Lara Freidenfelds, Ph.D., is an historian of women’s health, medicine and the body in America. She holds her doctorate from Harvard University in the History of Science, and her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in Social Anthropology.
Her work has been supported by numerous fellowships, including a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Newhouse Center for the Humanities and the Women’s Studies Department at Wellesley College; a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship; and a Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities at Harvard University. She has received the Shryock Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine and the Robinson Prize from the Society for the History of Technology.
Freidenfelds has taught courses in the history of reproduction, sexuality and gender at Wellesley College, the University of California at Berkeley, and as a graduate student instructor at Harvard University.
She is currently writing her next book on the history of cultural understandings and experiences of early pregnancy and first-trimester miscarriage from the late middle ages to the early twenty-first century.