Margaret Marsh is Distinguished Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School at Rutgers-Camden. Before coming to Rutgers she was a professor of History at Temple University, where she developed the Ph.D. program in Women's History and became Chair of the History Department in 1997. She is of the author of numerous articles and three books: Anarchist Women (1981), Suburban Lives (1990), and most recently The Empty Cradle: Infertility in America from Colonial Times to the Present (1996), a collaboration with her sister, Wanda Ronner, an obstetrician and gynecologist. Research for The Empty Cradle was funded by a major multi-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1996.

Dean Marsh has been a History Fellow at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. In 1996 she received Temple University's Paul W. Eberman Faculty Research Prize for her scholarly contributions. Her current work, a second collaboration with Wanda Ronner, is a medical and cultural biography of John Rock, who was perhaps the most important figure in the practice of reproductive medicine in the second third of the twentieth century. It is also being funded by a major multi-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

Her record of service to her profession and the community has included serving on the Richard Stockton Foundation from 1977-1981 (as Vice-President); the New Jersey Humanities Council (1983-1990); the College Outcomes Evaluation Committee of the New Jersey Department of Higher Education (1986-1988); the Board of Directors of the Urban History Association (1994 -1997; and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (Selection Committee for History Fellows, 1990 - present). She was a Liaison Officer for the Faculty Resources Network for the Ford Foundation and New York University in 1984 and 1985 and has chaired several prize committees and nominating committees for various professional organizations. She has just completed her term as chair of the Finance Committee of the American Association for the History of Medicine. She has recently served as a consultant for the PBS film, Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman, (2003) and the PBS American Experience Documentary Test Tube Babies (2006) She also appeared on the Discovery Health Channel and in the American Experience documentary on the birth-control pill for PBS.

CURRENT RESEARCH
Reproductive Medicine in the 20th Century -- a cultural and intellectual biography of John Rock, the leading researcher-practitioner in reproductive medicine in the first half of the century who is perhaps best known as a “father” of the birth-control pill.

BOOKS PUBLISHED

The Empty Cradle: Infertility in America from Colonial Times to the Present. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. (With Wanda Ronner) Paperback, Johns Hopkins University Press, Spring 1999.

Suburban Lives. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990.

Anarchist Women, 1870-1920. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981.

SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEW ESSAYS

“The Politics of the Body and the Body Politic,” Journal of Women’s History, forthcoming.

“Urban Views and Suburban Landscapes: A 21st Century Assessment of the History of Metropolitan Development,” Journal of Urban History (accepted and in press for 2006).

“Infertility,” essay for the Encyclopedia of Disability (Sage Publications), accepted.
           
“Margaret Sanger,” Introductory Essay for new edition of Margaret Sanger’s Motherhood in Bondage, Ohio State University Press, 2000.

“Ovarian Transplantation: An Early Form of Reproductive Technology,” ACOG       Clinical Review 4:5 (September/October 1999). With Wanda Ronner

“Motherhood Denied: Women and Infertility in Historical Perspective,” Mothers and Motherhood, ed. by Rima Apple and Janet Golden, Ohio State University Press, 1997.

"(Ms)Reading the Suburbs," American Quarterly 46 (March 1994)

"Biology is Destiny, Once Again," American Quarterly 45 (June 1993)

"Old Forms, New Visions: New Directions in United States Urban History," Pennsylvania History, (January 1992)

"Popular Medical Guides and the Study of Women's History," Fugitive Leaves from the Historical Collections (Published by the Library of the Philadelphia College of Physicians), (Spring, 1991).

"Historians and the Suburbs," Magazine of History 5 (Fall, 1990)

“From Separation to Togetherness: The Social Construction of Domestic Space in American Suburbs, 1840 - 1915," Journal of American History (September, 1989).

"Reconsidering the Suburbs," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (October, 1988).

“Suburban Men and Masculine Domesticity, 1870 - 1915," American Quarterly (Summer, 1988). Revised version in Mark Carnes and Clyde Griffen, eds. Meanings for Manhood, University of Chicago Press, 1990

Honors and Awards

Dean Marsh is the recipient of two major multi-year research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities – the first for The Empty Cradle from 1990-1994, and the second, from 1999 to 2004, for her current work. She has been a History Fellow at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. In 1996 she received Temple University’s Paul W. Eberman Faculty Research Prize for excellence in scholarly contributions, and The Empty Cradle was named an Outstanding Academic Book by Choice Magazine.