Barbara Katz Rothman Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology, The City University of New York (1979 to present), Visiting Professor, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom, (2004 to present)
Education:
PhD, New York University, 1979
M.A. and B.A., Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, 1972; 1969.
Barbara Katz Rothman's work is both interdisciplinary and international in scope, focusing on issues in Medical Sociology, Bioethics, Gender and the Sociology of Knowledge.
She has been a participant in the Scholars-in-Residence Program of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, where she conducted research for her book Weaving a Family: Untangling Race and Adoption, a Marie Goepert Mayer Professor at the Universitat Osnabrueck in Germany, a Leverhulme Professorship at the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and currently continues to serve as a Visiting Professor both at Plymouth University and the Charite Hospital and Medical School in Berlin.
Major Publications:
Books:
- LABORING ON. 2007, With Wendy Simonds and Bari Meltzer. Routledge
- WEAVING A FAMILY, Beacon Press. 2000
- THE BOOK OF LIFE; A PERSONAL AND ETHICAL GUIDE TO RACE, NORMALITY AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT, The Beacon Press, translated into Finnish;1993
- Editor, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHILDBEARING: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES. The Oryx Press; 1992
- co-authored with Wendy Simonds, CENTURIES OF SOLACE; EXPRESSIONS OF MATERNAL GRIEF IN POPULAR LITERATURE. Temple University Press 1989
- RECREATING MOTHERHOOD; IDEOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY IN A PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY. WW. Norton and Company , 2nd edition, revised and updated, Rutgers University Press, 2000, translated into Japanese;1986
- THE TENTATIVE PREGNANCY. The Viking Press, translated into German
- IN LABOR; WOMEN AND POWER IN THE BIRTHPLACE. W.W. Norton Company 1982
Other Publications:
Articles in SOCIAL PROBLEMS, AUSTRALIAN ANNUAL REVIEW OF HEALTH SOCIAL SCIENCES, GENDER & SOCIETY, Mt. SINAI JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, HASTINGS LAW REVIEW, FEMINISM & PSYCHOLOGY, JOURNAL OF OBSTETRIC AND GYNECOLOGIC NURSING, FETAL DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY, BIRTH, CREIGHTON LAW REVIEW, HASTINGS CENTER REPORT, NEW PERSPECTIVES QUARTERLY, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW, WOMEN AND HEALTH, QUALITATIVE SOCIOLOGY, JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS, RESEARCH STRATEGIES, JOURNAL OF NURSE MIDWIFERY, SYMBOLIC INTERACTION, and over 40 book chapters, Monographs for the Ford Foundation and the Royal Association of Midwives of the Netherlands.
Professional Honors and Awards include:
- 2003, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
- 2002, Maria-Goeppert-Mayer Professor, Universität Osnabrück, Germany
- 2002, Independent Scholar, Scholars-in-Residence Program of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- 1998, Award for the Promotion of Human Welfare, of the Southern Sociological Society
- 1996, Mentoring Award of Sociologists for Women in Society
- 1997-1998, President, Sociologists for Women in Society
- 1995, Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Groningen of the Netherlands
- 1993, President, Society for the Study of Social Problems
- 1991, Jesse Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association
- 1988, Cheryl Miller Lectureship of Sociologists for Women in Society