Please join the Sex & Slavery Lab and the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology in welcoming Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens (Queens College, CUNY) on campus this week.

Deirdre Cooper Owens is an associate professor of history at Queens College, City University of New York. The recipient of several prestigious honors including the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Postdoctoral Fellowship and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology Fellowship in Washington, D.C., she is a graduate of two historically black colleges and universities, Bennett College and Clark Atlanta University. Her dissertation won the University of California, Los Angeles’s Mary Wollstonecraft Dissertation Award for best women’s history project.

Cooper Owens’ first book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology (2017), traces the relationship between slavery and women’s professional medicine in early America; it won the OAH Darlene Clark Hine Award. She is currently working on a book that examines mental illness during the era of slavery.

A popular public speaker and a 2018-2019 Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer, Cooper Owens has lectured domestically and abroad to diverse audiences. She has published essays, book chapters, and popular blog pieces on a number of issues that concern African American experiences. She has also made a number of appearances on national media outlets as an expert on issues of race, medicine, and U.S. slavery.

TUESDAY, September 18: Sex and Slavery Lab Graduate Student Workship (invite only)

WEDNESDAY, September 19: An Evening with Deirdre Cooper Owens (moderated by Ayah Nuriddin), 6:00 – 8:00 pm, Barnes & Noble (33rd St). View the Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/medical-bondage-by-dr-deidre-cooper-owens-tickets-50196517134

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2018: History of Medicine Colloquia Lecture, “Exploring Hapticity: Slavery and the Emergence of American Gynecology,” 3:00 pm, Welch Medical Library, Seminar Room 303. View the full speaker series here: https://www.hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/content/spring-2018-colloquia-schedule

All events co-sponsored with the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, the Sex & Slavery Lab, and African Diaspora, Ph.D.

The Sex and Slavery Lab is convened by Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson, Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University. For more information: http://ssl.adphd.org.