Kathryn (Kitty) Kish Sklar (born 1939) is an American historian, author, and professor. Her work focuses on the history of women's participation in social movements, voluntary organizations, and American public culture.
Life and career
Sklar was born on December 26, 1939 in Columbus, Ohio. She received a Bachelor of Arts (1965) degree from Harvard College and Radcliffe College, graduating Magna Cum Laude in History and Literature. She received a Master of Arts (1967) and Ph.D. (1969) from University of Michigan in U.S. and Comparative History.
After completing her Ph.D, Sklar worked as a lecturer and assistant professor at University of Michigan (1969-1974) before becoming an Associate Professor (1974-1981) and Professor (1981-1988) of History at the University of California Los Angeles. In 1988 she served as Distinguished Professor of History at the Binghamton University (1988-2012).
In 1997, Sklar received a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities to begin the Women in Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000 project as a Senior Seminar at Binghamton University. The Project rapidly expanded to become one of the premier resources online for the study of U.S. Women's History. The site includes over one hundred document projects, and Sklar continues to release biannual editions of new document projects and full-text sources for the study of women's history with Historian Thomas Dublin
From 2005-2006 Sklar was the Harmsworth Professor of U.S. History at Oxford University.
Sklar currently resides in Berkeley, California with her partner Thomas Dublin.
Fellowships and grants
2007, Resident Scholar, Organization of American Historians
2005-2006, Harmsworth Professor of U.S. History, University of Oxford
2004-2006, Grant Recipient, National Historical Publications and Records Commission
2003-2004, Grant Recipient, National Endowment for the Humanities
2000-2002, University Scholar-in-Residence Award, American Association of University Women Educational Foundation
1998-1999, Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities
1995-1996, Fellow, National Humanities Research Center
1992-1993, Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1987-1988, Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Stanford University
1984-1985 (postponed to 1985-1986), Fellow, Guggenheim Fellowship
1981-1982, Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship
1973-1974, Grant Recipient, Ford Foundation Faculty Research Grant for the Study of Women in Society
1996, Berkshire Book Prize
1974, Berkshire Book Prize
Competing Kingdoms: Women, Mission, Nation, and the Protestant American Empire, 1776-1960, 2010, Editor with Barbara Reeves Ellington and Connie Shemo, <https://books.google.com/books?id=92uRxYPCtewC&lpg=PP1&dq=Competing%20Kingdoms%3A%20Women%2C%20Mission%2C%20Nation%2C%20and%20the%20Protestant%20American%20Empire%2C%201776-1960&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false>
Selected Letters of Florence Kelley, 1869-1931, 2009, Editor with Beverly Wilson Palmer, <https://books.google.com/books?id=-MX_BjJEqOwC&lpg=PP1&dq=Selected%20Letters%20of%20Florence%20kelley%2C%201869-1931&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=Selected%20Letters%20of%20Florence%20kelley,%201869-1931&f=false>
Women's Rights and Transatlantic Anti-Slavery in the Era of Emancipation, 2007, Editor with [James Brewer Stewart], <https://books.google.com/books?id=_fZ2AAAAMAAJ&q=Women%27s+Rights+and+Transatlantic+Anti-Slavery+in+the+Era+of+Emancipation&dq=Women%27s+Rights+and+Transatlantic+Anti-Slavery+in+the+Era+of+Emancipation&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj95PjivqPPAhUo6YMKHSKvBHIQ6AEIJTAB>
Women and Power in American History: A Reader, 2001, Editor with Thomas Dublin, <https://books.google.com/books?id=nu7tAAAAMAAJ&q=Women+and+Power+in+American+History:+A+Reader&dq=Women+and+Power+in+American+History:+A+Reader&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiL3_2lvqPPAhXI24MKHdrtBO4Q6AEIJTAA>
Women's Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement: A Short History with Documents, 1830-1870, 2000, Author, <https://books.google.com/books?id=7NtxQgAACAAJ&dq=Women%27s+Rights+Emerges+within+the+Antislavery+Movement:+A+Short+History+with+Documents&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLvOzlvaPPAhWi7YMKHUH9CO0Q6AEIJzAA>
Social Justice Feminists in the United States and Germany: A Dialogue in Documents, 1885-1900, 1998, Editor with Anja Schüler and Susan Strasser, <https://books.google.com/books?id=4FUxisSKqRUC&lpg=PP1&dq=Social%20Justice%20Feminists%20in%20the%20United%20States%20and%20Germany%3A%20A%20Dialogue%20in%20Documents&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=Social%20Justice%20Feminists%20in%20the%20United%20States%20and%20Germany:%20A%20Dialogue%20in%20Documents&f=false>
Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900, 1995, Author, <https://books.google.com/books?id=zQlJbbUcwa4C&lpg=PP1&dq=Florence%20Kelley%20and%20the%20Nation's%20Work%3A%20The%20Rise%20of%20Women's%20Political%20Culture&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=Florence%20Kelley%20and%20the%20Nation's%20Work:%20The%20Rise%20of%20Women's%20Political%20Culture&f=false>
U.S. History as Women's History: New Feminist Essays, 1995, Editor with Linda Kerber and Alice Kessler-Harris, <https://books.google.com/books?id=RxnwJxtwZCUC&lpg=PP1&dq='U.S.%20History%20as%20Women's%20History%3A%20New%20Feminist%20Essays'%20kish%20sklar&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q='U.S.%20History%20as%20Women's%20History:%20New%20Feminist%20Essays'%20kish%20sklar&f=false>
The Social Survey Movement in Historical Perspective, 1992, Editor with Martin Bulmer, <https://books.google.com/books?id=76gkIBVGvq0C&lpg=PR1&dq=The%20Social%20Survey%20Movement%20in%20Historical%20Perspective%20kish%20sklar&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q=The%20Social%20Survey%20Movement%20in%20Historical%20Perspective%20kish%20sklar&f=false>
The Autobiography of Florence Kelley: Notes of Sixty Years,1987, Editor <http://www.worldcat.org/title/notes-of-sixty-years-the-autobiography-of-florence-kelley-with-an-early-essay-by-the-author-on-the-need-of-theoretical-preparation-for-philathropic-work/oclc/13818491&referer=brief_results>
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life among the Lowly; The Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks, 1981, Editor, <http://www.worldcat.org/title/three-novels/oclc/9751703&referer=brief_results>
Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity, 1973, Author, <https://books.google.com/books?id=-GNnQgAACAAJ&dq=kathryn+sklar&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiO8turnKHPAhUGMSYKHRCcBqMQ6AEILTAD>
