Associate Professor Simone Caron
Chair of History Department
U.S. Social, Women, Medicine, U.S. 20th Century
B-103 Tribble Hall; 758-5556
e-mail: caron@wfu.edu

Education:
BA: Bridgewater State College, 1983
MA: Northeastern University, 1985
PhD: Clark University, 1990

Courses Offered:
FYS: Great Depression through the Eyes of American Novelists;
Hst 102: Europe and the Modern World;
Hst 338: Gender in Modern America (since 1865);
Hst 339: Health Care in American Society;
Hst 359: US from Gilded Age Prosperity to Depression;
Hst 360: US since the New Deal

Professional and Research Interests: American Medical History; Reproductive History (abortion, birth control, and sterilization); "Deviant" Women (criminals, alcoholics, unwed mothers), Infanticide

Selected Publications:

“‘I Have Done it and I Have Got to Die’: Coroners’ Inquests of Abortion Deaths in Rhode Island, 1876-1938,” The History of the Family 14 (Spring 2009): 1-18.

"'Killed by Its Mother': Infanticide in Providence County, Rhode Island, 1870-1938," Journal of Social History (forthcoming September 2010).

Who Chooses? American Reproductive History since 1830 (University Press of Florida, 2008).

"Richard M. Nixon: The "Problem of Population" versus the "Sanctity of Human Life." New England Journal of History 56 (Winter 1999-Spring 2000): 101-21.

"Birth Control and the Black Community in the 1960s: Genocide or Power Politics?" Journal of Social History 31 (March 1998): 545-70.

"Recent Perspectives on Abortion." NWSA Journal 5 (Fall 1993): 393-404.