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.