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Sarah Fatherly, Ph.D

Department of History and Political Science

Associate Professor


Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Doctorate in U. S. History, Major fields: early America, women's history minor field: religious history, 2000
University of Wisconsin-Madison,Master of Arts in U. S. History 1993
Bachelor of Arts, Gustavus Adolphus University, 1991

Research and Teaching Interests
  • Early American history
  • Women's History
Professional Affiliations and Awards
  • Sabbatical Leave Research Grant, Otterbein University, spring 2009
  • White Fund Grant, Otterbein University, spring 2009
  • Bread and Roses Faculty Award, Otterbein University, 2008
  • Humanities Travel Grant, Otterbein University, spring 2008
  • Master Teacher Award Nominee, Otterbein University, 2007 and 2008
  • Sabbatical Leave Research Grant, Otterbein University, fall 2005
  • White Fund Grant, Otterbein University, fall 2005
  • Humanities Faculty Development Grant, Otterbein University, 2004
  • National Society of the Colonial Dames of America Dissertation Fellowship, 1997
  • Citation for Distinguished Teaching, History Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997
  • Teaching Fellow, University of Letters and Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996
  • Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia, 1996
  • Domestic Research Travel Grant, Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995
  • Departmental Fellowship, History Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, spring 1994
  • Research Grant, Eastern National Parks and Monuments Association, 1992
  • Executive Council, Private Universitys Representative, Ohio Academy of History, 2006-2009
  • Phi Alpha Theta, Zeta Beta Chapter Advisor, Otterbein University, 2002-present
  • Women's Studies Program Director, Otterbein University, 2003-2008
  • Teaching Award Committee Chair, Ohio Academy of History, 2007-08
  • Dissertation Prize Committee, Ohio Academy of History, 2003-2004
  • Conference Program Committee, Ohio Academy of History, 2001-2003
  • Editorial Advisory Board, "American Journeys-Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement: A Digital Library and Learning Center," 2000-2001
  • Historical Research Coordinator for The Buildings of Wisconsin (a volume in the Oxford University Press series, The Buildings of the United States), Division of Historic Preservation, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1997-2000
  • Archival Assistant for the David Brinkley Papers, Division of Archives, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, summer 1994
  • Historical Researcher for the National Park Service at Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, New York, summer 1992
Publications
  • Gentlewomen and Learned Ladies: Women and Elite Formation in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia (Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 2008)
  • "Early American Libraries" in Kevin J. Hayes, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008): 345-367
  • Invited review of The Most Learned Woman in America: A Life of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson by Anne Ousterhout for Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 129:3 (July 2005): 349-351
  • "Daughters of Empire: Women in Philadelphia during the Seven Years' War," Pennsylvania Legacies, 5:1 (May 2005): 26
  • "'The Sweet Recourse of Reason': Elite Women's Education in Colonial Philadelphia," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 128:3 (July 2004): 229-256

/ Contact

Towers Hall 219

SFatherly@otterbein.edu

614.823.1435