Biography
Julia B. Haager鈥檚 research explores how members of the eugenics movement shaped sex
education in US public schools during the early the twentieth century. A portion of
her book project, 鈥淭eaching Responsible Reproduction,鈥� has appeared in the <i>Journal
of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era </i>and the <i>History of Education Quarterly</i><i>.
</i>Her research received the Claud A. Eggersten Dissertation Prize from the History
of Education Society, SUNY Binghamton Distinguished Dissertation Award, and SUNY Chancellor鈥檚
Distinguished Dissertation Finalist Award. Among others, her work has been funded
by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) and Humanities New York. Her
oral and archival history project, co-led with Sean G. Massey, explores the HIV/AIDS
service organization Gay Men鈥檚 Health Crisis during the 1980s and 1990s. It includes
an array of newly collected materials and more than eighty oral interviews that are
being archived at the New York Public Library.
Teaching Interests
Modern US History; Digital Public History; Oral History; Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity;
Women, Gender, and Sexuality.
Research Interests
Twentieth Century US History; Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity; Women, Gender, and
Sexuality; History of Education and Public Health.
