The Women’s History Program has seven core faculty members. Their course offerings vary from year to year, though the one required seminar for entering graduate students is offered annually. Master’s candidates in women’s history may also take courses with the program’s affiliate faculty.

Eileen Ka-May Cheng

Co-Director, Graduate Program in Women’s History/History

B.A., Harvard University. M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. Author of articles and presentations on American intellectual and political history; special interest in nineteenth-century America. SLC, 1999-
http://pages.slc.edu/~echeng

Lyde Sizer

Co-Director, Graduate Program in Women’s History/History

B.A., Yale University. M.A., Ph.D., Brown University. Special interests include the political work of literature, especially around questions of gender and race, U.S. and European intellectual history of the nineteenth and early twentieth 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-
http://pages.slc.edu/~lsizer

Persis Charles

History/Women’s History – B.A., Bryn Mawr College. M.A., Brown University. Ph.D., Tufts University. Special interest in modern social and women’s history, with particular emphasis on British and French history. SLC, 1977-

Mary Dillard

History (on leave fall semester) – B.A., Stanford University. M.A., Ph.D., 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-
http://pages.slc.edu/~mdillard

Priscilla Murolo

History (on leave 2007-2009) – B.A., Sarah Lawrence College. M.A., Ph.D., Yale University. Special interest in U.S. 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-
http://pages.slc.edu/~pmurolo

Shahnaz Rouse

Sociology – B.A., Kinnaird College, Pakistan. M.A., Punjab University, Pakistan. M.S., Ph.D., 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-
http://pages.slc.edu/~srouse

Komozi Woodard

History – B.A., Dickinson College. M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Special interest in African American history, politics, and culture, with emphasis on the black freedom movement, U.S. urban history and ghetto formation, public policy and persistent poverty, oral history, and the experience of anti-colonial movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; author of A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka and Black Power Politics and a number of reviews, chapters, and essays in journals, anthologies, and encyclopedias. Editor, The Black Power Movement, Part I: Amiri Baraka, from Black Arts to Black Radicalism and Beyond; Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South; former news editor; former research associate at the Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research at Northwestern University; reviewer for American Council of Learned Societies; adviser to the Algebra Project and PBS documentaries Eyes on the Prize II and America’s War on Poverty. SLC, 1989-

Matilde Zimmermann

History – B.A., Radcliffe College. M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh. Special interest in the Nicaraguan and Cuban revolutions, Che Guevara’s life and writings, labor and social movements, Atlantic history and the African diaspora in the Caribbean and Latin America, environmental history of Latin America. Resident director in Havana of SLC program in Cuba, 2003 and 2004; author, Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution (Duke, 2000), Carlos Fonseca y la revolución nicaragüense (Managua, 2003); in press: Bajo las banderas del Che y de Sandino (Havana, 2004); Revolução sandinista (São Paulo, 2005). SLC, 2002-

Tara James

Associate Director, Women’s History Program – B.A., Temple University. M.A., Sarah Lawrence College. SLC, 2001-