Professor Carole Ruth McCann

Professor Carole Ruth McCann

Professor · Tenured

Department of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies Language, Literacy and Culture

College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

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

  • 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 Routledge · (Fifth Edition) Carole R McCann, Seung-kyung Kim, Emek Ergun
  • Figuring the Population Explosion: Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century 2017 Feminist Media Histories · 3 (Summer 2017) · pp. 30-56
  • Feminist Theories 2017 Cambridge Handbook of Sociology, Volume 2 · Cambridge University Press · pp. 73-81 Carole R McCann, Seung-Kyung Kim
  • Figuring The Population Bomb: Gender and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century 2016 University of Washington Press
  • Situating Contraception in a Broader Historical Formation 2016 Journalism & Communication Monographs · 18 (4) · pp. 236-241

Presentations

  • Mytheli Sreenivas’s Reproductive Politics and the Modern India for a virtual book discussion 2021 Conversations on South Asia · Dartmouth College · Oral Presentation
  • Eugenic Foundations of the Population Association of America 2021 Annual Conference · Population Association of America · Paper

Grants and Contracts

  • Advancing Gender and Sexuality Studies in Community 2023 Mellon Foundation · Grant · Funded Carole R McCann (Principal), Kathryn Summer Drabinski (Co-Principal)