Assistant Professor
Education
PhD, History of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University
MA, American Studies, Columbia University
MagPhil, History, University of Vienna, Austria
Research Interests
- Gender and Sexuality
- History of Medicine and Science
Representative Publications
In Press: How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Conis, Elena, Sandra Eder, and Aimee Medeiros, eds. Pink and Blue: Gender, Culture, and the Health of Children: Rutgers University Press, 2021.
Eder, Sandra. "Gender and Cortisone: Clinical Practice and Transatlantic Exchange in the Medical Management of Intersex in the 1950s." Bull. Hist. Med. 92, no. 4 (2018): 604-33.
———. "Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States: A History of a Medical Treatment by Sarah B. Rodriguez (Review)." Bull. Hist. Med. 89, no. 4 (2015): 816-17.
———. "From ‘Following the Push of Nature’ to ‘Restoring One’s Proper Sex’ – Cortisone and Sex at Johns Hopkins’s Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic." Endeavour 36, no. 2 (2012): 69-76.
———. "The Volatility of Sex: Intersexuality, Gender and Clinical Practice in the 1950s." Gender & History 22, no. 3 (November 2010): 692-707.
———. "Lesbian Pulps Revisited. Über die Beharrlichkeit des Geschlechts und das Scheitern von Konstruktionen.". In Liebe Und Widerstand: Ambivalenzen Historischer Geschlechterbeziehungen. L'homme: Schriften, 209-26. Wien: Böhlau, 2005.
Selected 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)
