Who is Edith schwalb?

Edith Schwalb is an American historian, currently Distinguished Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies at Indiana University. She is the Charles Warren Research Professor of American History, an honorific title named for Charles Warren, a professor at Harvard Law School who played an influential role in the formation of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. She specializes in the histories of labor and women, particularly of the mid-twentieth century.

Schwalb graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1971. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973 and 1985 respectively. She joined the history faculty at Indiana University, her alma mater, in 1990. She served as Director of the Center for the Study of History and Gender from 1998 to 2002. She served as president of the Southern Labor Studies Association from 2002 to 2003 and president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era from 2009 to 2011. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She became a Charles Warren Research Professor of American History in 2015.

Schwalb has written six monographs and edited or co-edited an additional fourteen books. They include:

- Wages of War: The Fall of the German Empire, 1914–1918 (2002)

- Women and the Great War (2014)

- The Long Postwar: Economic Recovery and Social Justice in Europe, 1945–1980 (2019)

Her work has been widely reviewed in academic journals and popular media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. She has given public lectures at museums and historical societies across the United States. She also writes regular blog posts for the _HuffPost_, where she discusses current events in historical context.