Kathy Peiss

Kathy Peiss is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York , Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture , and Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style . A Fellow of the Society of American Historians, she has served as a consultant to museums, archives, documentary films, and public history projects.

Kathy Peiss is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York , Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture , and Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style . A Fellow of the Society of American Historians, she has served as a consultant to museums, archives, documentary films, and public history projects. See less