New Lecture in Seminar Series by Emma Day

Dr Emma Day is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Institute of the Americas, University College London. Her research focuses on the intersections between sexuality and gender and science and medicine in United States history. Her current research project, Beyond Procreation: A New History of Reproductive Justice in the United States, examines the creation and maintenance of the concept of ‘reproductive health’ and its role in shaping the politics of the gendered body in the United States since the nineteenth century. This work builds on her first book, In Her Hands: Women’s Fight Against AIDS in the United States (California, 2023), which arose from doctoral research completed at the University of Oxford. Her research has also appeared in Public Health and the American State, ed. Di Tommaso, Fazzi, Scott-Smith (Edinburgh, 2024) and Modern American History, among others.