Cassia Roth Curriculum Vitae

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1 Cassia Roth Curriculum Vitae Department of History 222-B LeConte Hall, Baldwin Street University of Georgia Athens, GA EMPLOYMENT 2018-Present Assistant Professor, Department of History & Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute, University of Georgia, Athens, GA Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Spring 2017 Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA Adjunct Lecturer, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles EDUCATION PH.D. Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2016 M.A. Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2011 Certificate in Gender Studies, Department of Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 2011 B.A. Department of Spanish, Department of Latin American Studies (Honors), Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, 2008 Magna cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Latin American Studies Prize) PUBLICATIONS Books A Miscarriage of Justice: Reproduction, Medicine, and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil (under contract with Stanford University Press) Peer-Reviewed Articles 2019 Birthing Life and Death: Carioca Women s Reproductive Health in the Early Twentieth- Century. Historia, Ciências, Saúde Manguinhos. Forthcoming Black Nurse, White Milk: Breastfeeding, Slavery, and Abolition in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. Journal of Human Lactation 34, no. 4: Policing Pregnancy: Poverty, Reproduction, and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro. Journal of Women s History 27, no. 4: Honorable Mention, Humanities Article Prize, Brazil Section, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) 2017 From Free Womb to Criminalized Woman: Fertility Control in Brazilian Slavery and Freedom. Slavery & Abolition 38, no. 2: Special Issue: Mothering Slaves Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize in the Category of the History of Women, Gender, and/or Sexuality Roth, December

2 Translations 2015 An Alleged Infanticide Case. In The Rio de Janeiro Reader, eds. Daryle Williams and Amy Chazkel. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Pp Dictionary Entries 2016 Fonseca, Luís Anselmo da. In Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, eds. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Franklin W. Knight. New York: Oxford University Press Soares de Meirelles, Joaquim Candido. In Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, eds. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Franklin W. Knight. New York: Oxford University Press. Book Reviews 2017 Review of Okezi T. Otovo, Progressive Mothers, Better Babies: Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil. Hispanic American Historical Review 97, no. 3: Peer-Review Articles Under Review Malthus in the Tropics: Sterilization, Medical Authority, and Degeneracy in Catholic Brazil (Medical History) With Dubois, Ellen. Feminism, Frogs, and Fascism: The Transnational Activism of Brazil s Bertha Lutz. Gender & History (first author) (Revisions under review) Op-Eds 2018 Kindling for the Fire: Why Brazil s Lost Research Archives are Irreplaceable. The Art Newspaper. Oct The Trump-Fueled Safe Spaces for Anti-Semitism Few American Jews Ever See. Haaretz. Oct. 26. Blogs I am a contributing writer and editor at the public history blog Nursing Clio. Please see my author s page for my peer-reviewed posts Feminism, Fascism, and Frogs: The Case of Bertha Lutz at the United Nations. Lady Science. May UCLA Makes Excuses About Sexual Harassment. The Professor Is In. March UCLA Allows Sexual Harassment. The Professor Is In. March Re-examining Life in Academia in the Face of Death. The Professor Is In. Feb Health, Reproduction, and Sex: Growing a Field for Latin Americanists. Notches: (Re)Marks on the History of Sexuality. May 14. Media 2016 Quoted in Kimberly Lawson, Women Strike in Argentina After the Brutal Rape and Murder of a 16-Year-Old Girl. Broadly. Oct Quoted in Stassa Edwards, At UCLA, Protests over the University s Decision to Welcome Back Professor Accused of Sexual Assault. Jezebel. April Quoted in Colleen Flaherty, Welcoming Back Accused Serial Harasser. Inside Higher Ed. April 5. Interviews 2018 Interviewed by Júlia Carneiro Dias, BBC Brasil. Jan A Dark Reality/Uma triste realidade. Revista História Ciências Saúde Manguinhos. Nov. Roth, December

