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Dr. Megan Threlkeld

Affiliation:Faculty
Title:Assistant Professor of History
Office:Fellows 407
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Phone:
740-587-6326

Megan Threlkeld joined the faculty at Denison in the fall of 2008. She teaches courses on the United States since the Civil War, U.S. women and gender, and U.S. foreign relations. Her other teaching interests include the history of feminism and women's international activism, U.S.-Latin American relations, and comparative imperialism.

She is currently revising for publication her dissertation, "'Woman's Challenge to the World': U.S. Women's Internationalism and U.S.-Mexican Relations, 1916-1939." In November 2007 she published an article in Diplomatic History on the 1922 Pan American Conference of Women. She has also presented papers at numerous conferences, most recently the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women and the annual meeting of the American Historical Association.

Dr. Threlkeld earned her Ph.D. and M.A. at the University of Iowa and her B.A. at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI.