 | Amy Richter, Ph.D.Associate Professor Department of History Clark University Worcester, MA 01610-1477 (508) 793-7216 phone email: arichter@clarku.edu |
Professor Richter received a B.A. in Urban Studies from Columbia College, Columbia University and a Ph.D. from New York University. She has been at Clark since 2000. She is also a Co-Director of the Women's Studies Program and serves as core faculty for the Urban Development and Social Change Concentration. Current Research and TeachingDr. Richter specializes in 19th and 20th century American and cultural history, with an emphasis on women's and urban history. Her teaching repertoire includes the United States survey course, history of American women, and U.S. urban history from the colonial era to the 21st century. Her book, Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity was published by University of North Carolina Press in 2005. She recently started work on a volume of essays exploring the cultural connections between women, consumerism and U.S. overseas expansion in the 1890s.Selected Publications Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity, Gender & American Culture Series (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005). "At Home Aboard: The American Railroad and the Changing Ideal of Public Domesticity," in Gender and Landscape: Renegotiating the Moral Landscape, Lorraine Dowler, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2005). "A Few Great Men: Or How to Get Things Done in New York City," Journal of Urban History, Vol. 30, No. 2 (January 2004), 266-274. |