Rate My Professor Ellen Herman

Herman's scholarship has been supported by fellowships from Harvard Law School, Radcliffe’s Institute for Advanced Study, and the American Council of Learned Societies (2011-2012), as well as a major research grant from the National Science Foundation Program in Science and Technology Studies. She received additional funding for The Adoption History Project, a digital resource on U.S. adoption history encompassing people, organizations, topics, and studies from the twentieth century, backed by NSF Grant No. 0094318, Project ECHO, and the Viola W. Bernard Foundation. Her current project, “Autism, Between Rights and Risks,” investigates autism as a developmental disability since 1945, addressing clinical entity status, advocacy, education, early intervention, neurodiversity, and risk-based political mobilization. Herman also advanced digital public history through The Autism History Project and contributed to historians’ amicus briefs in same-sex marriage cases post-2010, one cited in Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015).