Kirstin Swinth

Kirstin Swinth is Professor of History and American Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of Feminism’s Forgotten Fight: The Unfinished Struggle for Work and Family (Harvard University Press, 2018) and Painting Professionals: Women Artists and the Development of Modern American Art, 1870–1930 (University of North Carolina Press, 2001). Recipient of Mellon, ACLS, and Getty fellowships, Swinth is currently at work on a new book, The Rise of the Working Family: A Story of Promise, Peril, and Working Mothers at the Breaking Point, 1975–2020.