Life

She attended Pasadena City College

Pasadena City College

Pasadena City College is a community college in Pasadena, California, USA, located on Colorado Boulevard. PCC is the third largest community college campus in the United States. PCC was founded in 1924 as Pasadena Junior College. In 1954, Pasadena Junior College merged with another junior...

, and earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D at the University of California at Los Angeles.

From 1962 to 1971, she taught at U.S. International University, in San Diego, California.
She left her job to join a farming commune in southern Colorado.
From 1974 to 1975, she taught at Arizona State University

Arizona State University

Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...

, and from 1975 to 1976 she taught at UCLA.

She is a professor of history emerita at New Mexico State University

New Mexico State University

New Mexico State University at Las Cruces , is a major land-grant university in Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States...

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Awards

• 2007 Merle Curti Award
  Merle Curti Award
  The Merle Curti Award is awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American social and/or American intellectual history. A committee of 5 members of the Organization of American Historians chooses the winners from published monographs submitted by the author...
  
  
• 1993 New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities Award for Excellence in the Humanities.
• Western Association of Women Historians Sierra Prize, for Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750–1850
• Old Sturbridge Village Research Library Society-E. Harold Hugo Memorial Book Prize, for Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750–1850
• New Mexico Presswomen’s Zia Award and the Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation, for New Mexico Women: Intercultural Perspectives

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