Fall 2024 Class Hours
Mon / Wed – 11:00 am to 12:15 pm
Fall 2024 Office Hours
Mon – 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm
And By Appointment
Education
M.A. University of Massachusetts Amherst (1996)
Ph.D. Rutgers University, History (2003)
Courses
HIST 253 LEC
Modern U.S. History (not offered 2024/25)HIST 479 SEM
Recent U.S. History: The 1970s and 1980s (not offered 2024/25)Current Committees
- Committee on Educational Affairs, Chair
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
Amelia Levitt Smith ’23
Tell It Like It Is! The Purpose, Politics, and Power of Abortion Storytelling in the United States and France
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