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Elizabeth Pardoe
American Studies
Office: 1940 Sheridan
Phone: 847-491-2617
E-mail: e-pardoe
northwestern.edu
Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe (Ph.D. Princeton) is Associate Director of the Office of Fellowships and a Lecturer in History. Her academic work scrutinizes responses to religious and ethnic conflict in early modern Europe and colonial North America. “Poor Children and Enlightened Citizens: Lutheran Education in America” received the Pennsylvania Historical Association’s Robert G. Crist Prize in 2003. Her most recent essay, “Constructing Community and the Diversity Dilemma: Ratification in Pennsylvania,” can be found in William A. Pencak, ed. Pennsylvania’s Revolution, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. “Confessional Spaces and Religious Places: Lutherans’ Atlantic World, 1698-1748” will appear in a forthcoming volume edited by John Corrigan for Indiana University Press’ “Spatial Humanities” series. She opines about current events as a regular contributor to and member of the editorial collective for the Inside Higher Ed “Blog U” on women and international higher education, “University of Venus.”
