Carroll Smith-Rosenberg

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg is the Mary Frances Berry Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women’s Studies, Emerita, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is known for her path-breaking scholarship in US women’s and gender history, and for her significant contributions to developing interdisciplinary programs and international scholarly networks addressing women’s history, gender studies, the history of sexuality, and cultural and Atlantic studies. Her groundbreaking article, “The Female World of Love and Ritual,” established the legitimacy of lesbian history as it helped move women’s history from the margins to the mainstream of historical scholarship, creating “a template for how feminists could literally make history” (Potter, 2015). Her first publication in this area, the article “Dis-covering the Subject of the Great Constitutional Debate,” was awarded the Binkley-Stephenson Award by the Organization of American Historians in 1993. Her book, This Violent Empire: The Birth of an American National Identity, won a Choice Award for Distinguished Scholarly Book in 2011.