George Reid Andrews: University of Pittsburgh: Department of History

Carolyn Carson

Urban Studies Program
3500 Posvar Hall
University of Pittsburgh
(412)648-7489
FAX (412)648-9074
E-mail: cjlc@pitt.edu

CURRENT POSITION

Coordinator, Urban Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh
Senior Lecturer, History Department, University of Pittsburgh

EDUCATION

August 1995
Ph.D., History and Policy
Carnegie Mellon University

Dissertation: “Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit: The History of the St. Francis Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania”

August 1989
M.A., History
Duquesne University

April 1975
B.S.N., Nursing
University of Pittsburgh

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of Pittsburgh

International Urbanism: American And European Cities in a Globalizing World (URBNST 1700)

International Urbanism: Field Trip to Paris (URBNST 1701)

Introduction to Urban Studies (URBNST 0080)

Urban Studies Field Placement Seminar (URBNST 1900)

Urban Studies Field Research Seminar (URBNST 1200)

Urban Studies Research Seminar (URBNST 1500)– Spring 1997
This course analyzes changing mental health policy in the United States and the possible effect of those changes on the homeless population in the urban environment, in order to understand the broader implications of similar types of policy change.

Urban Studies Research Seminar (URBNST 1500) – Spring 1996
This health policy course addresses the issue of African American infant mortality in the urban environment in order to allow students to develop an understanding of the development of health policy in broader terms.

Freshman Studies (FS 0001)

Carnegie Mellon University

Twentieth Century American History

Research Seminar
This course, designed for upper level undergraduate history majors, explores the history of African American infant mortality in Pittsburgh.

How Historians Think

World History
Teaching assistant to Peter Stearns.

Duquesne University

The History of Medicine
This is a survey of Western Medicine with a focus on how cultural and social values influenced medical education, practice and theory.

The Social History of American Medicine – graduate course
This course examines various topics in American medicine, focusing on the relationship between medicine and the society of which it is a part.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Publications

Books

Carson, Carolyn Leonard, "Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit: The History of the St. Francis Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania." Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1995.

Articles

Carson, Carolyn Leonard, “Childbirth.” In Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration. Edited by Steven A. Reich. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 2006.

Carson, Carolyn Leonard, “And the Results Showed Promise…Physicians, Childbirth, and the Southern Black Migrant Women, 1916-1930; Pittsburgh as a Case Study.” Journal of American Ethnic History 14 (Fall 1994): 31-64.

Reprinted: In African Americans in Pennsylvania, pp.330-362. Edited by Joe Trotter, Jr. and Eric Ledell Smith. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1997.

Reprinted: In Women and Health in America. Edited by Judith Walzer Leavitt. Second Edition. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press,1999.

Carson, Carolyn Leonard, “Childbirth,” “Midwifery.” In Encyclopedia of Social History, pp. 110, 489. Edited by Peter N. Stearns. New York: Garland, 1994.

Carson, Carolyn Leonard, “Maternity Care in the Progressive Era: The Elizabeth Steel Magee Hospital,” Pittsburgh History, Part 1- Summer 1994, Part 2- Fall, 1994.

Book Reviews

Carson, Carolyn Leonard. Review of Nursing, Physician Control, and the Medical Monopoly: Historical Perspectives on Gendered Inequality in Roles, Rights and Range of Practice. By Thetis M. Group and Joan I. Roberts. Journal of Social History, Winter 2003, pp.547-549.

Carson, Carolyn Leonard. Review of Brush with Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoning, by Christian Warren. Journal of Social History, Winter 2001, pp.509-511.

Carson, Carolyn Leonard. Review of What a Blessing She Had Chloroform: The Medical and Social Response to the Pain of Childbirth from 1800 to the Present, by Donald Caton. Journal of Social History, Winter 2000, pp.469-471.

Carson, Carolyn Leonard. Review of Modern Mothers in the Heartland: Gender, Health, and Progress in Illinois, 1900-1930, by Lynne Curry. Journal of Social History, Fall 2000, pp.24

Carson, Carolyn Leonard. Review of A Doctor of Their Own: The History
of Adolescent Medicine, by Heather Munro Prescott.
Journal of Social History, Summer 2000, pp.983-986.

Carson, Carolyn Leonard. Review of Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health, by Judith Walzer Leavitt. Journal of Social History, Summer 1998, pp. 955-957.

Carson, Carolyn Leonard. Review of The Empty Cradle: Infertility in America from Colonial Times to the Present, by Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner. Journal of Social History, Spring 1997, pp. 785-787.

