Faculty

Lisa Tetrault

Rank: Assistant Professor
Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin, 2004
Department Member Since: 2005

Dr. Tetrault's research and teaching interests focus on the history of US women. She is particularly interested in women and social protest as well as the politics of memory. Her current book project, "The Memory of a Movement: Re-imagining Woman Suffrage in Reconstruction America, 1865-1890," examines the history of woman suffrage in the decades following the American Civil War. It explores how activists used historical narrative to mount resistance and to build coalitions. Seeking to understand the political uses of suffragists' narratives, it also investigates the silences within these texts, asking what suffragists hid from view and why.

Tetrault also specializes in nineteenth-century US social and political history. She teaches courses both on the history of US women as well as nineteenth-century America.

Tetrault earned her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the recipient of many fellowships and awards.



Office:
BH 252
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Phone:
412.268.4440
Email:
tetrault@cmu.edu