Dr. Anne Huebel

Assistant Professor of History
huebela@franklinpierce.edu

603-899-1016

Courses Taught:
• Renaissance to Napoleon
• 19th & 20th Century Europe
• Germs and Genes: Western Medicine and Society, 1850-1920
• Early Modern British History
• Modern British History
• Nazi Germany
• African History since 1800
• Reason and Romanticism

Research Interests:
My recent research is on changing ideas about motherhood in Britain from the 1830s to the 1910s. Developments in biology and medicine profoundly influence how modern people understand mothers’ roles in society, so I am also interested in the history of those scientific fields.

Recent Publications and Conference Presentations:
• “The Best Security Against Future Pauperism: Boarding-Out in England and the Successful Working-Class Mother, 1870-1900.” Northeast Conference on British Studies. Montreal, Oct. 1-2, 2004.

• “Motherhood, Civilization, and Nature in Late-Victorian Britain.” Controlling Bodies: The Regulation of Conduct, 1650-2000. University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Wales, June 24-26, 2002.

• “Caroline Norton, Motherhood, and Domesticity: The Infant Custody Act of 1839,” Proceedings of the 2002 Women’s and Gender History Symposium at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 2003.

Education:
B.A. Truman State University, 1994
M.A. Kent State University, 1996
Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 2004