Beth Linker, GSWS Affiliate Faculty, Shortlisted for 2026 George Rosen Prize

Beth Linker, the Samuel H. Preston Endowed Term Professor in the Social Sciences and chair of the department of history & sociology of science in the School of Arts & Sciences, was shortlisted for the 2026 George Rosen Prize for her book, Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America. The prize is awarded by the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM). 

Christian S. Warren of Brooklyn College was announced as the winner of the Rosen Prize on June 6 at the AAHM’s annual meeting in Buffalo, New York. 

Dr. Linker is also a professor of medical ethics and health policy in the Perelman School of Medicine and a core faculty member in Penn’s program in gender, sexuality, and women’s studies. She has held fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and at Penn’s Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing and Wolf Humanities Forum. In the spring of 2017, she received the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, the University’s highest teaching honor. She teaches classes on the history of disability, surgery, healthcare policy, gender, and the body.