Department of History and
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of History and
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor Sentilles specializes in American women’s history, gender and sexuality, childhood/youth, The American West, and nineteenth and twentieth century U. S. cultural history.
Professor Sentilles is currently working on a book-and-website project called “In Her Shoes: Getting to the Sole of American Women’s History” that uses shoes as an entry point into multicultural women’s history. She is the author of Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity (Cambridge University Press, 2003), American Tomboys, 1850-1915 (University of Massachusetts, 2018), and various articles and review essays.
Research Information
Research Interests
- American history and culture: high, low, nineteenth-century, current events, the West, the South, gender and race, politics and pop
- Cultural expression (principally published and unpublished writings, popular music and theatre, visual arts and film)
- Gender and multicultural studies
- Regional cultures and the relationship between cultures
- Examining how historical narratives are created and told, and analyzing how and why certain details are consistently left out.
Publications
Additional Information
Professor Sentilles specializes in American women’s history, gender and sexuality, childhood/youth, The American West, and nineteenth and twentieth century U. S. cultural history.
Professor Sentilles is currently working on a book-and-website project called “In Her Shoes: Getting to the Sole of American Women’s History” that uses shoes as an entry point into multicultural women’s history. She is the author of Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity (Cambridge University Press, 2003), American Tomboys, 1850-1915 (University of Massachusetts, 2018), and various articles and review essays.