WHC Advisory Board Member

Dr. Susan Armitage

Washington State University, Pullman

Susan Armitage is Claudius O. and Mary Johnson Distinguished Professor of History at Washington State University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of London (London School of Economics and Political Science). An authority on women in the U.S. West, her publications include numerous articles on western women's history and women's oral history.

Publications

• co-editor of The Women's West (1987)
• co-editor of So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier (1990)
• co-editor of Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West (1998)
• She also is a co-author of the U.S. history textbook Out of Many (Prentice Hall) now in its fifth edition.
• From 1995 to 2003, she edited Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies