Erin Brown


Thesis Title

  • "Tranquilize Your Mind": Drug Use, Gender, and the Middle Class in America, 1955-1970

Supervisor

Second Reader

Main Research Interests

  • My current project merges together the history of women, concepts of gender, and substance use with my longstanding interest in Sixties popular culture. Additionally, my research addresses Hollywood imagery, the pharmaceutical industry, and the Second Wave Women's Movement.

Publications

  • MA Thesis: A Show of One's Own: The History of Television and the Single Girl in America from 1960.

Conference Papers

  • "One Pill Makes You Faster, One Pill Makes You Small: Amphetamines and Women in Mid-Century America" Presented at the Graduate History Conference, Western University, London, ON - April 2019

  • "Television and the Single Girl: Exploring Their Relationship in American History" Presented at the Pierre Savard Conference, Ottawa, ON - 2015

  • "Single Women and Television in American History" Presented at the Three Minute Thesis Competition, Waterloo, ON - 2015

Archival Travel

  • Schlesinger Library, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Boston, MA, USA.
  • Vanderbilt Television News Archives, Nashville, TN, USA

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