Ann Hibner Koblitz, professor of women and gender studies in the School of Social Transformation, has taught at ASU since 1998. Her first book was the biography of a Russian woman mathematician, feminist and writer. Her second book examined the lives of the first group of Russian women to receive their doctorates in the sciences and medicine. Her most recent book, "Sex and Herbs and Birth Control: Women and Fertility Regulation through the Ages" (Kovalevskaia Fund, 2014) received the 2015 Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award from the Institute for Humanties Research at ASU and is a cross-cultural examination of fertility control methods, meanings of pregnancy/abortion, demographers' narratives about reproduction, and degradation of contraceptive knowledge. She also directs a small non-profit foundation, the Kovalevskaia Fund, for the encouragement of women in science, technology and medicine in Asia, Africa and Latin America, and she hosts the blog, Sex, Abortion, and Contraception.
Although Professor Hibner Koblitz's research interests have changed considerably since she received her doctorate in Russian intellectual history from Boston University in 1983, they still generally revolve around the relationships of gender with science, technology (broadly defined) and medicine. Her first two books, "A Convergence of Lives. Sofia Kovalevskaia: Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary and Science," and "Women and Revolution in Russia," examined the lives of 19th-century Russian women scientists and mathematicians and explored the significance of their stories for feminist gender and science theory. She has also written several dozen research articles on Russian women in science, gender and science theory, gender and archaeology, and comparative aspects of women/gender in science, technology and medicine (with special emphasis on the situations of women in Asia, Africa and Latin America).
She has consulted for UNIFEM, the Vietnam Women's Museum, and the Gender Research Institute of Essen University. She has been an Arizona Humanities Council speaker, and has served on national committees of the History of Science Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Women in Slavic Studies, the American Mathematical Society, and other professional organizations.
Ph.D. Russian Intellectual History, Boston University 1983
Research interests: women in science, technology and medicine; women in science and mathematics in the Third World; women's reproductive health; women in Russia/USSR; women in Arizona; gender and science.
Teaching interests: feminist theory, gender and science/technology/medicine, gender and development, and women's medicine. Her global feminist theory course explores the interactions/tensions of transnational feminist theory with postcolonial theory, critical race theory, etc. Her graduate courses examine feminist epistemologies, ecofeminism, technologies of gender, and postcolonial critiques in the context of science and technology studies; and case studies in biopolitics and its relationships to market and state actors. She is also graduate faculty in History, and she is on the executive committee of the doctoral program in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology.
NOTE: These are selected publications since 2010. For a full list of publications, see my curriculum vitae.
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
WST 499 | Individualized Instruction |
WST 690 | Reading and Conference |
WST 790 | Reading and Conference |
WST 792 | Research |
WST 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
WST 499 | Individualized Instruction |
WST 790 | Reading and Conference |
WST 792 | Research |
WST 795 | Continuing Registration |
WST 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
WST 499 | Individualized Instruction |
WST 690 | Reading and Conference |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
WST 499 | Individualized Instruction |
WST 590 | Reading and Conference |
WST 592 | Research |
WST 593 | Applied Project |
WST 599 | Thesis |
WST 690 | Reading and Conference |
WST 790 | Reading and Conference |
WST 792 | Research |
WST 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
WST 499 | Individualized Instruction |
WST 790 | Reading and Conference |
WST 792 | Research |
WST 795 | Continuing Registration |
WST 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
WST 499 | Individualized Instruction |
WST 690 | Reading and Conference |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
WST 499 | Individualized Instruction |
WST 590 | Reading and Conference |
WST 592 | Research |
WST 593 | Applied Project |
WST 599 | Thesis |
WST 690 | Reading and Conference |
WST 790 | Reading and Conference |
WST 792 | Research |
WST 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
WST 492 | Honors Directed Study |
WST 493 | Honors Thesis |
WST 498 | Pro-Seminar |
WST 499 | Individualized Instruction |
WST 592 | Research |
WST 593 | Applied Project |
WST 599 | Thesis |
WST 690 | Reading and Conference |
WST 790 | Reading and Conference |
WST 792 | Research |
WST 795 | Continuing Registration |
WST 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
WST 499 | Individualized Instruction |
WST 690 | Reading and Conference |
WST 790 | Reading and Conference |
WST 792 | Research |
WST 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
WST 360 | Women as Healers |
WST 499 | Individualized Instruction |
WST 590 | Reading and Conference |
WST 592 | Research |
WST 593 | Applied Project |
WST 599 | Thesis |
WST 690 | Reading and Conference |
WST 691 | Seminar |
WST 790 | Reading and Conference |
WST 792 | Research |
JUS 795 | Continuing Registration |
WST 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
WST 335 | Gender, Race, & Sex in Sci Fi |
WST 492 | Honors Directed Study |
WST 493 | Honors Thesis |
WST 498 | Pro-Seminar |
WST 499 | Individualized Instruction |
WST 501 | Foundational Feminist Thought |
WST 592 | Research |
WST 593 | Applied Project |
WST 599 | Thesis |
WST 690 | Reading and Conference |
WST 790 | Reading and Conference |
WST 792 | Research |
WST 795 | Continuing Registration |
WST 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
WST 499 | Individualized Instruction |
WST 690 | Reading and Conference |
WST 790 | Reading and Conference |
WST 792 | Research |
WST 799 | Dissertation |
NOTE: These are selected presentations since 2010. For a complete list, see my curriculum vitae.
(Selected)
Recipient of the "President's Friendship Medal" of the Government of Vietnam, 1995, 2010
ASU Institute for Humanities Research Transdiciplinary Book Award, 2015
American Historical Association, History of Science Society, National Women's Studies Association, Western Association of Women Historians
History, Justice Studies, Human & Social Dimensions of Science & Technology
Selected, since 2010: