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Susan M. Reverby

Susan M. Reverby is the Marion Butler McLean Professor Emerita in the History of Ideas and Professor Emerita in Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. She received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Boston University and taught at Wellesley from 1982 to 2016. Reverby is the author of the prize-winning Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing, Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and its Legacy, and numerous other edited volumes. Her latest book is Co-Conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman.

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Claire Fagin

Claire Fagin was a distinguished nursing educator, scholar, and dean, as well as the first woman interim president of the University of Pennsylvania and the first female to achieve this position in any Ivy League university. Her groundbreaking studies on parents and children changed hospital practices around the country.