Amy Achenbach
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor
Dr. Andrea Turpin
Education
B.A. in History and French, summa cum laude, University of Mount Union, 2017
Research Interests
My present research explores the culture and ideology of single-sex, women’s spaces through the lens of collegiate, Greek-letter sororities. Rooting my analysis in their Progressive Era founding, I question why these organizations not only survived but thrived into the long twentieth century. My work engages American women’s history, intellectual history, and cultural history broadly, as well as the history of feminism, higher education, childhood and youth, and identity as it relates to gender, religion, and race.
Exam Fields: U.S. History 1877-Present; History of American Women, Gender, & Sexuality; Global History of Childhood, Youth, & Education
Selected Activites
Awards/Fellowships/Grants
- Guittard Fellowship, Baylor University, 2020-2021
- Graduate School Fellowship, Baylor University, 2020-2026
- McMaster Drushal Junior Prize, University of Mount Union, 2016-2017
- Robert E. Bader Scholarship for History, University of Mount Union, 2016
- Fishel History Prize, University of Mount Union, 2016
- Rufus Ruth Romance Language Prize for French, University of Mount Union, 2016
- Ramsayer Sophomore Prize, University of Mount Union, 2015-2016
- John E. and Helen Saffell Prize for History, University of Mount Union, 2015
- Rickard Evans Freshman Prize, University of Mount Union, 2014-2015
- Richard and Connie VanderMeulen Doyle Prize, University of Mount Union, 2014
Follow Amy on
Twitter: @AmyAchenbach