Assistant Professor
Education
2011, PhD, History of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University
2002, MA, American Studies, Columbia University
2000, MagPhil, History, University of Vienna, Austria
Research Interests
- Gender and Sexuality
- History of Medicine and Science
Awards, Grants & Fellowships
Townsend Fellowship (2018-2019)
Humanities Research Fellowship (2018-2019)
IIS Manuscript Mini-Conference Grant (2017)
Regents' Junior Faculty Fellowship (2016)
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin), Fellowship (2013)
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship: Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies (2009)
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University (Fall 2009)
FForte Fellowship – Gender IT (Women in Science & Technology), BMWF, Austria (2005)
Fulbright Scholarship, Austrian Fulbright Commission (2000)
Post-graduate Scholarship, Austrian Ministry of Science (2000)
Scholarship of the Johannes Kepler Excellence Fund (2000)
Representative Publications
Forthcoming: Bulletin of the History of Medicine: "Gender and Cortisone. Clinical Practice and Transatlantic Exchange in the Medical Management of Intersex Conditions in the 1950s."
“From ‘following the push of nature’ to ‘restoring one’s proper sex’ — Cortisone and Sex at Johns Hopkins’s Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic,” Endeavour, June, 36 (2) (2012): 69-76.
“The Volatility of Sex. Intersexuality, Gender and Clinical Practice in the 1950s,” Gender & History, 22 (3) (2010): 692–707.
