Office: COPH 103A | Phone: (308) 865-8772 | Email: vaningenl1@unk.edu
20th Century United States, Civil Rights, Cold War, Immigration, Women’s History
Linda Van Ingen, Ph.D., is a professor of History and director of the Women’s, Gender & Ethnic Studies Program. She teaches 20th Century US and Women's History with a specialization in political issues of gender, race, class, and power. She came to UNK in 2001 after earning her Ph.D. in History from the University of California-Riverside in 2000. She previously taught as a Visiting Faculty Fellow at California State University-San Marcos, as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Redlands in California, and as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of California-Riverside. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Iowa, Iowa City. In addition to the Midwest and Great Plains states, she has lived in California and Massachusetts as well as internationally in Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg, South Africa, and Casablanca, Morocco. She has traveled widely, including many visits to the Netherlands and a study abroad semester in London, England.
Dr. Van Ingen focuses her research on modern US political and social history with a special interest in issues of gender, race, and class. Her research publications contribute to the historiography of women in politics with studies of women candidates’ early twentieth-century campaigns in California and the gendered politics of power. She has also researched the rise of women’s late nineteenth-century independence, applying a class analysis to the financial challenges single women teachers faced as they aged. Current research applies an international lens to the gendered politics of the Cold War era, exploring the relationship between Connecticut Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce’s “American Century” politics and the rise of Americans living overseas. Dr. Van Ingen mentors undergraduate and graduate student research projects on twentieth-century US history, women’s history, civil rights, and immigration history.
Work in Progress: "Living Overseas: Americans Abroad in the Cold War Era, 1950s-1970s.”
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