Andrew Lieman is a third year student at Grinnell College double-majoring in Psychology and Economics. The American eugenics movement that was at its height in the early 1900s is largely seen as having lost most of its influence after WWII due to its association with Nazis and the Holocaust. However, such large movements do not… Read more The Adapting Eugenics Movement After WWII
Summer White is a senior political science major with a concentration in policy studies at Grinnell College. Interested in pursuing public health and social justice oriented policy, Summer will begin her career this July in Washington, DC as a federal strategy and operations business analyst. Health is a universal human experience. Physical, social, emotional, mental,… Read more History of Welfare in United States: Equality for Some
Haley O’Neill (’18) is a Biology and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies major from SE MN. After Grinnell, she is working with maternal healthcare and reproductive rights advocacy. She hopes to pursue midwifery or women’s healthcare policy. The U.S. maternal mortality rate, in 2018, is comparable to the rate in the 1970s. Approximately 700-900 women die… Read more Choice? Alternative Birthing Options for Black Women in the Southern U.S. From the 1970s-now
Toby Baratta (2017) is a student at Grinnell College majoring in Computer Science and Political Science with a concentration in Statistics. She loves data analysis, accessible technology, queer life, intersectional feminism, and cats. Sex work has been a popular conversation lately in the news and pop media. There have been talks about decriminalization, legalization, and… Read more Sex Work and Stigma: A Historical Medical Approach
Sam Curry is a fourth year Anthropology major from South Kingstown, Rhode Island. His main academic interests involve humans’ relationships with the nature and environmental health, and he hopes to work in environmental policy after graduation. His other main interest is racquetball. In 1912, pediatrician Henry L. Coit, mourning his son’s death from typhoid fever,… Read more “One of Our Greatest Investments”: Breastfeeding in the Early 20th Century United States
Whitney Teagle is a second year history and biochemistry double major. When not in class, you can see her on the track or going on a run through the cornfields. As we well know by now, there is a growing obesity epidemic in the United States. Doctors, politicians, celebrities, and schoolteachers talk about it, and… Read more Medicalizing Obesity: American Perceptions of Body and Health
Kate Strain is a history major at Grinnell College from Baltimore, Maryland. On April 2, 1840 the owner of a tavern started a conversation with six members of a drinking club in which he criticized temperance lecturers, calling them hypocrites. From this conversation, part of the unlikely group of heavy drinkers attended a temperance lecture. Convinced… Read more Kindred Spirits
