CURRICULUM VITAE
M. L. TINA STEVENS
San Francisco State University
Department of History
1600 Holloway Ave
San Francisco, CA 94132
phone: (415) 338-1604
email: mstevens@sfsu.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D., United States History, University of California, Berkeley, 1997.
M.A., Jurisprudence and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley,
Boalt Hall School of Law.
B.A., History, University of San Francisco, magna cum laude; Worcester College,
Oxford University, England, summer session.
DISSERTATION
Title:
"American Cultural Politics and the Rise of Bioethics"
Committee: Paula Fass, Chair; Thomas Laqueur; Carolyn Merchant
Examination Fields: United States History; Medicine and Society U.S., Britain and France, 19th
and 20th Centuries; Environmental History (Conservation and Resource Studies)
HONORS
Nominee, Frederick Jackson Turner Book Prize in American History
Nominee, History of Science in America Book Prize
Mellon Dissertation Year Fellow
International and Area Studies Dissertation Workshop Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
Marion Brown Memorial Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley
Eugene Irving McCormac Graduate Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley
Archbishop Riordan Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley
Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, University of California, Berkeley
Humanities Honor Program, University of San Francisco
Dean's List, University of San Francisco
Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Teaching:
San Francisco State University, Lecturer since fall, 1999. Courses: History of US through
Reconstruction; History of US since Reconstruction; Seminar in Historical Analysis;
The Founding of the American Nation; History of US, 1877-1916; History of US since
1945.
U. C. Berkeley, Instructor, Bioethics and Society, spring, 2004.
California State University, Hayward, Lecturer, United States History Survey, 1997-1999.
U.C. Berkeley, Instructor: Challenge to Authority: A Social and Cultural History of America in
the 1960s; fall, 1990.
U.C. Berkeley, Teaching Associate: Introduction to the History of the United States; spring,
1988.
U.C. Berkeley, Teaching Associate: American Environmental and Natural Resource History;
fall, 1987; fall, 1986; fall, 1985; fall, 1984; fall, 1983.
U.C. Berkeley, Teaching Associate: Environmental Problems; spring, 1986.
U.C. Berkeley, Visiting Lecturer: Bioethics: Law, Science, and Medicine; spring, 1985.
U.C. Berkeley, Teaching Assistant: Foundations of Law and Society; winter, 1982; fall, 1981.
U.C. Berkeley, Teaching Assistant: The Moral Criticism of Law; spring, 1981.
Research Assistantships and Readerships:
U.C. Berkeley, Reader for American Social History from Settlement to Industrialization; fall,
1988.
U.C. Berkeley, Junior Specialist Researcher: for topics in Colonial American History; summer,
1984; summer, 1985.
U.C. Berkeley, Research Assistant: for creation of the course, Legal Aspects of Biomedical
Ethics; 1978-1980.
U.C. Berkeley, Research Assistant: for data collection and analysis of criminal RAP sheets;
summer, 1983.
Other:
Affiliated Scholar, Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future, since 2005.
Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society, UC Berkeley, 2004-2005.
Ben Manilla Productions, radio script writer for the History Channel, 1997 to 1999.
Visiting Scholar, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, England, winter, 1994.
Judicial Council of California/Administrative Office of the Courts, San Francisco: Consultant;
spring, 1984.
National Center for State Courts, San Francisco: Consultant; May-December, 1980.
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ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
“Intellectual Capital and Voting Booth Bioethics: A Contemporary Historical Critique,” in The
Ethics of Bioethics: An Overview, Lisa Eckenwiler and Felicia Cohn, eds., Baltimore:
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007; online version, Center for the Study of Law
and Society working paper series: http://repositories.cdlib.org/csls/fwp/34/
Review: Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America by David Serlin, The
American Historical Review, Vol. 111. 2006, pp. 531-532.
"History and Bioethics," in The Nature and Prospect of Bioethics: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives, eds. Franklin G. Miller, John C. Fletcher, and James M. Humber, New
Jersey: The Humana Press, 2003.
Response to critic, Albert Jonsen’s, “Beating Up Bioethics” published as letter in The
Hastings Center Report, Vol. 32, No. 1, January-February 2002.
Response to critic Robert Baker, published as letter in Journal of the History of Medicine and
Allied Sciences, Vol. 57, Issues 3, July 2002.
"Bioethics in America: An Interview," Wild Duck Review, winter 2000, Vol. VI, p. 32-33,
and online at: http://www.instituteforinquiry.org/journal/wdr_back_issues.php#issue20
Bioethics in America: Origins and Cultural Politics, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
2000; paperback edition, 2003.
"What Quinlan Can Tell Kevorkian about the Right to Die," The Humanist, Vol. 57, No. 2,
(March/April 1997), pp. 10-14.
"Revisiting Quinlan: A History of the Cultural Politics of Medicine and the Law," Journal of
Health Politics, Policy, and Law, Vol. 21, No. 2, (Summer 1996), pp. 347-366.
"Redefining Death in America, 1968," Caduceus: A Medical Humanities Journal for Medicine
and the Life Sciences, Vol. XI, No. 3, (Winter 1995), pp. 207-219.
"The Performance of Medical Malpractice Review Panels," Journal of Health Politics, Policy
and Law, Vol.11, No.3, (Fall 1986), pp. 525-535, with Stephen Shmanske.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Reprogramming Cells: Moving Stem Cell Research Forward without Jeopardizing Women’s
Health,” with Diane Beeson, online Commentary at,
http://www.humanebiotech.com/reprogrammingcells.html
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Other Publications, Continued
“Ushering in the New Eugenics,” with Diane Beeson, online Commentary at,
http://www.humanebiotech.com/usheringinneweugenics.html
“Crossing Lines: Breaching Human-Animal and Left-Right Boundaries,” with Stuart A.
