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Lisa Norling

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Lisa Norling is a U.S. historian noted for her pioneering work on gender and the sea. As such she is part of a new move in maritime historiography to examine gender, race and class in relation to seafaring labor, passengers and people in port cities (i.e. interfaces with the sea).

Life

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She graduated from Cornell University, magna cum laude, and from Rutgers University with a Ph.D. She teaches at the University of Minnesota.[1] She also teaches at the Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies at Mystic Seaport,[2] and serves as a consultant to the USS Constitution Museum.

She became involved in the Minnesota "Profile of Learning" controversy.[3][4]

In 1994, she married Steven Ruggles, another historian. She currently lives in Minneapolis with her two children and her husband.

Awards

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Works

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  • Margaret S. Creighton; Lisa Norling, eds. (1996). Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920. JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-5160-5.
  • Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery 1740-1870. UNC Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8078-4870-8.

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