About the Presenter
Charlene M. Boyer Lewis is the Larry J. Bell Distinguished Professor in American History at Kalamazoo College. She is also the Chair of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Department as well as the Director of American Studies. She is a co-editor of the Jeffersonian America Series for the University Press of Virginia.
She received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and M.A. from American University. She specializes in women’s history, family history, and American cultural and social history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is the author of Ladies and Gentlemen on Display: Planter Society at the Virginia Springs, 1790-1860 and Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte: An American Aristocrat in the Early Republic.
Her article entitled “Modern Gratitude: Patriarchy, Romance, and Recrimination in the Early Republic” appeared in the Journal of the Early Republic in Spring, 2019. Most recently, she co-edited and had an essay in The Women in George Washington’s World, published in 2022 by the University of Virginia Press. Her current project is an examination of Margaret Shippen Arnold, the wife of Benedict Arnold, and American culture in the Revolutionary Era and will be published by Norton in early 2027.