Academics

Title
Professor of History; Presidential Scholar

Degree
BA Cornell University 1970; MA, PhD University of Rochester 1981

Teaching Experience
Union College 1983-97; Cornell University 1982-83; University of Miami 1981-82

Specialities
U.S. women's history, 19th century U.S. social and cultural history, Civil War and Reconstruction, reform movements, gender and popular culture

Interests
History of the women's rights movement during the Civil War and Reconstruction

Publications
"New York Strategy: The New York Woman's Movement and the Civil War." in Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited, Jean H. Baker, ed.; Women in the American Theatre: Actresses and Audiences, 1790-1870 (Yale University Press, 1994), Serving Women: Household Service in Nineteenth-Century America (Wesleyan University Press, 1983); articles in Journal of Social History, Labor History

Distinctions
American Council of Learned Societies fellowship; National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship; American Antiquarian Society fellowship; Historical Society of Pennsylvania fellowship; Berkshire Conference of Women Historians book prize committee chair; ACLS and NEH review panelist; Lerner-Scott book prize committee; frequent museum and public history consultant; George Freedley book prize winner