Professor Sarah Watts
U.S., Economic History
e-mail: watts@wfu.edu

Education:
BA, Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts
MA and PhD, University of Oklahoma

Courses offered:
FYS Education in America;
FYS Manhood in America;
Hst 104: The World since 1500;
Hst 350: Global Economic History;
Hst 358: US history Victorian Era;
Hst 361: US Economic History;
Hst 310: Seminar: Race, Gender, Empire.

Professional and research interests: Social and cultural constructions of meaning; US economic elites and ideas regarding the working class; US political elites, race, and empire.

Selected Publications:

Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Paper 2006).

“Built Languages of Class: Skyscrapers and Labor Protest in Victorian Public Space” in The American Skyscraper Cultural Histories, Roberta Moudry, ed. Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Order Against Chaos: Business Culture and Labor Ideology, 1880-1920 (New York: Greenwood, 1990).