Linzy Brekke-Aloise
Associate Professor of History
Harvard University, Ph.D., History, 2007
Harvard University, A.M., History, 2000
Mount Holyoke College, B.A., History, 1998
E-mail: lbrekke@stonehill.edu
Phone: (508) 565-1283
Office: Duffy, 269
Linzy Brekke-Aloise is an historian of early America, focusing on the period from the American Revolution through the nineteenth century. Her scholarship examines how transatlantic fashion goods and practices became a critical tool for the expression of national, gender, class, and racial identities and the instrument by which to challenge those identities by new classes of consumers in an era of capitalist transformation.
She offers courses on the American Revolution, Early Republic, and U.S. Women's history, and seminars in consumer and material culture. She has received numerous national research fellowships and awards from the Library Company of Philadelphia, the American Antiquarian Society, Winterthur Museum, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Her recent research has been published in a collection of essays, Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America
Research Interests:
Her research and teaching interests include consumer and material culture, gender and women’s history, race, the development of capitalism, and the political culture of the antebellum period.
Select Courses Taught:
- American Nation I and II
- Critical Encounters: History (A Global History of the Declaration of Independence)
- Historical Methods and Materials
- Pursuits of Happiness in Revolutionary America
- Topics in Nineteenth Century U.S. Women's History
- United States History Seminar
- Women in America 1600-1865