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Mar. 1 | 2012 Franklin Prize
Nominations for 2012 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best-published book in American Studies due
Mar. 1 | 2012 Romero Prize
Nominations for 2012 Lora Romero Publication Prize for the best-published first book in American Studies due
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Kenschaft, Lori. "Marriage, Gender, and Higher Education: The Personal and Public Partnership of Alice Freeman Palmer and George Herbert Palmer, 1886-1902," American and New England Studies Program, Boston University, January 1999.
Alice Freeman, the first female college president, left Wellesley College in 1887 to marry George Palmer, a Harvard philosophy professor. They promised to create a “marriage of comradeship” in which both of them would continue professional work. Alice helped establish the University of Chicago and became a public speaker and educational consultant. Ultimately, however, the Palmers’ shared assumptions about gender made their aspirations impossible. This dissertation lies at the intersection of intellectual history, gender studies, and biography. It illuminates connections between the Palmers’ courtship and marriage and the broader histories of marriage, gender, higher education, professionalism, ethics, sexuality, and friendship.
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