Professor Rachel Winslow

Assistant Professor of Sociology
Phone: (805) 565-6793
Email: rwinslow@westmont.edu
Office Location: Deane Hall 208

Office Hours
By appointment.

Specialization
Research methods, immigration, family, and racial relations


Rachel Winslow

Ph.D. in 2012 from University of California, Santa Barbara
B.A., University of Rochester; M.A., California State University Sacramento

I research the history of international adoption. My dissertation examines adoptions from Greece, Korea, and Vietnam from 1945-76. I enjoy working at the intersections of politics and culture, policy and people, using international adoption to shed light on larger questions of immigration, family, race, and nation.

Dissertation Title:

  • Colorblind Empire: International Adoption, Social Policy, and the American Family, 1945-76

Publications

  • “Immigration Law and Improvised Policy in the Making of International Adoption, 1948-1961"
    Journal of Policy History [forthcoming Spring 2012]
  • "Emma Lazarus"
    ABC-CLIO/Greenwood American History Database, Fall 2009
  • "John Stennis"
    ABC-CLIO/Greenwood American History Database, Fall 2009
  • "Liberty Hall"
    ABC-CLIO/Greenwood American History Database, Fall 2009
  • “Adoption in America, 1851-1970: A Historiographic Essay”
    Clio, volume 16 (2006): 37-51.

Awards

  • Stuart Bernath Research Prize
    Dept. of History, UCSB, 2010
  • Dick Cook Memorial Award
    History Associates, UCSB, 2009
  • Overall Outstanding TA Award
    Graduate Student Association, UCSB, 2009
  • William H. Ellison Prize
    Dept. of History, UCSB, 2008
  • California State University Faculty Senate Scholarship
    California State University, Sacramento, 2007

Grants

  • President's Dissertation Fellowship
    UCSB Graduate Division, 2011-2012
  • Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant
    UCSB Graduate Division, 2010
  • Clarke Chambers Travel Fellowship
    University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, 2009

Scholarly Presentations

  • “Mavericks and Markets: International Adoption during the Greek Civil War,”
    Paper to be presented at the Adoption & Culture Conference, Claremont, CA, March 2012
  • “’Children of Controversy’: Citizenship and Transnational Policy in the Era of Operation Babylift,”
    Paper presented at the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth Conference, Columbia University, June 2011
  • “Preserving the Black Family: Transnational Adoption, Social Policy, and Race during the Vietnam War,”
    Paper presented at the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Amherst, MA, June 2011
  • “‘We Flew Into Darkness’: Adoption Policy in the Era of Operation Babylift,”
    Paper presented at the Western Association of Women Historians, Tacoma, WA, May 2010
  • “Coming Out of the Shadows: Adoptive Parents in Postwar America,”
    Paper presented at the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth Conference, Berkeley, CA, June 2009