Professor Richter specialized in nineteenth and twentieth century American and cultural history, with an emphasis on women’s and urban history. In her twenty-five years at Clark, her teaching repertoire included the history of American Women, U.S. Urban History, Gender and the American City, and American Consumer Culture. She authored Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity (2005) and At Home in Nineteenth-Century America: A Documentary History (2015).
Professor Richter also taught U.S. History and served as the Academic Director of the Worcester Clemente Course in the Humanities. The Clemente Course in the Humanities is an award-winning college-level seminar for highly motivated low-income adults seeking to build better lives for themselves, their families, and their communities.