Associate Professor of American Studies

Overview

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.    

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