Dr. Susan Rensing

Teaching Associate Professor

Leasure Hall 003A
Office Hours by Appointment
785-532-5738
rensing@ksu.edu

BS, University of Wisconsin Madison
PhD, University of Minnesota

 

 

Susan Rensing is Teaching Associate Professor in Social Transformation Studies and also a graduate faculty member in the Master of Public Health program. Dr. Rensing was trained as a historian of science and medicine, with a research focus on feminists’ embrace of eugenics in the early 20th century United States. Since coming to K-State, she has worked on several health equity initiatives and is currently Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Flint Hills Wellness Coalition. In her spare time, when she is not doom-scrolling on her phone, she enjoys camping, kayaking, and using power tools for various house projects.

Research interests

Health equity; reproductive justice; history of science, medicine, gender, and sexuality; scholarship of teaching and learning.

Select Publications

A Guide to Teaching Introductory Women’s and Gender Studies: Socially Engaged Classrooms (co-authored with Holly Hassel and Christie Launius) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

"Integrating National Violent Death Reporting System Data into Maternal Mortality Review Committees," (co-authored with Jennifer Miller), Journal of Women’s Health, December 2021

"Falling in Love Intelligently: Eugenic Love in the Progressive Era." Journal of Popular Romance Studies Summer 2016 Issues 5.2

"Wisconsin Ousts Cupid: Wisconsin's Eugenic Marriage Experiment." Voyageur Winter/Summer 2016 vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 44-53

"Women "Waking Up" and Moving the Mountain: The Feminist Eugenic of Charlotte Perkins Gilman,"MP: An Online Feminist Journal, Spring 2013, vol. 4, issue 1, 96-120

Courses

GWSS 105: Introduction to Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies

GWSS 365: Reproductive Rights and Wrongs

GWSS 435: Race, Sex, Science

CAT Communities: “Hacking the MCAT”

STRAN 550: Practicing Social Justice