William H. Schneider
Email: whschnei@iupui.edu
Tel: 317-274-7220

Dr. William Schneider is a Professor of History, Baker-Ort Chair of International Healthcare Philanthropy in the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, and Director the Medical Humanities program, based in the School of Liberal Arts. He is a Core Faculty member of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics with an adjunct appointment in the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics in the School of Medicine.

He came to IUPUI in 1989 to chair the History Department, a position he held until 1995, and served as Associate Dean in the School of Liberal Arts from 1998-2003. Prior to coming to Indiana, he was in the History Department at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Dr. Schneider received his B.A. in History from Stanford University, his M.A. from Duquesne University, and his Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania.

He has authored many articles, edited volumes and two monographs on modern French history and the history of science and medicine. He has received Fulbright and National Science Foundation fellowships, plus research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Institutes of Health. He teaches classes in the history of medicine, science and technology, as well as modern European history.

Teaching Interests (click title for recent syllabi)

Research Interests

  • The history of genetics and eugenics
  • The history of serology and immunology
  • The history of healthcare philanthropy
  • The origins of HIV AIDS
  • The history of blood transfusion

Recent Publications

Schneider, WH. (2003) The Model American Foundation Officer: Alan Gregg and the Rockefeller Foundation Medical Divisions. Minerva. 41:155-66

Schneider, WH. (2003) Blood Transfusion between the Wars, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences. 58:187-224

Schneider, WH. (2003) War, Philanthropy, and the Creation of the French National Institute of Hygiene. Minerva. 41:1-23

Schneider, WH. (2002) Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Biomedicine: International Initiatives from World War I to the Cold War (2002) editor and contributor of, The Men Who Followed Flexner: Richard Pearce, Alan Gregg, and the Rockefeller Foundation Medical Divisions, 1919-1951, pp. 7-60

Schneider, WH. (2001) Charles Richet and the Social Role of Medical Men. Journal of Medical Biography. 9:213-19

Schneider, WH. (1997) Blood Transfusion in Peace and War, 1900-1918. Social History of Medicine. 10:105-126

Schneider, WH. (1996) Special issue of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences on The First Genetic Marker: Blood group Research, Race and Disease, 1900-1950). Guest Editor and contributor of, The History of Research on Blood Group Genetics: Initial Discovery and Diffusion. 18:273-303

Picard JF and Schneider, WH. (1996) L'histoire de la transfusion sanguine dans sa relation ^ la recherche m?dicale. Vingti?me si?cle, 49:3-17

Schneider, WH. (1995) Blood Group Research in Great Britain, France and the United States between the World Wars Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 38:77-104