Susan Pearson

19th-century U.S.

Office: 24 Harris
Phone: 847-491-3744
E-mail: sjpnorthwestern.edu

Susan Pearson (PhD University of North Carolina, 2004) is an historian of nineteenth-century America with special interest in the cultural politics of reform, rights discourse, the development of American liberalism, and the history of human-animal relations.

Her first book, The Rights of the Defenseless: Animals, Children, and Sentimental Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century America, examines the institutional and cultural linkages between animal and child protection organizations and will be published by the University of Chicago Press.

She is also the founding editor of H-Animal, the H-Net Network on Animal Studies. For more information, see: http://www.h-net.org/~animal/

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