Arianne Jessica Chernock (born 1975) is an American historian specialized in modern Britain and the

history of Europe The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500 to AD 1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first ea ...

. She has written two books on

women's rights Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countri ...

and the history of women in the United Kingdom. Chernock is a professor at

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original cam ...

Life

Chernock completed a B.A.

magna cum laude Latin honors are a system of Latin phrases used in some colleges and universities to indicate the level of distinction with which an academic degree has been earned. The system is primarily used in the United States. It is also used in some Sou ...

in the department of history at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

in May 1997. She completed a M.A. (1999) and a Ph.D. (2004) in the department of history at

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant un ...

. Her dissertation committee chairs were

Thomas W. Laqueur Thomas Walter Laqueur (born September 6, 1945) is an American historian, sexologist and writer. He is the author of ''Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation'' and ''Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud'' as well as many ...

and Carla Hesse. Chernock was an assistant professor in the university writing program at

Columbian College of Arts and Sciences The Columbian College of Arts and Sciences (known as Columbian College or CCAS) is the college of liberal arts and sciences of the George Washington University, in Washington, D.C. The Columbian College is especially known for its programs in fo ...

from 2004 to 2006. In 2006, she joined the faculty in the at

department of history as an assistant professor. She was promoted to associate professor in 2013.

Selected works

* Reviews of Men and the Making of Modern British Feminism: * * * *

References

Living people Place of birth missing (living people) American women historians Historians of the United Kingdom Brown University alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni 21st-century American historians Columbian College of Arts and Sciences faculty Boston University faculty 21st-century American women writers 1975 births {{US-historian-stub