Professor Carole Ruth McCann
Professor · Tenured
Department of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies Language, Literacy and Culture
About
Special Assistant to the Provost for Interdisciplinary Activities
Lipitz Professor, 2017-2018
Inclusion Council founding member
Inclusion Council Implementation Team, Co-Chair
Research interests
My research is centered in transnational, feminist theories, science studies, reproductive justice and intersections of gender, race, and coloniality in population politics and demography.
Teaching interests
My teaching interests include, feminist theory and methodology, feminist science studies, and reproductive health and justice.
Education
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Ph D, History of Consciousness
— University of California, Santa Cruz (1987) Race, Class, and Gender in U.S. Birth Control Politics, 1920-1945
- , Sociology — Harvard University (1979)
- BA, Sociology — Temple University (1978)
Publications
- Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives, 5th edition 2021
- Figuring the Population Explosion: Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century 2017
- Feminist Theories 2017
- Figuring The Population Bomb: Gender and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century 2016
- Situating Contraception in a Broader Historical Formation 2016
Presentations
- Mytheli Sreenivas’s Reproductive Politics and the Modern India for a virtual book discussion 2021
- Eugenic Foundations of the Population Association of America 2021
Grants and Contracts
- Advancing Gender and Sexuality Studies in Community 2023