Forthcoming

Carson, Carolyn Leonard, “Lessons Learned: The Unintended Consequences of Policy Decisions Affecting Maternity Services for Pittsburgh's African Americans.” Journal of Health & Social Policy, 2007.

Papers Presented

"They Changed the ‘Welfare of the World’: The Obscure Origins of Emergency Medical Services,” American Association for the History of Medicine annual meeting, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC. April 19-22, 2001.

"Lessons from History: Building University-Community Partnerships,”
International Conference on the University as Citizen, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. February 21-24, 2001.

Round Table Participant in session titled “The Engaged University: A New Town and Gown Relationship from the Social Sciences,” at the annual conference of the Social Science History Association, Pittsburgh PA, October 26-29, 2000.

"Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit: The History of the St. Francis Medical Center,” presented as part of a health history series at the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center. Pittsburgh, PA, January 18, 1998.

"Lessons to be Learned: Maternity Services for Pittsburgh’s African Americans at Mid-century,” presented at The Unintended Consequences of Policy Decisions: A National Policy History Conference, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. June 5-7, 1997.

"African American Infant Mortality in Pittsburgh,” presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Buffalo, New York. May 12, 1996.

"And the Results Showed Promise: Physicians and Childbirth Among Southern Black Women who Migrated to Pittsburgh,” presented as part of the spring lecture series, A Missing History, Women’s Private and Public Lives in Pittsburgh; Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pa. February 3, 1993.

"The Development of a Maternity Hospital in the Progressive Era: The Elizabeth Steel Magee Hospital,” presented as part of the session Urban Hospitals and Urban Medicine, Duquesne History Forum, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. October 25, 1991.

"Christopher Lyman Magee’s Legacy,” presented as part of the session Oral History in an Urban Setting, Duquesne History Forum, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. October 25, 1989.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES – University of Pittsburgh

Member – RAP Group on Youth, Families and the Elderly
(Committee within University of Pittsburgh Center on Race and Social Problems) 2002 - Present

Member – University of Pittsburgh, Senate Committee: Plant Utilization and Planning
Committee, September 2001 – Present
Committee Chairman, September 2004 – 2005

Member – Cast of “Vagina Monologues” national fundraiser for domestic
violence, presented by the Pitt Campus Women’s Organization, February 2004 (only faculty member in cast)

Member – University of Pittsburgh ad hoc Planning and Budgeting
System Review Committee, February 2002 – fall 2002

Faculty Project Manager – COPC (Community Outreach Partnership
Center) grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to the University of Pittsburgh, Oct. 2000 – Present

Academic Coordinator - College of General Studies – Purpose: to
explore the possibility of an “Urban Transformations,” Honors Certificate Program, 2000- 2001

Reviewer – Housing Impediment Study; with Gus Martin, Graduate
School of Public and International Affairs, University of
Pittsburgh, 1999

Member, grant writing committee for COPC (Community Outreach
Partnership Center) grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Summer 1999 and Spring 2000

Advisory Committee – University Center for Social and Urban Research, “Economic Benchmarks,” 1999

Advisory Committee – University Center for Social and Urban Research, “State of the Region Report,” Fall 1998

Faculty Admissions Support Team: University of Pittsburgh, 1998- 2002

Planning Committee – Public Policy Certificate, College of Arts and
Sciences, University of Pittsburgh – 1998-1999;
appointed by Dean Beverly Harris-Schenz

Faculty Sponsor – Urban Studies Association, 1998 - Present

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

President of the Board of Directors – Fair Housing Partnership of Greater
Pittsburgh, Inc., September 2002 - 2005
Member April 2000 - Present

Member – Research Advisory Board, Magee Womens Hospital Research
Institute, February 2002 – Present

Member – Community Advisory Board, WQED Multimedia
2002 – 2005

Volunteer – Allequippa Terrace public housing community food pantry
(this was done with Urban Studies students) 1999 - 2001

RESEARCH AND CONSULTATION

Research Fields
Urban Issues and Health Policy; Issues related to Race, Women and Minorities; History of Medicine

May 1997
D.T. Watson Rehabilitation Hospital
The services contracted included preservation of historical material

April – November 1997
Falk Medical Fund
Services included research leading to the development of a manuscript covering the history of Freedom House Enterprises, Inc.

March – April 1997
Magee- Women’s Hospital
Services included the development of a manuscript covering the period 1959-1963.

