Monica Green (historian)

Monica Green is an American historian.^[1]

Green specializes in the history of medicine and on gender history in the medieval West.^[2]

Green earned the A.B. degree from Barnard College and the PhD from Princeton University with a thesis entitled, “The Transmission of Ancient Theories of Female Physiology and Disease Through the Early Middle Ages.”^[2]

Honors

• Green was awarded the Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize (2014), in recognition of outstanding contributions to the teaching of history of science by the History of Science Society^[1]

• She is a Fellow, of the Medieval Academy of America (elected 2011)

• 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, (Oxford University Press, 2008).

• In 2004 Green was co-winner of the John Nicholas Brown Prize, awarded by the Medieval Academy of America for a "first book or monograph on a medieval subject," for her book, Women's Healthcare in the Medieval West: Texts and Contexts, (Ashgate, 2000).

References

1. "Monica Green; Faculty bio with extensive links, bibliography". asu.edu. Arizona State University. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
2. Booher, Bridget (31 March 1996). "Monica Green". Duke Magazine. Retrieved 30 August 2015.