Biography:

Donna J. Drucker is adjunct assistant professor of history at Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She received her B.A. from Colorado College and her M.L.S., M.A., and Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her current research centers on an intellectual history of Alfred C. Kinsey from his earliest entomological research through Sexual Behavior of the Human Female (1953). She uses Kinseys work as a focal point for studying the historical development of twentieth-century disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity and the effects of the organization of academe on knowledge formation about sexuality. Her broader interests include the history of life and human sciences, gender and sexuality theory, and the history of sex research. She has published articles in the Indiana Magazine of History and The Journal of Illinois History. She is a member of the Organization of American Historians and of the American Historical Association, and she is on the editorial board of Culture Frame, a new journal for interdisciplinary dialogue between the sciences and humanities.

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