HONORS

March 1995

Solon Buck Award
Given by the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania for “Maternity
Care in the Progressive Era: The Elizabeth Steel Magee Hospital,”
Pittsburgh History, 1994.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Association for the History of Medicine
American Historical Association
American Planning Association
Social Science History Association
Urban Affairs Association

PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Staff nurse – oncology nurse specialist
May 1975 – December 1979


Carolyn Carson Urban Studies Program 3500 Posvar Hall University of Pittsburgh (412)648-7489 FAX (412)648-9074 E-mail: cjlc@pitt.edu CURRENT POSITION Coordinator, Urban Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh Senior Lecturer, History Department, University of Pittsburgh EDUCATION August 1995 Ph.D., History and Policy Carnegie Mellon University Dissertation: “Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit: The History of the St. Francis Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania” August 1989 M.A., History Duquesne University April 1975 B.S.N., Nursing University of Pittsburgh TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Pittsburgh International Urbanism: American And European Cities in a Globalizing World (URBNST 1700) International Urbanism: Field Trip to Paris (URBNST 1701) Introduction to Urban Studies (URBNST 0080) Urban Studies Field Placement Seminar (URBNST 1900) Urban Studies Field Research Seminar (URBNST 1200) Urban Studies Research Seminar (URBNST 1500)– Spring 1997 This course analyzes changing mental health policy in the United States and the possible effect of those changes on the homeless population in the urban environment, in order to understand the broader implications of similar types of policy change. Urban Studies Research Seminar (URBNST 1500) – Spring 1996 This health policy course addresses the issue of African American infant mortality in the urban environment in order to allow students to develop an understanding of the development of health policy in broader terms. Freshman Studies (FS 0001) Carnegie Mellon University Twentieth Century American History Research Seminar This course, designed for upper level undergraduate history majors, explores the history of African American infant mortality in Pittsburgh. How Historians Think World History Teaching assistant to Peter Stearns. Duquesne University The History of Medicine This is a survey of Western Medicine with a focus on how cultural and social values influenced medical education, practice and theory. The Social History of American Medicine – graduate course This course examines various topics in American medicine, focusing on the relationship between medicine and the society of which it is a part. PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS Publications Books Carson, Carolyn Leonard, "Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit: The History of the St. Francis Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania." Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1995. Articles Carson, Carolyn Leonard, “Childbirth.” In Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration. Edited by Steven A. Reich. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 2006. Carson, Carolyn Leonard, “And the Results Showed Promise…Physicians, Childbirth, and the Southern Black Migrant Women, 1916-1930; Pittsburgh as a Case Study.” Journal of American Ethnic History 14 (Fall 1994): 31-64. Reprinted: In African Americans in Pennsylvania, pp.330-362. Edited by Joe Trotter, Jr. and Eric Ledell Smith. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1997. Reprinted: In Women and Health in America. Edited by Judith Walzer Leavitt. Second Edition. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press,1999. Carson, Carolyn Leonard, “Childbirth,” “Midwifery.” In Encyclopedia of Social History, pp. 110, 489. Edited by Peter N. Stearns. New York: Garland, 1994. Carson, Carolyn Leonard, “Maternity Care in the Progressive Era: The Elizabeth Steel Magee Hospital,” Pittsburgh History, Part 1- Summer 1994, Part 2- Fall, 1994. Book Reviews Carson, Carolyn Leonard. Review of Nursing, Physician Control, and the Medical Monopoly: Historical Perspectives on Gendered Inequality in Roles, Rights and Range of Practice. By Thetis M. Group and Joan I. Roberts. Journal of Social History, Winter 2003, pp.547-549. Carson, Carolyn Leonard. Review of Brush with Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoning, by Christian Warren. Journal of Social History, Winter 2001, pp.509-511. Carson, Carolyn Leonard. Review of What a Blessing She Had Chloroform: The Medical and Social Response to the Pain of Childbirth from 1800 to the Present, by Donald Caton. Journal of Social History, Winter 2000, pp.469-471. Carson, Carolyn Leonard. Review of Modern Mothers in the Heartland: Gender, Health, and Progress in Illinois, 1900-1930, by Lynne Curry. Journal of Social History, Fall 2000, pp.24 Carson, Carolyn Leonard. Review of A Doctor of Their Own: The History of Adolescent Medicine, by Heather Munro Prescott. Journal of Social History, Summer 2000, pp.983-986. Carson, Carolyn Leonard. Review of Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health, by Judith Walzer Leavitt. Journal of Social History, Summer 1998, pp. 955-957. Carson, Carolyn Leonard. Review of The Empty Cradle: Infertility in America from Colonial Times to the Present, by Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner. Journal of Social History, Spring 1997, pp. 785-787. Forthcoming Carson, Carolyn