Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Encyclopedia
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz is the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of American Studies and History, emerita, at Smith College
. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. from Harvard University
. Her book, Alma Mater, (1984) is a comprehensive history of the
development of the Seven Sister Colleges
.
Smith College
Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is the largest member of the Seven Sisters...
. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. Her book, Alma Mater, (1984) is a comprehensive history of the
development of the Seven Sister Colleges
Seven Sisters (colleges)
The Seven Sisters are seven liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women's colleges. They are Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Radcliffe College, Smith College, Vassar College, and Wellesley College. All were founded between 1837 and...
.
Awards
- 2003 Pulitzer PrizePulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
in history finalist for Rereading Sex - 2003 Merle Curti AwardMerle Curti AwardThe Merle Curti Award is awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American social and/or American intellectual history. A committee of 5 members of the Organization of American Historians chooses the winners from published monographs submitted by the author...
Select works
- Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of "The Yellow Wallpaper," 2010
- Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America, 2002.
- Landscape in Sight : Looking at America,(with John Brickerhoff Jackson), 2000 .
- Love Across the Color Line, (ed. with Kathy Peiss), 1996.
- The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas, 1994.
- Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993 (2nd edition).
- Campus Life : Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present , 1987.
- Culture and the City : Cultural Philanthropy in Chicago from the 1880s to 1917, 1974.