Faculty

Wendy Kline            
Associate Professor
Fields: 20th-century U.S., U.S. women’s history,
history of medicine

Phone: 556-1198
Email: wendy.kline@uc.edu
Office: 335A McMicken

Professor Kline received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, in 1998, working under the direction of Karen Halttunen. Before joining the faculty at UC in 2000, Kline lived in Germany and taught the history of sexuality at the University of Munich. Professor Kline published her first book, a history of the eugenics movement, shortly after her arrival at UC. She is currently completing a manuscript on the recent women’s health movement in the U.S.. Kline is a violinist and a member of the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra. She has two children, one of whom carries on his German heritage by attending the Fairview German Language School in Clifton.

Selected Courses:
American Women’s History to 1890
U.S. Women’s History 1890 to the Present
History of Sexuality
Women’s Health in America
Making Sense of the Sixties
Social Movements of the Twentieth Century

Selected Publications:
“A New Deal for the Child: Ann Cooper Hewitt and Sterilization in the 1930s” in Sue Currell and Christina Cogdell, eds., Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s (Ohio University Press, 2006)

“’Please Include This in Your Book:’ Readers Respond to Our Bodies, Ourselves.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine (Spring 2005)

Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (University of California Press, November 2001).  Reissued in paper, November 2005.