Name: Catherine Allgor
Category: Public Policy: The Presidential Race
Title: First Ladies --Professor of History
Degree: Ph.D. Yale University, 1998
Areas of Expertise: Allgor is available to speak about the role of political women in the formation of U.S. government and the importance of the nation's first ladies. She is the author of "Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington City Help Build a City and a Government" and a biography of Dolley Madison. "Successful first ladies run the unofficial machine of politics, the social sphere, where much business is accomplished," Allgor says. Michelle Obama is an intelligent, professional woman with two young daughters to raise. Although she hasn't announced which causes she will champion, they likely will involve children and support for military families, Allgor says.
One of Allgor's more recent appearances was in a PBS documentary about Andrew Jackson.
Recognition: Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2002-2003
James H. Broussard First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, 2000
Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association Annual Book Award, 2000
The Lerner-Scott Prize for the Best Dissertation in U.S. History, Organization of American Historians, 1999
George Washington Egleston Prize for the Best Dissertation in American History, Yale University, 1998.
Yale Prize Teaching Fellowship, Yale University, 1998.
Outside Activities:
Books include Parlor Politics
www.upress.virginia.edu/books/allgor.html
Languages Spoken: English
E-mail: catherine.allgor@ucr.edu
Phone: 951-827-1972
Preferred Media: Print, Radio, Video
Media Contact:
- Bettye Miller
bettye.miller@ucr.edu
(951) 827-7847