Lucia McMahon
Professor • Department of
Dr. McMahon is Co-Editor, with Dr. Chris Fisher at The College of New Jersey, of a new book series published by Rutgers University Press. Ceres: Rutgers Studies in History seeks to be the primary place to publish new, rigorously peer-reviewed scholarship on New Jersey and the surrounding region. Ceres is also dedicated to fostering diverse and inclusive scholarship and hopes to feature works addressing issues of social justice and activism. See: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/ceres
Degrees
Representative Publications
Mere Equals: The Paradox of Educated Women in the Early American Republic;
Ithaca, NY; Cornell University Press;
2012
To Read My Heart: The Journal of Rachel Van Dyke, 1810-1811;
Philadelphia, PA; University of Pennsylvania Press;
2000
““She Pursued her Life-Work’: The Life Lessons of American Women Educators, 1800-1860,” ;
New Perspectives on the History of Women’s Education in the United States; Palgave Press;
2017
"'Memorials of Exemplary Women are Peculiarly Interesting': Female Biography in Early National America";
Legacy;
Volume
"'A More Accurate and Extensive Education Than is Customary': Educational Opportunities for Women in Early Nineteenth-Century New Jersey;
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