Rachel L. Moran

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Academic Blog

• Moran, R.L. (2019). Openness and Authority in Pregnancy: Lucy Knisley’s Kid Gloves. Nursing Clio. https://nursingclio.org/2019/05/29/openness-and-authority-in pregnancy-lucy-knisleys-kid-gloves
• Moran, R.L. (2019). Pharmacological Innovation and the Desire to Simplify Postpartum Depression. Nursing Clio. https://nursingclio.org/2019/04/16/pharmacological-innovation-and-the-desire-to-simplify-postpartum-depression
• Moran, R.L. (2018). Body Building as Social Welfare: How the Language of Weight Justified the Civilian Conservation Corps. Food, Fatness, Fitness: Critical Perspectives. http://foodfatnessfitness.com/2018/09/01/body-building-civilian-conservation-corps
• Moran, R.L. (2018). The Inaccurate and Dangerous Premise of the GOP Farm Bill. History News Network (HNN). https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169069
• Moran, R.L. (2018). Change We Need? Why the Name of the President’s Fitness Council Matters. Nursing Clio. https://nursingclio.org/2018/05/08/change-we-need-why-the-name-of-the-presidents-fitness-council-matters
• Moran, R.L. (2018). Selling American Vigor: The Cold War and the President’s Council on Physical Fitness. Process: A Blog for American History (OAH). http://www.processhistory.org/moran-selling-american-vigor/
• Moran, R.L. (2015). Don’t Eat That, Eat This: The Troubled History of Food Stamps and Nutrition. Nursing Clio. http://nursingclio.org/2015/06/23/health-welfare-and-food-stamp-politics/
• Moran, R.L. (2014). The Nanny State on Your Plate?. Nursing Clio. http://nursingclio.org/2014/12/18/the-nanny-state-on-your-plate/

Book

• Moran, R.L. (2018). Governing Bodies. University of Pennsylvania Press. https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812295061
• .. (2018). Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique. 240. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania. http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15804.html

Book Chapter

• Mittelstadt, J., Moran, R.L., Hewitt, N.A., Valk, A. (2021). Gender, Sexuality, and the State. Companion to American Women’s History, 2nd ed. (2) Wiley-Blackwell Press. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/A+Companion+to+American+Women%27s+History%2C+2nd+Edition-p-9781119522638
• Mittelstadt, J., Moran, R.L. (2020). Women, Gender, and the State, ca. 1900–2010. A Companion to American Women's History. 279-297. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119522690.ch17
• Moran, R.L. (2019). Fears of a Nanny State: Centering Gender and Family in the Political History of Regulation. Shaped by the State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press. https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo31043679.html
• Ed. Sharon Y. Nikols and Gwen Kay. (2015). Weighing in about Weight: Advisory Power in the Bureau of Home Economics. Remaking Home Economics: Resourcefulness and Innovation in Changing Times. Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia Press. http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/remaking_home_economics

Book Review

• Moran, R.L. (2024). Fit Citizens: A History of Black Women's Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America. Journal of American History. 111 (2) 369-370. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaae142
• Moran, R.L. (2016). Review of Edward Berkowitz and Larry DeWitt, The Other Welfare: Supplemental Security Income and U.S. Social Policy. Business History Review. Business History Review. 90 (2)
• .. (2014). Review of Ira Katznelson, Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time. 48 (2) 657-658. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9226567&fulltextType=BR&fileId=S0021875814000085
• .. (2012). Review of Dona Brown, Back to the Land: The Enduring Dream of Self- Sufficiency in Modern America. 46 (2) E40. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8600125&fulltextType=BR&fileId=S0021875812000679

Journal Article

• Moran, R.L. (2022). Spitting on My Sources: Depression, DNA, and the Ambivalent Historian. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. 55 449-458. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.22219
• Moran, R. (2021). A Women’s Health Issue?: Framing Post-Abortion Syndrome in the 1980s. Gender and History. 33 (3) 790-804. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12554
• .. (2011). Consuming Relief: Food Stamps and the New Welfare of the New Deal. Journal of American History. 1001-1022. http://jah.oxfordjournals.org/content/97/4/1001.short

