Research Areas

History of Medicine, 19th and 20th Century US History, Sexual Education, Sexology in Medical Schools, Women's History, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Suzanne Winter is a PhD Candidate in the History Department. She works in the history of medicine, with particular emphasis on the history of sexology in medical education and women's history in 19th century Western US hospitals. Prior to graduate school, Suzanne taught sexual education, science, and literacy to middle and high school students in New York City, and she previously developed wine educational and promotional campaigns with Austrian, German, and local winemakers. She completed a double major in biology and comparative literature at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania; her laboratory research thesis focused on in ovo olfactory learning in domestic chickens, and her literature thesis compared Irish and Antillean postcolonial poetry.