U.C. Davis History Department - Faculty - Ellen Hartigan-O\'Connor

Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor
Assistant Professor

E: eoconnor@ucdavis.edu
T: 530-752-3865
O: 3204 SSH

Academic Biography

Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor received her B.A. in East Asian Studies from Yale University before going on to study American history at the University of Michigan, where she earned her M.A. and Ph.D. (2003). She was an assistant professor in the History Department at San Jose State University before coming to U.C. Davis.

Research Interests

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American history, American women’s history, social, business and economic history

Selected Publications

The Ties that Buy: Women’s Economic Lives in Revolutionary Port Cities (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008, forthcoming).

“Collaborative Consumption and the Politics of Choice in Early American Port Cities,” in Amanda Vickery and John Styles, eds., Gender, Taste and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830 (Yale University Press, November 2006).

“‘She Said She did not Know Money’: Urban Women and Atlantic Markets in the Revolutionary Era,” Early American Studies 4, no. 2 (Fall 2006): 322-52.

“Abigail’s Accounts: Economy and Affection in the Early Republic,” The Journal of Women’s History 17, no. 3 (Fall 2005): 35-58.

Juster, S. and Hartigan-O’Connor, E. “The ‘Angel Delusion’ of 1806-1811: Frustration and Fantasy in Northern New England,” Journal of the Early Republic (Fall 2002): 375-404.