Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. ^ "Kathy Peiss | Department of History".Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Hope in a Jar: The Making of American Beauty Culture.Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality: Documents and Essays.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2011. Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style.Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe.Peiss was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. She is the author of Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York and Hope in a Jar: The Making of American Beauty Culture, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Her research focuses on the history women in the workplace, the history of American sexuality, and gender. Peiss received her BA from Carleton College in 1975, and her PhD from Brown University in 1982. She is a fellow of the Society of American Historians. Nichols Professor of American History at The University of Pennsylvania. Kathy Lee Peiss (born 1953) is an American historian.
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