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Susan Williams

Social Science

Susan  Williams

   

Office Information:
Miller Hall, Room 2

Phone: 978-665-3085
Email: swilliams@fsc.edu

Website: falcon.fsc.edu/swilliams/

Courses Taught:

  • United States History I and II (HIST 1400, 1500)
  • American Colonial History (HIST 3500)
  • Frontier in American History (HIST 3900)
  • Women in US History to 1870 (HIST 2490)
  • The Gilded Age (HIST 3655)
  • Writing History (HIST 4000)
  • Introduction to Women's Studies (IDIS 1000)
  • Historiography (graduate level, HIST 7490)
  • Beyond Antiques: Artifacts and History (graduate level, HIST 7200)

Education:

  • Vassar College, 1966-1968
  • University of Denver, BA 1970
  • University of Delaware, PhD 1992

Research Interests:

American social and cultural history; Material Culture and Vernacular Architecture; Foodways and Dining Customs; History of Women in America; Educational Technology

Current Projects:

Food in Victorian America, Greenwood Press, 2006
In the Garden of New England: Alice Morse Earle and the History of American Domestic Life, University of Massachusetts Press, forthcoming

Representative Publications:

Alice Morse Earle, in American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Savory Suppers and Fashionable Feasts: Dining in Victorian America. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985; second edition with new introduction, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996.
Introduction to Dining in America, 1850-1900, ed. Kathryn Grover. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press and the Strong Museum, 1987.
Flow Blue, The Magazine Antiques 126 (1984): 923-931.


Professional Affiliations:

American Studies Association
Organization of American Historians
American Historical Association

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