As part of my public education and advocacy work, I do a lot of media outreach. (That right there is a picture of me on Oprah Winfrey’s show.) Here are examples of where my work has appeared:


Television:

  1. ‣The Oprah Winfrey Show

  2. ‣CNN (live)

  3. ‣CNN International

  4. ‣Good Morning American (live)

  5. ‣20/20, ABC News

  6. ‣HBO Original Programming

  7. ‣BBC Horizon

  8. ‣City TV Toronto

  9. ‣A&E Biography

  10. ‣ABC News Prime Time Live


Radio:

  1. ‣NPR “All Things Considered”

  2. ‣NPR, “To the Best of Our Knowledge”

  3. ‣Canadian Broadcasting Corp. “The Current”

  4. ‣OutQ, Sirius 109/XM 98, Michelangelo Signorile Show

  5. ‣Doctor Radio of Sirius Satellite Radio (live)

  6. ‣KQED (NPR affiliate), “The Forum” (live)

  7. ‣Curtis Silwa show on WABC radio (live)

  8. ‣Newstalk 1010 CRFB Toronto (live)

  9. ‣WUOM (NPR affiliate)

  10. ‣Corus Radio Network/CNN Affiliate of Canada (live),

  11. ‣4fm Radio of Ireland (live)

  12. ‣WVON (live)

  13. ‣KTRS (live)

  14. ‣AP Radio with Ed Donohue

  15. ‣National Broadcast News of Canada

  16. ‣Australian Broadcasting Corporation

  17. ‣WMBR, Gender Talk Radio

  18. ‣WVON, The Santita Jackson Show

  19. ‣KTRS, Mindset

  20. ‣The Donovan Report, KDXU News Radio (Utah), October 1, 2004

  21. ‣KDVS

  22. ‣WHUS Health Shots

  23. ‣New Zealand Radio

  24. ‣BBC Midlands

  25. ‣BBC Live-5



Podcasts:

  1. ‣With Dan Savage, about a woman who thinks she might be lacking a clitoris (do NOT go to this if you don’t want to hear blunt sex talk), May 26, 2009. (It’s episode 136.)

  2. ‣SciFi Dimensions, podcast about conjoined twins, April 7, 2009.


Press reports on my research:

(This needs updating; promise I’ll get to it soon.)


Charles Mann, Chagnon Critics Overstepped Bounds, Historian Says, Science, December 11, 2009.


Steve Kolowich, Old Wounds in Anthropology, Insider Higher Ed, December 3, 2009.


David Glenn and Thomas Bartlett, Rebuttal of Decade-Old Accusations against Researchers Roils Anthropology Meeting Anew, The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 3, 2009.


Ariel Levy, Either/Or: Sports, Sex, and the Case of Caster Semenya, The New Yorker, November 30, 2009.


David Fahrenthold, Which Side Are You On? In Athletics and Elsewhere, the Line between Male and Female Can Be Hazy, The Washington Post, October 20, 2009.


Joseph Huff-Hannon, Don’t Call Them Hermaphrodites, The Daily Beast, September 16, 2009.


Kevin Blackistone, A Plea to Respect Semenya’s Dignity, Fanhouse, September 12, 2009.


Hayley Mick, Questions Continue to Chase Sprinter, The Globe and Mail, September 11, 2009.


Chris Lehourites, Semenya’s Status No Clearer Despite Media Leak, USA Today, September 11, 2009.


Ammu Joseph, Who’ll Decide Who’s a Woman?, The Bangalore Mirror (India), August 28, 2009.


Linda Robertson, South African Runner’s Gender Test Controversial, Complicated, The Miami Herald, August 26, 2009.


Interview with Runner’s World editor-at-large Amby Burfoot, August 23, 2009.


Jessica Halloran, It’s Complicated: Gender Issue Treated with Care by IAAF, The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), August 21, 2009.


Christopher Clarey, Gender Test after a Gold Medal Finish, The New York Times, August 20, 2009.


Mary Brophy Marcus, Cosmetic Surgeries: What Children Will Do to Look ‘Normal,’ USA Today, June 25, 2009.


Katie Thomas, A Lab Is Set to Test the Gender of Some Female Athletes, The New York Times, July 30, 2008.


Anonymous, Paper Finds Controversial Northwestern Researcher Acted Appropriately, The Advocate, October 23, 2007.


Michael Gsovski and Sarah Sumadi, Reporting Clearing Prof Leaves Critics Unsatisfied, The Daily Northwestern, October 19, 2007. See also a related editorial.


Margaret Wente, The Explosive Thinking of Sex Reassignment, Globe and Mail, August 24, 2007. (See my letter to the editor in response.)


Benedict Carey, Criticism of a Gender Theory, and a Scientist Under Siege, New York Times, August 21, 2007 (front page of the Science Times).


Benedict Carey, For Sex Researcher, a Never-Ending Backlash, International Herald Tribune, August 21, 2007.


Jane Armstrong, A Dividing Issue: Can the Girls Be Separated?, Globe and Mail (Canada), April 27, 2007.


Harlan Spector and Regina McEnery, Two Lives, Entwined, Cleveland Plain Dealer, March 25, 2007 (cover story).


Dennis Rodkin, What Sex Am I?, Chicago Reader, February 2, 2007.


Dan Savage, Smallsville, in the advice column Savage Love, The Stranger (column also internationally syndicated), November 9, 2006.


Faye Flam, Can Men Marry If They Have Ovaries?, The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 9, 2006.


