Gender and Sexuality
Theses Advised
Zoë Fisher ’21 – Poverty Law Eroded: the ACLU, the Welfare Rights Movement, and the Judicial ‘Denigration of the Pauper’
Isabel Peña ’19 – The New O.C.: Race, Space, Immigration and the Re-making of Suburban California
Rachel Schwartz ’17 – “Serving with Pride and Dignity”: Women in the U.S. Military at the Transition to the All-Volunteer Force
Paige Whidbee ’15 – ‘Inimical to the Cause of American Liberty’: The American Government’s Treatment of Neutrals in Revolutionary Philadelphia
Alison Pincus ’12 – The Mark of Reliability? A Documentary Study of the Closing of the Sprague Electric Company Facilities in North Adams, MA
Anne Kerth ’11 – Missouri Compromised: The Missouri Democrat and the Buildup to the Civil War, 1856-1861
Colleen Farrell ’10 (Women’s & Gender Studies) – Epidemic Politics: Representation and Resistance in the First Decade of AIDS
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