Career
Upon completing her PhD,Ladd-Taylor joined the history faculty at York University. [2] While there,she published her first book titled Raising a Baby the Government Way:Mothers' Letters to the Children's Bureau,1915–1932 through the Rutgers University Press in 1986. The book was a collection of letters from women around the United States detailing motherhood difficulties,including death and diet,between World War I and the end of the 1920s. [4] A few years later,she published another book titled Mother-Work:Women,Child Welfare,and the State,1890-1930 through the University of Illinois Press. [5]
In 2017,Ladd-Taylor published Fixing the Poor:Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century through the Johns Hopkins University Press. The book focused on the history of Eugenics in the United States as depicted in institutional and medical records,court cases,newspapers and professional journals. [6] [7] It was shortlisted for the 2019 Wallace K. Ferguson Book Award as an "outstanding scholarly book in a field of history other than Canadian history." [8] During this time,she was also promoted to Full Professor in York University's Department of History. [9]
During the 2019–20 academic year,Ladd-Taylor won a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant to fund her research project "Damaged Children,Innocence,Inequality and the Politics of Poverty in the Postwar United States,1950-90." [10] As a result of her accomplishments,Ladd-Taylor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2020. [11]
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