Britta I . McEwen, BA, PhD
Director, Women's and Gender Studies Program
Associate Professor
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College of Arts and Sciences
History
DHHC - Dowling Hall/Humanities Center
Britta I . McEwen, BA, PhD
Director, Women's and Gender Studies Program
Associate Professor
Research Focus
Gender and SexualityHistory of Emotions
Modern Austria
Department
History
Position
Associate Professor
Books
- Berghahn Books
“A Home for Mothers in Vienna: Community and Crisis,” in Jason Coy, Ben Marschke, Jared Poley, and Claudia Verhoeven, Kinship and Community: Society and Culture in European History. 2014 - Berghahn Books
Sexual Knowledge: Feeling, Fact, and Social Reform in Vienna, 1900-1934. 2012 - Sharing Sexual Knowledge: A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth Century Europe
McEwen, B. Purity Redefined: Catholic Attitudes Towards Children's Sexual Education in Austria, 1920-1936, p. 161-175 2008
Articles
- “”Die Eheberatungstelle des Roten Wien und die Kontrolle über den ehelichen Sex,” translated by Gerrit Bayer-Hohenwarter und Martina Nußbaumer, in Andreas Brunner et al, Sex in Wien: Lust, Kontrolle, Ungehorsam. Wien: Wien Museum., p. 119-125 2016
- Journal of the History of Sexuality
"Emotional Expression and the Construction of Heterosexuality: Hugo Bettauer's Viennese Advice Columns"
Volume 25 Number 1 (January 2016), p. 114-136 2016
Presentations
- German Studies Association, San Diego, 2016 "Unmarried Mothers, Vormundschaft, and Viennese History in the fin-de-sicle" 2016
- European Studies Conference, Omaha, 2015 "Homes for Mothers in Vienna: Illegitimacy in the Early Twentieth Century" 2015
- Womens History Month Kickoff, Creighton University, 2015 "Weaving Womens Lives Together" 2015
- Faculty Fridays, Creighton University, 2014 "Sexual Knowledge" 2014
- German Studies Association Roundtable Participant, Kansas City, 2014: "Ego-Documents." 2014
- German Studies Association, Denver, 2013 "Everyday Advice, Extraordinary Emotions: Constructions of Heterosexuality in 1920s Vienna" 2013
- German Studies Association, Milwaukee, 2012 "Everyday Love: Hugo Bettauers Viennese Advice Columns" 2012
- The Medicalization of Sex, Simon Frasier University, Vancouver BC, 2011 "Professionalizing the Personal: Eugenics and Sex Education in Interwar Vienna" 2011
- Modern Austrian Language and Culture Association, Pittsburgh, 2011 "Jewish Journalism? Hugo Bettauer as Advice Columnist" 2011
Awards
- Professional Excellence in Tenure-Track Teching
College of Arts & Sciences Dean's Office - Dietrich W. Botstiber Grant
Botsiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies - “Iggy” Award for Freshman mentoring
Creighton University - Faculty Teaching Fellowship
For Critical Issues in Human Inquiry
Creighton University - “Iggy” Award for Freshman mentoring
Creighton University