Lisa Forman Cody

Candidate statement

Lisa Forman Cody is Associate Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College and author of Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons (Oxford University Press, 2005), which won three prizes including the Berkshires Conference Best First Book Award. She is currently writing a monograph, “Divided We Stand: Women’s Rights and Personhood in English Marriage, 1660-1860.” Her articles have appeared in several edited volumes and journals, including the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, French Historical Studies, Gender & History, Journal of Women’s History, SECC, and ECS. She won the Western Association of Women Historians Article Prize (2002, 2005) and the North American Conference on British Studies Article Prize (2005). She has served on the American Historical Association’s Nominating Committee and other committees for the AHA, Berkshires, Western Association of Women Historians, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, including as Treasurer (2018-2020). She is active in public service and was appointed to the California State Bar’s Judicial Nominees Evaluation Commission (2018-2020). As a member of ASECS, she has served on the Macaulay and Clifford Prizes and the editorial board of SECC, for which she also served as associate editor (vols 39-40) and editor (vols 41-42).