Biography

Sara Evans is Regents Professor and Distinguished McKnight University Professor of History Emerita at the University of Minnesota. Her research has focused on the history of American feminism as a social movement and its relationship to a variety of related movements for equal rights. Her books include Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left, Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America, and Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century’s End. She has served as Chair of the Department of History and Director of the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies; in editorial positions with Feminist Studies and the Journal of American History; and has received grants from the ACLS, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, the Kellogg Foundation and the Bush Foundation. She received the College of Liberal Arts Dean’s Medal in 1998, the President’s Award for Outstanding Service in 1999, and the University of Minnesota Outstanding Teaching Award in Graduate and Post-Baccalaureate Education in 2003.