Kelly Suzanne O'Donnell
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department/Subdepartment
Education
Ph.D., Yale University
M.A., M.Phil., Yale University
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College
Areas of Focus
- 20th century U.S.
- women's and gender history
- history of medicine
- reproductive health
- media and popular culture
- history of technology
Biography
Kelly O'Donnell specializes in 20th-century America with an emphasis on gender and healthcare.
She has published articles on histories of abortion, birth control, and health politics in American culture. She is completing a book, The Pill Hearings: Science, Politics, and Birth Control (under contract, Rutgers University Press), on the scientific and political debates about oral contraceptive side effects in the early 1970s. She has also begun a new project that aims to rewrite the history of American medicine from the perspective of doctors' wives.
Her teaching includes modern U.S. history, the history of medicine, and the history of gender.