VIRGINIA ANNE METAXAS HISTORY
BOOKS PUBLISHED:
Poor Mothers and Babies (New York and London: Garland) 1989;
Occupational Therapy: The First Thirty Years (Bethesda MD: AOTA) 1995.
CHAPTERS/SECTIONS PUBLISHED IN BOOKS:
"Samuel Woodward" in Walter Trattner, ed., Biographical Dictionary of Social Welfare in America ( Westport, CT: Greenwood) 1986;
"Paul Hermann Muller" and Axel Hugo Theorell" in Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology (New York: Garland) 1989.
PAPERS PUBLISHED IN PROCEEDINGS:
"Teaching and Learning in a Graduate Women's Studies Course: "Woman, Heal Thyself, Historical, Anthropological and Literary Approaches to Women's Health" in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Classroom Research, 1996, co-authored with Rosalyn Amenta, Vara Neverow, Hannah-Ian Faraclas.
"Applied Women's Studies" in Working Papers of the National Women's Studies Association, 1992, co-authored with Rosalyn Amenta and Vara Neverow.
JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:
"Eleanor Clarke Slagle, Susan E. Tracy, Personal and Professional Identity and the Development of Occupational Therapy in Progressive Era America," Nursing History Review 8 (2000):39-70.
"A Woman's Place is in the Curriculum K-12: A Multicultural Approach" Transformations 10 (Spring 1999) 69-77, co-authored with Judith Buzzell.
"Charity vs. Science: New York's Beth Israel Hospital in the 20th Century" Connecticut Review (Fall 1992): 9-15.
"Diphtheria and Medical Therapy in Late 19th C. NYC" New York State Journal of Medicine (1990).
"Culture and Class Conflict: The New York Asylum for Lying-In Women, 1823-1850" Transactions and Studies of the College of Physicians and Surgeons (1989).
"The Lady vs. The Pediatrician" Nursery and Child's Hospital 1854-1910" Bulletin of the History of Medicine (1986) 60:194-209.
BOOK REVIEWS
:Heather Munro Prescott. A Doctor of Their Own: The History of Adolescent Medicine in Isis, forthcoming; Janet Golden. A Social History of Wet Nursing in America in Isis, forthcoming.
Jeffrey P. Baker. The Machine in the Nursery: Incubator Technology and the Origins of Newborn Intensive Care in Isis Journal of the History of Science Society 88 (1997): 572-573.
Gary Goldenberg. Nurses of a Different Stripe: A History of the Columbia University School of Nursing 1892-1992 in Bulletin of the History of Medicine (1995).
Eva R. Rubin. The Abortion Controversy: A Documentary History in Transformations (1994); Richard Meckel. Save the Babies in Journal of American History 1991.
CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:
"Building Coalitions for Strengthening Women's Studies Programs" with Rosalyn Amenta at SUNY New Paltz Women's Studies Conference, October, 1999.
"Teaching and Learning in a Graduate Women's Studies Course Woman Heal Thyself" at Second International Conference on Classroom Research, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1996.
"Alexander Whistelo vs. Commissioners of the Almshouse" SCSU Women's Studies Conference, 1995.
"Professional Women" Connecticut Council of the Social Studies Conference, 1994.
RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:
NEH Faculty Institute "Reimagining Pacific Indigenous Peoples" University of Hawaii, June-July, 1999.
Faculty Development Institute SUNY Albany "Follow-Up: Globalizing the Women's Studies Curriculum" University of Puerto Rico at San Germain, Puerto Rico, April 1998.
Faculty Development Institute SUNY Albany "Globalizing the Women's Studies Curriculum" June, 1997.
Connecticut Humanities Grant, Principal Investigator with Carlos Arboleda, Fall 1997, for Latina Visions Women's Studies Conference at SCSU; Connecticut State University Sabbatical Leave, Spring 1996.
Connecticut State University Research Grants, 1994-95; 1995-96; 1996-97; 1998-99.
SCSU Faculty Development Grants: Women and Science Education, 1999; Lecture Series for History and Political Science State of the Art, 1996-97.
Women's Studies Self-Assessment 1995-96
Diversity Training for Freshman Orientation Faculty, 1994-95
Lecture Series on Public History, 1993-94
Woman's Place is in the Curriculum, 1990-91; NEH Travel Grant for occupational therapy history research, 1992
Associate Scholar, History of Science Society 1988
RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:
United States Women and Medicine
CURRENT/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Biography and History of Dr. Esther Pohl Lovejoy and the American Women's Hospitals; Missionary Physicians in Hawaii.
MASTER'S THESES ADVISEMENT:
Lois Olesen, "Women and Suburbinization in New Haven in the 1950s"
Kirsten Jensen "Women Museum Professionals in late 19th c. America"
Christine Tilley, "West Coast Prostitution"
Katherine Wiltshire "Women's Studies in Secondary Schools."
DISSERTATION TITLE:
Poor Mothers and Babies: A Social History of Childbirth and Child Care Institutions in Nineteenth Century New York City (SUNY Stony Brook, 1984).
INSTITUTION GRANTING Ph.D.:
SUNY at Stony Brook