Debbie Weinstein is a historian of modern American science and medicine. Her research and teaching interests include the history of medicine, psychiatry, and the human sciences; gender and sexuality studies; and visual culture studies. She received her Ph.D. in the History of Science from Harvard University. Her book, The Pathological Family: Postwar America and the Rise of Family Therapy, was published by Cornell University Press in 2013. She served as director of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and associate director of the Pembroke Center at Brown prior to joining the department of American Studies.
Weinstein, Deborah. "In The Name of the Child." Reviews in American History, vol. 44, no. 1, 2016, pp. 145-151. |
Erika Lorraine Milam and Deborah Weinstein. "Special Issue Introduction: Science in the Public Eye." Endeavour, vol. 40, no. 4, 2016, pp. 223-224. |
Deborah Weinstein. "The ‘Make Love, Not War’ Ape: Bonobos and Late Twentieth-Century Explanations for War and Peace." Endeavour, vol. 40, no. 4, 2016, pp. 256-267. |
Deborah Weinstein.
"Foreword." A Girl’s Childhood: Psychological Development, Social Change, and the Yale Child Study Center, edited by Linda Mayes and Stephen Lassonde, New Haven, 2014.
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Deborah Weinstein.
The Pathological Family: Postwar America and the Rise of Family Therapy. Cornell University Press, 2013.
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Deborah Weinstein. "Culture at Work: Family Therapy and the Culture Concept in Post-World War II America." Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, vol. 40, no. 1, 2004, pp. 23-46. |
Salomon Faculty Research Award, Brown University, 2016
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in History of Medicine, Brandeis University, 2004-06
Nancy L. Buc Postdoctoral Fellowship, Pembroke Center, Brown University, 2002-03
Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology Graduate Fellowship, 2001-02
Mrs. Giles Whiting Dissertation Fellowship, 2000-01
Henry A. Murray Dissertation Award, Murray Research Center, Radcliffe College, 1999
Harvard Graduate Society Summer Fellowship, 1998
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 1995-99
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies (declined), 1995
Year | Degree | Institution |
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2002 | PhD | Harvard University |
1998 | MA | Harvard University |
1993 | BA | Brown University |
American Association for the History of Medicine
American Historical Association
American Studies Association
History of Science Society
Organization of American Historians
AMST 0601 - Health and Healing in American History |
AMST 1800 - Honors Seminar |
AMST 1900T - Disability: History, Theory, and Bodily Difference |
AMST 1905N - War and the Mind in Modern America |
AMST 1906D - Bodies of Knowledge: Health and Disease in American Culture |
AMST 2010 - Introduction to Interdisciplinary Methods |
AMST 2520 - American Studies: Professional Issues in American Studies |
HIST 2981J - The Body |
HMAN 1974R - Humans, Animals, and Machines |
STS 1000 - Introduction to Science, Technology and Society: Theories and Controversies |