| 1 | Name: | Dr. Linda K. Kerber | |
| Institution: | University of Iowa | ||
| Year Elected: | 2006 | ||
| Class: | 3. Social Sciences | ||
| Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Living | ||
| Birth Date: | 1940 | ||
Linda K. Kerber is the May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of History at the University of Iowa, where she is also Lecturer in the College of Law. In 2006-07 she was Harmsworth Visiting Professor in American History at Oxford University. She received her AB from Barnard College in 1960, an M.A. from New York University in 1961, a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University in 1968. In 2006, she served as president of the American Historical Association; she served as president of the Organization of American Historians in 1996-97, and as president of the American Studies Association in 1988. In recent years she has served as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and - following her interest in strengthening academic exchange between the United States and Japan - has been a member of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, a federal agency. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Her teaching has been recognized by the Iowa Regents Award for Faculty Excellence and she was awarded the Charles Homer Haskins Prize by the American Council of Learned Societies in 2020. In her writing and teaching Linda Kerber has emphasized the history of citizenship, gender, and authority. She is the author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship (1998) for which she was awarded the Littleton-Griswold Prize for the best book in U.S. legal history and the Joan Kelley Prize for the best book in women's history (both awarded by the American Historical Association). Among her other books are Toward an Intellectual History of Women (1997), Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (1980), and Federalists in Dissent: Imagery and Ideology in Jeffersonian America (1970). She is co-editor of U.S. History As Women's History, and of the widely used anthology Women's America: Refocusing the Past (6th edition, 2004), which has been translated into Japanese. She is now at work on a history of statelessness in America. Linda Kerber has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She has served on many editorial boards and advisory committees; currently she serves as advisory editor to the "Gender and American Culture" series of the University of North Carolina Press and on the editorial boards of Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society and the Journal of Women's History. | |||