Birgitte Soland

Birgitte Soland

Birgitte Soland, who received a cand.mag. degree from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, teaches European women's and gender history. Her research interests include the history of women, youth, children and children's rights. She is the author Becoming Modern: Young Women and the Reconstruction of Womanhood in the 1920s (Princeton, 2000), and she has co-edited Gender, Kinship, Power: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary History (Routledge, 1996), and Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History, 1750-1960 (Indiana University Press, forthcoming 2004.) In 2003 Professor Soland won the CLIO Award for Outstanding Teaching in History.

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