Serena Covkin

Affiliation:

University of Chicago

Advisor:

Amy Dru Stanley and Kathleen Belew

Academic Interests:

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. history
Women's and gender history
Legal history
War, culture, and society

Dissertation:

Armed for Citizenship: War and Women's Rights in Twentieth-Century America

Bio Note:

Serena is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. Her dissertation, "Armed for Citizenship: War and Women's Rights in Twentieth-Century America," focuses on a series of twentieth-century U.S. Supreme Court cases that reshaped American women’s rights and obligations within a nation perpetually at war. She holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. from the University of Chicago.


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