Miriam Rich is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioethics and Health Humanities. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow in the Dartmouth Society of Fellows and Lecturer in History of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. She received her PhD in History of Science from Harvard University. Her first book, Monstrous Conceptions: Race, Reproduction, and Medical Science in America, 1830-1930, is under contract with Columbia University Press.
Dr. Rich’s research and teaching interests span topics related to racial and reproductive health inequities, disability, concepts of race in medical science, gender and women’s healthcare, vaccination policy, citizenship and public health, and the health harms of incarceration in modern U.S. history. She has taught courses in the History Departments at Yale University and Dartmouth College and has also worked for Yale’s SEICHE Center for Health and Justice. Along with Professor Elizabeth O’Brien, she is co-editing A Cultural History of Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Modern Age (1860-1945), a volume in a six-book series under contract with Bloomsbury Academic Press.