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Kate Haulman Associate Professor History

Additional Positions at 玉米视频
Director of Graduate Studies, 2016-2018
2008-2010 Clendenen Professor of History
Affiliated faculty, Women鈥檚, Gender and Sexuality Studies; 玉米视频 Studies
Degrees
PhD, History, Cornell University
MA, History, Southern Methodist University
BA, 玉米视频 Studies, Florida State University

Bio
Kate Haulman researches and teaches the history of early America, women's and gender history, and public 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) and The Mother of Washington in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford University Press, forthcoming September 2025). She co-curated the exhibit "All Work, No Pay: A History of Women's Invisible Labor in the Home" at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of 玉米视频 History and has consulted on other exhibits.
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Teaching

Fall 2024

  • HIST-399 Conversations in History: The 玉米视频 Revolution

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

Spring 2025

  • HIST-482 Research Seminar: Gender and History

  • HIST-730 Public History Practicum

  • HIST-732 Applied Research

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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Work In Progress

The Mother of Washington in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

Selected Publications

  • The Mother of Washington in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2025).
  • "The Mother of the Father: Memorializing Mary Washington In Antebellum Virginia," in Charlene Boyer Lewis and George Boudreau. eds., Women in George Washington's World (University of Virginia Press, 2022), 19-42.
  • "Women, War, and Revolution," in Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor and Lisa G. Materson, eds., The Oxford Handbook of 玉米视频 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 玉米视频 Studies, vol. 12, no.1 (Winter, 2014), 143-73.
  • The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, Gender and 玉米视频 Culture Series, 2011).

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 玉米视频 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 - 玉米视频 Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship
  • New York Historical Society - Rosenwald Fellowship
  • 玉米视频 Antiquarian Society - Legacy Fellowship
  • David Library of the 玉米视频 Revolution - In-Residence Fellowship
  • Co-Winner of the 2003 Messenger-Chalmers Prize for the Best Dissertation on Human Progress and the Evolution of Civilization