Ph.D.   (1993) History, Columbia University, New York, NY
M.A.   (1985) History, Columbia University, New York, NY
B.A.     (1984) History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Modern British Social History
Gender and Culture in Modern Britain

The Urban Working Class in Britain, 1830-1914 – edited collection, 4 volumes (Pickering & Chatto, forthcoming)
The British Working Class, 1832-1940 (Pearson/Longman, 2007)
Poor Women’s Lives: Gender, Work and Poverty in Late-Victorian London (Associated University Presses, 1999)

“Narrative, Experience and Class: Nineteenth-century Social History in Light of the Linguistic Turn,” History Compass 9:5 (2011).
“Gender and 1960s Youth Culture: The Rolling Stones and the New Woman, 1966-1976,” Contemporary British History 23:1 (2009).
“A Culture of Consolation?: Rethinking Politics in the London Working Class, 1870-1914,” Historical Research 74 (2001).
“How Separate a Sphere?  Poor Women and Paid Work in Late-Victorian London,” Journal of Family History, 19 (1994).

History 001T: Western Heritage I – honors seminar
History 002: Western Heritage II
History 143: Fascism and Nazism
History 302W: Undergraduate Seminar: Revolution in Modern Europe
History 420: Recent European History
History 438: Modern British History

Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching, Penn State University, 2008
Chief Ogontz Award, Penn State Abington, 2005
Scholar Award, Penn State Abington, 2001