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Paulette Meyer
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Education | U of MN Seminars | Publications
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Education: [Top]

Ph.D. in History, University of Minnesota. Specialty area: history of women in medicine.
Thesis title: "Women Doctors Refashion a Men's Profession: Medical Careers of Nineteenth-Century Zürich University Graduates in Germany." June, 1997.

M.A., Education, Stanford University.

B.A., History, Stanford University.

Seminars in History of Science, University of Minnesota: [Top]

"History of Women in Science," Graduate Seminar, 1991, taught by Dr. Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, Dean, Institute of Science and Technology.

Selected titles of seminars presented in classes:

History of Science and Technology Seminar Series, 1989-1992. Presented by visiting scholars associated with the Science and Technology and the Charles Babbage Institutes.

Science in Ancient History Seminar Series, 1989-1992. Sponsored by the Ancient Studies Center.

History of Medicine Seminar Series, 1989-1992. Wangensteen Medical Library Staff.

Publications: [Top]

Meyer, Paulette A. "Dr. Marie Zakrzewska (1829-1902) and the Reform of Medical Institutions." in Encyclopedia of German-American Relations. ABC Clio.

Meyer, Paulette A. "Maternal Feminism and 'Physiatrie': Dr. Anna Fischer-Dückelmann (M.D. Zürich, 1896) Critiques German 'Academic Medicine.'" in Abstracts of the Berkshire Conference on Women's History 2002. University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn. 2002.

Meyer, Paulette A. Spanish translation of "From 'Uncertifiable' Practice to the Berlin Clinic of Women Doctors." in Cabré, Montserrat y Teresa Ortiz (eds.)Sanadoras, matronas y médicas en Europa. Siglos XII-XX. Barcelona, Icaria, 2001.

Meyer, Paulette A. "Professional Medicine and Life Reform: The Practice and Publications of Dr. Anna Fischer-Dückelmann (1856-1917, M.D. Zürich 1896)" Abstracts of the Society for the Social History of Medicine Annual Meeting. Glasgow, Scotland, July 1999.

Meyer, Paulette A. "From 'Uncertifiable' Medical Practice to the Berlin Clinic of Women Doctors: The Medical Career of Franziska Tiburtius (M.D. Zürich, 1876)" Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam. Vol. 19 "Women and Health: Practices and Knowledge" University of Granada, Spain, 1999.

Meyer, Paulette A. "They Met in Zürich: Nineteenth-Century German and Russian Women Physicians" in Women Healers and Physicians: Climbing a Long Hill, ed., Lilian R. Furst, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 1997.

Meyer, Paulette A. "The Dückelmanns of Tragwein: How a Family Archive Illuminates Austrian [Medical] History." Austrian Studies Newsletter. Winter 1994. Published by the Austrian Studies Center, University of Minnesota.

Meyer, Paulette A. "Landmark U.S. Supreme Court Cases Interpreting Civil Rights" in Statewide Summary of Teaching Modifications in Law-Related Education, Published by the California State University, 1988.

Meyer, Paulette A. "One Week in Leningrad" NWCCSS Newsletter. Published by the Northwest Coast Council in Social Studies, 1985.

Meyer, Paulette A. "The Social Studies Substitute." Social Studies Review, vol. 23, no. 3, 1984.

Recent Public Presentations: [Top]

June 2002 Local Knowledge--Global Knowledge. Berkshire Conference on Women's History.
Presented paper: "Maternal Feminism and 'Physiatrie': Dr. Anna Fischer-Dückelmann (M.D. Zürich, 1896) Critiques German 'Academic Medicine.'" Storrs, Connecticut

2000 Described research on women in medicine to students from St. Bernard's Catholic Schools during their celebration of Women's History Day 2000.

1997 Women of the State University "Historical Contributions of Women in Biology."

1996 Columbia History of Science Group "The Decline of Women's Medical and Midwifery Apprenticeship Systems."

1995 Women Historians of the West Annual Meetings "Career Prospects for Women in Medical Clinical Practices During the Nineteenth Century."

1994 Women in Science and Natural Resources "History of Women Doctors."

1994 Humboldt Literary Society "The Use of Memoirs as Historical Sources."

1991 Holocaust Memorial Seminar "Mothers in the Fatherland by Claudia Koonz."

1988 Arcata Aid Society "A Millenium of Slavic Religious Art and Culture."

1987 Eureka Methodist Women "1000 Years of Christianity in Russia."

1987 Radio broadcast KEKA Debate on Constitutional Amendments and Interpretations. Eureka.

1986 League of Women Voters "Voting Rights," and "Government Financing."

1985 League of Women Voters "Teacher in America by Diane Ravich."

1984 American Association of University Women "Issues Impacting Education."

Teaching Credentials: [Top]

California Community Colleges in Professional Education and in Basic Education.

