Molly McCarthy

• Visiting Assistant Professor
• Founders 217
• mmccarth@wellesley.edu
• (781) 283-2613
• Office Hours: Tuesday, 10:00-12:00 and by appointment.

Molly McCarthy received her Ph.D. in American History in 2004 from Brandeis University. She is currently revising her dissertation, entitled “ A Page, A Day: A History of the Daily Diary in America,” an unconventional survey of diary keeping that uses the diary as a lens through which to view the transformation of nineteenth-century American culture, such as the rise of the market, the move towards mechanical time-consciousness, and the growth of a more individuated self. Her research and teaching interests include women’s history, the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, material culture and consumption, U.S. immigration, and the sociology of time. She has published articles in the New England Quarterly and the online history journal Commonplace (http://www.common-place.org). McCarthy was awarded the 2003-2004 Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts, and has received research support from a variety of institutions including the Winterthur Library and Museum, the Newberry Library, and the Hagley Library. Before returning to graduate school, McCarthy was a journalist and member of the Newsday reporting team awarded the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the TWA 800 crash.

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