Paula A. Michaels , Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of History Affiliate Appointments: Program in Bioethics and Humanities; Program in International Studies; and Department of Women's Studies University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 319-335-2287 E-mail: paula-michaels@uiowa.edu

Education

• Ph.D. in History, 1997: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• M.A. in History, 1991: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• B.A., in History and Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1987: Northwestern University

Teaching

• Recent Teaching in the Department of History:
  • 16E:051 Colloquium for History Majors (European)
  • 16W:051 Colloquium for History Majors (World)
  • 16E:179 Soviet Union 1945-1991
  • 16:082 The World Since 1945
  • 16:236 Readings in Modern European History
  • 16:257 Readings in Soviet History

Research Interests

• History of modern medicine and health in transnational perspective
• History of obstetrics and gynecology
• History of psychology
• Colonial medicine
• Russian and Soviet history
• Central Asian history
• Women's history

Research Languages

• English, Russian, French and Kazakh

Recent Publications

Book In Progress:

• Lamaze: An International History (Oxford University Press, estimated date of completion August 2012).

Book In Print :

• Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin’s Central Asia. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003.
  • Winner, 2003 Heldt Prize for best book by a woman in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, awarded by the Association of Women in Slavic Studies
  • Finalist, 2004 PEN Center USA Literary Award, research nonfiction category.

Articles and Book Chapters on the History of Medicine:

• Comrades in the Labor Room: The Lamaze Method of Childbirth Preparation and France’s Cold War Home Front, 1951-1957, American Historical Review 115, no. 3 (forthcoming June 2010).
• A Chapter from Lamaze History: Birth Narratives and Authoritative Knowledge in France, 1951-1957, Journal of Perinatal Education 18, no. 3 (forthcoming Fall 2009).
• Childbirth Pain Relief and the Soviet Origins of the Lamaze Method, NCEEER Working Paper (October 16, 2007): 1-31.
• On the Trail of Dr. Lamaze, Wellcome History no. 34 (Spring 2007):12-13.
• Mobilizing Medicine: Medical Cadres, State Power, and Center-Periphery Relations in Wartime Kazakhstan, in Provincial Landscapes: The Local Dimensions of Soviet Power. Donald J. Raleigh, ed. (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001), 217-35.
• Motherhood, Patriotism, and Ethnicity: Kazakhstan and the 1936 Ban on Abortion, Feminist Studies 27, no. 2 (2001): 307-33.
• Medical Propaganda and Cultural Revolution in Soviet Kazakhstan, Russian Review 59, no. 2 (April 2000): 159-78.
• Medical Traditions, Kazakh Women, and Soviet Medical Politics to 1941, Nationalities Papers 26, no. 3 (1998): 493-509.

Book Reviews:

• Leavitt, Judith Walzer. Make Room for Daddy: The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (forthcoming 2010).
• Solomon, Susan Gross. Doing Medicine Together: Germany and Russia between the Wars. Canadian Slavonic Papers 50, no. 3-4 (September-December 2008): 522-24.
• Conroy, Mary Schaeffer. The Soviet Pharmaceutical Business during Its First Two Decades, 1917-1937, 2006. American Historical Review 112, no. 3 (June 2007): 957-58.
• Taylor, Kim. Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-63. Social History of Medicine 19, no. 2(August 2006): 338-40.