Lisa Norling is a U.S.

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

noted for her pioneering work on gender and the sea. As such she is part of a new move in maritime historiography to examine gender, race and class in relation to seafaring labor, passengers and people in port cities (i.e. interfaces with the sea).

Life

She graduated from

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

, magna cum laude, and from

Rutgers University Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...

with a Ph.D. She teaches at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

. She also teaches at the Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies at

Mystic Seaport Mystic Seaport Museum (founded as Marine Historical Association) is a maritime museum in Mystic, Connecticut, and the largest in the United States. Its site holds a collection of ships and boats and a re-creation of a 19th-century seaport vill ...

, and serves as a consultant to the

USS Constitution Museum The USS Constitution Museum is located in the Charlestown Navy Yard, which is part of the Boston National Historical Park in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The museum is situated near the ship at the end of Boston's Freedom Trail. The ...

. She became involved in the Minnesota "Profile of Learning" controversy."Curriculum Policy, Controversy, and Change: Minnesota's Profile of Learning, 1993-2003", ''University of Minnesota'', Peggy Reed DeLapp
/ref> In 1994, she married

Steven Ruggles Steven Ruggles (born May 8, 1955 - New Haven, Conn.) is Regents Professor of History and Population Studies at the University of Minnesota, and the director of the IPUMS Center for Data Integration. He is best known as the creator of IPUMS, the ...

, another historian. She currently lives in

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with her two children and her husband.

Awards

* 2001

Frederick Jackson Turner Award The Frederick Jackson Turner Award is given each year by the Organization of American Historians for an author's first book on American history The history of the present-day United States began in roughly 15,000 BC with the arrival of Peopl ...

* 2000

John Lyman Book Awards The John Lyman Book Awards are given annually by the North American Society for Oceanic History to recognise excellence in published books making a major contribution to the study and understanding of maritime and naval history. They are named aft ...

for best book in American Maritime History,

North American Society for Oceanic History The North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH) is the national organization in the United States of America for professional historians, underwater archeologists, archivists, librarians, museum specialists and others working in the broad f ...

Works

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References

American women historians American maritime historians Cornell University alumni Rutgers University alumni University of Minnesota faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime History faculty 20th-century American historians 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American historians 21st-century American women writers {{US-historian-stub