Kathy Peiss

Kathy Lee Peiss (born 1953) is an American historian. She is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at The University of Pennsylvania.[1] She is a fellow of the Society of American Historians.[2]

Kathy Peiss
Born25 January 1953 Edit this on Wikidata (age 70)
OccupationUniversity teacher Edit this on Wikidata
Employer
Awards

Life

Peiss received her BA from Carleton College in 1975, and her PhD from Brown University in 1982.[3] Her research focuses on the history women in the workplace, the history of American sexuality, and gender.[4] She is the author of Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York and Hope in a Jar: The Making of American Beauty Culture, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award.[5][6] Peiss was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002.[7]

Work
  • Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN 978-0190944612.
  • Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2011. ISBN 978-0812223033.
  • Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality: Documents and Essays. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002. ISBN 978-0395903841.
  • Hope in a Jar: The Making of American Beauty Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0812221671.
  • Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York. Brown University, 1982. OCLC 10265094.

References
  1. "Kathy Peiss | Department of History". www.history.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  2. "Kathy Peiss". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. 2012-03-16. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
  3. "AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE MAKING OF MODERN CONSUMER CULTURE, Kathy Peiss". www.albany.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  4. "Kathy Peiss | Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies". www.sas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  5. "Kathy Peiss | Department of History". www.history.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  6. "October 5: Kathy Peiss on "Bookmen at War: Libraries, Intelligence, and Cultural Policy in World War II" | National History Center". National History Center. 2015-09-30. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  7. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Kathy Peiss". www.gf.org. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
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