Sylvia Hoffert

Sylvia D. Hoffert Professor Joint Appointment with Women's Studies M.A. Western Michigan University, 1968 Ph.D. Indiana University at Bloomington, 1984

Research Interests

Dr. Hoffert's research interests focus on northern and western women in nineteenth-century America. She has published three books, Private Matters: American Attitudes toward Childbirth and Infant Nurture in the Urban North, 1800-1860 (1989), When Hens Crow: The Woman's Rights Movement in Antebellum America (1995), and A History of Gender in America (2003). Her biography of Jane Grey Swisshelm will be released by the University of North Carolina Press in 2004. She also has published articles on attitudes toward infant death (American Quarterly), childbirth on the frontier (Western Historical Quarterly), the response of the New York City penny press to the woman's rights movement (Journalism Quarterly), and the negotiation of gender roles on the frontier (Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies). Her most recent article, published by the Journal of Women's History, is entitled "Jane Grey Swisshelm, Elizabeth Keckley, and the Significance of Race Consciouness in American Women's History."

Dr. Hoffert received the Tanner Award for undergraduate teaching in 2000, the Senior Class Teaching Award in 1997, and the Women's Studies Teaching Award in 1996.

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Courses Offered as Schedules Allow

For current course listings, consult the Directory of Classes.

• HIST 22 -- United States Since 1865

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• HIST 62 -- Women in United States History
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• HIST 70 -- Women in the Age of Victoria
• HIST 75 -- History of Gender in America

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• HIST 209A -- Introductory Colloquium in United States History to 1865
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• HIST 218 -- Readings in the History of Gender & Sexuality
• HIST 221 -- Readings in American Women's History
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• HIST 328 -- Research Seminar on Women's History

If you wish to contact Sylvia Hoffert, please email her at:

shoffert@email.unc.edu

or send mail to:

CB #3195, Hamilton Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195

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