PhD Candidate Jeanna Kinnebrew Wins Shotwell Fellowship
Congratulations to Jeanna Kinnebrew for winning the Shotwell fellowship, an award that assists History PhD students in their final year of dissertation writing. This award has been generously funded by an alumni of the History PhD program.
Titled “Sex in the Puritan City: How Boston Nonprofit Battles Remade Sexual Health Care, 1928-1972,” Jeanna’s work examines the ongoing debates within Boston’s nonprofit organizations over sexuality, public health, philanthropy, and social control. She argues that infighting between these nonprofits kept Massachusetts behind the times in some ways – such as birth control legalization – but also enabled creative solutions, such as the first secular marriage and sex counseling service, which eventually shaped national sexual health care policy.
