Natalie Naylor | |
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Occupation | Professor Emeritus of History |
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Discipline | history |
Sub-discipline | history of Long Island |
Institutions | Hofstra University |
Natalie A. Naylor (born:1937/8) is an American historian of Long Island and gender. She is professor emeritus at Hofstra University,had been the first director of the Long Island Studies Institute from 1985 to 2000,and president of the Nassau County Historical Society from 2008 to 2020.
Naylor was born in Peekskill,New York in 1937/1938 to Colin T. Naylor Jr. [1] She earned a bachelor of arts at Bryn Mawr College,and a master's and doctorate in education from Columbia University's Teachers College. [2]
Naylor began working at Hofstra University in 1968,moving to the university's New College [note 1] program in 1976. [2] She retired from the university in 2000. [1]
Naylor headed the Long Island Studies Institute starting in 1985,publishing books and encouraging amateur local historians to submit research for compendiums. She was recognized by Cornell University lecturer Carol Kammen for her contribution to the study of Long Island's local history and for local historians at large. [3]