Elizabeth Weil, What If It’s (Sort of) a Boy and (Sort of) a Girl?, New York Times, September 24, 2006.


Dan Savage, Clit Notes, in the advice column Savage Love, The Stranger (column also internationally syndicated), June 1, 2006.


Associated Press, Separation Surgery Has Risks, Success Stories, March 27, 2006.


Chloe Fedio, Intersex—Exploring Sexual Ambiguities in the Human Population, The Gateway, February 14, 2006.


Laurie Abraham, Separation Anxiety, New York Magazine, August 22, 2005.


Ann M. Bauer, The Second Question, Minnesota Monthly, June 2005.


Patricia Anstett, A Different Kind of Normal: MSU Professor Leads a Change for Children with Physical Abnormalities, Detroit Free Press, July 19, 2004.


Interview with Dawn Wolfe, LBGT - and -, originally published Nov. 4, 2004, in Between the Lines.


Patricia Anstett, “Separation Anxiety? Medical Ethicist Says most Conjoined Twins Prefer to Remain Together,” The Grand Rapids Press, July 19, 2004, p. A3.


Stephen Hui, Seven Questions for Alice Dreger, Seven Oaks Magazine (“A Magazine of Politics, Culture, & Resistance”), Vancouver, June 7, 2004.


Joshua Glenn, “Joined at Birth,” Boston Globe, January 4, 2004, p. C2.


Jen Skerritt, “Reimer’s Death Revives Debate,” Swerve, Winnipeg, June, 2004, p. 3.


Janet Kornblum, “Twins Emerge from Shadows and Shame,” USA Today, October 21, 2003, p. 8D.


Laura Beil, “Twin Destinies,” Dallas Morning News, Aug. 24, 2003, pp. 1w-12w.


“Recent Cases Renew Attention toward Conjoined Twins,” U-Wire, July 28, 2003.


“A Risk Willingly Taken: Science will Learn from Death of Conjoined Twins,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 21, 2003, p. A12.


Volker Stollorz, “Der Wunsch der Schwestern? Nach der Operation: Fragen en die Wissenschaftshistoriker in Alice Dreger,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, July 13, 2003, p. 54.


Judy Hill, “Is Solitude worth Risking Your Life?,” Tampa Tribune, July 13, 2003, p.


Janet Kornblum, “Twins’ Deaths Underscore Extreme Risk: Sisters Sought Individuality at All Costs,” USA Today, July 9, 2003, p. D5.


Anonymous, “Tragic Deaths Highlight Perils of Separation Surgery,” Agence France Presse, July 8, 2003.


Sharon Doyle Driedger, “Gender Paradoxes: People with Intersex Conditions Want the Shame and Stigma to End,” Maclean’s, May 26, 2003, pp. 33ff.


Jen Phillips, “Born between the Sexes,” Girlfriends’ Magazine, May, 2003.


Jennifer Graham, “Experts Gather at Stanford to Discuss Sex, Gender,” U-Wire, February 11, 2002.


Charles I. Lugosi, “Playing God: Mary Must Die So Jody May Live Longer,” Issues in Law & Medicine, September 22, 2001, p. 123.


Anonymous, “Difficult Subject Treated Carefully,” Western Morning News, October 20, 2000.


Debora Mackenzie, “Must One Twin Die? (Ethical Concerns over Operation to Separate Siamese Twins),” New Scientist, October 7, 2000.


Steven Morris, “Jodie and Mary: The Point Where the Law, Ethics, Religion, and Humanity are Baffled,” The Guardian (London), September 9, 2000, p. 12.


Suzanne Miller, “When Sexual Development Goes Awry,” World & I, September 1, 2000, p. 148.


Ricki Lewis, “Reevaluating Sex Assignment,” The Scientist, vol. 14, no. 14, July 10, 2000, pp. 6, 13.


Anne Fausto-Sterling, “The Five Sexes, Revisited,” The Sciences, July 1, 2000, pp. 18-23.


Louise Kiernan, “In Intersex Cases, Gender Is a Complex Question,” Chicago Tribune, June 20, 1999, pp. 1, 9.


Emily Nussbaum, “The Sex That Dare Not Speak Its Name,” Lingua Franca: The Review of Academic Life, May/June, 1999, pp. 42-51.


Nancy Murrell, “Intersex Group Raises Questions about Genital Surgery,” The Miami Herald, October 28, 1998.


Natalie Angier, “A Gallery of Human Oddities Who Are, After All, Human,” (review of the four-part PBS series, “Oliver Sacks: The Mind Traveler”), The New York Times, August 23, 1998, sec. 2, p. 29.


Douglas E. Beeman, “Conjoined Twins Dilemma,” The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA), February 28, 1998, p. B-01.


Natalie Angier, “Rethink Separating Twins, Doctors Urged. The Assumption that Life as Conjoined Siblings Is Not Worth Living Is an Outsider’s View, a Historian Says,” The Globe and Mail (U.K.), December 30, 1997, p. A10.


Natalie Angier, “Conjoined Twins Happy to Shatter an Old Stereotype,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 26, 1997, p. A22.


Natalie Angier, “Historian Debunks Prevailing View about Separating Conjoined Twins,” Houston Chronicle, December 23, 1997, p. 6.


Natalie Angier, “Joined for Life, and Living Life to the Full,” New York Times, December 23, 1997, pp. B11, B15 (Science Times section).





Media reports on my work