Wendy A. Woloson is an American historian.[1][2][3][4] She is a professor at Rutgers University–Camden, specializing in the "history of material and consumer culture, used goods markets, alternative and criminal economies, and the history of capitalism".[5]
Education
editWoloson graduated from Iowa State University in 1986 with a BFA in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking and a minor in art history. In 1990, she received an MFA in Printmaking from Montana State University. In 1993, she received a MA in Popular Culture from Bowling Green State University. Her thesis was titled "In Our Homes We Must Have Industry and Sympathy: Early Twentieth-Century Advertising Recipe Booklets and American Domestic Culture". In 1999, she received her PhD in American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation was "Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America" which she later published as a book in 2002.[6][7]
Career
editFor ten years, Woloson worked as the Curator of Printed Books at the Library Company of Philadelphia.[8]
She has been a professor at Rutgers University–Camden since 2013.[8]
Awards and honors
editHer book Crap: A History of Cheap Goods in America was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.[9]
Books
edit- Refined Tastes Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002).[10]
- In Hock: Pawning in America from Independence through the Great Depression (University of Chicago Press, 2010)[11]
- Crap: A History of Cheap Goods in America (University of Chicago Press, 2020)[12]
Editor
edit- coeditor with Brian P. Luskey of the collection, Capitalism by Gaslight: Illuminating the Economy of 19th-Century America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)[13]
References
edit- ^ "Wendy A. Woloson". press.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ^ "Q&A: Wendy Woloson". Antiques And The Arts Weekly. 2020-11-10. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ^ "Review of Wendy A. Woloson, 'Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America' | Inside Higher Ed". www.insidehighered.com. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ^ "Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America". Hagley. 2020-11-25. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ^ "A Profile of New Faculty Member Wendy Woloson – Graduate History Blog". graduatehistoryblog.camden.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-03.
- ^ "About – Wendy A. Woloson". sites.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ^ "Current C.V. | Repository of Useful Knowledge". Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ^ a b "A Profile of New Faculty Member Wendy Woloson – Graduate History Blog".
- ^ "Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America by Wendy A. Woloson: 2020 Criticism Finalist". National Book Critics Circle. 2021-03-12. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ^ Matt, Susan J. (Susan Jipson) (2004). "Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America (review)". Journal of Social History. 37 (4): 1071–1073. doi:10.1353/jsh.2004.0058. ISSN 1527-1897. S2CID 142743566.
- ^ "Crapification Syndrome: When Hilarity Slides into Nausea". PopMatters. 2020-05-15. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ^ "Exploring America's Historic Thirst for Crap". wdet.org. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ^ "Capitalism by Gaslight | Brian P. Luskey, Wendy A. Woloson". www.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-29.