Participant Info
- First Name
- Laura
- Last Name
- Ping
- Country
- United States
- State
- KY Kentucky
- lping@bellarmine.edu
- Affiliation
- Bellarmine University
- Website URL
- https://www.lauraping.com/
- Keywords
- Dress Reform, Fashion, Social Reform, Material Culture, Visual Culture, Women's Activism, Cultural History, Nineteenth-Century, Gender.
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
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- About Me
Laura J. Ping is an assistant professor at Bellarmine University and the lead scholar of the Mount Vernon Teacher Institute seminar “Martha Washington and Women of the 18th Century.” Her article entitled “A Tale of Two Bloomer Costumes: What Mary Stickley and Meriva Carpenter’s Bloomers Reveal About Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform” was published in Dress in 2021 and Ping is currently writing a co-authored biography of education reformer Catherine Beecher, which is forthcoming from Routledge Press. Her current book manuscript, Beyond Bloomers: Fashioning Dress in Nineteenth Century America analyzes the cultural and political impact of the dress reform movement on the nineteenth century woman’s movement in the United States.
- Recent Publications
Cindy R. Lobel and Laura J. Ping. Catharine Beecher: The Paradoxes of Gender in the Nineteenth Century, Lives of American Women Biography Series, Carol Berkin, ed. Philadelphia: Routledge (forthcoming 2023).
Beyond Bloomers: Fashioning Change in the Long Nineteenth-Century Book Mss
“A Tale of Two Bloomer Costumes: What Mary Stickley and Meriva Carpenter’s Bloomers Reveal About Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform.” Dress 47 no. 2 (2021), 139-153.
“‘He May Sneer at the Course We are Pursuing to Gain Justice’: Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck, The Sibyl and Corresponding about Women’s Suffrage,” New York History Journal 98, no. 3-4 (Summer/Fall 2017), 317-328.
2022 “The Curious Case of Elizabeth Smith Miller and the Jenness-Miller Magazine Letterhead,” The New York Public Library Blog (September 23).
2021 “Insurrections Old and New: Teaching Perspective on the Events of January 6, 2021,” Muster: How the Past Informs the Present, the Journal of the Civil War Era (March 9).
2017 “Using the Bloomer Costume as a Historical Source,” AHA Today: A Blog of the American Historical Association (February 13, 2017).
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Civil War, Gender, Material Culture, Politics, Women
