My Work
History of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Publications
"'The Impulse to Believe': Scientific Evidence and the "Problem" of the Jury in Historical Perspective"
Focus on Law Studies, American Bar Association Commission on College and University Legal Studies Fall 1995, Volume XI, Number 1, pp 9-11
"Speaking for the Dead: Forensic Pathology and American Justice in the Twentieth Century"
Science, Technology, and Human Values 20 (4) Autumn 1995: 438-459
"The Civic Club of Philadelphia" and "The Octavia Hill Association"
in Invisible Philadelphia: Community Through Voluntary Organizations. Philadelphia: The Atwater Kent Museum, 1993
Projects
Historical Consultant, Coming of Age: The Sexual Awakening of Margaret Mead by Debra Beatriz Blum
New York, St. Martin’s Press, 2017
Research Assistant, Discovering America: The Peopling of Pennsylvania
The State Museum of Pennsylvania and the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, 1991-1992
Presentations
"Tools, Toys, and Bodacious Tatas: The Breast in American Culture"
Mount Auburn Hospital Quarterly Seminar in Ob/Gyn; Mount Auburn Hospital Department of Ob/Gyn Nursing Seminar
"Death on Four Wheels: Negotiating Automobile Homicides, 1900-1940"
Hagley Museum and Library conference on “Danger, Risk, and Safety: Ideas and Practices”
"Crime's Nemesis: Forensic Science and Criminal Justice in the United States"
Department of Criminal Justice, University of Delaware; joint colloquium in History and Criminal Justice, St. Anselm’s College; Social Science History Association Annual Meeting
The Coroner Lady
Julie Johnson-McGrath, Ph.D.
I offer historical consulting services to writers of fiction and non-fiction on the following topics: forensic science, medicine, science, technology, social and behavioral sciences, popular and material culture.