 Joan Cadden
Professor Emeritus
E: jcadden@ucdavis.edu
T: 530-752-2224
O: 3237 SSH
| Academic Biography | | Joan Cadden studied medieval history and literature before getting a PhD. in the History of Science. Her research on issues relating to gender and sexuality in medieval science and medicine forces her to travel to places like Paris, Rome, and Prague in order to examine manuscripts made in the twelfth through fifteenth centuries, but she is a good sport about such hardships. She has taught at Harvard, the University of Colorado, and Kenyon College but prefers the University of California at Davis for its combination of good conversations among historians, careful attention to the research and professional development of graduate students, and opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration in Medieval Studies and Science & Technology Studies. She doesn't mind the fact that it is easy to get to the San Francisco Bay Area and to the mountains. (See picture: 2004 backpacking trip in the Trinity Alps.) |
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| Research Interests | | Medieval Europe, early science and medicine, women and science, sexuality |
| Selected Publications | Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Age: Medicine, Science, and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 1993) "Trouble in the Earthly Paradise: The Regime of Nature in Late Medieval Christian Culture." In The Moral Authority of Nature, ed. Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal, pp. 207-31. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. “‘Nothing Natural Is Shameful’: Vestiges of a Debate about Sex and Science in a Group of Late Medieval Manuscripts.” Speculum, 76 (2001): 66-89. “Charles V, Nicole Oresme, and Christine de Pizan: Unities and Uses of Knowledge in Fourteenth-Century France.” In Texts and Contexts in Ancient and Medieval Science. Ed. Edith Sylla and Michael McVaugh (Leiden, 1997) "Silences/Sciences: The Natures and Languages of 'Sodomy' in Peter of Abano's Problemata Commentary." In Constructing Medieval Sexuality. Ed. Karma Locherie et al. (Minneapolis, 1997). |
| Courses Taught | | Lecture/Discussion Classes:
Medieval History survey,
Women in the Middle Ages,
History of Ancient and Medieval Science,
History of Ancient and Medieval Medicine
Seminars:
Medieval History,
Medieval Families,
Women's Sexualities in Cross-Cultural Perspective,
Early Science and Medicine,
Cross-Cultural Transfer of Scientific Knowledge |
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