Profile:
Katrin Schultheiss teaches courses in the history of modern Europe, women's and gender history, and the history of medicine. Her first book was entitled Bodies and Souls: Politics and the Professionalization of Nursing in France, 1880-1922 (Harvard University Press, 2001), which used nursing as a lens through which to examine the evolution of gendered definitions of citizenship. Currently, she is writing a cultural biography of the Charcots, a prominent French family whose members included one of Europe's first neurologists, France's best known modern polar explorer, and several generations of women artists. The book focuses on the relationship between art and science in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Professor Schultheiss also holds an appointment in the Gender and Women's Studies Program where she teachers courses on feminist theory and international women's rights.