Participant Info
- First Name
- Ellen
- Last Name
- Hartigan-O'Connor
- Country
- United States
- State
- CA California
- eoconnor@ucdavis.edu
- Affiliation
- University of California, Davis
- Website URL
- http://history.ucdavis.edu/people/eoconnor
- Keywords
- women, gender, economy, early America, Atlantic World, American Revolution, marketplaces, auctions, Nineteenth Amendment
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am Professor of History at the University of California at Davis, where I teach courses on women, American social and cultural history, and the histories of colonialism and capitalism. A specialist in gender and economy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, I have a new book forthcoming in November 2024: America Under the Hammer: Auctions and the Emergence of Market Values (U Penn). I am also the author of The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America (U Penn, 2009), co-author of Global Americans (Cengage 2017), a college textbook on American history in global context, and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of American Women’s and Gender History (Oxford University Press, 2018). I have also co-led two recent public-facing projects that engage with the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution: one on women in the National Parks, and another on Women’s Suffrage in the context of empire.
- Recent Publications
Hartigan-O’Connor, E., Katherine Marino, Lisa G. Materson, Rebecca Jo Plant, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, “#Empire Suffrage Syllabus,” Women and Social Movements, 2021 https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/empire-suffrage-syllabus/home
Hartigan-O’Connor, E., and Lisa G. Materson, “The Nineteenth Amendment and the National Parks,” Cooperative Research and Training Grant with the National Parks Service, 2020-21 https://www.nps.gov/subjects/womenshistory/womenshistoryinthepacificwest.htm
The Oxford Handbook of American Women’s and Gender History, ed. with Lisa Materson (Oxford University Press, 2018)
Global Americans: A History of the United States, with Maria Montoya et al. (Cengage, 2017, 2nd edition 2024).
“Gender’s Value in the History of Capitalism,” Journal of the Early Republic 36:4 (Winter 2016): 613-53.
“The Personal is Political Economy,” Journal of the Early Republic 36:2 (Summer 2016): 335-41.
The Ties that Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009).
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- North America
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Revolution, American Founding Era, Capitalism, Colonialism, Economic History, Gender, Pedagogy, Women
