Susan J. Pearson | |
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| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Merle Curti Award |
| Academic background | |
| Education | BA, Women's Studies, 1996, Oberlin College MA, 1999, PhD, 2004, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Thesis | The rights of the defenseless: animals, children, and sentimental liberalism in nineteenth-century America (2004) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Northwestern University |
Susan Jennifer Pearson is an American historian of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As an associate professor at Northwestern University, she received the 2012 Merle Curti Award for her book The Rights of the Defenseless: Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America.