Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll.

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg was born in 1936. She earned her B.A. from the Connecticut College for Women in 1957, and M.A. in 1958 and Ph. D. in 1968 from Columbia University. She was appointed Research Assistant Professor at Penn in 1970, Assistant Professor in 1972 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1974. In 1971, she taught the first course on "Women in America" at Penn. Active in the women's rights movement in Philadelphia, Smith-Rosenberg traced the dispute and stress about women's traditional role as mother and housekeeper to the eighteenth century. Her study of women, sex roles and socialization in the United States is believed to have contributed to the understanding of women's social role. Author of Religion and the Rise of the American City (1971), Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Visions of Gender in Victorian America (1985), and over a dozen of articles and book reviews on women, sex, family and society, she served as Director of Women's Studies Program at Penn from 1983 to 1995. Carroll Smith-Rosenberg left Penn for the University of Michigan in 1996.