Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers University
Melissa Stein
Head Research Assistant, Web Master
Melissa Stein recently completed a PhD in History at Rutgers; her dissertation was entitled "Embodying Race: Sex, Gender, and the Sciences of Difference, 1830-1936." Currently an Excellence Fellow with the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, she has been awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in "Race, Gender, and Science" at Indiana University Bloomington, to begin in Fall 2008. Her research interests include the history of race and ethnicity, US cultural and intellectual history, the history of sexuality, women’s and gender history, and the history of science and medicine. She published two long articles in Black Women in America (Oxford University Press, 2005), on “Race as a Social Construction” and “Class in Black America,” and teaches Race and Sex in America, US Women’s History, and Gay and Lesbian History.