California Lifetime Standard Secondary.

Conferences Attended: [Top]

The Professional Identity of Physicians. University of Glasgow and Wellcome Medical Trust. Presented paper: "Professional Medicine and Life Reform: the Publications and Practices of Anna Fischer-Dücklemann, MD Zürich 1896." University of Glasgow, Scotland, July 1999.

"Alice in Wonderland" First International Conference on Girls and Girlhood. Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 1992.

Matrilineality and Patrilineality in Comparative Perspective. University of Minnesota, May 1992.

Re-forming the Public Sphere in Germany. Minnesota Forum on German Culture. Minneapolis, May 1992.

The Economic Future of Central Europe: Lessons and Legacies from the Past. Austrian Studies Center, University of Minnesota, April 1992.

The Radical Right in Western Europe. DAAD German Academic Exchange Service, Minneapolis, November 1991

State and Society in Early Modern Austria. Austrian Studies Center, University of Minnesota, October 1991.

Women in Austria: Perspectives on Culture, Politics, Economy and Society. Austrian Studies Center, University of Minnesota, April 1991.

"Anne Frank Fights Back": The Dutch Response to the Radical Right. Dutch Studies Department, University of Minnesota, November 1990.

Social Science History Association, Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, October 1990.

Moral Courage During the Holocaust and in a Post-Holocaust World. Invited guest of Anti-Defamation League. Princeton Univ., May 1990.

The American Forum for Global Education: Educating for Our Common Future. National Council on Foreign Language. St. Paul, Minnesota, May 1990.

Great Power Ethnic Politics: The Hapsburg Empire and the Soviet State. Austrian Studies Center. University of Minnesota, April 1990.

The Kaiserreich in the 1990s: New Research, New Directions, New Agendas. DAAD German Academic Exchange, Univ. of Pennsylvania. February 1990.

Escape from the Holocaust: The Jews in Scandinavia, Scandinavian Studies Department, University of Minnesota, November, 1989.

Honors: [Top]

2000 The National Archive of Notable Austrians has included my research in Biographies for the Vienna State Libraries.

2000 The University of Zürich, Switzerland, has archived my research on German and Russian medical students of the nineteenth century in their History of Medicine Library.

2000 The History of Medicine Library of the Free University of Berlin has purchased and catalogued all my publications in their collection on nineteenth-century German women physicians.

Austrian Airlines travel grant for thesis research in Europe, Summer 1993.

Nominated by the U. of M. History Department for Endowed University Fellowship, 1992.

Mellon Foundation grant for thesis research in Europe, Summer, 1992.

Awarded Minnesota Graduate School Fellowship, September 1989.

Selected for California State University Doctoral Incentive Program, 1989.

Honors for Outstanding Teaching, Department of Education, Stanford University.

Honors for Interdisciplinary Thesis in Social Thought and Institutions, Stanford University. Thesis title: "The Myth of the Aryan Race in the Hitler Youth Movement."

National Merit Scholarship National Honor Society Scholarship.

Community Affiliations: [Top]

2000 Interviewed members of the HSU Teacher Preparation and Credentialing Program for a report to the League of Women Voters.

1988-present Historical Sites Fund-Raising Project for Arcata, California.

1984-present Humboldt County Schools History Day Judge for Papers and Projects.

1984-85 Northwest Coast Council on Social Studies Treasurer.

1981-present League of Women Voters--Humboldt: Vice-President, Political Action Chair, Delegate to the California State Convention in San Diego.

1974-76 Appointed to Humboldt County Recreational Trails Committee by Humboldt County Board of Supervisors.

1974-81 Editor for Mad River Press Publications in Biological Sciences.

1971-72 Guest lectures in History of Biology course, Humboldt State University.

Teaching Experience: [Top]

HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY, Arcata, California.

SOUTHWEST STATE UNIVERSITY, Marshall, Minnesota.

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY, Arcata, California.

COLLEGE OF THE REDWOODS, Eureka, California.

EUREKA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, Eureka, California.

HUMBOLDT COUNTY SCHOOLS, Eureka, California.

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