Background and Content Information -- McGowan

Contact Information:

Professor McGowan's mailing address is Dept. of History, Ripon College, Ripon, WI  54971.  Her work number is 920/748-8732, and her email address is mcgowanb@ripon.edu.

Background Information:

Barbara McGowan has been a member of the Ripon College History Department since 1981.  She is also director of the college's Women and Gender Studies program.  She earned her M.A. and Ph. D. in American Culture from University of Michigan. Courses Dr. McGowan has taught include: Women in American History, Gender Roles in American History, Film and American History, Gender and Film, Women’s Lives, Constructing American Lives, Recent America, Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies, and American History Survey.  This past semester she was on leave researching the history of white women in Hawaii and developing a new course on contemporary American history.