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Catherine Rymph

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Iowa
area: 20th-century U.S. history, U.S. Women's History
office: 315 Read Hall
phone: 573-882-4320
email: rymphc@missouri.edu
office hours: on leave 2007-2008

B.A., Indiana University, 1988
P.hD., University of Iowa, 1998

Professor Rymph came to the University of Missouri in 2000. She previously taught at the University of Iowa and as Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Greifswald in Germany.

She specializes in recent US history, especially US women’s political history. Her first book explored feminism and conservatism within the Republican Party. She is currently researching the history of the U.S. foster care system.

Professor Rymph regularly offers courses in twentieth century US history and US women’s history, several of which are cross-listed with the Women’s and Gender Studies Department.

She is on leave during the academic year 2007-2008.

Recent Work

Republican Women: Feminism and Conservatism from Suffrage to the Rise of the New Right (UNC Press, 2006).

Courses Offered

Undergraduate:
History 2210: Twentieth Century America
History 2230: US Women’s Political History
History 2400: Social History of US Women
History 4004: Historical Perspectives on Child Welfare, Adoption, and the Family
History 4220: US between the Wars: 1918-1941

Graduate:
History 7220: US between the Wars: 1918-1914
History 8210: Readings in Recent US History
History 8211: Seminar in Recent US History

 

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Professor Rymph
Professor Rymph

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Republican Women