Lisa Norling

{{Short description|American historian}}

Lisa Norling is a U.S. historian noted for her pioneering work on gender and the sea. As such she is part of a new move in maritime historiography to examine gender, race and class in relation to seafaring labor, passengers and people in port cities (i.e. interfaces with the sea).

Life

She graduated from Cornell University, magna cum laude, and from Rutgers University with a Ph.D.

She teaches at the University of Minnesota.{{Cite web|url=http://americanstudies.umn.edu/people/profile.php?UID=norli001|title = Faculty}} She also teaches at the Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies at Mystic Seaport,{{cite web|url=http://www.mysticseaport.org/files/site_files/Learn/MHS2007.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-11-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611165521/http://www.mysticseaport.org/files/site_files/Learn/MHS2007.pdf |archivedate=2011-06-11 }} and serves as a consultant to the USS Constitution Museum.

She became involved in the Minnesota "Profile of Learning" controversy.{{cite web |url=http://www.oah.org/pubs/nl/2004nov/evans-norling.html |title=What Happened in Minnesota? | Sara Evans and Lisa Norling | November 2004 OAH Newsletter |accessdate=2008-08-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080803235959/http://www.oah.org/pubs/nl/2004nov/evans-norling.html |archivedate=2008-08-03 }}[http://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/45475 "Curriculum Policy, Controversy, and Change: Minnesota's Profile of Learning, 1993-2003", University of Minnesota, Peggy Reed DeLapp]

In 1994, she married Steven Ruggles, another historian. She currently lives in Minneapolis with her two children and her husband.

Awards

Works

  • {{cite book| title=Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZAWKSLubwpQC&q=Lisa+Norling|editor1=Margaret S. Creighton |editor2=Lisa Norling| publisher=JHU Press| year= 1996| isbn= 978-0-8018-5160-5 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery 1740-1870 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3iRC-u5jOqEC&q=Lisa+Norling| publisher=UNC Press| year= 2000| isbn= 978-0-8078-4870-8 }}

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