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Alice Kessler-Harris
R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Columbia University
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Biography
Education
Ph.D. – Rutgers University, 1968
M.A. – Rutgers University, 1963
B.A. – Goucher College, 1961
Current Departmental Service
Space Committee
Interests and Research
Alice Kessler-Harris, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History. She is also Professor in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Dr. Kessler-Harris specializes in the history of American labor and the comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of women and gender. She received her B. A. from
Goucher
College
(1961) and her Ph.D. from
Rutgers
(1968). Her published works include: In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America (2001); Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (1982); A Woman’s Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences (1990); and Women Have Always Worked: A Historical Overview (1981). She is co-editor of Protecting Women: Labor Legislation in
Europe
,
Australia
, and the
United States
, 1880–1920 (1995) and U.S. History as Women’s History (1995). Her most recent book, Gendering Labor History (2007), contains her essays on women’s work and social policy.
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