- A specialist in the political and cultural history of the twentieth century United States, she won several awards for her research, including the Charlotte Newcombe fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and a Beveridge research grant from the American Historical Association.
- Professor of History and Director of American Studies at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. She earned her BA from Yale University and her MA and Ph.D. from New York University.
- She was associated with the women's studies and American Studies programs at NYU. Her research focused on status, culture, queer theory, and the uses of ideology.
- Working on two volumes which explore the emergence of political history as a field of professional scholarly activity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in the U.S. (2004)
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