Graduate students who choose to pursue an area of strength in Gender and Kinship will examine how women, men, children, and kin groups encountered labor, law, religion, property, and other phenomena in ways that were socially constructed and conditioned and changed over time and across space.
Both gender history and kinship history extend beyond the study of femininity, masculinity, the household, and the family to enhance our understanding of politics and the economy, at both macro and micro levels.
Associated Faculty
Kate Staples
Medieval Europe; History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; British History; European History; World History
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Brian Luskey
Civil War and Reconstruction, Social and Cultural History, Nineteenth-Century America
View Profile: Luskey, BrianAustin McCoy
20th Century United States, African-American History, U.S. Left and Labor, U.S. Social Movements
View Profile: McCoy, AustinMatthew Vester
Renaissance and early modern European History, Political Culture, Kinship
View Profile: Vester, MatthewJessica Wilkerson
Associate Professor, Stuart and Joyce Robbins Distinguished Chair of History
Jessica.Wilkerson@mail.wvu.edu
314 Chitwood Hall
Appalachia and the South; Women, Gender, and Sexuality; 20th Century America; Labor and the Working Class
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