Newspaper Op Ed

• Moran, R.L. (2018). Why American Policy is Leaving Millions Hungry. Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/08/07/why-american-policy-is-leaving-millions-hungry

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Fellowship

• Moran, R.L., "National Science Foundation Scholars Award," sponsored by National Science Foundation - Science, Technology and Society Program, Federal, $162619 Funded. (2019 - 2021).
• Moran, R.L., "Lillian Sholtis Brunner Fellowship," sponsored by Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Other, $2200 Funded. (2017 - 2018).
• Moran, R.L., "Fellowship in the History of American Obstetrics and Gynecology," sponsored by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Private, $5000 Funded. (2017 - 2017).
• Moran, R.L., "Short-Term Postdoctoral Fellow," sponsored by German Historical Institute, International, $9600 Funded. (2013 - 2014).
• Moran, R.L., "Emerging Scholars Fellowship, Home Economics: Classroom, Corporate, and Cultural Interpretations Revisited," sponsored by University of Georgia (Home Economics initiative), Other, $1000 Funded. (2012 - 2012).
• Moran, R.L., "Graduate Student Summer Residency," sponsored by Institute for Arts and Humanities, The Pennsylvania State Univeristy, Other, $4000 Funded. (2012 - 2012).
• Moran, R.L., "Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship," sponsored by Woodrow Wilson Foundation, International, $25000 Funded. (2011 - 2012).
• Moran, R.L., "Miller Center Fellowship in Politics and History," sponsored by Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia., Other, Funded. (2011 - 2012).
• Moran, R.L., "The Crawford Family Fellowship in Ethical Inquiry," sponsored by Pennsylvania State University, College of Liberal Arts, Other, $18500 Funded. (2010 - 2011).
• Moran, R.L., "Dean’s Fellowship in the History of Home Economics," sponsored by Cornell University, Other, $6500 Funded. (2010 - 2010).
• Moran, R.L., "Rock Ethics Institute Fellowship," sponsored by Rock Ethics Institute, Pennsylvania State University, Other, $9600 Funded. (2010 - 2010).
• Moran, R., "National Science Foundation Scholars Award," sponsored by National Science Foundation - Science, Technology and Society Program, Federal, Funded. (2019).
• Moran, R., "Lillian Sholtis Brunner Fellowship," sponsored by Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Other, Funded. (2017 - 2018).
• Moran, R., "Fellowship in the History of American Obstetrics and Gynecology," sponsored by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Private, Funded. (2017 - 2017).

Grant - Research

• Moran, R.L., "Small Grant," sponsored by College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, University of North Texas, $750 Funded. (2023 - 2024).
• Moran, R. (Principal), "Scholarly and Creative Activity (SCA) award," sponsored by College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UNT, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. ( - 2022).
• Moran, R. (Principal), "Creative and Research Enhancement Activity Time for Engagement (CREATE) grant," sponsored by Office of Faculty Success, UNT, University of North Texas, $4000 Funded. (2021 - 2021).
• Moran, R.L., "Research Seed Grant," sponsored by Research and Economic Development office, University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $2435 Funded. (2016 - 2017).
• Moran, R.L., "National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant," sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $10000 Funded. (2011 - 2011).
• Moran, R.L., "History of Science Society travel grant," sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $250 Funded. (2011 - 2011).
• Moran, R.L., "Eisenhower Presidential Library archival research grant," sponsored by Eisenhower Presidential Library, Federal, $750 Funded. (2010 - 2010).
• Moran, R.L. (Principal), "A History of the Definition and Diagnosis of Postpartum Depression," sponsored by National Science Foundation, FED, Funded. (2019 - 2021).