Lucia Mcmahon
Department of History
William Paterson University
United States of America
Biography
Lucia McMahon received her Ph.D. in History at Rutgers University. Her book, Mere Equals: The Paradox of Educated Women in the Early American Republic (Cornell University Press, 2012) explores the social and intellectual lives of educated women in the early American republic. She also published, with Deborah Schriver, To Read My Heart: The Journal of Rachel Van Dyke, 1810–1811 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000; 2015 re-release in print and ebook). She currently serves as Co-Editor of Reviews for the Journal of the Early Republic, and as a member of the Editorial Board for New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. She regularly teaches courses in early national U.S. history, women's history, and historical methods.
Research Interest
U.S. Early National, Women's and Gender History
Publications
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Of the Utmost Importance to Our Country’: Women, Education, and Society, 1780-1820,â€Â Journal of the Early Republic 29:3 (Fall 2009): 475-506.
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‘So Truly Afflicting and Distressing to Me, His Sorrowing Mother’: Expressions of Maternal Grief in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia,â€Â Journal of the Early Republic 32:1 (Spring 2012): 27-60.
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To Read My Heart: The Journal of Rachel Van Dyke, 1810-1811, co-editor with Deborah Schriver (Philadelphia:Â University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000
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Mere Equals: The Paradox of Women’s Education in the Early American Republic (Cornell University Press, 2012).
