LINDA K. KERBER Office - College of Law - University of Iowa

"Minerva on the Field of Mars: American Women, Citizenship, and Military Service in the First World War."
Manuscript under review.
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First Reader: Brenda Child, History Ph.D. Awarded 1992
"A Bitter Lesson: Native Americans and the Government Boarding School Experience, 1890-1940." Published as
Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940, University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
First Reader: Terri L. Snyder, American Studies
Ph.D. Awarded
1992
"Rich widows are the Best Commodity this Country Affords" :
Gender Relations and the Rehabilitation of Patriarchy in Virginia, 1660-1700” Published as “Brabling Women”:
Gender, Law, and Culture in Seventeenth Century Virginia , Cornell University Press, 2003.
Second Reader: Dennis Deslippe, History Ph.D. Awarded 1993
Rights, Not Roses: Women, Industrial Unions, and the Law of Equality in the United States, 1945-1980.
Published as “Rights, Not Roses”: Unions and the Rise of Working Class Feminism 1945-1980, University of
Illinois Press, 1999.
Second Reader: Phyllis Steele, History Ph.D. Awarded 1993 "Hungry Hearts,
Idle Wives, and New Women: The American Novel Re-Examines Nineteenth Century Domestic Ideology, 1890-
1917."
Committee Member: Douglas Baynton, History Ph.D. Awarded 1993
Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign Against Sign Language, University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Committee Member: Steve Reschly, History Ph.D. Awarded 1993
"Alternate Dreams and Repertoire of Community on the Iowa Prairie, 1840-1910". Published as The Amish on the
Iowa Prairie, John Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Committee Member: Adam Schwartz, Writers Workshop, Ph.D. Awarded 1993
(short stories; most published in The New Yorker)
Co-Reader: Alison Kibler, American Studies Ph.D. Awarded 1994
“Female Varieties: Gender and Cultural Hierarchy on the Keith Vaudeville Circuit, 1890-1925.” Finalist, Scott-
Lerner Prize, Organization of American Historians. Published as Rank Ladies: Gender and Cultural Hierarchy in
American Vaudeville, University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Winner: Toth Prize, Popular Culture Association,
1999.
First Reader: Sharon Wood, American Studies Ph.D. Awarded 1994
“Wandering Girls and Leading Women: Sexuality and Urban Public Life in Davenport, Iowa
1880-1910,” published as The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship and Sexuality in a
Gilded Age City University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
First Reader: Sharon Halevi, History Ph.D. Awarded 1994
"The Path Not Taken: Class, Race, and Gender in the South Carolina Back Country, 1750-1800".
Second Reader: Barbara Welke, History, Univ. of Chicago Ph.D. Awarded 1995
"Gendered Journeys: A History of Injury, Public Transport and American Law, 1865-1920." Winner, Scott-Lerner
Prize, Organization of American Historians. Published as Recasting American Liberty, Cambridge University Press,
2001.