Professor and Chair of American Culture, Professor in History, Women's Studies, and Obstetrics and Gynecology
amstern@umich.edu
Office Information:
3703 Haven Hall
FOR DEPARTMENTAL BUSINESS
contact: amcult-chair@umich.edu
calendar: invitations and appointment requests should be directed to Prof. Stern c/o mlfr@umich.edu
Fields of study:
Health and society, reproductive politics, genetics and social justice
phone: 734.615.6473
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1999
About
Professor Stern is the author of the prize-winning book Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America, second edition. (University of California Press, 2015).
Her latest book is Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012) is a Choice 2013 Outstanding Academic Title in Health Sciences.
Affiliation(s)
- Faculty: Department of American Culture (AC), Latina/o Studies (LS)
- Faculty Affiliate: Department of History
- Faculty Affiliate: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine
- Faculty Affiliate: Department of Women's Studies
- Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) at the International Institute
Award(s)
- 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
- 2012 John P. McGovern Award in Family, Health, and Human Values (University of Houston)
- 2017 Annual Award Lecturership, Yale University. School of Medicine.
