Susan J. Pearson

Susan Jennifer Pearson is an American historian of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As an associate professor at Northwestern University, she received the 2012 Merle Curti Award for her book The Rights of the Defenseless: Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America.

For the 1960s missing-persons case of the American woman of the same name, see Disappearance of Susan Pearson.
Susan J. Pearson
Children2
AwardsMerle Curti Award
Academic background
EducationBA, Women's Studies, 1996, Oberlin College
MA, 1999, PhD, 2004, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ThesisThe rights of the defenseless: animals, children, and sentimental liberalism in nineteenth-century America (2004)
Academic work
InstitutionsNorthwestern University

Early life

Pearson earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Oberlin College before enrolling at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for her Master's degree and PhD.[1]

Career

Upon receiving her PhD in 2004, Pearson joined the Department of History at Northwestern University as an assistant professor.[1] In this role, she published her first book titled The Rights of the Defenseless: Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America, which received the 2012 Merle Curti Award.[2] The book focused on the history of child and animal protective services working together in the nineteenth century to protect youth and animals from abuse.[3][4] Following the publication of the book, Pearson received a yearlong National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for her project A History of Birth Registration in America.[5] The project was later retitled as Registering Birth: Population and Personhood in American History and she received a Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.[6] In 2015, she published Age Ought to Be a Fact: The Campaign against Child Labor and the Rise of the Birth Certificate, which discussed the difficulty states face when enforcing child labor laws due to lack of access to birth records.[7]

Personal life

Pearson is divorced and has two children.[2]

References
  1. "Susan J. Pearson CV" (PDF). history.northwestern.edu. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
  2. Burnett, L.D. (April 28, 2012). "Susan Pearson's Book Wins Merle Curti Award". s-usih.org. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
  3. Herman, Ellen (2012). "Review of The Rights of the Defenseless: Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America". The Historian. 74 (3): 582–584. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.2012.00328_24.x. S2CID 143073608. Retrieved July 15, 2020.
  4. Beers, Diane L. (Spring 2014). "Review of The Rights of the Defenseless: Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America". Journal of Social History. 47 (3): 814–816. doi:10.1093/jsh/sht090. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
  5. "FACULTY AWARD AND PRIZES". history.northwestern.edu. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
  6. "Susan J. Pearson F'12". acls.org. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
  7. Schiller, Reuel E. (2016). "The Birth of the Birth Certificate: Age, Child Labor and the Growth of the Administrative State reviewing Susan J. Pearson, "Age Ought to be a Fact": The Campaign Against Child Labor and the Rise of the Birth Certificate". The Journal of American History. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
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