Participant Info
- First Name
- Desiree
- Last Name
- Abu-Odeh
- Country
- United States
- State
- IL Illinois
- desireeabuodeh@caa.columbia.edu
- Affiliation
- Website URL
- Keywords
- public health, gender, sexuality, race, urban history, sexual violence, higher education, colleges and universities, social movements
- Availability
- 1
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
Desiree Abu-Odeh has a PhD and MPH in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University and an MA in Bioethics from the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include histories of public health, gender, race, sexuality, social movements, and education in the United States. Desiree’s dissertation examines the emergence of what is now known as “sexual violence” and responses to it on American college campuses from 1952 to 1980. She received funding for her doctoral studies and dissertation research from her department’s Predoctoral Fellowship in Gender, Sexuality and Health, the Columbia Population Research Center, Harvard’s Schlesinger Library, Barnard Library, Smith College Libraries, and an NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship. Her work has been published in Social Science History, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Public Health Reports, and American Journal of Public Health. She is an Editor for the online blog NOTCHES: (re)marks on the history of sexuality.
- Recent Publications
Abu-Odeh, Desiree, Shamus Khan, and Constance A. Nathanson. “Social Constructions of Rape at Columbia University and Barnard College, 1955 to 1990.” Social Science History 44, no. 2 (2020): 355-79.
Chavkin, Wendy, Desiree Abu-Odeh, Catherine Clune-Taylor, Sara Dubow, Michael Ferber, and Ilan H. Meyer. “Balancing Freedom of Conscience and Equitable Access.” American Journal of Public Health 108, no. 11 (2018): 1487-8.
Abu-Odeh, Desiree. “‘Party Games’ and ‘Pulling Train’: Understanding the Brett Kavanaugh Gang Rape Allegation.” NOTCHES: (re)marks on the history of sexuality (online blog), September 28, 2018. http://notchesblog.com/2018/09/28/party-games-and-pulling-train-understanding-the-brett-kavanaugh-gang-rape-allegation/
Steinberg, Allyna, Marybec Griffin-Tomas, Desiree Abu-Odeh, and Alzen Whitten. “Evaluation of a Mobile Phone App for Providing Adolescents With Sexual and Reproductive Health Information, New York City, 2013-2016.” Public Health Reports 133, no. 3 (2018): 234-9.
Abu-Odeh, Desiree. “Fat Stigma and Public Health: A Theoretical Framework and Ethical Analysis.” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 24, no. 3 (2014): 247-65.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Higher Ed, Labor, Law, Medicine, Race, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Urban History, Women
