Carroll Smith-Rosenberg

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Biography: Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Mary Frances Berry Professor Emeritus of History, American Culture and Women's Studies, is the author of Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America, Religion and the Rise of the American City and the editor of Women in Culture and Politics, A Century of Change, as well as numerous articles on gender, women and sexuality. Her present research project examines the intersection of race and gender in the constitution of an American identity. As part of her project, she explores the United States as a colonizing nation and the ways the political state is engendered. She has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton; the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Grant Foundation. She has been a visiting professor at John F. Kennedy-Institute, Freie University, Berlin and Canterbury University, New Zealand. She was formerly the director of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. She has twice won the Binkley-Stephenson Award for the best article published in the Journal of American History and for the best article published in the American Quarterly. A recent article, "Black Gothic: Shadowy Origins Of the American Bourgeois," will appear in an anthology, Possible Parts, Robert St. George, ed. (Cornell University Press).