Amy Richter
Professor, History
Department Chair, History
Scholarly Interests
Nineteenth-century U.S. Women's History; History of Consumer Culture, Domesticity, and Travel
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Professor Richter specializes in nineteenth and twentieth century American and cultural history, with an emphasis on women’s and urban history. Her teaching repertoire includes the history of American Women, U.S. urban history from the colonial era to the twenty-first century, Gender and the American City, and American Consumer Culture. She is also the author of Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity (2005) and At Home in Nineteenth-Century America: A Documentary History (2015). Her current research looks at marriage and the consumer marketplace at the turn of the twentieth century.
In addition, Professor Richter teaches U.S. History and serves as the Academic Director of the Worcester Clemente Course in the Humanities. The Clemente Course in the Humanities is an award-winning college-level seminar for highly motivated low-income adults seeking to build better lives for themselves, their families, and their communities.
Degrees
- Ph.D. in History, New York University, 2000
- B.A. in Urban Studies, Columbia College, Columbia University, 1991
Affiliated Department(s)
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Scholarly and Creative Works
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A Cultural History of Furniture
Chapter: “Self, Stories, and Furniture in the Nineteenth-Century”Published by Bloomsbury Academic
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2022
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“Material History and A Victorian Riddle Retold,”
June
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2019
George Washington University
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Washington, DC
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“Every Atom #56: Every Atom: Reflections on Walt Whitman at 200"
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2019
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Vol. Summer 2019
University of Northern Iowa
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At Home in Nineteenth-Century America: A Documentary History
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2015
New York University Press
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Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity
Gender & American Culture Series
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2005
University of North Carolina Press
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Awards & Grants
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Distinguished Advisor
Clark University
2021
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