Elizabeth Anne Hohl

Instructor
Department of History
North Benson Road
Fairfield University
Fairfield, CT 06824

Office: CNS 314
lizhohl@hotmail.com
(203) 254-4000 ext. 3235
Curriculum Vitae

Fields of Interest:

US History; 19th century; women's history social reform movements; the "new woman"; African American women's history; feminism; women's studies

Courses Currently Taught:

HI 246 Excellent Women, Deviant Women
HI 245 Feminism in America
HI 263 Inventing Themselves: African American Women
IN US History
HI 240 The Personal is Political: Women's Activism in the 60s
WS 201 Women's Studies Seminar
HR 200 Challenges to the Western Tradition

Research:

Current work focuses on the "new women" of the 1890s. In particular, I concentrate on the ways in which African American women transform the concept and create a modern vision of womanhood.

Related Links:

National Women's History Project http://www.nwhp.org
National Women's Studies Association uwsa@umail.umd.edu
Women and Social Movements in the US, 1820-1990
http://womhist.binghamton.edu