Kimberley Green Weathers

15811 La Cabana Dr., Houston, Texas 77062; 281/480-9656

bwkw@ev1.net

Education

University of Houston, ABD, History

Fields: Medical History, Policy History

Dissertation: “Fitting an Elephant through a Keyhole: The Twentieth Century Movement for National Health Insurance in the United States”

Advisor: James H. Jones, Ph.D.

University of Houston, MA, History, 1995

Thesis: “Women’s Dread Disease: The History of Breast Cancer”; Pass with Distinction

Advisor: James H. Jones, Ph.D.

Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas; BA, Humanities, 1990

Teacher Certification: Texas, Secondary Social Studies Composite

Alvin Community College, Alvin, Texas, AA, Liberal Arts, 1987

Professional Positions

Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Houston, University Park,

Houston, Texas, 1992-93

Senior Assistant Archivist, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, 1996-2000

Intern, NASA Oral History Project, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, Summer

2001

Publications

“Joseph Lister,” in Readers’ Guide to the History of Science, Arne Hessenbruch, ed.,

Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000

Papers Presented

“Blossoming Archives & Budding Technologies: A Mixed Bouquet - Scanning”

Society of Southwest Archivists 1999 Conference, May 30-31, 1999

“Liberal Impasse: National Health Insurance in the 1970s,” American Association for

the History of Medicine 2001 Conference, April 18-22

Honors and Grants

Murray Miller Alumni Endowed Scholarship, University of Houston History Department,

2000-01; 2001-02

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library Research Grant, 2001-02

Harry S. Truman Presidential Library Research Grant, 2001-02

Professional Associations

American Historical Association; Organization of American Historians; American

Association for the History of Medicine