Participant Info

First Name
Lisa
Last Name
Wilson
Affiliation
Connecticut College
Website URL
https://www.conncoll.edu/directories/faculty-profiles/lisa-wilson/
Keywords
Colonial North America, Women's History, Gender History, Family History, Caribbean History, the History of Early New England
Additional Contact Information
On leave academic year 2018-2019.

Personal Info

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About Me

I am the Charles J. McCurdy Professor of American History at Connecticut College.

My present research is on North America and the Caribbean. I have begun a project comparing the experiences of seventeenth-century women in Barbados, Bermuda, Virginia and New England. I have previously published on topics such as widowhood, manhood, and stepfamilies in Early America.

Recent Publications

My books are as follows:

A History of Stepfamilies in Early America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014).

Ye Heart of a Man: The Domestic Life of Men in Colonial New England (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999).

Life After Death: Widows in Pennsylvania, 1750-1850 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992).

Media Coverage
Podcast interview, 2015, Ben Franklin's World: A Podcast about Early American History (http://www.benfranklinsworld.com/027). Blog posts for the University of North Carolina Press: --Lisa Wilson: Stepfamilies Are “Traditional” American Families (Octo
Country Focus
United States
Expertise by Geography
Caribbean, North America, United States
Expertise by Chronology
3, 4, 5
Expertise by Topic
American Revolution, American Founding Era, Children & Youth, Family, Gender, Women