Profile:
Susan Levine’s research and teaching focus on gender, social movements and public policy in the United States. Most recently she has been exploring the history and politics of food, poverty, and consumer culture. She is the author of two books, Labor’s True Woman: Carpet Weavers, Industrialization, and Labor Reform in the Gilded Age, (Temple University Press 1984), and Degrees of Equality: The American Association of University Women and the Challenge of Twentieth Century Feminism, (Temple University Press 1994), along with numerous articles. Her forthcoming book, Fixing Lunch: Food, Politics, and Consumer Culture in the Twentieth Century, (Princeton University Press) explores poverty and the politics of food in the National School Lunch Program. Levine is currently researching the history of humanitarian food aid in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Levine teaches courses in U.S. women’s history and, most recently, on food and hunger in historical perspective. She particularly enjoys working with students on historical writing and research methods .