Sara Alpern
Sara Alpern | |
|---|---|
| Other names | Sara Alpern-Tarlow |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Maryland |
| Thesis | A woman of The Nation: Freda Kirchwey (1979) |
Sara Alpern was a professor of history at Texas A&M University where she is known for her work on women's history, especially suffrage, eating disorders in women, and women in management.
Education and career
[edit]Alpern studied at Western Reserve University and the University of California at Los Angeles. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1978. She began teaching at Texas A&M in 1979, first as an assistant professor and she was promoted to associate professor in 1988.[1]
From 1991 until 1993 she was the president of the Women’s Faculty Network at Texas A&M.[1]
Selected publications
[edit]- Alpern, Sara (1987). Freda Kirchwey, A Woman of the Nation. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674318285. [2]
- Alpern, Sara (1992). The Challenge of Feminist Biography. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-06292-6.[3]
- Alpern, Sara (2005). "Harriet Williams Russell Strong: Inventor and California Businesswoman Extraordinaire". Southern California Quarterly of the Historical Society of Southern California. 87 (3): 223–268. doi:10.2307/41172270. JSTOR 41172270 – via online.ucpress.edu.
- Alpern-Tarlow, Sara (January 29, 2020). How Can I Change That? The Story of Advertising Woman Dorothy Dignam. Independently published. ISBN 979-8600300033.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Alpern CV at Texas A&M" (PDF).
- ^ Reviews of Freda Kirchwey
- Wandersee, Winifred (1988). "Review of Freda Kirchwey: A Woman of the Nation". The American Historical Review. 93 (4): 1132–1133. doi:10.2307/1863703. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 1863703.
- Kuczynski, Jürgen (1990). "Review of Freda Kirchwey, a Woman of the Nation". Science & Society. 54 (2): 234–235. ISSN 0036-8237. JSTOR 40403075.
- Sirkin, Elliott (1987-07-26). "The dainty firebrand who ran The Nation". Newsday; New York, New York. Retrieved 2024-10-28.
- ^ Reviews of The Challenge of Feminist Biography
- Bordin, Ruth (1994). "Review of The Challenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern American Women". The Journal of American History. 80 (4): 1506–1507. doi:10.2307/2080703. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 2080703.
- Fitzpatrick, Ellen (1995). "Review of The Challenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern American Women". The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 26 (2): 348–350. doi:10.2307/206665. ISSN 0022-1953. JSTOR 206665.
- Wandersee, Winifred D. (1994). "Review of The Chalenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern American Women". The American Historical Review. 99 (2): 676–677. doi:10.2307/2167503. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 2167503.
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