Sara Alpern Explained

Sara Alpern was a professor of history at Texas A&M University where she is known for her work on women's history, especially suffrage, eating disorders in women, and women in management.

Education and career

Alpern studied at Western Reserve University and the University of California at Los Angeles. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1978. She began teaching at Texas A&M in 1979, first as an assistant professor and she was promoted to associate professor in 1988.^[1]

From 1991 until 1993 she was the president of the Women’s Faculty Network at Texas A&M.<ref name=":0" />

Selected publications

• Book: Alpern, Sara . Freda Kirchwey, A Woman of the Nation . . 1987 . 0674318285 . English. ^[2]
• Book: Alpern, Sara . The Challenge of Feminist Biography . 1992 . University of Illinois Press . 978-0-252-06292-6 . Urbana. ^[3]
• Alpern . Sara . 2005 . Harriet Williams Russell Strong: Inventor and California Businesswoman Extraordinaire . Southern California Quarterly of the Historical Society of Southern California . 87 . 3 . 223–268 . 10.2307/41172270 . 41172270 . online.ucpress.edu.
• Book: Alpern-Tarlow, Sara . How Can I Change That? The Story of Advertising Woman Dorothy Dignam . January 29, 2020 . Independently published . 979-8600300033 . January 29, 2020.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alpern CV at Texas A&M .
2. Reviews of Freda Kirchwey
   • Wandersee . Winifred . 1988 . Review of Freda Kirchwey: A Woman of the Nation . The American Historical Review . 93 . 4 . 1132–1133 . 10.2307/1863703 . 0002-8762 . 1863703.
   • Kuczynski . Jürgen . 1990 . Review of Freda Kirchwey, a Woman of the Nation . Science & Society . 54 . 2 . 234–235 . 0036-8237 . 40403075.
   • Web site: Sirkin . Elliott . 1987-07-26 . The dainty firebrand who ran The Nation . 2024-10-28 . Newsday; New York, New York . en-US.
3. Reviews of The Challenge of Feminist Biography
   • Bordin . Ruth . 1994 . Review of The Challenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern American Women . The Journal of American History . 80 . 4 . 1506–1507 . 10.2307/2080703 . 0021-8723 . 2080703.
   • Fitzpatrick . Ellen . 1995 . Review of The Challenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern American Women . The Journal of Interdisciplinary History . 26 . 2 . 348–350 . 10.2307/206665 . 0022-1953 . 206665.
   • Wandersee . Winifred D. . 1994 . Review of The Chalenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern American Women . The American Historical Review . 99 . 2 . 676–677 . 10.2307/2167503 . 0002-8762 . 2167503.