Ziv Eisenberg
Tel Aviv University, B.A; SUNY-Stony Brook, M.A.; Yale University, M.A.
Ziv joined Yale after earning a BA in history and political science from Tel Aviv University, and an MA in history from SUNY-Stony Brook. His dissertation, "The Whole Nine Months: Women, Men, and the Making of Middle-Class Pregnancy in Modern America," examines the interrelation of popular and medical perceptions of pregnancy, and the various ways in which they shaped prenatal practice. Broad areas of interest include the history of the US in the 20th century, the family, the human body, health and modern medicine, women's history, and consumerism. Ziv contributed to Isis and the Journal of the History of Sexuality, and has been a member of the Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine's steering committee since 2007. Ziv presented his work at the annual meetings of the Organization of American Historians (OAH), History of Science Society (HSS), American Studies Association (ASA), and the Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine. For the paper he delivered at the 2008 meeting of the New England American Studies Association (NEASA), Ziv won the Mary Kelley Prize for the best paper presented at the conference by a graduate student or non-tenure track scholar.
