Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers University
Bridget Gurtler
Research Assistant & Web Master
Bridget Gurtler is a fourth year PhD student in
Women's and Gender History and the history of Health and Technology.
Her research focuses on the history of assisted reproduction and addresses the role of patients and popular culture in shaping and understanding medical practice. Her dissertation on the history of artificial insemination, 1900-1980 pinpoints pivotal moments of change in the history of this medical technology and works to unravel the complicated meanings of consumption, knowledge, gender and race when medicine, profit and the pursuit of parenthood intersect.
