Ziv Eisenberg
Tel Aviv University, B.A; SUNY-Stony Brook, M.A.; Yale University, M.A.
Ziv's dissertation, "The Whole Nine Months: Women, Men, and the Making of Modern Pregnancy in America," examines changing cultural attitudes toward gestation in the 20th century, primarily of urban, middle-class Americans. More broadly, his interests include the history of the US in the 20th century, health and modern medicine, the human body, women's history, the family, media and consumerism. His article, "Clear and Pregnant Danger: the Making of Prenatal Psychology in Mid-Twentieth-Century America", was published in a special issue of the Journal of Women's History on reproduction, sex and power (22:3, Sept 2010). In addition, Ziv has reviewed books for Isis (100:2, June 2009) and the Journal of the History of Sexuality (19:3, Sept 2010). For the paper he delivered at the 2009 meeting of the American Studies Association (ASA), Ziv had won the Gene Wise-Warren Susman award. In 2008 he won the New England American Studies Association's (NEASA) Mary Kelley Prize, for the best paper presented at the annual conference by a graduate student or non-tenure track scholar. Ziv also presented papers at meetings of the Organization of American Historians (OAH), American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM), History of Science Society (HSS), Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, and the Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine. In the spring of 2010, he taught for the History Department a junior seminar called “The American Family, 1873 to the Present.” From 2007 to 2010, Ziv was a member of the Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine's steering committee.
