Scholars have a wide range of historical interests
Throughout the month of March, the numerous achievements and contributions of women in history are commemorated during Women’s History Month. Rutgers–Camden is home to a group of accomplished female historians whose world-class research and scholarship has been published in books and respected journals and publications around the globe.
Celebrate Rutgers–Camden’s women of history and learn more about their scholarship below.
Laurie Bernstein is an associate professor of history and chair of the Department of History at Rutgers–Camden. She is an expert in Soviet history, modern European history and European women’s history.
View Dr. Bernstein’s online bio
Kate Epstein is an assistant professor of history at Rutgers–Camden whose research interests and expertise include military history and the intersection of military, diplomatic, legal, and business history in the U.S. and Britain.
Janet Golden is a professor of history at Rutgers–Camden and is the author of several books, including Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and A Social History of Wet Nursing: From Breast to Bottle.
Read Dr. Golden’s online bio to discover more about her published works
Read Dr. Golden's column on Alice Hamilton
N.E.H. Hull is a distinguished professor at the Rutgers School of Law–Camden. She is the author of numerous books related to legal history, including Roe v. Wade: The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History and The Woman Who Dared to Vote: The Trial of Susan B. Anthony.
For more on Dr. Hull, read her online bio
Charlene Mires, an associate professor of history at Rutgers–Camden, directs Rutgers–Camden’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH). She is the author of Independence Hall in American Memory and Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations. Mires is a co-recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in journalism, an award she shared in 1983 with the staff of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel in Indiana for coverage of a local flood.
Read about Dr. Mires’ latest book
Lorrin Thomas is an associate professor of history at Rutgers–Camden. Her research interests include ideas about rights and equality in the 20th century Americas. Her first book, Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth Century New York City explores the complex meanings of citizenship for Puerto Ricans in the United States.
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