Dr Stephen Kenny PhD FHEA
Senior Lecturer, 19th and 20th century North American History History
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- Work email S.C.Kenny@liverpool.ac.uk
- Personal Websitehttp://www.liv.ac.uk/history/staff/stephen-kenny/
- About
- Research
- Publications
- Teaching
- Professional Activities
Professional Activities
Conference Roles
- 'Rethinking Rudolph Matas: Missing Chapters of a 'Great Pioneer's' Career in Surgery', by Invitation (Tulane School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, 2024)
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Historical Legacies and Current Challenges at Modern Slavery: Research, Creative Practices & Innovative Interventions, by Invitation (Bakhita Centre for Research on Slavery, Exploitation and Abuse, St Mary's University, Twickenham, 2023)
- Racial Science and Medicine in the 19th-century United States at American Association for the History of Medicine (Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2023)
- Before Tuskegee: Human Experiments under American Slavery and Jim Crow Segregation at Vassar Media and Culture Studies Program, by Invitation (Online, 2022)
- 'Anarcha speaks': creative and activist responses to the history and memorialization of James Marion Sims, 'pioneer' gynaecologist at Slavery Past, Present & Future: 6th Global Meeting (Webster Leiden Campus, Leiden, Netherlands, 2022)
- 'Concealing unjust enrichment and unethical exploitation: the scale, impact and shrouding of slave-ownership among physicians in the American South' at British Association of American Studies (66th annual conference), by Invitation (University of Hull, 2022)
- 'Medicine, racism, and health: what we can learn from history' at British Heart Foundation Anti-Racism Affinity Group, by Invitation (Online, 2022)
- 'Rethinking Rudolph Matas: Missing Chapters of a "Great Pioneer's" Career in Surgery at Tulane University School of Medicine, by Invitation (New Orleans (online), 2022)
- Before Tuskegee: Human Experiments Under Slavery and Segregation in the United States at February 2022 Student History Club (SHC) Noon Lecture, sponsored by the Waring Library Society and the Waring Historical Library, by Invitation (Charleston, South Carolina (online), 2022)
- "Exploring the carceral qualities of Jim Crow-era medical photographs" at Cultures of Incarceration Centre, by Invitation (University of Hull, 2021)
- Racism, Power and the Culture of Medicine under American Slavery and Jim Crow Segregation at Librarians, Archivists, and Museum Professionals in the History of the Health Sciences (LAMPHHS), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Remote via Zoom, 2021)
- “Portraits of Neglect: Images of Black Medical Subjects in the era of Jim Crow” at The 23rd Conference of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, by Invitation (Hosted Virtually by Emory University School of Medicine Office of Continuing Medical Education & Slidespiel, 2021)
- '"Seeing History with the Clarity it Demands": The J. Marion Sims monuments, reframed and removed at Toppling Monuments, by Invitation (University of Georgia, 2020)
- Reframing the patient: humanizing early 20th century medical photographs, by Invitation (Liverpool John Moores University, 2020)
Editorships
- Bulletin of the History of Medicine (Peer Reviewer, 2018 - present)
- Social History of Medicine (Editorial Board Member, 2014 - present)
Event Roles
- ‘Generations of Hurt: Historical Perspectives on Medical Mistrust’ at Medicine, mistrust and making change: Black health then and now, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Museum of Liverpool, 2023)
- From ‘Father of Gynecology’ to the American South’s Dr Mengele: the rise and fall of J. Marion Sims’s monumental reputation at From ‘Father of Gynecology’ to the American South’s Dr Mengele: the rise and fall of J. Marion Sims’s monumental reputation, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Department of History, 2021)
Media Appearances
- History of Slave Hospitals, Cleveland Heights Public Library (Cleveland Ohio) (Invited, February 2024)
- Perspectives on "Race Science" and Scientific Racism, CONSORTIUM FOR HISTORY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE (Invited, April 2021)
Professional Body Memberships
- Society for Social History of Medicine (Editorial Board and Member, 2007 - present)
- American Association for the History of Medicine (Member, 2002 - present)
Publication Reviews
- Peer Revewier, Invited (Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Pre-publication, 2023 - 2024)
- Peer Reviewer, Invited (Notes and Records; the Royal Society journal of the history of science, Pre-publication, 2024)
- Reviewer, Invited (Medical Humanities, Pre-publication, 2022)
- Reviewer, Invited (The Journal of southern history, Pre-publication, 2022)
- Reviewer, Invited (Temple University Press, Pre-publication, 2022)