Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor

Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, Ph.D., is professor of history at the University of California, Davis, and associate dean for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. She earned her Bachelor of Arts at Yale University and her doctorate at the University of Michigan. She teaches courses on gender, American social and cultural history, and the histories of colonialism and capitalism. She is the author of The Ties that Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America (University of Pennsylvania Press...See more

Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, Ph.D., is professor of history at the University of California, Davis, and associate dean for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. She earned her Bachelor of Arts at Yale University and her doctorate at the University of Michigan. She teaches courses on gender, American social and cultural history, and the histories of colonialism and capitalism. She is the author of The Ties that Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009) and America Under the Hammer: Auctions and Market Culture in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming), as well as multiple articles and book chapters on gender and economy. Dr. Hartigan-O'Connor became interested in globalizing U.S. history through her expertise in Atlantic World and transnational women's and gender histories. She is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of American Women's and Gender History (Oxford University Press, 2018), and has been a board member of Women and Social Movements. A founding and standing editor of Oxford Bibliographies Online: Atlantic History, Dr. Hartigan-O'Connor is also a speaker with the Organization of American Historians' Distinguished Lectureship Program. See less