Dr. Robyn L. Rosen

Professor of History

Bio

I have taught U.S. History and Women鈥檚, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Marist since 1994. Over the years, I have served as Department Chair, Honors Director, and First Year Seminar Director. I currently enjoy serving as the faculty advisor for the Long Reach Society. Among the classes I regularly teach are: First Year Seminars (Not That Seventies Show, Imagined Worlds, and Why Barbie?), America Since 1877, History of American Feminism, History of American Manhood, and African American History. I also regularly co-lead a Spring Attachment with Dr. Steven Garabedian on The Struggle for Racial Justice in the South, which takes us to Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee to study the impact of the Black Freedom Struggle on our country's history.


Education

BA, Brandeis University
MA and PhD, Binghamton University


Research/ Special Topics

My research has focused on American women鈥檚 political activism and social movements, particularly the history of the birth control movement in the 20th century. More recently, my research has expanded into the politics of reproductive rights and men鈥檚 responses to the women鈥檚 movement in the 1970s.


Selected Publications

Rosen, Robyn L., and Jessica Furgerson. 鈥淧lanned Parenthood Before and After Roe: Historical Lessons for the Current Fight.鈥 Cultural studies, Critical Methodologies 24, no. 1 (2024): 6鈥14.

The Shifting Battleground for Birth Control: Lessons from New York鈥檚 Hudson Valley in the Interwar Years鈥 New York History 90:3 (Summer 2009): 187- 215

Women鈥檚 Studies in the Academy: Origins and Impact, ed. (Prentice Hall, 2004)

Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights: Reformers and the Politics of Maternal Welfare, 1917-1940 (Ohio State University Press, 2003)

鈥淔ederal Expansion, Fertility Control, and Physicians in the United States: The Politics of Maternal Welfare in the Interwar Years,鈥 Journal of Women鈥檚 History 10:3 (Autumn 1998): 53-73


Selected Presentations

鈥淢en鈥檚 Liberation in the 1970s: A Contested Label in a Contentious Decade,鈥 at 1977-2017: The International Women鈥檚 Year National Women鈥檚 Conference in Retrospect, University of Houston, November, 2017

鈥淔rom 鈥Make Every Day Mothers鈥 Day鈥 to 鈥楩ree Abortion on Demand鈥欌: Planned Parenthood and the Challenge of Legalized Abortion in the 1970s,鈥 at Upstate New York Women鈥檚 History Conference, Seneca Falls, NY, September 2015

鈥淲丑别苍&苍产蝉辫;鈥渢he rest of the world joined up鈥: Planned Parenthood and the Politics of Reproduction in the Heyday of Women鈥檚 Liberation,鈥 at A Revolutionary Moment: Women鈥檚 Liberation in the Late 60s and Early 70s, Boston University, March 2014


Awards and Honors

Faculty Recognition Award for Distinguished Scholarship, 蜜月直播, 2009

Board of Trustees Distinguished Teaching Award, 蜜月直播, 2005


Media Links

鈥淧lanned Parenthood Historically,鈥 for The Academic Minute and The Best of Our Knowledge, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Albany, NY (Aired, September 23, 2015 & October 22, 2015) 

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Contact Information

Academic School

School of Liberal Arts

Office

Fontaine 217

Email

Robyn.Rosen@marist.edu

Phone

845-575-3000 ext. 2492