Bio

Dr. Cara Delay, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina, holds degrees from Boston College and Brandeis University. Her research analyzes health, gender, and culture in Europe and the United States, with a particular focus on reproduction, pregnancy, and childbirth. Her award-winning body of scholarship includes more than 30 scholarly journal articles and chapters. She is also author or co-author of Women, Reform, and Resistance in Ireland, 1850-1950 (Palgrave), Irish Women and the Creation of Modern Catholicism, 1850-1950 (Manchester), Birth Control: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford), and Catching Fire: Women’s Health Activism in Ireland and the Global Movement for Reproductive Justice (Oxford). A Fulbright scholar, she also has received awards or fellowships from the American Association of University Women, the Coordinating Council for Women in History, Nursing Clio, and the Donnelly Foundation. She teaches courses in women’s health, women’s history, and reproduction.