Sara Dubow

Sara Dubow
Born
United States
NationalityAmerican
EducationWilliams College (BA)
University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
Rutgers University (PhD)
Occupation(s)Professor of history, Williams College
Known for2011 recipient of Columbia University’s Bancroft Prize for her first book, Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Sara Dubow is an American professor of history at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Her research and teaching have focused on the ways in which gender, law, and politics shaped American history during the twentieth century.[1][2][3]

In 2011, she was awarded the Bancroft Prize from Columbia University for her first book, Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America (Oxford University Press, 2010).[4][5][6]

  1. ^ Holland, Jennifer. “The antiabortion movement’s powerful use of language paid off.” Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post, May 5, 2022.
  2. ^ “Sara Dubow,” in “Faculty and Staff.” Williamstown, Massachusetts: Williams College, retrieved online May 13, 2024.
  3. ^ Tentler, Leslie Woodcock. “Fetal Positions.” New York, New York: Commonweal Magazine, March 14, 2011.
  4. ^ Gardner, Jan. “Dubow Wins Bancroft Prize,” in “The Word.” Boston, Massachusetts: The Boston Globe, April 10, 2011, p. K6.
  5. ^ “Sara Dubow Wins Bancroft Prize,” in “Williams Today.” Williamstown, Massachusetts: Williams College, March 28, 2011.
  6. ^ Holz, Rose. “Review of Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America, by Sara Dubow,” in Journal of Social History, vol. 46, no. 4 (Summer 2013), pp. 1075-1077. Oxford University Press, 2013.