Sara Dubow is an American professor of history at

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. Her research and teaching have focused on the ways in which gender, law, and politics shaped American history during the twentieth century. In 2011, she was awarded the

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from

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for her first book, ''Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America'' (Oxford University Press, 2010).

Education

Dubow earned her Bachelor of Arts degree at Williams College in 1991. She was then awarded her Master of Arts by the

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in 1996 and a Doctor of Philosophy in history by

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in 2003.

Academic career

Dubow began her academic career as an educator at the

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, and also taught at that city's

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, and

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. 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. 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

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. In 2012, she was promoted to the position of associate professor with tenure by the Williams College Board of Trustees. Subsequently awarded a New Directions Fellowship by the

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to develop research projects related to the legal history of reproductive and sexual politics, she then spent the 2013–2014 academic year as a visiting researcher at the

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. In 2017, she was awarded a

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library research grant for her project, “Conscience Wars: Conscientious Objection and Religious Accommodations in Modern America, 1965-2016.” From 2020 to 2023, Dubow served as an associate dean of the faculty at Williams College. The courses she has taught during her tenure at Williams College have included: * 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: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. “‘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.

References

External links

* Dubow, Sara.
Ourselves Unborn: Fetal Meanings in Modern America
'. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 (publisher's website with book's table of contents). {{DEFAULTSORT:Dubow, Sara American women historians 21st-century American academics 21st-century American historians 21st-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American women writers Academics from Massachusetts Academics from New York City Educators from Massachusetts Educators from New York City Writers from Massachusetts Williams College alumni Williams College faculty University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni Rutgers University alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people)