My first book, At Home in the Studio: The Professionalization of Women Artists in America (Harvard University Press) studies how women painters, sculptors, and illustrators created a professional identity for themselves in the face of exclusion.
My current research traces women’s transnational work and activism, within and across the overseas empire that the United States established in the Caribbean and Pacific. I’ve written about women travelers and teachers, physicians and nurses, missionaries and journalists, anti-imperialists and suffragists — including Clemencia López (picture, left).
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