Catherine Kudlick
Catherine Kudlick
Professor

E: cjkudlick@ucdavis.edu
T: 530-752-1635
O: 4203 SSH
Academic Biography
Professor Kudlick received her BA from UC Santa Cruz in 1980, and her MA and PhD from UC Berkeley in 1988. She has also studied and taught in France. She has been at UC Davis since 1989. She is currently president of the Disability History Association


Research Interests
French social and cultural history; disability history; gender and sexuality; history of medicine and public health


Selected Publications

"Modernity's Miss-Fits: Blindness and Marriage in France and America, 1820-1920" in Women on their Own R. Bell and V. Yans, eds. 2008

“The Blind Man’s Harley: White Canes and Gender Identity in Modern America” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.30:2 (January 2005) 1589-1606. Reprinted in the Braille Monitor, May 2005. "A Notable Essay of 2005" in Best American Essays, Lauren Slater, ed. 2006

“Disability and ‘Divorce’: A Blind Parisian Cloth Merchant Contemplates his Options in 1756,” in Gendering Disability, Bonnie G. Smith and Beth Hutchison, eds. (New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 2004).

“Disability History: Why We Need Another 'Other'” The American Historical Review: 108:3 (June 2003) 763-93.

"The Outlook of The Problem and the Problem with The Outlook: Two Advocacy Journals Reinvent Blind People in Turn-of-the-Century America” in Paul K. Longmore and Lauri Umansky, eds., The New Disability History: American Perspectives, New York University Press, 2001, 187-213.



Courses Taught
Lecture courses: European History, 1789-present (History 4C) Medicine, Society and Culture in Europe, 1700-1900 (History 139B) Women and Society in Early-Modern Europe, 1500-1789 (History 148A) Women and Society in Modern Europe, 1789-1920 (History 148B) Comparative Cultural History of England and France in the Fin-de-Siècle (History 149a) History of Modern France, 1815-present (History 141) World History, 1450-1850 (History 10B) Seminars: Gender and Visual Culture Seeing and Hearing in History Gender Trouble: Cross-Cultural Readings in the History of Gender and Sexuality Cultural Encounters the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries AIDS in Historical Context Medicine and the Social Body in the Nineteenth Century Modern European History Historical Methods, Research Seminar


Current Graduate Advisees
Julia Kehew


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