Participant Info
- First Name
- Meg
- Last Name
- Gudgeirsson
- Country
- United States
- State
- CA California
- mgudgeirsson@scu.edu
- Affiliation
- Santa Clara University
- Website URL
- https://megeppelgudgeirsson.com
- Keywords
- 19th-century US History, gender history, women's history, children's history, religious history, California history, US history
- Availability
- 1
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
My research focuses on 19th-century United States history, with a emphasis on religion, gender, and children. My dissertation, “Perfect Child, Perfect Faith: Raising Children in Nineteenth-Century Communities,” is a study of how four religious communities raised their children in an effort to embed their differing goals and identity in future generations. The United Society of Believers (better know as Shakers), Oneida Perfectionists, Church of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), and Berea abolitionists all created specific communities grounded in their unique interpretations of Christianity in an effort to reform and improve American life through challenging rural and bourgeois notions of family, gender, and race. I completed my PhD at the University of California, Santa Cruz in June 2016. I am currently a Lecturer at Santa Clara University teaching courses in U.S. History, World History, and California History.
- Recent Publications
Book Review Remember Me to Miss Louisa, Ohio Valley History, Summer 2016
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @mgudgeirsson
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- Atlantic, North America, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Civil War, Children & Youth, Gender, Slavery, Urban History, Women
