Lisa A Norling

Educational Background & Specialties

Specialties

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

Courses Taught

• 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

Research & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

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

Research

• Oceanic Crossings: traveling women’s experiences at sea in the 18th century, the gender and class dynamics in early modern oceanic travel, ongoing
• 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

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

Publications

• "Choosing to Be a Subject: Loyalist Women in the Revolutionary Atlantic World": Norling, Lisa, Sarah Chambers, Journal of Women's History, 20:1 39-62, 2008.
• Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870.. Norling, Lisa, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
• Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920.. Norling, Lisa, co-edited with Margaret Creighton, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
• 'How Fought With Sorrow and Heartpangs': Mariners' Wives and the Ideology of Domesticity in New England, 1790-1880. Norling, Lisa, 1992.
• The Sentimentalization of American Seafaring, 1790-1870.. Norling, Lisa, 1991.

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
• Frederick Jackson Turner Award for best first book in American History, Organization of American Historians for Captain Ahab Had a Wife., 2001
• John Lyman Award for best book in American Maritime History, North Atlantic Society for Oceanic History for Captain Ahab Had a Wife., 2001
• McKnight Land Grant Professorship
• Log of Mystic Seaport Prize Article Award, 1989