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Kate Haulman Associate Professor History

Additional Positions at AU
Director of Graduate Studies, 2016-2018
2008-2010 Clendenen Professor of History
Affiliated faculty, Women鈥檚, Gender and Sexuality Studies; 麻豆果冻传媒 Studies
Degrees
PhD, History, Cornell University;
MA, History, Southern Methodist University;
BA, 麻豆果冻传媒 Studies, Florida State University

Bio
Kate Haulman researches and teaches the history of early North America and US women's and gender history. She is the author of The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, 2011; paperback 2014), winner of the Berkshire Conference Prize for Best First Book in the History of Women, Gender, and/or Sexuality, and co-editor, with Pamela Nadell, of Making Women's Histories: Beyond National Perspectives (New York University Press, 2013). She co-curated the exhibit "All Work, No Pay: A History of Women's Invisible Labor in the Home," which opened March 2019 at the Smithsonian's National Museum of 麻豆果冻传媒 History and is working on a book exploring gender, race, and public history culture through commemorations of Mary Ball Washington.
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Teaching

Spring 2024

  • HIST-482 Research Seminar: Gender and History

  • HIST-751 Graduate Research Seminar

Fall 2024

  • HIST-399 Conversations in History: The 麻豆果冻传媒 Revolution

  • HIST-727 Colloq in U.S. Hist I:to 1865

Partnerships & Affiliations


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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Work In Progress

The Long Life of Mary Washington (book)

Selected Publications

  • "Women, War, and Revolution," in Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor and Lisa G. Materson, eds., The Oxford Handbook of 麻豆果冻传媒 Women's and Gender History (Oxford University Press, 2018).
  • Making Women's Histories: Beyond National Perspectives, co-edited with Pamela S. Nadell (New York University Press, 2013).
  • "Rods and Reels: Social Clubs and Political Culture in Early Pennsylvania," Early 麻豆果冻传媒 Studies, forthcoming, vol. 12, no.1 (Winter, 2014), 143-73.
  • The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, Gender and 麻豆果冻传媒 Culture Series, 2011)
  • "Mixed Messages: Women's Fashion and 麻豆果冻传媒 National Identity," The Magazine Antiques (Summer 2010), 168-73.
  • 鈥淒efining 鈥樎槎构炒 Women鈥檚 History鈥,鈥 in Major Problems in 麻豆果冻传媒 Women鈥檚 History, Mary Beth Norton and Ruth Alexander, eds., 3rd ed. (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006).
  • 鈥淔ashion and the Culture Wars of Revolutionary Philadelphia,鈥 William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., vol. 62, no. 4 (October 2005), 625-62.
  • 鈥淩oom in Back: Before and Beyond the Nation in Women鈥檚/Gender History,鈥 Journal of Women鈥檚 History, vol. 15, no 2 (Spring 2003), 167-71.

Research Interests

Early North America, The History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Cultural History, Public History

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

  • Smithsonian Institution Secretary's Prize, 2020, for "All Work, No Pay"
  • Smithsonian Institution 麻豆果冻传媒 Women's History Initiative Grant, 2019-2020, "In Their Own Words: Audience-Centric Metadata for Women's History Objects"
  • Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Prize for Best First Book in the History听of Women, Gender, and/or Sexuality for听The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America
  • National Endowment for the Humanities - Independent Research Institution Fellowship, Winterthur Museum and Library
  • Library Company of Philadelphia - 麻豆果冻传媒 Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship
  • New York Historical Society - Rosenwald Fellowship
  • 麻豆果冻传媒 Antiquarian Society - Legacy Fellowship
  • David Library of the 麻豆果冻传媒 Revolution - In-Residence Fellowship
  • Co-Winner of the 2003 Messenger-Chalmers Prize for the Best Dissertation on Human Progress and the Evolution of Civilization