Ph.D., University at Buffalo, 2012
M.A., Lamar University, 2004
B.A., Lamar University, 2002

Archer 200D
(409) 880-8241
tkibbe@lamar.edu

Tina M. Kibbe won a University Merit Award in 2024 to honor her outstanding teaching, which focuses particularly on the history of science and medicine and U.S. women's history. Her research interests include eugenics, public health, and gender studies. Her dissertation, "In 'Fitness' and in Health: Eugenics, Public Health, and Marriage in the United States," examined the connections between the eugenics and public health movements in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century and both movements' use of the institution of marriage as a regulating apparatus to manage and contain the reproduction of "fit" American citizens. She recently published an article in the Texas Gulf Historical & Biographical Record, titled "Dr. Edward D. Sprott, Jr.: Civil Rights Activist and Champion for Equal Access to Healthcare," which explores civil rights and healthcare activism during the early twentieth century in Beaumont, Texas. Dr. Kibbe has also contributed a chapter to the anthology Women Who Belong: Claiming a Female's Right-Filled Place (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013) about women active in the eugenics and public health movements. She is currently working on a project examining women convicted of multiple murders and the perception of these women by the criminal justice system, the media, popular culture, and society at large.