Kate Haulman Associate Professor History
- Additional Positions at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ
- Director of Graduate Studies, 2016-2018
- 2008-2010 Clendenen Professor of History
- Affiliated faculty, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; American Studies
- Degrees
- PhD, History, Cornell University
MA, History, Southern Methodist University
BA, American Studies, Florida State University - Bio
- Kate Haulman researches and teaches the history of early America, women's and gender history, and public history. She is the author of The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, 2011; paperback 2014), winner of the Berkshire Conference Prize for Best First Book in the History of Women, Gender, and/or Sexuality, and co-editor, with Pamela Nadell, of Making Women's Histories: Beyond National Perspectives (New York University Press, 2013) and The Mother of Washington in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford University Press, forthcoming September 2025). She co-curated the exhibit "All Work, No Pay: A History of Women's Invisible Labor in the Home" at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History and has consulted on other exhibits.
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Teaching
Fall 2024
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HIST-399 Conversations in History: The American Revolution
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HIST-727 Colloq in U.S. Hist I:to 1865
Spring 2025
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HIST-482 Research Seminar: Gender and History
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HIST-730 Public History Practicum
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HIST-732 Applied Research
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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Research Interests
Early North America, The History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Cultural History, Public History
Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
- Smithsonian Institution Secretary's Prize, 2020, for "All Work, No Pay"
- Smithsonian Institution American Women's History Initiative Grant, 2019-2020, "In Their Own Words: Audience-Centric Metadata for Women's History Objects"
- Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Prize for Best First Book in the HistoryÌýof Women, Gender, and/or Sexuality forÌýThe Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America
- National Endowment for the Humanities - Independent Research Institution Fellowship, Winterthur Museum and Library
- Library Company of Philadelphia - American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship
- New York Historical Society - Rosenwald Fellowship
- American Antiquarian Society - Legacy Fellowship
- David Library of the American Revolution - In-Residence Fellowship
- Co-Winner of the 2003 Messenger-Chalmers Prize for the Best Dissertation on Human Progress and the Evolution of Civilization
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Work In Progress
The Mother of Washington in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
Selected Publications
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- The Mother of Washington in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2025).
- "The Mother of the Father: Memorializing Mary Washington In Antebellum Virginia," in Charlene Boyer Lewis and George Boudreau. eds., Women in George Washington's World (University of Virginia Press, 2022), 19-42.
- "Women, War, and Revolution," in Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor and Lisa G. Materson, eds., The Oxford Handbook of American Women's and Gender History (Oxford University Press, 2018).
- Making Women's Histories: Beyond National Perspectives, co-edited with Pamela S. Nadell (New York University Press, 2013).
- "Rods and Reels: Social Clubs and Political Culture in Early Pennsylvania," Early American Studies, vol. 12, no.1 (Winter, 2014), 143-73.
- The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, Gender and American Culture Series, 2011).