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Corinne T. Field is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality at the University of Virginia, where she has been since 2018. Her research focuses on the intersections of age, gender, and race in U.S. history, particularly in antebellum and nineteenth-century contexts. She earned her Ph.D. in History from Columbia University (2008), an M.A. in History from Columbia University, and a B.A. in English from Stanford University (1987).
- Specialties: U.S. gender and race studies, childhood and adulthood dynamics, visual culture of aging.
Her groundbreaking work includes the monograph The Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America (UNC Press, 2014), which traces how early feminists linked citizenship to adulthood. With LaKisha Simmons, she co-edited The Global History of Black Girlhood (University of Illinois Press, 2022), a seminal interdisciplinary volume.
Field’s current projects include two historical monographs: Feminist Aging in Nineteenth-Century America, analyzing activist intellectuals’ arguments for old age empowerment, and Looking Old: A US History, which examines visual age assessment’s role in slavery, courtship, and labor. She is also co-editing the nineteenth-century volume of Bloomsbury Cultural History of Old Age with David Troyansky.
Scientific Awards and Grants:
- NEH Fellowship (2022)
- Mellon Schlesinger Fellow at Radcliffe Institute (2018-2019)
- Multiple WGS Research Grants (2014, 2015, 2021)
- Fellowships from Huntington Library, Library Company of Philadelphia, and American Antiquarian Society
