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Ann Hibner Koblitz is a Professor in the Women and Gender Studies department at Arizona State University's School of Social Transformation, where she has taught since 1998. Her research focuses on intersections between gender, science, technology, and medicine, with particular attention to historical and cross-cultural reproductive health practices.
- PhD in Russian Intellectual History, Boston University (1983)
Key research areas include:
- Historical roles of women in science and mathematics
- Transnational feminist theory and postcolonial critiques
- Reproductive health politics and contraceptive knowledge systems
- Third World women's access to STEM fields
Her 2014 book Sex and Herbs and Birth Control received the 2015 ASU Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award. Recent scholarship explores:
- Gendered narratives in scientific discourse
- Mathematical communities and gender dynamics
- Historical contraceptive methods and cultural taboos
Awards:
- 2015 ASU Institute for Humanities Research Transdisciplinary Book Award
- President's Friendship Medal (Vietnam, 1995 and 2010)
Koblitz directs the Kovalevskaia Fund supporting women in STEM across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. She also hosts the Sex, Abortion, and Contraception blog, analyzing contemporary reproductive rights issues through historical and global lenses.
