Overview
My work engages issues of difference, particularly racial, gender, class, and spatial formations. My current book project is “Making a Modern U.S. West, 1898-1942.” I have written three other books, Women and the City: Gender, Space and Power in Boston, 1870-1940 (2000); From Ballots to Breadlines: American Women, 1920-1940 (1994); and No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940 (1987).
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor Emerita of History
·
2023 - Present
History,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
"Learning from Ludlow"
Chapter · 2013 The essays analyzes the existing literature on the Ludlow Massacres, embedding an analysis of the meaning of the event. ... CiteLabor, Land, and Protest since Statehood
Chapter · 2009 This chapter places the dramatic upheavals of the twentieth century, beginning with border and labor strife in the 1910s and ending with the court house raid in Tierra Amarilla in 1967, in the context of regional, national, and transnational struggles and ... CiteReview of Class and Gender Politics in Progressive-Era Seattle by John C. Putman
Journal Article The Journal of American History · December 2008 Full text CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
Yale University ·
1985
Ph.D.
Oxford University (United Kingdom) ·
1980
M.Lit.
Yale University ·
1977
B.A.