Teaching
In my teaching I take a broad and interdisciplinary approach to the history of the body, synthesizing insights from the history of science, technology and medicine with anthropology and social theory. Within my interdisciplinary approach, I focus strongly on research methods and sources, so that students are able to engage multiple disciplines with clarity and rigor. At Harvard, I designed and taught a seminar, "Private Stories in Public Places: Documents for Telling the History of Experiences of Sexuality and Childbirth," which was organized around a wide range of types of documents from the Seventeenth through Twentieth centuries, primarily in America. At Berkeley, I designed and taught a women's studies lecture course, "Comparative Structures of Gender: The United States and China in the Twentieth Century," in which I integrated historical, anthropological and literary readings and approaches (syllabi below). I have also served as a Teaching Fellow for a Harvard women's studies course, "Bodies and Boundaries," which surveyed sociological, historical, anthropological and literary approaches to studies of the body in a global perspective in the twentieth century.