Isobel Ashby
Position title: TA: History 392 with Professor Roberts; History Lab Tutor
Email: iashby@wisc.edu
Address:
Advisor: Judith A. Houck
Office: 4266 Mosse Humanities Building
Mailbox: 5110 Mosse Humanities Building
Office Hours: By Appointment
Biography
My work concerns the history of reproduction in the late twentieth-century United States. I am currently researching anti-abortion activism in the Midwest and Northeast throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
Education
M.Phil., American History, University of Cambridge (2019)
B.A., History, University of Bristol (2017)
Field
- U.S./North American History
- Gender and Women’s History
M.A. Title
- “‘Why are you supporting the destruction of our race in the name of choice?’ : Black women, racial justice, and the pro-life movement in the late-twentieth-century United States”
Selected Awards
- New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) Fellowship
- The Worcester/Whatley/Leavitt Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Gerda Lerner Women’s History Fund, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- George L. Mosse Graduate Fellowship in LGBTQ+ History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Sara Norton Research Grant, University of Cambridge
Courses Taught as TA
- History 102 – American History, From the Civil War to the Present
- History 392 – Women and Gender in Modern Europe