Sara Dubow Explained
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]
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]
- Approaching the Past: Biographical Methods
- Modern U.S. History
- Recent U.S. History: The 1970s and 1980s
- Sex, Gender, and the Law in U.S. History
- The Fourteenth Amendment and the Meaning of Equality
Publications and presentations
An abridged list of Dubow's publications and presentations includes:[19] [20] [21]
- Dubow, Sara. “‘I Always Pick the Losing Cause’: Dorothy Kenyon, the ACLU, and the Development of Feminist Jurisprudence,” the 2023 UMass Amherst Distinguished Annual Lecture in History. Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Amherst, April 20, 2023.
- Dubow, Sara. “‘A Constitutional Right Rendered Utterly Meaningless’: Religious Exemptions and Reproductive Politics, 1973–2014,” in Journal of Policy History (2015), vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 1–35. Cambridge University Press, December 8, 2014.
- Dubow, Sara. Ourselves Unborn: Fetal Meanings in Modern America. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
External links
Notes and References
- Holland, Jennifer. “The antiabortion movement’s powerful use of language paid off.” Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post, May 5, 2022.
- “Sara Dubow,” in “Faculty and Staff.” Williamstown, Massachusetts: Williams College, retrieved online May 13, 2024.
- Tentler, Leslie Woodcock. “Fetal Positions.” New York, New York: Commonweal Magazine, March 14, 2011.
- Gardner, Jan. “Dubow Wins Bancroft Prize,” in “The Word.” Boston, Massachusetts: The Boston Globe, April 10, 2011, p. K6.
- “Sara Dubow Wins Bancroft Prize,” in “Williams Today.” Williamstown, Massachusetts: Williams College, March 28, 2011.
- Holz, Rose. “Review of Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America, by Sara Dubow,” in Journal of Social History, vol. 46, no. 4 (Summer 2013), pp. 1075-1077. Oxford University Press, 2013.
- “Sara Dubow,” Williams College.
- “Williams names visiting professors for 2007-2008.” North Adams, Massachusetts: North Adams Transcript, October 16, 2007, p. 6.
- “Sara Dubow,” Williams College.
- “Sara Dubow Wins Bancroft Prize,” Williams College, 2011.
- “Dubow awarded tenure at Williams.” North Adams, Massachusetts: North Adams Transcript, May 8, 2012, p. 7.
- “Williams Awards Tenure to History Professor,” in iBerkshires.com. North Adams, Massachusetts: Boxcar Media, May 4, 2012.
- “Williams history prof. wins Mellon fellowship.” North Adams, Massachusetts: North Adams Transcript, June 19, 2013, p. 3.
- “Sara Dubow Receives Research Fellowship.” Williamstown, Massachusetts: Williams College, June 14, 2013.
- Sara Dubow, in “Symposium 2013: Biographies.” Berkeley, California: Berkeley Law, University of California, Berkeley, retrieved online May 13, 2024.
- Sara Dubow, “Conscience Wars: Conscientious Objection and Religious Accommodations in Modern America, 1965-2016,” in “Princeton University Library Research Grants for 2017-2018” (Public Policy Papers). Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University, retrieved online May 13, 2024.
- “Previous Deans,” in “Faculty at Williams.” Williamstown, Massachusetts: Williams College, retrieved online May 14, 2024.
- “Sara Dubow,” Williams College.
- “Sara Dubow,” Williams College.
- “The 2023 UMass Amherst Distinguished Annual Lecture in History by Sara Dubow.” Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Amherst, April 20, 2023.
- Dubow, Sara. “‘A Constitutional Right Rendered Utterly Meaningless’: Religious Exemptions and Reproductive Politics, 1973–2014,” in Journal of Policy History (2015), vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 1-35. Cambridge University Press, December 8, 2014.
