Fields of Interest:
My teaching and research focus on two areas in twentieth century American history: a) women, education and the professions; b) American foreign relations, particularly the relationship between public opinion and foreign policy. My first book dealt with women's collegiate culture at the turn of the twentieth century, and I am currently completing a biography of foreign affairs journalist Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961).
Courses Offered (subject to change)
- HIS 148: Recent America, 1929-Present
- HIS 286W: American Foreign Relations
- HIS 364W/464: Modern Jewish History
Representative Publications:
- "Education and the Professions," Blackwell's Encyclopedia of American Women's History (2002).
- "Why Dorothy Thompson Lost Her Job: Political Columnists and the Press Wars of the 1930s and 1940s," Presidential Address, History of Education Society, 1993 (History of Education Quarterly, Autumn 1994).
- Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era (Yale, 1990).
- "Race, Class, and the Bonds of Womanhood at Spelman Seminary, 1881-1923," History of Higher Education Annual (1987).
- "The Gibson Girl Goes to College," American Quarterly (1986).
