Faculty
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.
Priscilla Murolo
Director, Graduate Program in Women's History/History
Courses: Thesis Seminar in Women’s and Gender History
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-
Persis Charles
Courses: Leisure and Danger
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-
Eileen Ka-May Cheng
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-
Mary Dillard
Courses: Public Stories, Private Lives: Methods of Oral History
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; and 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
Chair, Social Science; Alice Stone Ilchman Chair in Comparative and International Studies
Courses: Gender and Nationalism(s)
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, Board of Editorial Advisors, for Contributions to Indian Sociology; and 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 of 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 Cullen Sizer
Courses: Visions/Revisions: Issues in U.S. Women’s 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. cultural and intellectual history of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and the social and cultural history of the U.S. Civil War. Book The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the American Civil War, 1850-1872, 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-
Komozi Woodard
B.A., Dickinson College. M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Special interests in African American history, politics, and culture, with emphasis on the black freedom movement—particularly women in the Black Revolt, in U.S. urban and ethnic history and dynamics of urban migration and renaissance, public policy and persistent poverty, in oral history, and in 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 encyclopedia. Editor, The Black Power Movement, Part I: Amiri Baraka, from Black Arts to Black Radicalism; Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South; Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America; Women in the Black Revolt. Former news editor; former fellow 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. Board of Directors of the Urban History Association. SLC, 1989-
Matilde Zimmermann
on leave yearlong
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, history of Latinos/as in the U.S., environmental history. Director study-abroad program in Havana, Cuba. Author, Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution (Duke, 2000); Carlos Fonseca y la revolución nicaragüense (Managua, 2003); Bajo las banderas de Che y de Sandino (Havana, 2004); A Revolução Nicaragüense (São Paulo, 2005); Comandante Carlos: La vida de Carlos Fonseca Amador (Caracas, 2008). SLC, 2002-