Carolyn Lewis

Carolyn Lewis
Assistant Professor

231-B Himes Hall
578-2671
cflewis@lsu.edu

COURSES TAUGHT:
Hist 4079: Women in American History; Hist 2057: United States Since 1865 (spring 2009)

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Definitions of sexual health in the 20^th century United States, Cold War American culture, history of women’s healthcare

INTERESTED IN DIRECTING THESES AND DISSERTATIONS ON:
History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the United States, 20^th century U.S. cultural and social history

BRIEF VITA

Education:
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, 1997; M.A. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, 2001; Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007

Awards and Honors:

Western Association of Women Historians Judith Lee Ridge Article Prize, 2007, for “Waking Sleeping Beauty: The Premarital Pelvic Exam and Heterosexuality in the Cold War,” JWH Dec. 2005

Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Dissertation Fellowship, 2006

Notable Articles:

“Waking Sleeping Beauty: The Premarital Pelvic Exam and Heterosexuality in the Cold War,” Journal of Women’s History, December 2005

“Caregiving and Wage-earning: A Historical Perspective on Work and Family,” coauthored with Eileen Boris, in The Work and Family Handbook: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives and Approaches, edited by Stephen Sweet, Ellen Ernst Kossek, and Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005)

“Thirty Years After Roe: The Continuing Assault on a Woman’s Right to Choose,” coauthored with Jane Sherron De Hart, in Women’s America: Refocusing the Past, 6^th edition, edited by Linda K. Kerber and Jane Sherron De Hart (Oxford University Press, 2003)