Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz is the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of History at Smith College. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her book, "Alma Mater," (1984) is a comprehensive history of the development of the Seven Sister Colleges. Her 2002 book "Rereading Sex" was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in history.

elect works

*"Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America," 2002.
* "Landscape in Sight : Looking at America,"(with John Brickerhoff Jackson), 2000 .
* "Love Across the Color Line", (ed. with Kathy Peiss), 1996.
* "The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas", 1994.
*" [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0870238698&id=Z3qWLyDZ8PsC&pg=PP1&lpg=PP1&ots=xMmu_yuuHV&dq=alma+mater&sig=N7RcPpZKbQvPM1m5ohSuIcu_KxU#PPP1,M1 Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s] ," Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993 (2nd edition).
* "Campus Life : Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present ", 1987.
* "Culture and the City : Cultural Philanthropy in Chicago from the 1880s to 1917," 1974.

ee also

* List of historians

External links

* [http://www.smith.edu/history/fac_hhorowitz.htm History department page]
* [http://www.smith.edu/wst/horowitz.html Smith biography]