Mary Ryan

John Martin Vincent Professor of History
19th century U.S., Urban, Cultural Landscape, Gender History

The Johns Hopkins University
Department of History
2850 North Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21218

Telephone: 410-516-7594
E-mail: mpryan@jhu.edu

Office Hours:  Monday 2:00-4:00pm, Wednesday 9:30-11:30am
Dell House 1403D

Curriculum Vitae

Since I joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins in 2002 I have moved further along the two interrelated paths of historical study that have long fascinated me. First I completed  a synthetic work which  tries to capture (and encapsulate in a few chapters covering 500 years)  the  way  women’s and gender analysis has changed the big picture of U. S. history.  The book will appear in November of 2006 under the title: Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Women and Men through American History 1500 to 2000.   As I finish this project I am also launching a new stage of my work as a 19^th century urban historian which focuses on space and place in history-- such spaces as public squares,  plazas and monuments, and such places as Los Angeles and Baltimore.  My ongoing research on antebellum Baltimore  also takes me into issues of race, slavery and Civil War.   All these facets of my research benefit immensely from opportunities to team-up and work comparatively with Hopkins faculty and graduate students. 

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