STEPHANIE AMERIAN

C.Phil. History (U.S.), 2008
M.A. History (U.S.), UCLA, 2007
B.A. History, UC-Berkeley, 2004

Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail: samerian@ucla.edu

Field

Consumerism, Gender history, Fashion history, Women in business

Research Interests

Tentative Dissertation Title: "Fifth Avenue's First Lady": Dorothy Shaver and the Business of American Style, 1893-1959

Dorothy Shaver was a pioneering female executive who was the president of Lord & Taylor department store in New York from 1945 to 1959.

Publications

Book review: Brent Shannon, The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in
Britain, 1860-1914, to be published in Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History (2010).

Education Research Study: Silk, Y., Silver, D., Amerian, S., Nishimura, C., Boscardin, C.K. (2009). Using Classroom Artifacts to Measure the Efficacy of Professional Development. CRESST Report 761. National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST). University of California, Los Angeles. http://www.cse.ucla.edu/products/reports/R761.pdf

Grants and Awards

Appleby Memorial Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, 2008-2009
UCLA Graduate Student Summer Research Mentorship, 2007
Carey McWilliams History Department Research Travel Grant, Fall 2008
UCLA Center for the Study of Women Travel Grant, Fall 2008

Advisors

Jan Reiff
Kathryn Norberg
Ellen Dubois
Eleanor Kaufman (Comparative Literature)

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