Kathryn (Kitty) Kish Sklar (born December 1939) is an American historian, author, and professor. Her work focuses on the history of women's participation in social movements, voluntary organizations, and American public culture.

Life and career

Sklar was born on December 26, 1939, in Columbus, Ohio.^[1][2] She received a Bachelor of Arts (1965) degree from Harvard College and Radcliffe College, graduating magna cum laude in history and literature. She received a Master of Arts (1967) and Ph.D. (1969) from University of Michigan in U.S. and comparative history.^[2]

After completing her Ph.D, Sklar worked as a lecturer and assistant professor at University of Michigan (1969-1974) before becoming an Associate Professor (1974-1981) and Professor (1981-1988) of History at the University of California Los Angeles.^[2] She served as Distinguished Professor of History at the Binghamton University from 1988-2012 and became a Distinguished Professor Emerita at Binghamton University in 2012.^[3][4]

At UCLA, Sklar created the "Workshop on Teaching U.S. Women's History."

In 1997, Sklar received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to begin the Women in Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000 project as a senior seminar at Binghamton University.^[5] The project rapidly expanded to become one of the premier resources online for the study of U.S. women's history. The site includes over one hundred document projects, and Sklar continues to release biannual editions of new document projects and full-text sources for the study of women's history with historian Thomas Dublin.^[6]

From 2005-2006 Sklar was the Harmsworth Professor of U.S. History at Oxford University.^[4]

Sklar currently resides in Berkeley, California, with her partner Thomas Dublin.

Fellowships, grants, and awards

Fellowships and grants

• 2007, Resident Scholar, Organization of American Historians^[7]
• 2005-2006, Harmsworth Professor of U.S. History, University of Oxford^[4]
• 2004-2006, Grant Recipient, National Historical Publications and Records Commission^[8]
• 2003-2004, Grant Recipient, National Endowment for the Humanities^[9]
• 2000-2002, University Scholar-in-Residence Award, American Association of University Women Educational Foundation^[4]
• 1998-1999, Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities^[2]
• 1995-1996, Fellow, National Humanities Research Center^[10]
• 1992-1993, Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars^[4]
• 1987-1988, Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Stanford University^[4]
• 1984-1985 (postponed to 1985-1986), Fellow, Guggenheim Fellowship^[4]
• 1981-1982, Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship^[4]
• 1973-1974, Grant Recipient, Ford Foundation Faculty Research Grant for the Study of Women in Society^[4]

Awards

• 1996, Berkshire Book Prize^[10]
• 1974, Berkshire Book Prize^[10]

Works

• Sklar, Kathryn Kish; Ellington, Barbara Reeves; Shemo, Connie, eds. (2010). Competing Kingdoms: Women, Mission, Nation, and the Protestant American Empire, 1776-1960. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0822346500.
• —; Palmer, Beverly Wilson, eds. (2009). The Selected Letters of Florence Kelley, 1869-1931. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252034046.
• —; Stewart, James Brewer, eds. (2007). Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300137866.
• — (2008-07-23). Women and Power in American History. Prentice Hall. ISBN 9780205645756.
• — (2000-06-17). Women's Rights Emerges Within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870: A Brief History with Documents. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780312228194.
• —; Schüler, Anja; Strasser, Susan, eds. (1998). Social Justice Feminists in the United States and Germany: A Dialogue in Documents, 1885-1933. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0801484693.
• —, ed. (1995). Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300072856.
• Kerber, Linda K.; Kessler-Harris, Alice; Sklar, Kathryn Kish, eds. (1995). U.S. History as Women's History: New Feminist Essays. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807844953. 'U.S. History as Women's History: New Feminist Essays' kish sklar.
• Bulmer, Martin; Bales, Kevin; Sklar, Kathryn Kish, eds. (1991). The Social Survey in Historical Perspective, 1880-1940. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521363341.
• Kelley, Florence (1986). Sklar, Kathryn Kish (ed.). The Autobiography of Florence Kelley: Notes of Sixty Years. Chicago: C.H. Kerr Pub. Co. ISBN 0882860925. OCLC 13818491.
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1982). Sklar, Kathryn Kish (ed.). Harriet Beecher Stowe: Three Novels. New York: Viking Press. ISBN 0940450011.
• Sklar, Kathryn Kish (1973). Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300015805.