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Deborah Valenze
Professor of History
Deborah Valenze, professor of history, joined the faculty of Barnard College in 1989. Before coming to Barnard, she taught at Smith College, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Brandeis University. She has been a research associate at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University and, in 1997-8, she was acting director of the women's studies in religion program at Harvard Divinity School.
At Barnard, Professor Valenze has taught courses on the history of Europe since the Renaissance, Britain since 1600, women and revolution, European poverty, and food.
Her research and scholarship have been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Yale Center for British Art, the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, and the American Association of University Women. She has also received a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship.
She is currently working on a history of milk.
Selected Publications
The Social Life of Money in the English Past (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
"Gender in the Formation of European Power, 1750-1914," in A Companion to Gender History, ed. T. A. Meade and M. Wiesner- Hanks (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004)
"Dairy Farming" in Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, volume 2 (Oxford University Press, 2003)
The First Industrial Woman (Oxford University Press, 1995)
Prophetic Sons and Daughters: Female Preaching and Popular Religion in Industrial England (Princeton University Press, 1985)
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EDUCATION:
B.A., Radcliffe College, Harvard University
Ph.D., Brandeis University
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SPECIALIZATIONS:
Social and cultural history of Britain from 1600 to 1800