3 EXTERNAL FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & AWARDS 2018 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize in Category of History of Women, Gender, and/or Sexuality 2018 Conference Organization Grant, Royal Historical Society, United Kingdom Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, European Union 2017 Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar Award, U.S. Department of State 2015 Albert J. Beveridge Grant, American Historical Association (AHA) 2015 Woodrow Wilson National Foundation Dissertation Fellowship in Women s Studies 2014 Jon M. Tolman Award, Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) 2013 Coordinating Council for Women in History (CCWH)/Berkshire Conference on Women Historians Graduate Student Fellowship 2013 National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, Law and Social Sciences Program 2013 President s Graduate Student Travel Award, American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch (AHA-PCB) Fulbright IIE Student Grant, Brazil, U.S. Department of State 2010 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for Portuguese (Summer), U.S. Department of State INTERNAL FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & AWARDS (selected) University of Georgia Willson Center Research Fellowship, University of Georgia Faculty Research Exchange Grant, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, University of Georgia-University of Liverpool 2018 Innovation in Multicultural Curriculum Award, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, University of Georgia University of California, Los Angeles 2017 UCLA nominee for the CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Fine Arts, Graduate Division, UCLA 2017 Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Award, UCLA 2016 Norris Hundley Dissertation Prize, Department of History, UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship, Graduate Division, UCLA 2015 Elizabeth M. Blackwell M.D. Award, Center for the Study of Women (CSW), UCLA 2014 Penny Kanner Dissertation Fellowship, Center for the Study of Women (CSW), UCLA 2014 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Department of Gender Studies, UCLA 2012 Alumni Association Fellowship, UCLA 2012 Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowship, International Institute, UCLA 2011 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Department of History, UCLA 2011 Paula Stone Legal Fellowship, Center for the Study of Women (CSW), UCLA 2010 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Department of History, UCLA 2010 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Fellowship, Graduate Division, UCLA Recruitment Fellowship, International Institute, UCLA Roth, December

4 Recruitment Fellowship, Department of History, UCLA CONFERENCE ORGANIZING 2018 The Medicalization of Childbirth (A medicalização do parto), Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October Co-organizer Intimate Politics: Fertility Control in a Global Historical Perspective, School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, May Coorganizer. INVITED TALKS 2018 Feminism, Frogs, and Fascism: The Transnational Activism of Brazil s Bertha Lutz. Race, Female Suffrage, and Parliamentary Representation in the Global South. Houses of Parliament, London, United Kingdom, February Parto: assistência e institucionalização na virada do século XX. Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July A Miscarriage of Justice: Reproduction, Medicine, and the Law in Post-Abolition Brazil. Departamento de História, UniRio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July The Racial Politics of Reproduction in Post-Abolition Brazil. Women s History Conference, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, March Dando à luz na cidade maravilhosa. Instituto Fernando Figueira, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 30, He Said, She Said: Abortion Rumors and Female Sexuality in Early-Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Department of History, Durham University, Durham, UK. May From Property to Person: Studying Reproduction in Pre- and Post-Emancipation Brazil. Mothering Slaves Conference, University of Reading, UK, April From Representation to Experience: Women s Reproductive Practices in Rio de Janeiro, Council on Latin American History, Brazilian Studies Committee, American Historical Association, New York, NY, January Dar à luz ou dar à morte: Natimortalidade, infanticídio e parto no Rio de Janeiro da República Velha. Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September Criminal Births: Stillbirth, Infanticide, and the Rio de Janeiro Police, Department of History, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, April 17. CONFERENCE ACTIVITY Panels Organized 2018 The Biopolitics of Childbirth in Twentieth-Century Brazil. Brazilian Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July (Chair and Organizer) A Uniquely Female Crime: Fertility Control and the Law Across the Americas. Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities, Hempstead, NY, June 1-4. (Chair and Organizer) Reproducing Gossip: Gender, Rumor, and Fertility Control. American Historical Association, Atlanta, GA, January 7-9. (Organizer) The Politics of Reproduction in the Americas: Twentieth-Century Bolivia, Jamaica, and Cuba. American Historical Association, New York, NY, January 2-5. (Chair and Organizer). Roth, December

5 2014 Impoverished Citizens: The Criminalization of the Poor in Post-Emancipation Cuba and Brazil. Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, IL, May (Co-organizer) Reproductive Regulation Across the Ages: Pregnancy, Abortion, and Infanticide in Seventeenth-Century Spain and Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Latin America. American Historical Association, New Orleans, LA, January 3-6. (Co-organizer). Papers Presented 2018 Mais jeito, menos força: Obstetric Interventions in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Brazil. Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October From Embryotomy to Cesarean: Changes in Obstetric Operatory Techniques in Brazil in the Early Twentieth Century. Brazilian Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. July Specters of the Womb: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. Slave Subjectivities in the Iberian World (15 th 20 th Centuries), Lisbon, Portugal, July Against Her Motherly Nature: Prosecuting Abortion and Infanticide in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro. Berkshire Conference on Women, Genders & Sexualities, Hempstead, NY, June Giving Birth in the Marvelous City: Women s Embodied Experiences of Childbirth in Early- Twentieth-Century Brazil. American Historical Association, Denver, CO, January Ouvi Dizer [Heard Said]: Abortion Rumors and Male Power in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro. American Historical Association, Atlanta, GA, January Murdering Mothers: Infanticide, Madness, and the Law in Rio de Janeiro ( ). Brazilian Studies Association, London, United Kingdom, August Policing Fertility: Infanticide, Stillbirth, and Birthing Practices in Rio de Janeiro. Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, IL, May Nascer livre: Reproduction and the Abolition of Slavery in Brazil. Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, October 29- November The Criminalization of Reproduction in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro. American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch, Denver, CO, August Embodied Citizenship: Women s Reproductive Practices and State Formation in Rio de Janeiro, Latin American Studies Association, Washington D.C., May 30-June Reproduction and the Limits of Democracy in Republican Brazil. American Historical Association, New Orleans, LA, January Reproducing Slavery in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Carolina Lowcountry in the Atlantic World Program, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, March Infanticide, Domestic Servants, and the Law in Inter-War Rio de Janeiro. Western Association of Women Historians, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, April 7-9. Panels Moderated 2018 Rethinking Cyborg Subjectivity, Bio-Political Surveillance, and the State. National Women s Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, November Making Sex: Global Sex Education at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Berkshire Conference on Women, Genders & Sexualities, Hempstead, NY, June Reproductive Rights. Women s History Conference, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, March 4. Roth, December

