Isobel Bloom

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Email: iashby@wisc.edu

Address:
Advisor: Judith A. Houck

Isobel Ashby headshot

Biography

 My research concerns anti-abortion activism in the late twentieth century United States.

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 in the anti-abortion movement

Working Dissertation Title

  • “Organizing against abortion in the United States, c. 1980s-1990s”

Selected Publications

Selected Awards

  • Michael Kaplan History of Social Justice Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Doctoral Research Award, Historians of the Twentieth Century United States
  • Research Fellowship, New England Regional Fellowship Consortium
  • 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 Grant for Research in American History, University of Cambridge

Professional Affiliations

  • Historians of the Twentieth Century United States
  • American Association for the History of Medicine

Courses Taught as TA

  • History 102 – American History, From the Civil War to the Present
  • History 392 – Women and Gender in Modern Europe
  • History Lab