Kate Haulman Associate Professor History

Additional Positions at AU: 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 North America and US women's and gender 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). She co-curated the exhibit "All Work, No Pay: A History of Women's Invisible Labor in the Home," which opened March 2019 at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and is working on a book exploring gender, race, and public history culture through commemorations of Mary Ball Washington.

See Also: Department of History
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Teaching

The Long Life of Mary Washington (book)

"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, forthcoming, 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)
"Mixed Messages: Women's Fashion and American National Identity," The Magazine Antiques (Summer 2010), 168-73.
“Defining ‘American Women’s History’,” in Major Problems in American Women’s History, Mary Beth Norton and Ruth Alexander, eds., 3rd ed. (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006).
“Fashion and the Culture Wars of Revolutionary Philadelphia,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., vol. 62, no. 4 (October 2005), 625-62.
“Room in Back: Before and Beyond the Nation in Women’s/Gender History,” Journal of Women’s History, vol. 15, no 2 (Spring 2003), 167-71.

Early North America, The History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Cultural History, Public History

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 History of Women, Gender, and/or Sexuality for The 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