Professor Carol Lasser

Professor Lasser has written widely on women and gender in nineteenth-century America. Her publications include: Educating Men and Women Together: Coeducation in a Changing World (1987); Friends and Sisters: Letters between Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, 1846-1893 (Coeditor, with Marlene D. Merrill, 1987); "A Tale of Two Josephines: Class, Gender and Self-Soveregnty in Gilded Age Cleveland," Gender and History 13 (March 2001): 65-96; and "Performing Abolition: African American Women at Antebellum Oberlin and the Quest for Emancipation,” in Kathryn Kish Sklar and James Brewer Stewart, eds., Sisterhood and Slavery: Transatlantic Slavery and Women’s Rights (Yale University Press, forthcoming).

Professor Lasser is a founding member of the Electronic Oberlin Group and is co-editor of the Textbooks and Teaching section of the Journal of American History. She is the director of OCEAN: the Oberlin College Enrollment Alliance Network (www.oberlin.edu/ocean), a concurrent enrollment partnership between Oberlin and selected high schools to develop and teach college-level courses. She also serves as an evaluator for three Teaching American History grants funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

She will be on leave in Spring and Fall 2005. She is presently working with Gary Kornblith on the history of race in the city of Oberlin, Ohio.

Office: Rice 313
Phone: 775-6712
E-mail: Carol.Lasser@oberlin.edu