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Kathy Lee Peiss (born 1953) is an American historian. She is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at The University of Pennsylvania. [1] She is a fellow of the Society of American Historians. [2]
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Kathy Lee Peiss (born 1953) is an American historian. She is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at The University of Pennsylvania. [1] She is a fellow of the Society of American Historians. [2]
Peiss received her BA from Carleton College in 1975, and her PhD from Brown University in 1982. [3] Her research focuses on the history women in the workplace, the history of American sexuality, and gender. [4] She is the author of Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York and Hope in a Jar: The Making of American Beauty Culture, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. [5] [6] Peiss was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. [7]
Her 2020 book, Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe, received the Book History Prize from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing.
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