Newman, Ph.D., The Humanist, ‘Up Front,’ section, Sept/Oct, 2007, online at:
http://www.thehumanist.org/humanist/StevensNewman.html
“A Closer Look at Stem Cell Research,” with Diane Beeson, Ph.D., Op Ed, Oakland Tribune,
January 18, 2006, p. 9, Metro section:
http://www.genetics-and-society.org/newsdisp.asp?id=925
“What California Can Learn from Korean Cloning Scandal,” with Nigel Cameron, Op Ed, San
Francisco Chronicle, December 13, 2005, p. B7: http://sfgate.com/cgibin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/12/13/EDGI5G6BRN1.DTL
“The Debate Over Proposition 71: What We Should Know (and Almost Didn’t),” Op Ed, San
Francisco Chronicle, August 29, 2004, “Insight” section, p. E5:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgibin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/08/29/EDGMQ8F
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WORKING PAPERS
“Bandwagon and Boondoggle in Biotech: California’s Stem Cell Research Initiative” with
Diane Beeson.
“Egg Procurement for Stem Cell Research: Old Obstacles and New Alliances in the Campaign
for Global Regulation,” with Diane Beeson.
“Big Biotech and Abortion Politics: The Progressive Campaign against California’s 2004 Stem
Cell Research Initiative,” with Diane Beeson.
PRESENTATIONS, GUEST LECTURES, PANELS
“The Growing Trade in Human Eggs: Implications for Women’s Health and the Rise
of Techno-eugenics,” for the ASI Women’s Center, San Francisco State University (SFSU);
Sex and Gender, Anthropology Department, SFSU; Human Sexuality, Biology
Department, SFSU, spring 2010.
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Presentations, Guest Lectures, Panels, Continued:
“ The New Eugenics and Women’s Bodies,’ Anthropology Department, San Francisco State
University (SFSU); Psychology Department, SFSU; and Psychology Department,
American River College, fall 2009.
“The New Eugenics and the Exploding Market in Women’s Eggs,” Liberal Studies Program,
San Francisco State University, spring 2010, fall 2009, spring 2008, spring 2007.
“The Politics of Bioethics: The Case of California’s 2004 Stem Cell Initiative,” for The Politics
of Ethics and the Crisis of Government Conference, Center for West European Studies
and DADD (German Academic Exchange Service), University of Washington, Seattle,
spring 2006.
“A Contemporary Historical Critique of California’s 2004 Stem Cell Research and Cures
Initiative,” University of California, Berkeley, Rhetoric Department, spring 2005, and
for the Disability Studies Consortium of the Bay Area, U. C. Berkeley, spring 2006.
Panel Chair: Our Bodies, Our Choices: Politics, Cultures, and Women’s Decisions about
Reproduction and Bodily Care, at the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians,
Claremont, California, summer 2005.
“The Cultural Politics of Bioethics from the Atomic Science Movement to Proposition 71,
1950s-2004,” University of California, Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science
and Policy Management, spring 2005.
“A Recent History of Media Representations of Science: Selling Stem Cells,” University of
California, Berkeley, Pre-med 101, fall 2004.
“The Politics of Defining Death: Implications for Medical Education and Medical Practice,”
University of California, Berkeley, Pre-med 101, spring 2004.
"The Courts, Social Policy, and the History of Bioethics," University of California, Berkeley,
Department of Legal Studies, spring 2001.
"Text in Context: A Cultural and Intellectual History of Bioethics in America," Organization of
American Historians, San Francisco, California, April, 1997.
"The Cultural Politics of Medicine, Law and Bioethics," Western Association of Women
Historians, Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California, June, 1995.
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Presentations, Guest Lectures, Panels, Continued:
“‘Sleeping Beauty': Karen Quinlan and the Rise of Bioethics," American Association for the
History of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May, 1995.
"Vietnam and the Protest Culture of the 1960s," Anglia Polytechnic University, Department of
History, Cambridge, England, winter, 1994.
"The Civil Rights Movement in America," Anglia Polytechnic University, Department of
History, Cambridge, England, winter, 1994.
"The Rise of Bioethics in the United States, 1960 to the Present," History Faculty Workshop,
Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, England, winter, 1994.
"Re-Defining Death in the United States, 1968," Western Association of Women Historians,
Lake Tahoe, California, spring 1993.
"The Case of Karen Ann Quinlan: Misperceptions and Realities in the Rise of Bioethics,"
History of Medicine and Culture Group, U. C. Berkeley, fall, 1993.
"Professionalization of Medicine in America," University of California, Berkeley,
Conservation and Resource Studies Department, spring, 1987.
"A History of Bioethics: Negotiating Medical Discretion," History of Medicine and Culture
Group, U. C. Berkeley, fall, 1987.
PUBLIC LECTURES
“The New Eugenics, Stem Cell Research, and Cloning: What the Public Doesn’t Know,” for the
Alameda Public Affairs Forum, Alameda, CA, February 9, 2008.
“The Human Egg Trade, Cloning, and Market Eugenics,“ for the Berkeley Green Party,
Berkeley, CA, January 14, 2008.
“Stem Cells and Cloning Research Controversies,” for the Green Party of Alameda County,
Berkeley, CA October, 21, 2007.
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“A Debate Over Proposition 71, The California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative,“ for the
League of Women Voters, California State University East Bay, fall 2004.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Book, Manuscript, or Grant Reviewer for:
The American Historical Review
Journal of the American Medical Association
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
The Wellcome Trust
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
Founding Member, Alliance for Humane Biotechnology