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Naomi Rendina

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Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION


CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY     Cleveland, Ohio 

PhD, History                                                                                                                        17 August 2020


AMERICAN MILITARY UNIVERSITY      Charles Town, West Virginia

MA, History, with Honors                                                                                                  15 August 2010

 

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO       Chico, California

BA, Middle Eastern Studies and Religious Studies                                                         15 May 2007

Minor: Religious Studies  

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

History Department, May 2023-current


University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 

Department of History, Fall 2022


California State University, East Bay, Department of Public Health

Hayward, California, Adjunct Lecturer, August 2020-May 2022


Cuyahoga Community College, College of Liberal Arts, Cleveland, OH

Adjunct Instructor, May 2017-January 2020


Notre Dame College, Department of History, South Euclid, OH

Adjunct Instructor, June 2015-present


Austin Peay State University, Department of History and Philosophy, Clarksville, TN

Adjunct Instructor, August 2010-May 2016

COURSES TAUGHT

US History to 1865 (APSU)

US History Since 1865 (APSU)


Themes in US History (NDC)


Intro to Medical Humanities (CSU-EB)

Plagues, People, and Populations (CSU-EB)

Homelessness, Urban Poverty, and Health (CSU-EB) 

LGBTQ Health (CSU-EB)


First Year Seminar (APSU, Tri-C)

Introduction to Women's Studies (Tri-C)


History of Health and Medicine in the US (UMASS) 


World History (Wilson)



WRITING EXPERIENCE

Refereed Journal Articles:

 

“Controlling the Uterus: Labor Inducing Drugs in American Childbirth, 1900-1970,” History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals, January 2023.


“The Case For Western Reserve: Medical Education Reform in the Midwest, 1900-1920,” Ohio History 126, no. 1 (2019): 72-88.


“Premature Birth and Neglected Maternal Mental Health.” Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics 7, no. 3 (2017): 208-210.


Online Publications:

 

"With Roe Gone, Women Could Lose More than Abortion Rights," The Washington Post, June 27, 2022. 


“Abortion and Whispered Networks of Botanical Knowledge,” Chacruna Institute. January 2021.


“Ergot and the First Roots of the FDA,” POINTS: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society (24 September 2019). 


"Premature Birth and the Right to Grieve" Nursing Clio (1 October 2015). 


Review: The Mama Sherpas, by Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, Perceptions of Pregnancy Network (21 September 2015). 



Book Reviews:

Review of  Testosterone: an unauthorized biography, by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young and  Katrina Karkazis. Harvard University Press, 2019. (Fall 2020)


Review of Leaving a Legacy: Lessons from the Writings of Daniel Drake, by Philip M. Diller.  University of Cincinnati Press, 2019. Ohio History (Fall 2020).


Review of Alice Paul: Equality for Women, by Christin Luardini. The History Teacher 47, No. 2 (August 2014). 


Review of Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History, by Michael L. Gillette. The History Teacher 47, No. 2 (February 2014).


Review of The Writing and Ratification of the U.S. Constitution, by John R. Vile. The History Teacher 47, No. 1 (November 2013).


Review of Into the Pulpit: Southern Baptist Women and Power Since World War II, by Elizabeth H. Powers. The History Teacher 46, No. 3 (May 2013).

PRESENTATIONS

 

 INVITED TALKS


2022: “History of American Childbirth,” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute,

California State University, East Bay. March 2022. 


2020: "Pharmaceuticals and American Childbirth, 1900-1970," Department of Women and Gender Studies, Colloquium, Texas A&M, November. 


2020: “Natural Childbirth and Patient Autonomy,” Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds,  Program for Bioethics, University of Kentucky, November.


2020: “Labor Inducing Pharmaceuticals and the Nature of Natural Childbirth,” Research  Ethics Lecture Series, Program for Bioethics, University of Kentucky, November. 


ACADEMIC CONFERENCES and PRESENTATIONS


2022: "Hormones and Health," American Institute of the History of Pharmacy. April. 


2019  “Why One Childbirth Drug Was Natural and Another Was Not,” Case Western Reserve University, Baker Nord Center for the Humanities. October 15, 2019. 


2019 “Pushing Too Hard: Oxytocin in the History of American Childbirth; 1900-1950,”  92nd Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine,  April  25-28. Columbus, Ohio. 


2019 “Preparing to Push: Natural Childbirth in the United States, 1930-1979,” on the  panel “What Comes Naturally”: Motherhood in North America, 1850–Present.  133rd Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians Annual  Meeting, April 4-7. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [Organizer]


2019 “Pushing Too Hard: Oxytocin in the History of American Childbirth; 1900-1950,”  on the panel, The Costs of Motherhood: Capitalism and Reproduction in the  United States, 1900  to the Present, 33rd Annual Meeting of the American  Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 3-6. Chicago, Illinois.  [Organizer]


2018  “The Fungus that Changed American Childbirth: Maternal Mortality and the  Ergot Controversy, 1927-1932,” the Biennial Conference for The Society for the  History of Social Medicine, Liverpool, UK. July.


2018  “The Fungus that Changed American Childbirth: Maternal Mortality and The  Ergot  Controversy, 1927-1932,” Cleveland Humanities Festival symposium,  “Beyond Empathy: Critical Perspectives in Medical Humanities.” 2018.


2017 “Recommended by Dr. Mom: Feminist Health Activism’s Influence on the 

DE-medicalization of Childbirth in the United States, 1950 to Present,” Berkshire  Conference on the History of Women, June 1.


2016 “The Case for Western Reserve: Medical Education in the Midwest, 1900-1920,”  Case Western Reserve University, History Associates Fellowship talk. 


2015 “Lamaze as a Consumer Movement: 1960-1980.” History of Women’s Health,  Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. April.


2012  “Beyond the Classroom: Enriching Community Partnerships to Promote Student  Success,” Provost Lecture Series, Austin Peay State University, October 11.

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2019   American Institute of the History of Pharmacy PhD Thesis Support Grant

2019   Baker Nord Center for the Humanities Graduate Affiliate, CWRU 

2019   Baker Nord Center for the Humanities Graduate Research Award, CWRU

2019   American Association for the History of Medicine Travel Grant

2019   Organization of American Historians Travel Grant

2019   School of Graduate Studies Travel Award

2019  American Historical Association Council Annual Meeting Travel Grant

2019  NSF travel grant for the AAHM

2018 Society for the Social History of Medicine Graduate Student Bursary

2018   Carl W. Ubbelohde Prize for best Teaching Assistant in the last year

2018, 2017, 2015 History Associates Fellowship, Case Western Reserve University

2017   Travel Grant, Department of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University

2017  Medical Humanities and Social Medicine Summer Research Grant; Department of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University

SERVICE AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

2019-2022: Social Media coordinator for the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy      Follow @HistPharm on Twitter! 


2020-2022: Social media coordinator for POINTS Blog (the joint blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society and American Institute of the History of Pharmacy)     

Follow @PointsHistory on Twitter! 


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