1. PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS
2. CURRENT STUDENTS
3. FACULTY & STAFF
4. ALUMNI
5. COMMUNITY & FRIENDS

1. CAMPUS LINKS
   1. Inside UNCG
   2. Academics
   3. Administration
   4. Admissions
   5. Arts & Entertainment
   6. Athletics
   7. Continuing Education
      & Outreach
   8. Employment
   9. Giving to UNCG
   10. International Programs
   11. Libraries
   12. Online Courses & Degrees
   13. Research
   14. Technology
   15. University News

Dr. Cheryl A. Logan

Contact Information

Email: calogan@uncg.edu
Office: 2116 MHRA
Office Phone: 336-334-3999

Education

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego 1974
M.A., University of California, San Diego 1971
B.A., Southern Methodist University, 1967

Academic Experience

Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1990-
Director, Center for Critical Inquiry in the Liberal Arts, 2006-
Director, University Honors Program, 1989-1992

Research Interests

I am interested in the application of psychology and biology to society in the early twentieth century. Specific topics include:

• History of physiology and neurology
• History of sexuality
• History of eugenics, the IQ movement and psychiatry
• Early twentieth century models of mind

Current Project

Spectacular Failure in Science: Endocrinology, the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics and Alternative Eugenics: 1902-1933

Courses Taught

• HIS 359: Sexuality in Historical Perspective
• PSY 515: History of Psychology
• HIS 530: History of Sexuality: Freud�s Vienna
• WCV 102: Western Civilization

Recent Publications

• "Reproduction versus bisexuality: Eugen Steinach and the mammalian puberty gland." In M�zenatentum und naturwissenschafliche Forschung in �sterreich 1865 bis 1938, Mitchell G. Ash, Gerhard Pohl und Wolfgang L. Reiter, Eds. 2007, in press.
• "Cases and Prototypes: Constitutionalism and the Photographic Portrayal of the Person in Freud's Vienna." Vision Resources, 2006, in press.
• "Before there were standards: The role of test animals in the production of scientific generality in physiology." Journal of the History of Biology, 2002, 35, 329-363.
• "When scientific knowledge becomes scientific discovery: Classical conditioning before Pavlov." Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 2002, 38 (4), 393-403.
• "'Are Norway rats . . . things?': Diversity versus generality in the use of albino rats in experiments on development and sexuality." Journal of the History of Biology, 2001, 34, 287-314.

Selected Awards and Honors

• Fulbright Senior Scholar: "'Productive' versus 'selectionist' eugenics: Paul Kammerer and social welfare programs in interwar Vienna." 2005.
• Research funding for "The history of animal models." The National Science Foundation, 1998- 2001.
• Research funding for "Degeneration, Regeneration and the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics." The National Science Foundation, 2003-2006.

Page updated: 02-Dec-2010

Accessibility Policy