500 Main Hall
West Chester, Pennsylvania 19383
(610)436-2201
http://www.wcupa.edu/
http://www.wcupa.edu/
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Department of History
500 Main Hall West Chester, Pennsylvania 19383 |
(610)436-2201
http://www.wcupa.edu/ |
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Dr. Karin Gedge
Associate Professor of History, Social Studies Coordinator
Dr. Gedge grew up in Milwaukee, WI, but has lived in Boston, MA, Rochester, NY, Fairfield, CT, Cleveland, OH, and Baltimore, MD before making West Chester her home. She attended Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, IL, for her B.A. in History and Education, SUNY College at Brockport for her M.A. in History, and Yale University for her Ph.D. in American Studies. Her husband, two sons, and three granddaughters live in the area now.
Dr. Gedge regularly teaches the first half of the U.S. survey, HIS 400 Women in America, and the Secondary Social Studies Methods course (SSC 331). She also teaches HIS 474 Religion in America, HIS 455 U.S. Intellectual History, and HIS 553 Rise of the New Nation.
Dr. Gedge has done research in Women, Religion, Cultural History, Material Culture (quilts), and Religion and Education.
Without Benefit of Clergy: Women and the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford,2003); "Tension and Transition: Quilts as Carriers of Competing American Values,” in Layers: Unfolding the Stories of Chester County Quilts, (Chester County Historical Society, 2009); "Pastoral and Pedagogical Relationships in Historical Context,” in Pieties and Gender (Brill, 2009).
Dr. Gedge sits on the Board of Directors of Historic Yellow Springs, Chester Springs, PA