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Sarah Elbert | |
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| Born | 5 January 1936 |
| Died | 3 August 2019 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Cornell University (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) |
| Occupation | Literary historian |
Sarah Elbert (January 5, 1936 - August 3, 2019) was an American literary historian.
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Sarah Elbert | |
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| Born | 5 January 1936 |
| Died | 3 August 2019 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Cornell University (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) |
| Occupation | Literary historian |
Sarah Elbert (January 5, 1936 - August 3, 2019) was an American literary historian.
Sarah Elbert was born in New York to a mixed-race family on 5 January 1936. She attended Cornell University, earning a B.A. magna cum laude with honors in history in 1965, despite becoming a single mother the year previously. She completed all of her graduate work at Cornell as well, earning a M.A. in teaching in 1966, a master's degree in history in 1968, and a Ph.D. in history in 1974. While in graduate school Elbert participated in Students for a Democratic Society, the Union for Radical Political Economics and the Congress of Racial Equality as well as protesting against the Vietnam War. She later made a documentary film on the week of the 1968 Democratic National Convention entitled, The Streets Belong to the People. [1]
Elbert was hired as a visiting assistant professor in 1973 at Binghamton University and remained there for the rest of her career. Her appointment was regularized when she received her Ph.D the following year and she was promoted to associate professor in 1981. "The author or editor of six books, Elbert is best known for her work on Louisa May Alcott, which originated with her dissertation. When graduate student Elbert reread Little Women , which she had read as a child, she realized that it contained a subtext that 'dealt with issues of women’s rights, of slavery and other social reforms.'" [2]
Letitia Woods Brown was an African American researcher and historian. Earning a master's degree in 1935 from Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in 1966 from Harvard University, she served as a researcher and historian for over four decades and became one of the first black woman to earn a PhD from Harvard University in history. As a teacher, she started her career in Macon County, Alabama, between 1935 and 1936. Later in 1937, she became Tuskegee Institute's instructor in history but left in 1940. Between 1940 and 1945 she worked at LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis, Tennessee, as a tutor. From 1968 to 1971, she served as a Fulbright lecturer at Monash University and Australia National University followed by a period in 1971 working as a consultant at the Federal Executive Institute. Between 1971 and 1976 she served as a history professor in the African-American faculty of George Washington University and became the first full-time black member. She also served as a primary consultant for the Schlesinger Library’s Black Women Oral History project during the course of her professional career. Aside from teaching history, Brown wrote and contributed to books on Washington, D.C., such as Washington from Banneker to Douglas, 1791 – 1870 and Washington in the New Era, 1870 – 1970.
Evelyn Sakakida Rawski is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History of the University of Pittsburgh and a scholar in Chinese and Inner Asian history. She was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of Japanese-American ancestry. She served as president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1995–1996.
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