Most people who know me will tell you that I enjoy fewer things more than foraging in archives. I have been an archive rat since my days as a researcher on a national historical commission. My love of unusual nuggets (an asbestos sample), dust-encrusted fingers, and the tangible vestiges of previous researchers (documents bedecked in cigarette burns), is even becoming a monograph about one archive and its uses and abuses in the post-World War II era.
Continue reading The Spaces Between: Interstitial Archives and Childbirth Activism in 1970s West Germany and the United StatesAuthor: Jennifer L. Rodgers
She is an assistant research professor of history at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where she also serves as an editor on the Einstein Papers Project. She holds a PhD in history from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Rodgers is currently completing a manuscript based on her dissertation titled The Archives of Humanity: The International Tracing Service, The Holocaust and Postwar Order. Her second book project explores childbirth and obstetrics in Germany from 1750–2000. Her research broadly deals with humanitarianism and human rights, the aftermath of Nazism, as well as the histories of medicine and gender.