Lisa Materson
Lisa Materson
Associate Professor

E: lgmaterson@ucdavis.edu
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O: 3223 SSH
Academic Biography
Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University, Center for the Study of Religion, 2000-2001
Lecturer, Yale University, 2001-2002
University of California President’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities, 2004-2005.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, January-June 2008.


Research Interests
American women's history, African American history, late nineteenth- and twentieth-century political history of the U.S.


Selected Publications

For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

"African American Women's Global Journeys and the Construction of Cross-Ethnic Racial Identity,” Women’s Studies International Forum 32, no. 1 (2009): 35-42.

“African American Women, Prohibition, and the 1928 Presidential Election,” Journal of Women's History 21, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 63-86.

"Electoral Politics," in Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration of the Twentieth Century, ed. Steven Reich (Westport, Ct: Greenwood, 2006): 275-79.

"Sisterhood, Ideology, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom: Formulating Policy on the Arab-Israeli Conflict During the 1960s and 1970s," UCLA Historical Journal 14 (1994): 172-203.



Courses Taught
Undergraduate surveys on US women's history, the history of sexuality, African American history, and the US in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era; Undergraduate seminars on feminism and black women's history; Graduate seminars on women's history


Current Graduate Advisees
Elisabeth Ritacca


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