Lyde Cullen Sizer

BA, Yale University. MA, PhD, Brown University. Special interests include the political work of literature, especially around questions of gender and race, US cultural and intellectual history of the 19th and early-20th centuries, and the social and cultural history of the US Civil War. Authored The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the American Civil War, 1850-1872, which won the Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians. The Civil War Era: An Anthology of Sources, edited with Jim Cullen, was published in 2005; book chapters are included in Love, Sex, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History; Divided Houses: Gender and the American Civil War; and A Search for Equity. SLC, 1994–