The Department of History is proud to announce professor Teri Chettiar has been selected as a Conrad Humanities Scholar.
The Conrad Humanities Scholars Award recognizes promising mid-career scholars and provides financial support for continued achievement, research, and scholarship in humanities. The designation is for five years. The awards are funded by a gift from the late Arlys Conrad (AB, ’44, education).
Chettiar is a historian of the human sciences and her research focuses on how changing understandings of mental and emotional health in the 20th century have interacted with and shaped marginalized identities and movements for social and sexual reform.
She is the author of “The Intimate State: How Emotional Life Became Political in Welfare-State Britain” (Oxford University Press, 2022), which examines how British state-supported mental health initiatives made emotional intimacy and lifelong monogamy both politically valued and personally desired in the second half of the twentieth century. She has also published articles in History of the Human Sciences, History of Psychology, Journal of British Studies, and History of Medicine.
She’s currently working on two new projects. The first focuses on the history of intergenerational trauma. The second examines the ongoing race, gender, and class-based disparities related to the diagnosis and treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder of (ADHD) in the US, Canada, and the UK.