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Name: Dr. Robyn L. Rosen
Title: Professor of History
Office Location: Fontaine 217
Extension: (845) 575-3000 ext. 2492
Email: Robyn.Rosen@Marist.edu
Degrees Held: B.A. Brandeis University
M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Binghamton University
Bio: She began teaching at Marist in 1994 where she teaches in modern U.S. history, U.S. women's history, and women's studies.

Interests: U.S. Social Movements, Women's Studies
Awards & Honors: Board of Trustees Distinguished Teaching Award, 2005
Publications: Women's Studies in the Academy: Origins and Impact (Prentice Hall, 2004)

Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights: Reformers and the Politics of Maternal Welfare, 1917- 1940 (Ohio State University Press, 2003)

"Federal Expansion, Fertility Control, and Physicians in the United States: The Politics of Maternal Welfare in the Interwar Years," Journal of Women's History, Vol.10, no. 3 (Autumn 1998): 53-73

"The Paradox of Maternalism: Elizabeth Lowell Putnam and the American Welfare State," co-authored with Sonya Michel for Gender & History (Fall 1992)
Research Interests: My research is focused on the history of social movements devoted to maternal and infant welfare.

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