ATTENTION PITTSBURGH! ELLEN HERMAN TO SPEAK AT PITT
Pittsburgh History Department Graduate Program Speaker Series, Pittsburgh Consortium for Adoption Studies, University of Pittsburgh School of Arts and Sciences, Department of English, Women’s Studies Program, and Cultural Studies Program Present Scientific Rules for Realness: Matching and Its Critics in American Adoption Ellen Herman Professor of History University of Oregon Tuesday, September 29 4:00 – 6:00 pm History Department Lounge (3703 Posvar Hall) University of Pittsburgh Ellen Herman’s most recent book is Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United States (University of Chicago Press, 2008). She has also written about the impact of psychology on public policy and culture during and after World War II: The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of Experts (University of California Press, 1995). Her recent work has been supported by fellowships at Harvard Law School and Radcliffe’s Bunting Institute, as well as by a major research grant from the Science and Technology Studies Program of the National Science Foundation. During the 2004-2005 academic year, she was a Visiting Scholar in the Harvard University Department of the History of Science. Her current book considers the history of child adoption during the twentieth century as a case study of Continue Reading →