Collegiate Assistant Professor and Junior Fellow 2016

Teri Chettiar [email protected]

EMPLOYMENT

Collegiate Assistant Professor and Junior Fellow 2016- Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts University of Chicago

Postdoctoral Fellow 2013-2016 Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

EDUCATION

PhD, History Northwestern University, August 2013 Field of Specialization: Modern Britain and Europe Minor Field: History of Medicine and Psychology Dissertation Committee: Alexandra Owen (Chair), Ken Alder, Deborah Cohen Dissertation: “The Psychiatric Family: Citizenship, Private Life, and Emotional Health in Welfare-State Britain, 1945-1979”

MA, History University of British Columbia, 2005 Thesis: “‘It Sounded Like a Man, and I Quite Forgot It Was a Woman Speaking’: Science, Gender, and Performance in Fin-de-Siècle British Psychical Research”

BA, History McGill University, 2001

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-reviewed articles

“More than a Contract: The Emergence of a State-Supported Marriage Welfare Service and the Politics of Emotional Life in Post-1945 Britain,” Journal of British Studies, July 2016, Volume 55 (3), 566-591.

“‘Treating Marriage as the Sick Patient’: Gender, Emotional Life, and the Psychology Marriage Improvement in Postwar Britain,” History of Psychology, August 2015, Volume 18 (3), 270-282.

“Democratizing Mental Health: Motherhood, Therapeutic Community, and the Emergence of the Psychiatric Family at the Cassel Hospital in Post-WWII Britain,” History of the Human Sciences, December 2012, Volume 25 (5), 107-122.

1 Chettiar—Curriculum vitae

“‘Looking as Little Like Patients as Persons Well Could’: Hypnotism, Medicine and the Problem of the Suggestible Subject in Turn-of-the-Century Britain,” Medical History, July 2012, Volume 56 (3), 335- 354.

Reviews

Essay Review. “Protecting the Vulnerable: Experts, Families, and the Rise of the Welfare State in Post-1945 Britain,” review of Michal Shapira, The War Inside: Psychoanalysis, Total War, and the Making of the Democratic Self in Postwar Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013); John Stewart, Child Guidance in Britain, 1918-1955: The Dangerous Age of Childhood (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013); Laura King, Family Men: Fatherhood and Masculinity in Britain, 1914- 1960 (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2015); Angela Davis, Modern Motherhood: Women and Family in England, c.1945-2000 (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2012), The Historical Journal [forthcoming]

Book Review. Review of Mathew Thomson, Lost Freedom: The Landscape of the Child in the British Post-War Settlement, in Journal of British Studies, January 2015, Volume 54 (1), 246-7.

Book Review. Review of Marga Vicedo, The Nature and Nurture of Love: From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America, in Journal of the History of Biology, February 2014, Volume 47 (1), 181-183.

Book Review. Review of Frank C.P. van der Horst, John Bowlby: From Psychoanalysis to Ethology, in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, October 2013, Volume 49 (4), 430-31.

In Progress

The Psychiatric Family: Citizenship, Private Life, and the Invention of Emotional Health in Welfare- State Britain. [Book manuscript in preparation.]

“Inventing the Global Child: Science, Humanitarianism, and the End of Empire” [article in preparation]

FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH GRANTS

2013-2014 Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellowship, European University Institute [declined] 2012-13 Graduate Fellowship, Gender Studies Program, Northwestern University 2012 Dissertation Research Grant, Sexualities Project at Northwestern University 2011-12 Graduate Fellowship, Chabraja Center for Historical Studies, Northwestern University 2011(Fall) Visiting PhD Student, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany 2011 Dissertation Research Grant, Sexualities Project at Northwestern University 2010-11 Northwestern University Graduate Fellowship, History Department 2009-10 Visiting PhD Student, Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London 2008-9 Fellow, Institute for the History and Work of Therapeutic Environments, in affiliation with the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre, Cheltenham, UK 2008 Graduate Research Grant, Northwestern University Graduate School

2007-8 Graduate Fellowship in the History of Science, Northwestern University Science in Human Culture Program 2007 Research Grant, Science in Human Culture Program, Northwestern University 2007 Graduate Research Grant, Northwestern University Graduate School 2006-7 Northwestern University Graduate Fellowship, History Department 2006 Research Grant, Science in Human Culture Program, Northwestern University 2006 Research Grant, History Department, Northwestern University

2005-6 Graduate Fellowship in the History of Science, Northwestern University Science in Human Culture Program 2003-4 Graduate Entrance Scholarship, University of British Columbia

AWARDS

2014 Harold Perkin Prize for Best Dissertation, Department of History, Northwestern University 2011 Lacey Baldwin Smith Prize for Teaching Excellence, Department of History, Northwestern University 2008 Heyck Prize for Research in British History, Department of History, Northwestern University

PRESENTATIONS

February 2016 “Emotional Labor and the Politics of Child Health in Postwar Britain,” Workshop on “The Quest for Democracy: Families, Voluntary Associations and the State in Europe, 1880s-1990s,” European University Institute, Florence, Italy

December 2015 “Making Emotional Deprivation Visible in Postwar Britain,” Department II Colloquium, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany

July 2015 “Making Democratic People: Psychology, Politics, and Family Life in Post-1945 Britain” Rethinking Modern British Studies Conference, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

June 2015 “Inherently Unstable: On the Emotional Dangers of Adolescence and the Natural Limits of Private Life,” MIND Symposium, Wellcome Institute, London, UK

May 2015 “Marriage Therapy and the Reinvention of Emotional Life in Welfare-State Britain,” Conference in Honor of Professor Alex Owen, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

