Beth Linker

Education
Ph.D., Yale University (2006).
M.Phil., Yale University (2003).
M.A., Michigan State University (1999).
B.S., Ithaca College (1992).

Books
The Roots of Rehabilitation: Reconstructing Disabled Soldiers in World War I America (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming).

Globalizing Disability: World War I and the Making of Modern Rehabilitation, co-edited with Heather Perry, Ph.D. (book proposal under review).

Slouch: The Rise and Fall of American Posture, 1860-1980 (work in progress).

Articles
(see sidebar)

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
• Mellon Faculty Research Fellow, Penn Humanities Forum (2008-2009).
• Distinguished International Scholars Program at Penn, Grant (2007).
• The Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program at Penn (2006).
• Roy Porter Memorial Prize Essay, Society for the Social History of Medicine (2005).
• John F. Enders Fellowship, Yale University (2005).
• Wood Institute Research Fellowship, College of Physicians of Philadelphia (2004-2005).
• Yale University Dissertation Fellowship (2004-2005).
• Donaghue Initiative in Biomedical and Behavorial Research Ethics, Grant (2003-2006).
• American Association for Bioethics and Humanities Student Essay Award (2002).

Selected Professional Presentations
“‘War’s Waste’: Making Men Whole through Rehabilitation,” Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Feb. 12, 2009.

“Flat Feet and Draft Dodging: The Making of a Disability in World War I America,” University of Maryland, October 2, 2008.

“Limb Lab: Technological Experimentation in Prosthetic Design for World War I Amputee Soldiers,” Colloquium on the History of Science, Technology, and Environment, University of Maryland, October 2, 2008.

“The Birth of Biomechanics: an Orthopedic View of Worker Efficiency in Early Twentieth-Century America” Department of the Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, September, 24, 2008.

“Brains and Brawn: The Birth of Physical Therapy as an Allied Health Profession,” Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, September 17, 2007.

“Crippling Medical History: Making Sense of Medicalization and the Medical Model,”Disability History: Theory and Practice Conference, San Francisco State University, August 2, 2008.

"Limb Lab: Getting Amputee Soldiers Back to Work After World War I" National Museum of Health and Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C., July 24, 2008.

"(Wo)manly Workers: Gender and Rehabilitation in World War I,” The Barbara Bates Center for the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, April 30, 2008.

“Limb Lab: Getting Soldiers Back to Work in World War I America,” Medicine in Wartime Lecture Series, New York Academy of Medicine, April 24,2008.

“Brains and Brawn: The Birth of Physical Therapy as an Allied Health Profession,” The Kate Hurd-Mead Lecture, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, March 20, 2008.

“The Burden of the Body: Making Exercise Mechanical in Interwar America,” History of Science Society, Washington, D.C., November 2007.

“Body Works: Physical Culture in Early Twentieth-Century America,” Department of History, University of Delaware, October 2007.

"Fallen Arches: Orthopedic Surgeons, Flat Feet, and the Making of Disability in World War I,” European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, annual meeting, Paris, September 2005.

“Self-perceptions of Disability and Illness,” American Association for the History of Medicine, annual meeting, Panel Chair, Birmingham, Alabama, April 2005.

“‘Not Your Father’s Old-Time Medical History’: The New Disability History and its Claim to Authenticity,” American Association for the History of Medicine, annual meeting, Panel Organizer and Chair for Roundtable Workshop, Madison, May 2004.

“Militarizing the Body: Prosthetics, Propaganda, and Medical Politics in Wartime Europe and the United States, 1914-9,” American Historical Association, annual meeting, Panel Organizer, Washington, D.C., January 2004.

“Picture Perfect: Representations, Medicine, and Consensus in Wartime America, 1918-1919,” American Historical Association, annual meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2004.

“Codes of Ethics and the Allied Health Professions in Twentieth Century America,” American Medical Association, Ethics Standards Division, presented invited paper, Chicago, January 2003.

“The Business of Ethics: Women in Medicine and the American Physiotherapy Association’s 1935 Code of Ethics,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, annual meeting, Baltimore, October 2002.

“Great Doctors, Great Scientists: The Career of Biography in the History of Medicine and Science,” invited paper, University of Copenhagen, the Poetics of Biography in Science, Technology, and Medicine Conference (program directors, Janet Browne and Thomas Söderqvist), Copenhagen, May 2002.