Carol Lasser
Professor of History
Director of OCEAN: Oberlin College Educational Alliance Network

I teach American history, particularly in nineteenth-century history, women's history, and local history, and I regularly offer a course entitled Oberlin History as American History. I am also looking forward to developing a course that will focus on Oberlin women in early reform movements as part of a network of courses being developed in conjunction with the Women and Social Movements website created by Professors Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Skar at Binghamton University.

At the same time, I am continuing scholarly work on abolitionism, women, and the public sphere, while also moving ahead in my project, with Gary Kornblith, on the making of race in Oberlin, Ohio.

For the past two years, I have been working to build OCEAN: the Oberlin College Educational Alliance Network. I also participate actively in, and publish on, the Electronic Oberlin Group website, a community-college collaboration.

For the last few years, I have served on the editorial board of the Journal of the Early Republic, and have recently published there about rethinking the concept of "Separate Spheres" in the early republic. I also published "The Two Josephines: Gender, Class and Self-Sovereignty in Gilded Age Cleveland" in the British journal Gender & History. I currently serve, with Gary Kornblith, as a co-editor of the "Textbooks and Teaching" section of the Journal of American History.

I have recently extended my studies of women into the international realm with a January 2001 trip to Madurai, India, with the sponsorhip of Oberlin's Shansi Memorial Assocaition, In January 2002, again with Shansi sponsorship, I will go to Kunming, China.