Sara Dubow

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Sara Dubow
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United States
Nationality (legal) American
Occupation(s)Professor of history, Williams College
Known for2011 recipient of Columbia University’s Bancroft Prize for her first book, Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Sara Dubow is an American professor of history at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Her research and teaching have focused on the ways in which gender, law, and politics shaped American history during the twentieth century. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

In 2011, she was awarded the Bancroft Prize from Columbia University for her first book, Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America (Oxford University Press, 2010). [4] [5] [6]

Education

Dubow earned her Bachelor of Arts degree at Williams College in 1991. She was then awarded her Master of Arts by the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1996 and a Doctor of Philosophy in history by Rutgers University in 2003. [7]

Academic career

Dubow began her academic career as an educator at the Brearley School in New York City, and also taught at that city's Hunter College High School, and Hunter College. She was then hired by Williams College as a member of its history department faculty in 2007 after having initially served as a visiting professor at Williams. [8] [9]

In 2011, while still an assistant professor at Williams College, she was awarded Columbia University's Bancroft Prize for her 2010 book, Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America, which was published by the Oxford University Press. [10] In 2012, she was promoted to the position of associate professor with tenure by the Williams College Board of Trustees. [11] [12]

Subsequently awarded a New Directions Fellowship by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop research projects related to the legal history of reproductive and sexual politics, [13] [14] she then spent the 2013–2014 academic year as a visiting researcher at the Yale Law School. [15]

In 2017, she was awarded a Princeton University library research grant for her project, “Conscience Wars: Conscientious Objection and Religious Accommodations in Modern America, 1965-2016.” [16]

From 2020 to 2023, Dubow served as an associate dean of the faculty at Williams College. [17]

The courses she has taught during her tenure at Williams College have included: [18]

Publications and presentations

An abridged list of Dubow's publications and presentations includes: [19] [20] [21]

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