History & Art History

Rosemarie Zagarri received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1984. She is the author of Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), The Politics of Size: Representation in the United States, 1776-1850 (Cornell University Press, 1987) and A Woman’s Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution (Harlan Davidson, 1995) and the editor of David Humphreys’ “Life of General Washington” with George Washington’s “Remarks” (University of George Press, 1991; ppb. 2006). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Antiquarian Society, and the American Philosophical Society. She has published scholarly articles in the Journal of American History, American Quarterly, and the William & Mary Quarterly as well as in several edited collections. In 1992, she received the Outstanding Article Prize, awarded by the Southeastern Eighteenth-Century Studies Association, for “Morals, Manners, and the Republican Mother.” In Spring 1993, the Fulbright Foundation appointed her to the Thomas Jefferson Chair in American Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She has served on the editorial boards of American Quarterly, the Journal of the Early Republic, and the University of Virginia Press. She is currently a member of the Council of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. She has appeared on CSPAN’s “Morning Journal” and on the PBS “American Experience” documentary, “George Washington: The Man who Wouldn’t Be King.” Her most recent project is “The Other Indies: India and the Post-colonial Experience of the Early American Republic.” Dr. Zagarri is the President of the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) for 2009-2010.

Colonial and revolutionary America, early republic, early American women