Name Cynthia Russett | Role Historian | |
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Died December 5, 2013, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Books Sexual Science: The Victo, Second to None: A Documen, The Extraordinary Mrs R: A, The concept of equilibriu, Darwin in America: The Intell | ||
Cynthia Eagle Russett (Feb. 1, 1937 - Dec. 5, 2013) was an American historian, noted for her studies of 19th century American intellectual history, and women and gender.
Russett was born Cynthia Eagle in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on February 1, 1937. She studied history as an undergraduate at Trinity College in Washington, D.C., earning a bachelor's degree, and then did graduate work at Yale University, earning a Master's from Yale in 1959 and a Ph.D. from Yale in 1964. Her dissertation was awarded Yale's highest honor for American history dissertations, the George Washington Eggleston Prize.
She joined the Yale faculty in 1967, and was eventually appointed the Larnard Professor of History.
Russett's spouse is a fellow Yale faculty member, Bruce Russett, and the couple had four children together.