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.
Sara Alpern | |
|---|---|
| Other names | Sara Alpern-Tarlow |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Maryland |
| Thesis | A woman of The Nation: Freda Kirchwey (1979) |
Education and career
editAlpern 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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