Lisa Norling
Encyclopedia
Life
She graduated from Cornell UniversityCornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
, magna cum laude, and from Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
with a Ph.D.
She teaches at the University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
. She also teaches at the Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies at Mystic Seaport
Mystic Seaport
Mystic Seaport, the Museum of America and the Sea, in Mystic, Connecticut, is notable both for its collection of sailing ships and boats, and for the re-creation of crafts and fabric of an entire 19th century seafaring village...
, and serves as a consultant to the USS Constitution Museum
USS Constitution Museum
The USS Constitution Museum "serves as the memory and educational voice of , by collecting, preserving, and interpreting the stories of "Old Ironsides" and the people associated with her."...
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She became involved in the Minnesota "Profile of Learning" controversy.
In 1994, she married Steven Ruggles
Steven Ruggles
Steven Ruggles is Regents Professor Professor of History and Population Studies at the University of Minnesota, and the Director of the Minnesota Population Center....
, another historian. They have two children.
Awards
- 2001 Frederick Jackson Turner AwardFrederick Jackson Turner AwardThe Frederick Jackson Turner Award, is given each year by the Organization of American Historians for an author's first book on American history.It was started in 1959, by Mississippi Valley Historical Association, as the Prize Studies Award....
- 2000 John Lyman Book AwardsJohn Lyman Book AwardsThe John Lyman Book Awards are given annually by the North American Society for Oceanic History for books published in six categories in the broad field of Maritime history:* Canadian naval and maritime history* U.S. naval history* U.S...
for best book in American Maritime History, North American Society for Oceanic HistoryNorth American Society for Oceanic HistoryThe North American Society for Oceanic History is the national organization in the United States of America for professional historians, underwater archeologists, archivists, librarians, museum specialists and others working in the broad field of maritime history...
Reviews
This cleverly named account neatly evokes Herman Melville's masterpiece to raise the seemingly straightforward question of what transpired on shore, once men left in search of profit and nature's leviathan..... The intersection between the two informs a complex and well-written work of social and economic history.