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  • Thomas A. Foster, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor

    Phone: 773-325-4169
    Office: LPC SAC 433
    tfoster4@depaul.edu

    Office Hours: By Appointment Only (Lewis 1642)

    Education:
    Ph.D., Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
    M.A., Department of History, North Carolina State University
    B.A., Department of Sociology, Cornell University

    Research and Teaching Interests:

    • Early America
    • U.S. Women's and Gender History
    • American Revolution
    • History of Sexuality
    • U.S. Social and Cultural History

    Courses Offered

    • ISP 200: Race and Ethnicity in Early America
    • HST 280: U.S. to 1800
    • HST 275: Sex in America: From Puritans to Victorians
    • HST 354: U.S. Women's History
    • HST 431: Colloquium in American History: British Colonial and Revolutionary America
    • HST 431: Colloquium in American History: Race and Ethnicity in Early America
    • HST 431: Colloquium in American History: Sex and Gender in Early America

    Affiliations:

    Works-in-Progress:

    • Founding Fathers: Sex, Nation, and American Manhood
    • Editor, Sexuality in American History: A Primary Source Collection and Companion to Intimate Matters (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming)
    • Editor, Manliness in Early America

    Publications: