Donna Drucker

Graduiertenkolleg Topologie der Technik
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Karolinenplatz 5 (Fach 1404)
64289 Darmstadt  

drucker(at)ifs.tu-darmstadt.de
ddrucker(at)spz.tu-darmstadt.de

Telefon: +49 (0)6151/164986 

Schwerpunkte

• Technik- und Wissenschaftgeschichte
• Geschlecht- und Sexualitätgeschichte

Aktuelle Forschungsinteressen

• Alfred C. Kinsey (1894-1956), Amerikanischen Sexualforscher
• Klassifikationstheorie
• Maschinen in Sexualforschung benutzt

Publikationen

•The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge, unter Vertrag mit University of Pittsburgh Press

•"The Machines of Sex Research: Technology and the Politics of Identity, 1945–1985, unter Vertrag mit Springer (Springer History Briefs Serie)

•"Keying Desire: Alfred Kinsey’s Use of Punched-Card Machines for Sex Research," Journal of the History of Sexuality, 22 (January 2013), 105-25.

•"Marking Sexuality from 0–6: The Kinsey Scale in Online Culture," Sexuality and Culture, 16 (September 2012), 241-62.

•"'A Most Interesting Chapter in the History of Science': Intellectual Responses to Alfred Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Male," History of Human Sciences 25 (February 2012), 75–98.

•"An 'Aristocracy of Virtue': Cultural Development in the American Catholic Priesthood, 1884–1920s," Religion and American Culture 21 (Summer 2011), 227–58.

•"Male Sexuality and Alfred Kinsey's 0–6 Scale: Toward 'A Sound Understanding of the Realities of Sex,'" Journal of Homosexuality 57 (no. 9, 2010), 1105–23.

•"'Building for a life-time of research': Letters of Alfred Kinsey and Ralph Voris," Indiana Magazine of History 106 (March 2010), 70–101.

•"Beginning the Kinsey Reports: Glenn Ramsey's Sex Research in Peoria, 1938–1941," Journal of Illinois History 10 (Winter 2007), 271–88.

•"'A Noble Experiment': The Marriage Course at Indiana University, 1938–1940," Indiana Magazine of History 103 (September 2007), 231–64.

•"American Faces: Twentieth-Century Photographs," co-edited with Edward T. Linenthal, Journal of American History 94 (June 2007), 97–202.

Vorträge (ab 2009)

• "Machines in European and American Sex Research, 1935-1960," Summer Humanities Institute: Towards a Global History of Sexual Science, 1880-1950, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA (forthcoming 2013)
• "The Technologies of Second-Wave Feminism," American Studies Colloquium Series, University of Warsaw, Poland (forthcoming 2013)
• "The Klein Sexual Orientation Grid and the Fluid Measurement of Sexual Identity," Dimensions of Measurement Conference, Bielefeld, Germany (2013)
• "The Heteronormativity of Space: Human Sex Research Laboratories in the U.S. and Britain, 1959-1975," Space, Place, Power: Forschungscolloquium URBANgrad, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany (2012)
• "Restricting Masculinity, Restraining Science: Penile Strain Gauges and Electroshock Aversion Therapy in the Human Sciences, 1944-1975," Society for the History of Technology Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark
• "Alternative Narratives in Homosexual Aversion Therapy, 1950-1976," International Network for Sexual Ethics and Politics 2nd Annual Conference, Gent, Belgium (2012)
• "The Human Sex Research Laboratory as Scientific Space," Räume und Dinge- Aktuelle Konzepte der Kulturwissenschaften in Diskussion, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria (2012)
• "Speculums, Penis-Cameras, and Vaginal Photplethysmographs: Seeing the Interiors of Women as Sexual Space," Negotiating Gendered Spaces Conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain (2012)
• "From the Penile Strain Gauge to the Penis-Camera: The Mixed Legacy of Mechanical Sex Research in the 1960s," The 60s in America: Legacies Conference, American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, Poland (2012)
• "Ideas of Objectivity," International Interdisciplinary Workshop, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany (2011)
• "Marking Sexuality from 0-6: The Kinsey Scale in Popular Culture," Was Machen Marker? Logik, Materialität und Politik von Differenzierungprozessen, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany (2011)
• "Sex/Machine: Creating Sexual Space in the 1960s," Techno-Topologies: Spatial Perspectives-Spatial Practices Conference, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany (2011)
• "Keying Desire: Alfred Kinsey's Use of Punched-Card Machines for Sex Research," Machines of Memory: The Archival Technologies and the Geneaology of Datapower Workshop, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany (2010)
• "'A Most Interesting Chapter in the History of Science': Intellectual Responses to Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male," Third Annual U.S. Intellectual History Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY (2010)
• "From Queer Antelopes to Sex Dreams of Shrews: The Use of Animals in Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Female," Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science Conference, Louisville, KY (2010)
• "Insular Species and Hopeful Monsters: The Work of Alfred Kinsey and Richard Goldschmidt on the Margins of the Evolutionary Synthesis," Darwin Now: Darwin's Living Legacy Conference, Alexandria, Egypt (2009)
• "The Origin of Higher Categories in Cynips: Alfred Kinsey's Contributions to the Study of Evolution," Evolution and the Public Conference, Universität Siegen, Germany (2009)

Kurzvita

• Seit March 2012 PostDoc-Stipendiatin am Graduiertenkolleg Topologie der Technik, TU-Darmstadt
• 2010-2011, Gastprofessor, Colorado College
• 2010, Gastprofessor, Indiana State University
• 2009-2010, Gastprofessor, Butler University
• 2008, Ph.D., History, Indiana University
• 2003, M.A., History, Indiana University
• 2000, M.L.S., Archives and Records Management, Indiana University
• 1997, B.A., History-Political Science, Colorado College