Cynthia Eagle Russett

Cynthia Eagle Russett (February 1, 1937 ― December 5, 2013) was an American historian, noted for her studies of 19th century American intellectual history, and women and gender.

Cynthia Eagle Russett
Born(1937-02-01)February 1, 1937
DiedDecember 5, 2013(2013-12-05) (aged 76)
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma materYale University
Trinity Washington University
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
InstitutionsYale University

Russett was born Cynthia Eagle in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on February 1, 1937.[1] She studied history as an undergraduate at Trinity College in Washington, D.C., earning a bachelor's degree, and then did graduate work at Yale University, earning a Master's from Yale in 1959 and a Ph.D. from Yale in 1964.[1][2] Her dissertation was awarded Yale's highest honor for American history dissertations, the George Washington Eggleston Prize.[2]

She joined the Yale faculty in 1967, and was eventually appointed the Larnard Professor of History.[1]

Russett's spouse is a fellow Yale faculty member, Bruce Russett, and the couple had four children together.[1]

Notable works
  • The Extraordinary Mrs. R: A Friend Remembers Eleanor Roosevelt (1999, with William Turner Levy)
  • Second to None: A Documentary History of American Women (1993), edited with Ruth Barnes Moynihan and Laurie Crumpacker
  • Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood (1989, Harvard University Press) (winner, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Annual Book Award)[2]
  • Darwin in America: The Intellectual Response, 1865-1912 (1976)
  • The Concept of Equilibrium in American Social Thought (1968)

Notes
  1. Margalit Fox, "Cynthia Russett, Historian of Women, Dies at 76", The New York Times, Dec. 19, 2013.
  2. Matthew Lloyd-Thomas, "Cynthia Russett, Longtime Yale Historian, Dies", Yale Daily News, Dec. 6, 2013.


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