Lisa Norling

Lisa Norling is a U.S. historian noted for her pioneering work on gender and the sea. As such she is part of a new move in maritime historiography to examine gender, race and class in relation to seafaring labor, passengers and people in port cities (i.e. interfaces with the sea).

Life

She graduated from Cornell University, magna cum laude, and from Rutgers University with a Ph.D. She teaches at the University of Minnesota.[1] She also teaches at the Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies at Mystic Seaport,[2] and serves as a consultant to the USS Constitution Museum.

She became involved in the Minnesota "Profile of Learning" controversy.[3][4]

In 1994, she married Steven Ruggles, another historian. She currently lives in Minneapolis with her two children and her husband.

Awards

Works
  • Margaret S. Creighton; Lisa Norling, eds. (1996). Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920. JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-5160-5.
  • Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery 1740-1870. UNC Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8078-4870-8.

Reviews

This cleverly named account neatly evokes Herman Melville's masterpiece to raise the seemingly straightforward question of what transpired on shore, once men left in search of profit and nature's leviathan. ... . The intersection between the two informs a complex and well-written work of social and economic history.[5]

References
  1. http://americanstudies.umn.edu/people/profile.php?UID=norli001
  2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-11. Retrieved 2009-11-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-08-03. Retrieved 2008-08-08.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Curriculum Policy, Controversy, and Change: Minnesota's Profile of Learning, 1993-2003", University of Minnesota, Peggy Reed DeLapp
  5. "Book Review", American Historical Review, Vol. 106, No. 5, December 2001 Archived 2008-11-21 at the Wayback Machine


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