Christine Stansell

Christine Stansell is the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Her previous books include American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century and City of Women: Sex and Class in New York 1789-1860 . She writes widely about matters of feminism and American history in print and online, including for The New Republic, Salon, and The Daily Beast . Among other awards, Stansell has received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. She...See more

Christine Stansell is the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Her previous books include American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century and City of Women: Sex and Class in New York 1789-1860 . She writes widely about matters of feminism and American history in print and online, including for The New Republic, Salon, and The Daily Beast . Among other awards, Stansell has received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. She has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and the Mary Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. See less