Leonard, “Lessons Learned: The Unintended Consequences of Policy Decisions Affecting Maternity Services for Pittsburgh's African Americans.” Journal of Health & Social Policy, 2007. Papers Presented "They Changed the ‘Welfare of the World’: The Obscure Origins of Emergency Medical Services,” American Association for the History of Medicine annual meeting, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC. April 19-22, 2001. "Lessons from History: Building University-Community Partnerships,” International Conference on the University as Citizen, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. February 21-24, 2001. Round Table Participant in session titled “The Engaged University: A New Town and Gown Relationship from the Social Sciences,” at the annual conference of the Social Science History Association, Pittsburgh PA, October 26-29, 2000. "Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit: The History of the St. Francis Medical Center,” presented as part of a health history series at the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center. Pittsburgh, PA, January 18, 1998. "Lessons to be Learned: Maternity Services for Pittsburgh’s African Americans at Mid-century,” presented at The Unintended Consequences of Policy Decisions: A National Policy History Conference, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. June 5-7, 1997. "African American Infant Mortality in Pittsburgh,” presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Buffalo, New York. May 12, 1996. "And the Results Showed Promise: Physicians and Childbirth Among Southern Black Women who Migrated to Pittsburgh,” presented as part of the spring lecture series, A Missing History, Women’s Private and Public Lives in Pittsburgh; Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pa. February 3, 1993. "The Development of a Maternity Hospital in the Progressive Era: The Elizabeth Steel Magee Hospital,” presented as part of the session Urban Hospitals and Urban Medicine, Duquesne History Forum, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. October 25, 1991. "Christopher Lyman Magee’s Legacy,” presented as part of the session Oral History in an Urban Setting, Duquesne History Forum, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. October 25, 1989. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES – University of Pittsburgh Member – RAP Group on Youth, Families and the Elderly (Committee within University of Pittsburgh Center on Race and Social Problems) 2002 - Present Member – University of Pittsburgh, Senate Committee: Plant Utilization and Planning Committee, September 2001 – Present Committee Chairman, September 2004 – 2005 Member – Cast of “Vagina Monologues” national fundraiser for domestic violence, presented by the Pitt Campus Women’s Organization, February 2004 (only faculty member in cast) Member – University of Pittsburgh ad hoc Planning and Budgeting System Review Committee, February 2002 – fall 2002 Faculty Project Manager – COPC (Community Outreach Partnership Center) grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to the University of Pittsburgh, Oct. 2000 – Present Academic Coordinator - College of General Studies – Purpose: to explore the possibility of an “Urban Transformations,” Honors Certificate Program, 2000- 2001 Reviewer – Housing Impediment Study; with Gus Martin, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, 1999 Member, grant writing committee for COPC (Community Outreach Partnership Center) grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Summer 1999 and Spring 2000 Advisory Committee – University Center for Social and Urban Research, “Economic Benchmarks,” 1999 Advisory Committee – University Center for Social and Urban Research, “State of the Region Report,” Fall 1998 Faculty Admissions Support Team: University of Pittsburgh, 1998- 2002 Planning Committee – Public Policy Certificate, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh – 1998-1999; appointed by Dean Beverly Harris-Schenz Faculty Sponsor – Urban Studies Association, 1998 - Present COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES President of the Board of Directors – Fair Housing Partnership of Greater Pittsburgh, Inc., September 2002 - 2005 Member April 2000 - Present Member – Research Advisory Board, Magee Womens Hospital Research Institute, February 2002 – Present Member – Community Advisory Board, WQED Multimedia 2002 – 2005 Volunteer – Allequippa Terrace public housing community food pantry (this was done with Urban Studies students) 1999 - 2001 RESEARCH AND CONSULTATION Research Fields Urban Issues and Health Policy; Issues related to Race, Women and Minorities; History of Medicine May 1997 D.T. Watson Rehabilitation Hospital The services contracted included preservation of historical material April – November 1997 Falk Medical Fund Services included research leading to the development of a manuscript covering the history of Freedom House Enterprises, Inc. March – April 1997 Magee- Women’s Hospital Services included the development of a manuscript covering the period 1959-1963. HONORS March 1995 Solon Buck Award Given by the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania for “Maternity Care in the Progressive Era: The Elizabeth Steel Magee Hospital,” Pittsburgh History, 1994. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Association for the History of Medicine American Historical Association American Planning Association Social Science History Association Urban Affairs Association PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Staff nurse – oncology nurse specialist May 1975 – December 1979