6 CAMPUS TALKS 2018 Specters of the Womb: Enslaved Women, Childbirth, and Pain in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. Romance Languages Colloquium Series, University of Georgia, October Birthing Slavery: Enslaved Women s Reproductive Health in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. Gender History Seminars, University of Edinburgh. February Roundtable discussion on Gayle Davis, ed., The Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History. Histories of Gender and Sexuality Group, University of Edinburgh, November Response to Jake Blanc, Dictatorship and Democracy in the Brazilian Countryside. Centre for Modern and Contemporary History, University of Edinburgh, November Criminalized Births: Reproduction and the Police, Rio de Janeiro UCLA History Graduate Colloquium, UCLA, February Women s Reproduction and Medical Responses in Pre- and Post-Abolition Rio de Janeiro, Medical Humanities, Louise Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA, November 18. TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Georgia, Institute for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Assistant Professor Introduction to Latin American Studies (spring 2019) University of Georgia, Department of History, Assistant Professor Gender Colloquium (Graduate seminar, spring 2019) History of Brazil (fall 2018) University of Edinburgh, School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, Instructor Gender in the History of the Americas (Graduate seminar, co-taught with Diana Paton) (spring 2018) Occidental College, Los Angeles, Department of Religious Studies, Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor Nuns, Witches, and She-Devils: Gender and Religion in Latin America (spring 2017) University of California, Los Angeles, Department of History, Lecturer Latin American Social History (spring 2017) Comparative Slavery Systems (fall 2016) Women and Gender in Modern Latin America (fall 2016) University of California, Los Angeles, Department of History, Teaching Assistant Colonial Latin America (fall 2010, fall 2011) Modern Latin America (winter 2011) Africa Since 1800 (spring 2011) University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Gender Studies, Teaching Assistant Introduction to Gender Studies (winter 2014) SERVICE To the University 2018-Present Executive Committee, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute, University of Georgia Faculty Senate, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, University of Georgia Roth, December

7 Co-Organizer, Brazilian Research Seminar, History Department, UCLA To the Community Common Book Ambassador, Residential Life Office, First-Year Experience, UCLA To the Profession 2017-Present Editor, Latin American Series, Nursing Clio, Medical History Blog 2014-Present Contributing Writer, Nursing Clio, Medical History Blog Conference Liaison Coordinator, Coordinating Council for Women in History PEER REVIEW 2018-Present Revista Brasileira de História 2018-Present Journal of Human Lactation 2017-Present História, Ciências, Saúde Manguinhos PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS American Historical Association (AHA) Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) Coordinating Council for Women in History (CCWH) Council on Latin American History (CLAH) Latin American Studies Association (LASA) National Women s Studies Association (NWSA) LANGUAGES Portuguese: Advanced reading, writing, speaking Spanish: Advanced reading, writing, speaking Roth, December

8 REFERENCES William Summerhill, Professor UCLA Department of History 6265 Bunche Hall, Box Los Angeles, CA (310) Robin Derby, Associate Professor UCLA Department of History 6265 Bunche Hall, Box Los Angeles, CA (310) Diana Paton, William Robertson Professor of History School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh 1.14, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG United Kingdom +44 (0) Amy Chazkel, Associate Professor Department of History, The Graduate Center/Queens College, CUNY Queens College, Powdermaker Hall 352-N Queens, NY (718) Ellen Dubois, Professor UCLA Department of History 6265 Bunche Hall, Box Los Angeles, CA (310) Kristi Upson-Saia, Associate Professor (Teaching Reference) Department of Religious Studies, Occidental College Fowler 402, 1600 Campus Road Los Angeles, CA (323) Roth, December