Ruth Schwartz Cowan

Born in Brooklyn, Ruth Schwartz Cowan was a professor of history at SUNY Stony Brook from 1967 to 2002 and is professor emerita of history at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave, A Social History of American Technology, and Heredity and Hope: The Case for Genetic Screening.