Christina Cogdell

Christina Cogdell is chair of the design department at University of California, Davis. She is a specialist in eugenics and American consumer culture in the early twentieth century.[1][2]

She received her BA (American Studies) from the University of Texas at Austin, in 1991. Her MA (American Studies) from the University of Notre Dame in 1994, and her PhD in art history from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001.

Selected publications
  • Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s (2004) (winner of the 2006 Edelstein Prize for outstanding book on the history of technology from the Society for the History of Technology)[3]
  • Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s (2006). (joint editor)
  • "From BioArt to BioDesign", American Art, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Summer 2011), pp. 25–29.

References
  1. "Christina Cogdell - UC Davis Arts". arts.ucdavis.edu.
  2. "Christina Cogdell, Ph.D. - UCDavis Cultural Studies". culturalstudiesgg.ucdsitefarm.acsitefactory.com.
  3. "Eugenic Design - Christina Cogdell". www.upenn.edu.


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