November 2014 “Cultivating Social Life in Mid-Twentieth-Century British Health Experiments,”

Workshop on “Unusual Lives: Historicizing Life as a Problem of Knowledge,” Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany

April 2014 “‘Love is a Feeling to Be Learned’: On the Post-1945 Transnational Circulation of Marriage Counseling,” European Social Science History Conference, Vienna, Austria

February 2014 “Britain’s State-Supported Marriage Therapy Services and the Politics of Intimacy,” Workshop on Voluntary Associations and the State in the Organization of Social Protection, European University Institute, Florence, Italy

January 2014 “Science, Humanitarianism, and the Invention of the Global Child,” History of Science Colloquium, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

February 2013 “Protecting British Youth from the Dangers of Sex: Emotional Immaturity and the Limits of Private Life,” Gender and Sexuality Studies Colloquium, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

November 2012 “‘Good Marriages Are Made in the Nursery’: Psychologizing Married Life in Britain’s Post-WWII Welfare State,” Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, San Diego

July 2012 “Post-WWII Social Reconstruction and the Birth of Marriage Therapy in Britain: Forging Democratic Community through Citizens’ Emotional Fulfillment,” 2012 Joint Conference of Cheiron and the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences, Montreal, Canada

June 2012 “Deprived Children, Unstable Marriages, and Neglectful Mothers: On the Emergence of the Psychiatric Family in Post-WWII Britain,” Histories of the Family: Intersections of Public and Private Life, sponsored by the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

April 2012 “The Family as the Irreducible ‘Unit of Mental Treatment’: Social Psychiatry and the Emergence of Family and Marital Therapy in Post-WWII Britain,” Annual Meeting for the American Association for the History of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

April 2012 “The Psychiatric Family,” British Studies Conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

November 2011 “On Childhood Emotion and the Mother-Child Relationship: John Bowlby’s Separation Research and the Postwar Preoccupation with Emotional Deprivation.” Invited talk presented to the British History Seminar, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL

April 2011 “Translating the Mother-Child Relationship into a Practical Psychopolitics,” British 4

Psychological Society History and Philosophy Section Annual Conference, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

July 2010 “Domesticating Mental Health: On Mother and Baby Units in Postwar British Psychiatry,” Engendering Gender: Production, Transmission and Change, University of Exeter, UK

July 2010 “A History of Hypnotic Suggestion,” The Future of Medical History, Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL, London, UK

May 2010 “Hypnotism, Medicine, and the Problem of Suggestibility in Nineteenth-Century Britain,” Annual Meeting for the American Association for the History of Medicine, Rochester, MN

March 2010 “On the Family as the Unit of Mental Health in 1950s Britain,” Gender, Space, and Place, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN

March 2010 “Domesticating Mental Health,” Work in Progress Seminar Series, Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL, London, UK

January 2009 “‘Looking as Little Like Patients as Persons Well Could’: Hypnotism, Medicine, and the Problem of the Suggestible Subject in Turn-of-the-Century Britain,” British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference, University of Manchester, UK

January 2005 “The Words of God and the Oxford English Dictionary: R. C. Trench and the Victorian Dictionary Ideal,” Qualicum Graduate History Conference, British Columbia, Canada

COLLOQUIA AND CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

2014-15 Colloquium Organizer, Modern History of Science, Humboldt University, Berlin

2014 Conference Organizer, “Unusual Lives: Historicizing Life as a Problem of Knowledge,” Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin

2012 Conference Organizer, “Histories of the Family: Intersections of Public and Private Life,” sponsored by the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies, Northwestern University

2006-2008 Co-chair, Long Nineteenth Century Colloquium at Northwestern University, sponsored by the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities

2005 Conference Organizer, “New Technologies, New Forms,” Nineteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Studies Ninth Annual Graduate Conference, University of British Columbia

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Spring 2015 Instructor, “History of the Sciences of Human Nature,” Graduate Seminar, History Department, Humboldt University, Berlin

Summer 2013 Instructor, “Gender, Sexuality, and Medicine,” Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Northwestern University

Spring 2013 Instructor, “Gender, Sexuality, and Medicine,” Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Northwestern University

Fall 2012 Teaching Assistant, “Sexual Subjects: Introduction to Sexuality Studies,” Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Northwestern University

Fall 2010 Instructor, “Madness and Medicine in Modern Britain,” History Department, Northwestern University

Fall 2010 Teaching Assistant, “The Roots of Feminism,” Gender Studies Program, Northwestern University

Fall 2010 Guest Lecture, “Second Wave Radical Feminism,” Gender Studies Program, Northwestern University

Spring 2010 Instructor, “Madness and Medicine in Modern Britain,” History Department, Northwestern University

Spring 2010 Teaching Assistant, “History of the Holocaust,” History Department, Northwestern University

2006-7 Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University “European Civilization, 800-1750” (Fall 2006) “European Civilization Since 1750” (Winter 2007)

2003-5 Teaching Assistant, University of British Columbia “History of Science and Society,” September-December 2003 “Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science,” January-April 2004 “European History from the Renaissance to the Present,” September 2004-April 2005

November 2003 Guest Lecture, “Eugenics in North America, 1925-1975,” History of Science and Society, University of British Columbia

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2013-16 Participant in the Gender and Science Research Group, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

2011 Participant in the Sexuality Studies and Queer Theory Reading Group, Northwestern University

2007-8 Assistant Master, Residential College of Cultural and Community Studies, Northwestern University

2004-5 Graduate Student Representative, History Department, University of British Columbia

2004-5 Teaching Assistant Representative, History Department, University of British Columbia