Monica Green (historian)


Monica Green was a professor of history at Arizona State University. She is an expert in the history of women's health care in premodern Europe, medicine and gender, and she specialises in the history of infectious diseases in the pre-modern period.

Education

Green earned an A.B. degree from Barnard College in 1978, and a Masters and a PhD from Princeton University in 1985. Her doctoral thesis was entitled, The Transmission of Ancient Theories of Female Physiology and Disease Through the Early Middle Ages.

Career

Green was a lecturer at Princeton University 1983–1985. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Lecturer, at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1985–1987. She was then appointed to Assistant Professor Of History at Duke University in 1987, and was promoted to Associate Professor of History in 1995. In 2001 she was appointed Professor of History at Arizona State University.
She was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2001–2002. Green held an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship in 2009. Her project was entitled 'The Midwife, the Surgeon, and the Lawyer: The Intersections of Obstetrics and Law to 1800'. She held a Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford University, 2009–10. She was a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton University, 1990–92 and 2013–14. She was a Visiting Fellow in Medieval Studies at Fordham University in 2013.
Green edited the first volume of the Journal The Medieval Globe in 2015 when the journal launched, and she is on the Editorial Board. Her expertise are regularly called upon by media outlets such as The Washington Post to discuss pandemics and the spread of disease.

Honors

In 2004, Green was co-winner of the John Nicholas Brown Prize, awarded by the Medieval Academy of America for her book, Women's Healthcare in the Medieval West: Texts and Contexts. In 2009 Green was awarded the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize, awarded by the History of Science Society for the best book on the history of women in science for her book, Making Women's Medicine Masculine: The Rise of Male Authority in Pre-Modern Gynaecology.
In 2011 Green was elected as Fellow to the Medieval Academy of America. In 2014, Green was awarded the Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize in recognition of outstanding contributions to the teaching of history of science by the History of Science Society. In 2015 she won a Berlin Prize Fellowship. In 2018, Green was awarded the prestigious CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching Medieval Studies by the Medieval Academy of America. She gave the Society for Medieval Archaeology 2019 Annual Conference Keynote with the lecture 'The Historian, the Archaeologist, and the Geneticist: Pandemic Thinking'.

Family

Green's father is Marlon Green, a pilot whose landmark United States Supreme Court decision in 1963 helped dismantle racial discrimination in the American passenger airline industry.

Selected works