Nancy F. Cott is the Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University, and director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her work in U.S. history focuses on gender issues. Between 1975 and 2001 she taught at Yale University, departing as Sterling Professor of History and American Studies. At Yale, she was among the founders and first chairs of the Women's Studies Program; she chaired the American Studies Program in the mid-1990s, and subsequently was Director of the Division of the Humanities. She is the author or editor of seven books, the latest of which is Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (2000). She testified before the Vermont House Judiciary Committee at the time it drafted the civil union bill, and recently has participated in writing historians' amici briefs regarding the same-sex marriage question in Massachusetts, California, and Washington.
Nancy F. Cott is the Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University, and director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her work in U.S. history focuses on gender issues. Between 1975 and 2001 she taught at Yale University, departing as Sterling Professor of History and American Studies. At Yale, she was among the founders and first chairs of the Women's Studies Program; she chaired the American Studies Program in the mid-1990s, and subsequently was Director of the Division of the Humanities. She is the author or editor of seven books, the latest of which is Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (2000). She testified before the Vermont House Judiciary Committee at the time it drafted the civil union bill, and recently has participated in writing historians' amici briefs regarding the same-sex marriage question in Massachusetts, California, and Washington.