Position Title
Past FRI Advisory Board Member
Professor, History
Position Title
Past FRI Advisory Board Member
Professor, History
- Department of History
Bio
Dr. Hartigan-O'Connor is a historian of women, gender, and economic culture in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Her newest book, America Under the Hammer: Auctions and the Emergence of Market Values, explores the ways women and men used auctions to create and debate ideas about value in the development of American capitalism. She is the author of The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America, co-author of Global Americans, a college textbook on American history in global context, and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of American Women’s and Gender History. As part of the commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, she was involved in two public history projects: the EmpireSuffrageSyllabus, and “Women’s History in the Pacific West,” a collaboration with the National Park Service that won the Organization of American Historians Stanton Horton Award. She is on the Advisory Council of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, and she is Statewide Faculty Advisor to the California History-Social Science Project.
Dr. Hartigan-O'Connor is invested in the success of students and committed to mentoring. As Associate Dean for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars at UC Davis, she is an advocate for developing scholars.