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5505 HUMANITIES SOCSCI
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Allgor, Catherine

Professor of History

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

History


Biography

After a career in the theatre, Catherine Allgor attended Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA, as a Frances Perkins Scholar and graduated summa cum laude in History. She received her Ph.D. with distinction from Yale University, where she also won the Yale Teaching Award. Her dissertation on women and politics in early Washington garnered prizes both for the best dissertation in American history at Yale and for the best dissertation in U.S. Women's history in the country. Professor Allgor's book, Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington City Help Build a City and a Government, published by the University of Virginia Press won the prize for the best first book by the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. Professor Allgor has also written on politics, women, and religion for national publications, and her newest project is a political biography of Dolley Madison.

Former Institution

Simmons College

Degrees

A.B. History 1992

Mount Holyoke College

M.A. History 1992

Yale University

M.Phil. History 1995

Yale University

Ph.D. History 1998

Yale University

Awards

2003 American Antiquarian Society Fellowships, Elected Member
2002-03 Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
2000 James H. Broussard First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
2000 Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association Annual Book Award
1999 The Lerner-Scott Prize for the Best Dissertation in U.S. History, Organization of American Historians
1998 George Washington Egleston Prize, Best Dissertation in American History, Yale University
1998 Yale Prize Teaching Fellowship, Yale niversity
1998 Webb-Smith Essay Competition, University of Texas at Arlington
1997 Joseph A. Skinner Fellowship, Mount Holyoke College,
1996 Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, Yale University
1995 Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, Center for the Study of New England History at the Massachusetts Historical Society
1995 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Dissertation Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society
1995 John F. Enders Dissertation Grant, Yale University
1992-96 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, Yale Univerity/United States Government
1992 Phi Beta Kappa Society, Mount Holyoke College
1995 American Antiquarian Society Fellowships, Dissertation Fellow


Research Area

Early America; political women, public history

Publications

Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (University Press of Virginia, 2000).
"Queen Dolley Saves Washington City," in Washington History, V. 12, n. 1 (Spring 2000), pp. 54-69.