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Lisa Norling

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612-624-4501
History
1231 Heller Hall

271 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation
History
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  • Publications
  • Activities
  • Awards
  • Courses
Specialties
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Specialties

  • maritime history
  • women's history
  • gender and class in early America
  • 18th and 19th-century America
  • 18th century Atlantic World
Publications
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Publications

  • "Choosing to Be a Subject: Loyalist Women in the Revolutionary Atlantic World": Sarah Chambers, Norling, Lisa, Journal of Women's History, 20:1, 39-62, 2008.
Activities
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Activities

Professional

  • Faculty member, Munson Institute in American Maritime Studies, Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic CT 2001 - present
  • Co-Chair: Local Resources Committee for the 2007 Organization of American Historians annual Meeting.
  • Exhibit Consultant and Member, Advisory Board, U.S.S. Constitution Museum, Boston, MA 2002 - present
  • Co-Chair: Local Arrangements Committee for the 2008 Berkshire Conference of Women's History.
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies: History Department.

Outreach

  • "Historians in the Schools" program with the St Paul Public Schools: Teaching American History grant-funded program of professional development in American history for St Paul social studies teachers, grades 7-12. January 2006 - June 2008

Research

  • Commerce and Coverture in Early America: through a case study of 18th-century Massachusetts "she-merchant" Kezia Coffin, a reconsideration of colonial women's work and entrepreneurship. ongoing - none
  • Oceanic Crossings: traveling women’s experiences at sea in the 18th century, the gender and class dynamics in early modern oceanic travel. ongoing -
Awards
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Awards

  • L. Byrne Waterman Award for Outstanding Contribution to Whales- and Whaling-Related Research and Pedagogy in the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences, the Kendall Institute of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2002 - none
  • Frederick Jackson Turner Award for best first book in American History, Organization of American Historians for Captain Ahab Had a Wife., 2001 - none
  • John Lyman Award for best book in American Maritime History, North Atlantic Society for Oceanic History for Captain Ahab Had a Wife., 2001 - none
  • McKnight Land Grant Professorship, none - none
  • Log of Mystic Seaport Prize Article Award, 1989 - none
Courses
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Courses

  • Hist 1908 - Making Minnesota, 1766-1862
  • Hist 3347/WoSt 3407 - Women in Colonial and Victorian America
  • Hist 3351 - American Maritime History
  • Hist 5857 - Proseminar: Readings in the History of American Women
  • Hist 8857 - Research in the Social History of American Women
  • Liberal Studies 5100 - Voyages: Clarity, Madness, and Transformation of the Sea
  • WoSt 8101 - Intellectual History of Western Feminism
  • WoSt 8940 - Feminism & History
  • Hist 5910 - Readings in Antebellum and Civil War-era U.S. History
  • Hist 1301W - Introduction to U.S. History, 1600-1880
  • Hist 3812 U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction
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101 Pleasant St. S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455

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