Jacqueline Beatty, Ph.D.

Jacqueline Beatty
Division/Department
School of the Arts, Communication and Global Studies
Associate Professor of History
Contact Information
Humanities Center, Room 215
  • Early American History, Women's and Gender History, Ph.D.
    George Mason University
  • Early American History, Women's and Gender History, M.A.
    Villanova University
  • History, B.A.
    Boston College
  • HIS303: Museum Studies
  • HIS304: Digital Public History
  • HIS352: Era of the American Revolution
  • HIS399: Podcasting the Past
  • HIS471: Gender in History
  • In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America (NYU Press, 2023).
  • “A Revolution of One’s Own,” The American Historian no. 39 (Spring 2024): 20-26.
  • “The Slave, the Concubine, and the Unnatural Beauty: Depictions of the Other and the Constriction of Women’s Rights in American Magazines, 1790-1800,” in The Gendered Republic, ed. Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, under contract).
  • “Complicated Allegiances: Women, Politics, and Property in Post-Occupation Charleston,” in Holly Mayer, ed., Women Waging War in the American Revolution (University of Virginia Press, 2022): 227-244.
  • “Privileged in the Patriarchy: How Charleston Wives Negotiated Financial Freedom in the Early Republic", South Carolina Historical Magazine 119, no. 3 (July 2018): 168-190.


     
  • “Rethinking the Gender of Politics in the Early Republic,” OAH Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA (April 2023)
  • Roundtable Discussant and Panel Co-Organizer, “Liberty’s Daughters and Women of the Republic at 40: The Past, Present, and Future of Revolutionary Women’s History,” SHEAR Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA (July 2021)
  • “The Right to Divorce: How the American Revolution Changed Women’s Understanding of Marital Law,” Untamed: Women and the Law, Special Symposium at Jamestown Settlement, Williamsburg, VA (September 2019)
  • “Complicated Allegiances: Women, Politics, and Property in Post-Occupation Charleston,” Sons of the American Revolution Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA (June 2019)
  • “Rights in Dependence: Women, Petitions, and Power in the American Revolution,” Petitions in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, Lisbon, Portugal (February 2019)