Hello! My friends call me Peggy, and I'm a professor of history, politics, and women's studies at in the Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship & Public Affairs at Syracuse University. If you are interested in some of what I teach, then you can click here.
My main research interest is in the history of Catholic women's religious life--in other words, sisters and nuns! Think that's strange? Then check out the site I've set up on the subject: SisterSite! I guarantee it will rid you of any notion that sisters are dull, humorless, and out of touch with reality....
I'm currently in the final stages of writing a book on the "Americanization" of religious life. Its title is The Yoke of Grace: American Nuns and Social Change, 1809-1917, and it will be published by Oxford University Press. For more about my professional background and activities, please go to my curriculum vitae.
Meanwhile, if you want to know more about Syracuse, NY, where I live, you might want to check out the following:
Here is a map of my neighborhood in Syracuse! My house is marked by the little red cross....But what you can't tell from this map is that I live on the top of a hill and, from my living room window, I have a glorious view of sunsets and city lights!
In the near future, I intend to put more stuff here, but this will have to do until I can "move in" more fully. For now, the links to Syracuse and on SisterSite should keep you busy--until I can furnish this place more fully. Or.... Why don't you go visit my good friend, Liz West? In "real life," she lives in Wagga Wagga, NSW, in Oz (Australia, y'know)--but, in the wonderful world of Cyberspace, she's right across the street, at #1115.
This site is still under construction!
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