Nancy A. Hewitt
{{Short description|American historian (born 1951)}}
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Nancy A. Hewitt (born 1951){{cite web |title=Hewitt, Nancy A., 1951- |url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82241015.html |website=LC Name Authority File |publisher=Library of Congress |accessdate=5 April 2020}} is a Professor Emerita at Rutgers University, winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship, and a leading expert on gender history and feminism.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/nancy-a-hewitt/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Nancy A. Hewitt|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-27}}
Career
After a Bachelors' degree at the State University of New York, Brockport, she obtained her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. From 1996 to 1997, she was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Stanford. Professor Hewitt was Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at the University of Cambridge in 2009-2010. She also taught at the University of South Florida and Duke University.{{Cite web|url=https://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/people/all-faculty/30-graduate-faculty/252-nancy-a-hewitt|title=Hewitt, Nancy A.|website=womens-studies.rutgers.edu|access-date=2020-03-27}}
Research
Hewitt's research focuses on American women's history, nineteenth century U.S. history, women's activism and feminism in comparative perspective. She has published and edited several books. Her work has been cited in the press including in Slate,{{Cite web|url=https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/08/hillary-clinton-and-the-myth-of-the-19th-amendment.html|title=The Myth of the 19th Amendment|last=Lawson|first=Nancy A. Hewitt, Steven F.|date=2016-08-15|website=Slate Magazine|language=en|access-date=2020-03-27}} The Conversation{{Cite web|url=http://theconversation.com/why-colleges-must-change-how-they-teach-calculus-90679|title=Why colleges must change how they teach calculus|last=Bressoud|first=David|website=The Conversation|date=January 31, 2018 |language=en|access-date=2020-03-27}} and there is an interview of her on History Matters.{{Cite web|url=http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/7461|title=Interview with Nancy A. Hewitt|website=historymatters.gmu.edu|access-date=2020-03-27}}
Selected bibliography
- {{Cite book|last=Hewitt|first=Nancy A.|title=Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822–1872|date=1984|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-1-5017-2175-5|language=en}}
- {{Cite book|last=Hewitt|first=Nancy A.|title=Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s|date=2001|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-02682-9|language=en}}
- {{Cite book|last=Hewitt|first=Nancy A.|title=No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism|date=2010|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0-8135-4724-4|language=en}}
- {{Cite book|last=Hewitt|first=Nancy A.|title=Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist World|date=2018|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|isbn=978-1469640327|language=en}}
References
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External links
- [https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/finding-aids/D543 Nancy Hewitt research collection], Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
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Category:Rutgers University faculty
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:State University of New York at Brockport alumni
Category:University of Pennsylvania alumni
Category:American women historians
Category:21st-century American historians