Marcy May
Warner Hall #220
Office Phone: (203) 837-8481
email: maym@wcsu.edu
Education:
Ph.D., SUNY-Binghamton, 1984
Teaching Interests:
American History
Historiography
History of Women
Research Interests and Publications:
Professor May received her Ph.D. in 1984 from SUNY-Binghamton, earning one of the first doctoral degrees officially granted in the HIstory of Women. May has been a Mary Ingraham Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe College and Harvard University, a Revson Fellow in Women and Public Policy at the Center for Women and Government at SUNY-Albany, and received the Berkshire Fellowship of the Coordinating Committee of Women's Historians. In addition, she has held fellowships from the American Bar Foundation in legal history and from Yale University. May co-edited The New Christian Right (Garland, 1996) with Melvin Urofsky. She has also published articles in Labor History, American Quarterly, Feminist Studies and other scholarly journals. She is currently working on a political biography of Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
Professor May teaches courses in American history, historiography, and the history of women. In the hour or two of leisure time available every week, May hopes to found the National Association of Nappers (NAP), an organization devoted to achieving reasonable hours of sleep for all Americans.
