FACULTY

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Syndenham C. Parsons Professor, Professor Emerita American Studies

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Office: Wright Hall 221

Phone: 585-3588

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz enjoys working in a number of fields that connect her interest in American history with women's studies, cultural geography, education, biography, sexual representation and free speech. She began learning about this at Wellesley where she got her B.A. in 1963 and Harvard, where she got her American studies Ph.D. in 1969. She continued learning at MIT, Union College, Scripps College and the University of Southern California, where she taught before coming to Smith.

Horowitz is the author of: Culture and the City: Cultural Philanthropy in Chicago from the 1880s to 1917; Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s; Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present; The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas; Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America. She is co-editor of Love Across the Color Line: The Letters of Alice Hanley and editor of Landscape in Sight: J.B. Jackson's America.

At Smith Horowitz currently teaches The Culture of Cities, a U.S. history course with a strong landscape component.