Laura J Ping
Laura J. Ping received her Ph.D in American History with a minor in women's history from The Graduate Center, City University of New York in 2018. Ping’s current book manuscript, Beyond Bloomers: Fashioning Dress in Nineteenth-Century America analyzes the cultural and political impact of the dress reform movement on the nineteenth-century woman’s movement in the United States.
Ping is currently a Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellow at the New York Public Library. In 2021 Ping was a NEH Postdoctoral Fellow at The Library Company of Philadelphia. In 2020 Ping held the David Jaffe Fellowship in Visual and Material Culture at the American Antiquarian Society. Her past research fellowships include: the Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, the National Society of the Colonial Dames in the State of New York, the E.P. Thompson Dissertation Award, and the Advanced Research Collaborative Knickerbocker Award for Archival Research in American Studies.
Ping’s article “‘A Tale of Two Bloomer Costumes: What Mary Stickney’s and Meriva Carpenter’s Bloomers Reveal about Nineteenth Century Dress Reform,” was published in Dress in 2021 and she is currently writing a co-authored biography of education reformer Catharine Beecher, which is forthcoming from Routledge Press. .
Laura Ping has been teaching history for 16 years, including courses with: Pace University, The Gilder Lehrman Institute, the George Washington Teacher Institute, the National Endowment for the Humanities Institute for School Teachers, the Macaulay Honors College, Queens College, La Guardia Community College, Westchester Community College, St. John’s University, and Virginia Commonwealth University.
Website: https://www.lauraping.com/
Supervisors: Josh Brown and Carol Berkin
Ping is currently a Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellow at the New York Public Library. In 2021 Ping was a NEH Postdoctoral Fellow at The Library Company of Philadelphia. In 2020 Ping held the David Jaffe Fellowship in Visual and Material Culture at the American Antiquarian Society. Her past research fellowships include: the Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, the National Society of the Colonial Dames in the State of New York, the E.P. Thompson Dissertation Award, and the Advanced Research Collaborative Knickerbocker Award for Archival Research in American Studies.
Ping’s article “‘A Tale of Two Bloomer Costumes: What Mary Stickney’s and Meriva Carpenter’s Bloomers Reveal about Nineteenth Century Dress Reform,” was published in Dress in 2021 and she is currently writing a co-authored biography of education reformer Catharine Beecher, which is forthcoming from Routledge Press. .
Laura Ping has been teaching history for 16 years, including courses with: Pace University, The Gilder Lehrman Institute, the George Washington Teacher Institute, the National Endowment for the Humanities Institute for School Teachers, the Macaulay Honors College, Queens College, La Guardia Community College, Westchester Community College, St. John’s University, and Virginia Commonwealth University.
Website: https://www.lauraping.com/
Supervisors: Josh Brown and Carol Berkin
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Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck’s refusal to pay her taxes in protest of women’s disenfranchisement fits within the larger context of tactics used by the nineteenth-century woman’s suffrage movement. Hasbrouck’s contribution stands out, however, because she used The Sibyl as a tool to describe her personal experiences fighting for the vote. Based on an analysis of articles and readers’ correspondence published in The Sibyl, this article argues that Hasbrouck used her newspaper to create a long-distance community of women and to spark conversations about suffrage. In doing so, Hasbrouck emphasized to her readers that they did not have to be involved in the organized woman’s movement to fight for suffrage; regular women could take action in their daily lives.
Syllabus by Laura J Ping
Course Objectives: • Define and apply basic terms in women's and gender history. • Examine how gender is a social and political construction. • Understand and engage with debates in the field of women's and gender studies. • Think and write critically about women's roles and the role of gender in U.S. history. Class Structure:
Teaching Documents by Laura J Ping
Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck’s refusal to pay her taxes in protest of women’s disenfranchisement fits within the larger context of tactics used by the nineteenth-century woman’s suffrage movement. Hasbrouck’s contribution stands out, however, because she used The Sibyl as a tool to describe her personal experiences fighting for the vote. Based on an analysis of articles and readers’ correspondence published in The Sibyl, this article argues that Hasbrouck used her newspaper to create a long-distance community of women and to spark conversations about suffrage. In doing so, Hasbrouck emphasized to her readers that they did not have to be involved in the organized woman’s movement to fight for suffrage; regular women could take action in their daily lives.
Course Objectives: • Define and apply basic terms in women's and gender history. • Examine how gender is a social and political construction. • Understand and engage with debates in the field of women's and gender studies. • Think and write critically about women's roles and the role of gender in U.S. history. Class Structure: