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Biography
Her research and teaching interests focus on issues of gender and class in early American history. She is the author of two books on that topic. The first, In the Affairs of the World. Women, Property and Power in Colonial South Carolina, examines public perceptions of women in the lower south during the eighteenth century. Her current project, forthcoming from Praeger Press in 2016, is She-Devil in the City of Angels: Gender, Violence and the Hattie Woolsteen Murder Case in Victorian Era Los Angeles. The book explores the complicated intersection of class, gender and social convention regarding women’s proper sphere in the late nineteenth century.
Education (3)
Ph.D.: University of California, Santa Barbara
M.A.: California State University, Long Beach
B.A.: University of California, Davis
Areas of Expertise (3)
American social history
Reform movements
Women and Gender
Courses (7)
Becoming America
Becoming America
Red, White and Black: Race in Colonial America
Red, White and Black: Race in Colonial America
Women in American History
Women in American History
American Reform Movements
American Reform Movements
Jacksonian America
Jacksonian America
Victorian America
Victorian America
Manhood in America
Manhood in America