Academic Degrees

• A. B. cum laude, Smith College, 1966. Phi Beta Kappa.
• Ph.D. Harvard University, 1973

Professional Experience

• Williams College, Massachusetts Professor of Humanities Emerita, 2022 – present
• Williams College, Massachusetts Professor of Humanities, 1973 to 2022
• Wellesley College, Instructor, 1971-1973
• Harvard University, Extension Division, Instructor, 1970-1973
• Harvard University, Teaching Fellow, 1967-1970

Honors And Fellowships

• Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History for “Roosevelt’s Purge”
• Winner of the 2010 Henry Adams Prize, Society for History in the Federal Government, for “Roosevelt’s Purge” (Harvard University Press)
• Fellow of the Society of American Historians
• Nelson Bushnell Prize for  Excellence in Writing and Teaching, Williams College, 2011
• D. Litt., Westfield State University, 2010
• Senior Scholar, James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, University of Maryland.
• Senior Fellowship for College Teachers, National Endowment
  for the Humanities, calendar year 1997
• Associate in the University Seminar on Eighteenth-Century
  European Culture at Columbia University, 1991
• Senior Fellowship for College Teachers, National Endowment
  for the Humanities, calendar year 1990
• Visiting Scholar, Institute on Western Europe,
  Columbia University, 1985-86
• American Philosophical Society Research Grant, 1985-1986
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel Grant,
  1985
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer
  Stipend, 1985
• Camargo Foundation, Fellow in Residence, Cassis,
  France, 1981
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in
  Residence at Princeton University, 1975-1976
• Various Research Grants, Williams College
• Mellon Funded Released Time, Williams College,
  Spring, 1979
• Scholarships from Harvard University and Radcliffe
  College, 1968-1971
• Phi Beta Kappa, Smith College, 1966