Name Charlotte Erickson Role Historian | ||
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Born October 22, 1923Oak Park, Illinois ( 1923-10-22 ) Alma mater London School of EconomicsCornell University Thesis The recruitment of European immigrant labor for American industry from 1860 to 1885 (1952) Books Invisible immigrants, Leaving England Awards MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada | ||
Charlotte J. Erickson (October 22, 1923 in Oak Park, Illinois – July 9, 2008 in Cambridge) was an American historian.
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Life
Erickson was born in Oak Park, Illinois a suburb of Chicago, where her father was a Swedish Lutheran minister. She graduated from Augustana College at Rock Island, Illinois in 1945, and from Cornell University with a MA and a PhD.
In 1944, when she attended the summer seminar of the Institute of World Affairs. She studied at the London School of Economics, between 1948 and 1950, under the guidance of Professor T.S. Ashton and under Professor David Glass. In 1950 to 1952, she taught at Vassar College.
She returned to England in 1952 to marry Louis Watt; they had two sons, Tom and David; but their marriage was dissolved in 1992.
In 1976–78, she was Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at the California Institute of Technology. In 1982, she was the Paul Mellon chair of American History at Cambridge University.