Expertise

United States History, 1865 – 1930. Gender, class, and ethnicity in U.S. history and historiography; critical history of social work and social welfare, including reform, voluntarism, settlement houses; philanthropy and foundations; charity and the cultural history of the gift. Feminist biography. Historiography and theory; disability history.

Degrees
PhD, Purdue University, 1982
MA, Purdue University, 1975
MA, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
BA, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Keywords
history