Affiliated Scholars

Tina Stevens
Affiliated Scholar

Tina Stevens is an historian of United States history with a speciality in the History of Bioethics. She received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley where she was a Mellon Dissertation Fellow and received the Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award for outstanding teaching. In addition to her doctorate, she holds a masters degree in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, where she specialized in Law, Medicine, and Society. She earned her bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from the University of San Francisco. She lectures in history at San Francisco State University and also has taught courses in U.S. history at California State University, Hayward, and in Bioethics and Society at UC Berkeley. Dr. Stevens was a visiting scholar at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, England, and is currently a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley's Center for the Study of Law and Society. She has served as a consultant for the Judicial Council of California/Administrative Office of the Courts, and the National Center for State Courts, both located in San Francisco. Her book, Bioethics in America: Origins and Cultural Politics (Johns Hopkins University Press, paperback, 2003) was nominated for both the Frederick Jackson Turner Book Prize in American History and the History of Science in America Book Prize. Her most recent essay, "Intellectual Capital and Voting Booth Bioethics: A Contemporary Historical Critique, "will appear in the forthcoming volume, "The Ethics of Bioethics: An Overview (Johns Hopkins University Press) Lisa Eckenwiler and Felicia Cohn, eds.