Heather Munro Prescott is an associate professor of History and Co-coordinator of Women's Studies at Central Connecticut State University. She was primarily trained as an historian of medicine, with a special interest in women as both health care providers and recipients of medical care. She is also interested in how gender issues shape medical concepts, and therefore include men and masculinity in her work. Her current project is a book on the history of adolescent health care. It is a combination of institutional and social history. She not only looks at the evolution of a medical discipline, but how the appearance of this field reflected prevailing attitudes about teenagers, youth culture, gender, and the family in the 1950s.

Her teaching encompasses a much broader area, since she was hired as a recent U.S. historian (1933-present) with a special interest in women/gender. She teaches the second half of the U.S. survey, the women's history survey, an upper level course on U.S. since 1933, a graduate seminar on the New Deal, and courses on the 20th century and Social Science and Society in the Honors Program. She also co-ordinates the Women's Studies program at CCSU.