Naomi Rendina

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Naomi Rendina

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Curriculum Vitae

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Education

August 2020- PhD Case Western Reserve University 

Cleveland, Ohio 

Dissertation Advisor: Jonathan Sadowsky 


August 2010 MA   

American Military University; American History   


May 2007 BA California State University, Chico   

Major: Middle East Studies

Minor: Religious Studies  

Professional Appointments

 California State University, East Bay, Department of Health Sciences

Hayward, California, Adjunct Instructor, August 2020


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

Teaching and Research Interests

Modern American History   

Women’s History

History of Medicine  

Medical Anthropology

Medical Consumerism   

History of Reproduction  

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles:

“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:

“Ergot and the First Roots of the FDA,” POINTS: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society (24 September 2019). https://pointsadhsblog.wordpress.com/2019/09/24/ergot-and-the-first-roots-of-the-fda/


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

http://nursingclio.org/2015/10/01/premature-birth-and-the-right-to-grieve/


Review: The Mama Sherpas, by Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, Perceptions of Pregnancy Network (21 September 2015). https://perceptionsofpregnancy.com/2015/09/21/the-mama-sherpas-2015-reviewed/


Manuscripts in Preparation:

“Controlling the Uterus: Oxytocin and the Reshaping of American Childbirth,” in preparation to submit to Pharmacy in History.


Book Reviews:

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


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


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


2021: "Pitocin and Natural Childbirth," Porter Fortune Symposium, "Public Health in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries," University of Mississippi. March.


2020: “Natural Childbirth and Patient Autonomy,” Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds,  Program for Bioethics, University of Kentucky, April *Rescheduled due to  COVID-19


2020: “Labor Inducing Pharmaceuticals and the Nature of Natural Childbirth,” Research  Ethics Lecture Series, Program for Bioethics, University of Kentucky, April.  *Rescheduled due to COVID-19


ACADEMIC CONFERENCES and PRESENTATIONS

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- present: Social Media coordinator for the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy


2020-present: Social media coordinator for POINTS Blog (the blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society)


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