Course Information

Colloquium in American Women’s History
History

Margaret Marsh
Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School, Camden
Professor of History

Phone: 856-225-6097
E-mail: mmarsh@camden.rutgers.edu

Office hours by appointment.

Designed to provide an introduction to Women’s and Gender History in the United States, this colloquium examines the development of the field, explores current scholarship, and analyzes some of the principal themes in both women’s history and gender history. A reading and discussion course, its requirements include attendance at every class, active participation, responsibility for leading one or more discussions, and a historiographical essay (of about 12-15 pages) on a area of women’s or gender history mutually decided upon by the student and professor. The focus of this course is historiographical and analytical, with an emphasis on understanding how the field has developed and changed over the course of its own history. After a brief look at some of the early works in women’s history, the works that you will be reading as a group, as well as those that you’ll be reading for your individual essays, represent both current trends in the field as well as different ways of ways of writing history.