Sue Grayzel


Susan R. Grayzel is an American academic historian. Since 2017, she has been Professor of History at Utah State University, having previously been Professor of History at the University of Mississippi, where she was also Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies.

Biography

Grayzel graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude in history and literature in 1986. She completed a Master of Arts degree in Late Modern European History at the University of California at Berkeley in 1989, and stayed there to complete a doctorate, awarded in 1994 for her thesis "Women's Identities at War: The Cultural Politics of Gender in Britain and France, 1914–1919".
She joined the Department of History at the University of Mississippi in 1996, eventually becoming Professor of History, but in 2017 moved to Utah State University as Professor of History. At the University of Mississippi, she was Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies from 2013, having been interim director from 2011 to 2013. In 2014, she became a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies.

Research

Grayzel's work has focused on women, war and work in modern Britain. Her publications include: