Associate Professor Ann M. Little Clark B-341 970-491-3112 amlittle@lamar.colostate.edu

Education:

A.B., cum laude, Bryn Mawr College, 1990
M.A. University of Pennsylvania, 1991
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1996

Specializing in: Colonial America and American Women's and Gender History

 

Current Research Interests:

I am a colonial American historian with research interests in borderlands history, women's and gender history, and the history of the body. My next book is called Sister in the Wilderness: Esther Wheelwright, Religion, and the Struggle for North America, and I am beginning to research a third book about the body in early America.

Teaches the following courses:

HIST360: Colonial and Provincial America
HIST362: Era of the American Revolution
HIST480: American Women's History to 1800
HIST511: Graduate Reading Seminar - U.S. to 1877

Major Publications:

• Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England, 1620-1760 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007)
• Cloistered Bodies: Convents in the Anglo-American Imagination in the British Conquest of Canada, Eighteenth Century Studies 39:2 (Winter 2006)
• Building Colonies, Defining Families, for A Companion to American Women's History, ed. Nancy Hewitt (Blackwell Publishers, 2002)
• Shoot that rogue, for he hath an Englishman's coat on! Cultural Cross-Dressing on the New England Frontier, 1620-1760," New England Quarterly 74:2 (June 2001)

 

Fellowships/Major Grants:

• Mellon Foundation fellwship at the Huntington Library, 2002
• Society of Colonial Wars of Massachusetts Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2000
• Monticello College Foundation Fellowship, The Newberry Library, 1999