Wendy A. Woloson

Wendy A. Woloson is an American historian.[1][2][3][4] She is a professor at Rutgers University-Camden, specializing in the "history of material and consumer culture, used goods markets, alternative and criminal economies, and the history of capitalism".[5]

Education

Woloson graduated from Iowa State University in 1986 with a BFA in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking and a minor in art history. In 1990, she received an MFA in Printmaking from Montana State University. In 1993, she received a MA in Popular Culture from Bowling Green State University. Her thesis was titled "In Our Homes We Must Have Industry and Sympathy: Early Twentieth-Century Advertising Recipe Booklets and American Domestic Culture". In 1999, she received her PhD in American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation was "Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America" which she later published as a book in 2002.[6][7]

Career

For ten years, Woloson worked as the Curator of Printed Books at the Library Company of Philadelphia.[8]

She has been a professor at Rutgers-Camden since 2013.[8]

Awards and honors

Her book Crap: A History of Cheap Goods in America was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism.[9]

Books
  • Crap: A History of Cheap Goods in America (University of Chicago Press, 2020)[10]
  • coeditor with Brian P. Luskey of the collection, Capitalism by Gaslight: Illuminating the Economy of 19th-Century America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)[11]
  • In Hock: Pawning in America from Independence through the Great Depression (University of Chicago Press, 2010)[12]
  • Refined Tastes Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002).[13]

References
  1. "Wendy A. Woloson". press.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  2. "Q&A: Wendy Woloson". Antiques And The Arts Weekly. 2020-11-10. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  3. "Review of Wendy A. Woloson, 'Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America' | Inside Higher Ed". www.insidehighered.com. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  4. "Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America". Hagley. 2020-11-25. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  5. "A Profile of New Faculty Member Wendy Woloson – Graduate History Blog". graduatehistoryblog.camden.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-03.
  6. "About – Wendy A. Woloson". sites.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  7. "Current C.V. | Repository of Useful Knowledge". Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  8. "A Profile of New Faculty Member Wendy Woloson – Graduate History Blog".
  9. "Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America by Wendy A. Woloson: 2020 Criticism Finalist". National Book Critics Circle. 2021-03-12. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  10. "Exploring America's Historic Thirst for Crap". wdet.org. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  11. "Capitalism by Gaslight | Brian P. Luskey, Wendy A. Woloson". www.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  12. "Crapification Syndrome: When Hilarity Slides into Nausea". PopMatters. 2020-05-15. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  13. Matt, Susan J. (Susan Jipson) (2004). "Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America (review)". Journal of Social History. 37 (4): 1071–1073. doi:10.1353/jsh.2004.0058. ISSN 1527-1897. S2CID 142743566.
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