Susan Armitage

Susan Armitage is an American historian.[1][2][3] She is an authority on women in the American West, and was one of the first scholars to consider the role of women in the American West.[1]

Biography

In 1959 Susan Armitage earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Wellesley College, in 1965 she earned a master's degree in American history from San Jose State College, and in 1968 she earned a PhD from the University of London.[3]

Armitage was a visiting assistant history professor at the University of Colorado from 1973 to 1978, and directed the Boulder Women's Oral History Project while there.[3] In 1978 she became Washington State University's first director of women's studies and also became an assistant history professor there.[3] She also directed the WSU American Studies program, and developed and taught the first two undergraduate U.S. women's history courses at WSU.[3] In 1991 she was recruited by the founder of the Women of the West Museum in Colorado, and she worked with the museum until 1997.[3] From February to June 1995 she was the Distinguished Fulbright Chair in American History at Moscow State University.[3] As well, from that year until 2003 she edited Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies.[1]

In 1984 she was a Mellon Scholar at the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, and in 1990 she was a Hilliard Scholar at the University of Nevada at Reno. In 2003-2004, she was a Senior Fellow at the Beinecke Library and also the Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University.[3] In 2003 she was invited to the White House due to her work.[3] In 2008 she was declared Washington State University Woman of the Year.[3]

In 2008 she donated a collection of her papers to the Washington State University Libraries.[3]

Selected works

  • Out of Many, Volume 1: A History of the American People, co-written with John Mack Faragher, Mari Jo Buhle, and Daniel Czitrom, Prentice Hall, 2005.
  • Shaping the Public Good: Women Making History in the Pacific Northwest, Oregon State University Press, 2015.
  • Speaking History: Oral Histories of the American Past, 1865-Present, co-edited with Laurie Mercier, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
  • The Women's West, co-edited with Elizabeth Jameson, University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.
  • Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West, co-edited with Elizabeth Jameson. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Armitage, Susan | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed
  2. ↑ Emeriti Faculty | History | Washington State University
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Susan Armitage Papers, 1899-2008 (bulk 1974-2008)
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