Rona Holub, Co-Director, Graduate Program in Women’s History – BA, The College of New Jersey. MA, Sarah Lawrence College. MA, PhD, Columbia University. Special interest in History of Women, urban, 19th century, social history, expertise in relationship between social history and built environment of New York City, Contributor to Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of Women in American History, American National Biography; Board Member, All Out Arts,Fighting Discrimination Through the Arts; Awarded Gerda Lerner Prize (SLC). SLC, 2007-

Priscilla Murolo, Co-Director, Graduate Program in Women’s History – BA, Sarah Lawrence College. MA, PhD, Yale University. Special interest in US labor, women’s and social history; author, The Common Ground of Womanhood: Class, Gender and Working Girls’ Clubs; co-author, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States; contributor to various encyclopedias and anthologies and to educational projects sponsored by labor and community organizations; reviewer for Journal of American History, Journal of Urban History, International Labor and Working Class History, and other historical journals; contributor and editorial associate, Radical History Review; recipient of Hewlett-Mellon grants. SLC, 1988-

David Bernstein – BA, Brandeis University. MA, PhD, Harvard University. Special interest in the religious, social, and cultural history of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, with an emphasis on art and architecture; lecturer and essayist; author, The Mystery of the Bayeux Tapestry; recipient of grants from the American Philosophical Society, American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. SLC, 1969-

Una Chung – BA, University of California-Berkeley. MA, San Francisco State University. PhD, Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Special interests in Asian American literature and film, late twentieth-century transnational East and Southeast Asian cultural studies, East Asian film, postcolonial theory, ethnic studies, globalization, affect, new media. SLC, 2007-

Persis Charles, History/Women’s History – BA, Bryn Mawr College. MA, Brown University. PhD, Tufts University. Special interest in modern social and women’s history, with particular emphasis on British and French history. SLC, 1977-

Mary Dillard, History – BA, Stanford University. MA, PhD, University of California-Los Angeles. Special interests include history of West Africa, particularly Ghana and Nigeria; history of intelligence testing and external examinations in Africa; history of science in Africa; gender and education. Recipient of a Spencer Fellowship and Major Cultures Fellowship at Columbia University’s Society of Fellows in the Humanities. SLC, 2001-

Shahnaz Rouse, Sociology – BA, Kinnaird College, Pakistan. MA, Punjab University, Pakistan. MS, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Special student, American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Academic specialization in historical sociology, with particular emphasis on the mass media, gender, and political economy. Author of Shifting Body Politics: Gender/Nation/State (New Delhi, Kali: Women Unlimited, 2004). Co-editor (with Cynthia Nelson), Situating Globalization: Views from Egypt (Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag, 2000). Currently working on a project in social history entitled, “Memory and History in the Life of a City.” Contributor to books and journals on South Asia and the Middle East. Taught as visiting faculty at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Member, editorial committee, MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project). Recipient of grants and fellowships from the Fulbright/Hays Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the American Institute for Pakistan Studies, and the Council on American Overseas Research Centers; past consultant to the Middle East and North Africa Program of the Social Science Research Council, as well as the Population Council West Asia and North Africa Office (Cairo). SLC, 1987-

Lyde Sizer – BA, Yale University. MA, PhD, Brown University. Special interests include the political work of literature, especially around questions of gender and race, US and European intellectual history of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and particularly the social and cultural history of the American Civil War. Her book, The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the American Civil War, 1850-1872, won the 2000 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians. Currently co-editing, with Jim Cullen, the forthcoming The Civil War: A Textbook Anthology of Sources; book chapters 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-

Program Administrator

Tara James, Associate Director, Women’s History Program – BA, Temple University, MA, Sarah Lawrence College. Special interests include women’s history with an emphasis on the Civil Rights Movement. SLC, 2001-