Lynne Elizabeth Curry

Department of History, Eastern Illinois University

600 Lincoln Avenue, Charleston, Illinois 61920-3099

217/581-7988; cflc2@eiu.edu

Professional experience

2002 to present Associate Professor of History, Eastern Illinois University

2001-2003 Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University

1996 to 2002 Assistant Professor of History, Eastern Illinois University

Selected recent and forthcoming publications

Books

DeShaney v. Winnebago County: Child Abuse, State Action, and Children’s Rights in a Family Tragedy. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, forthcoming 2005. This volume is in the series, Landmark Legal Cases in History, edited by Peter Charles Hoffer and N.E.H. Hull.

The Human Body on Trial. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, November 2002. This volume is in the series, On Trial: Legal Issues in Historical Perspective, edited by Charles Zelden.

Editor, with Christopher Waldrep, The United States Constitution and the Nation: History and Documents, Volumes I-4. New York: Peter Lang. September 2003.

Modern Mothers in the Heartland: Gender, Health, and Progress in Illinois, 1900-1930. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. Women and Health: Social and Cultural Perspectives Series, edited by Rima D. Apple and Janet Golden.

“Birthing Practices” and “Children’s Health.” Encyclopedia of Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

“Domestic Violence” and “Child Abuse,” Dictionary of American History, Stanley I. Kutler, editor. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2002.

Modernizing the Rural Mother: Gender, Class, and Health Reform in Illinois, 1900-1930" in Rima D. Apple and Janet Golden, editors, Mothers and Motherhood: Readings in American History. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1997.

Education

Ph.D. University of Illinois, Dissertation: “Modern Mothers in the Heartland: Maternal and Child Health Reform in Illinois, 1900-1930.” Advisor: Sonya Michel.

M.A. Purdue University

B. A. University of California at Santa Barbara

Selected courses taught at Eastern Illinois University

The United States Constitution and the Nation (3600 and 1600)

The United States Constitution and the Nation, honors section (3690)

Twentieth Century U. S. Social and Cultural History (5350)

The Emergence of Industrial America, 1880-1920 (4950)

The Individual and the State (5160)

Women in American History (3900)

Selected papers

“From Germs to Genes: Scientific authority and eugenic theory in the U. S. Supreme Court.” Fifth Joint Meeting of the British Society for the History of Science, the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, and the History of Science Society. Halifax, Nova Scotia, August 2004.

Chair and commentator, “Bioethics and the New Reproductive Technologies.” Law and Society Association annual meeting, Pittsburgh, June 2003.

“‘Lesser Sacrifices’: Gender, Law, and Medicine in Buck v. Bell.” American Historical Association annual meeting, Chicago, January 2003.

“Antivaccinationism in the Early Twentieth Century.” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Medical Scholars Program, Urbana, February 2003.

Invited participant, “Teaching U. S. Constitutional History at Colleges and Universities.” Conference sponsored by Supreme Court Historical Society, February, 2001 and March, 1999.

“Our Antibodies, Ourselves: Compulsory Vaccination and the Limits of the Law, 1900-1930.” American Association for the History of Medicine annual meeting, April 2000.