Tessie Liu
Department of History

Tessie P. Liu, (PhD Michigan), Associate Professor of History. teaches comparative women's history and modern European history. In 1994 she published The Weaver's Knot: The Contradictions of Class Struggle and Family Solidarity in Western France, 1750 to 1914. Her current research focuses on the role of gender in the historical construction of the concept of race during the French Revolution. She also has published articles on race and multiculturalism in women's history. Recently joining Feminist Studies as an editor, she continues to serve on the editorial collective of Gender and History. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, American Council for Learned Societies and the National Endowment for Humanities.

t-liu@northwestern.edu