Mary Kelley

Past president of the American Studies Association and the Society of Historians of the Early Republic, Mary Kelley is the Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has received numerous fellowships and awards, including the New Hampshire Teacher of the Year Award from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The author, coauthor, and editor of seven books, she published most recently Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic (2006).

Lecture topics:

• Intersections: Women's History and Cultural History
• Reading Culture/Reading Books: Print and Public Life in Nineteenth-Century America
• Women's and Gender History: Sources and Strategies

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