The author of eight biographies, two edited collections, and co-editor of a textbook, Ware is a specialist on 20th-century women's political and cultural history, and the history of popular feminism.
10 Facts About Susan Ware
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Susan Ware began her career in teaching as a lecturer at Harvard from 1973 to 1978, and in the years her following completion of the Ph.
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Susan Ware attained the rank of professor with tenure before she left NYU in 1995 to pursue a full-time career in writing, editing and speaking.
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In 2014, upon the retirement of historian Nancy Cott, Susan Ware was appointed as Senior Advisor to the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
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Susan Ware held this post until Jane Kamensky was appointed Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director in May 2015.
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Susan Ware's revised dissertation, Beyond Suffrage: Women and the New Deal was the first historical monograph to show the pivotal role played by feminist progressive reformers like Frances Perkins and Molly Dewson in implementing social welfare at the federal level.
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Susan Ware showed how Dewson not only brought hundreds of women into the federal government, but revolutionized presidential campaign practices to such an extent that presidential advisor James Farley referred to her as "the General".
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Since becoming an independent scholar, Susan Ware has published and edited numerous books.
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Since 2012, Susan Ware has been the general editor of American National Biography Online, published by Oxford University Press.
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Susan Ware serves as Chair of the Associate Board of Clio Visualizing History, a nonprofit group dedicated to creating innovative online history exhibits designed to attract students and educators and appeal to a wide public audience.