Professor Emerita
Modern World
Lee Chambers recieved her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Her background in American Studies, History, and Women's Studies shaped her interest in social and family history, women's history, and gender studies. She has published on antebellum single women, trans-Atlantic anti-slavery movements, nineteenth-century gender ideals in homicide trials, the performance of political womanliness in mourning rituals, family and vocation among abolitionists, and antislavery fairs. She is currently finishing two books on antebellum female abolitionists, one on the construction of political womanliness and the other on sibship and social activism. Her next project is on family and gender in Cold War Los Alamos.