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Sarah J. Deutsch is dean of the social sciences and professor and chair of history. She has BA and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University and an M.Litt. from Oxford University, where she studied on a Rhodes Scholarship. Before coming to Duke in 2004, she taught at MIT, Yale, NYU, Clark University, and the University of Arizona. Professor Deutsch does research on the United States from 1870 to 1940, focusing on issues of class, race, gender, and ethnic differences. She is the author of Women and the City: Gender, Space and Power in Boston, 1870-1940 (2000). Her book, No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940, won several awards, including Yale's Bourne Medal, awarded every three years for distinguished scholarship by a young historian.

102 Allen Building
Box 90029
Durham North Carolina 27708
sarah.deutsch@duke.edu
Phone: (919) 668-2746
Fax: (919) 668-2729