University Professor; Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University
Nancy Sherman holds a B.A. magna cum laude with honors in Philosophy from Bryn Mawr College, an M. Litt. in philosophy from the University of Edinburgh, and a Ph.D. from Harvard in moral philosophy (1981), where she received Harvard's George Plympton Adams' Prize (1982) for the most distinguished Ph.D. thesis in the subject area of History of Philosophy.Nancy served as the Inaugural Holder...
Professor, History Department, University of South Carolina
Marjorie J. Spruill, Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, is an authority on the American women's rights movement. She has a particular interest in the intersection of ideas about gender and politics. Before turning to the study of the modern women's rights movement and the conservative countermovement, she focused on the woman suffrage movement, both nationally and in the Ame...
Distinguished Professor of History, Rutgers University
I got interested in the 1990s when Dr. Darlene Clark Hine invited me to Michigan State University to participate in a celebration to commemorate the first anniversary of the 1997, Million Woman March. She sent me a packet of materials that contained newspaper articles and editorials about the event, and in preparation for my talk I started to underline all of the editorial comments that attendees...
Assistant Professor of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
I received my Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 2001. That same year, I joined the faculty at USC, with a joint appointment in the Department of Political Science and in the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity. Much of my intellectual energy over the past five years has been devoted to a research agenda that seeks to develop new and innovative scholarship on immigration, rac...
William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History, Department of Economics, Stanford University
Economic history is now practiced primarily within economics departments, often serving as an institutionalized form of internal subversion. Continuing a strong Stanford economic history tradition, that is the way I see my own research: Not to reject or overthrow the discipline of economics, but to demonstrate the importance of historical processes and historical context in economic life. Believ...
Associate Professor of History, McKendree College
A self-described political junkie, I grew up in rural East Texas, the daughter of local Democratic party activists, and I spent my early years in graduate school working for Texas politicians. From a young age, I sensed that careful study of political discourse and policy development would reveal much about even larger, more fundamental questions pertaining to power, its dissemination, and its imp...
Nancy Sherman holds a B.A. magna cum laude with honors in Philosophy from Bryn Mawr College, an M. Litt. in philosophy from the University of Edinburgh, and a Ph.D. from Harvard in moral philosophy (1981), where she received Harvard's George Plympton Adams' Prize (1982) for the most distinguished Ph.D. thesis in the subject area of History of Philosophy.Nancy served as the Inaugural Holder...
I got interested in the 1990s when Dr. Darlene Clark Hine invited me to Michigan State University to participate in a celebration to commemorate the first anniversary of the 1997, Million Woman March. She sent me a packet of materials that contained newspaper articles and editorials about the event, and in preparation for my talk I started to underline all of the editorial comments that attendees...
I received my Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 2001. That same year, I joined the faculty at USC, with a joint appointment in the Department of Political Science and in the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity. Much of my intellectual energy over the past five years has been devoted to a research agenda that seeks to develop new and innovative scholarship on immigration, rac...
A self-described political junkie, I grew up in rural East Texas, the daughter of local Democratic party activists, and I spent my early years in graduate school working for Texas politicians. From a young age, I sensed that careful study of political discourse and policy development would reveal much about even larger, more fundamental questions pertaining to power, its dissemination, and its imp...