LCP in the News: The 25 Moments From American History That Matter Right Now

Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, Director of the Program in African American History

Deirdre Cooper Owens has contributed to “The 25 Moments From American History That Matter Right Now” in Time. Read her piece on  “J. Marion Sims Opens His Hospital” here.

Deirdre Cooper Owens is an associate professor of history at Queens College, CUNY and the Director of the Program in African American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia. She is the author of the Darlene Clark Hine Award-winning book Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology.