Cynthia Eagle Russett (February 1, 1937 ― December 5, 2013) was an

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, noted for her studies of 19th century American intellectual history, and women and

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. Russett was born Cynthia Eagle in

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, on February 1, 1937.Margalit Fox
"Cynthia Russett, Historian of Women, Dies at 76"
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'', Dec. 19, 2013. She studied history as an undergraduate at Trinity College in

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, earning a bachelor's degree, and then did graduate work at Yale University, earning a Master's from Yale in 1959 and a Ph.D. from Yale in 1964.Matthew Lloyd-Thomas
"Cynthia Russett, Longtime Yale Historian, Dies"
''Yale Daily News'', Dec. 6, 2013. Her dissertation was awarded Yale's highest honor for American history dissertations, the George Washington Eggleston Prize. She joined the Yale faculty in 1967, and was eventually appointed the Larnard Professor of History. Russett's spouse is a fellow Yale faculty member,

Bruce Russett Bruce Martin Russett (born 1935) is Dean Acheson Professor of Political Science and Professor in International and Area Studies, MacMillan Center, Yale University, and edited the ''Journal of Conflict Resolution'' from 1972 to 2009. Academic car ...

, and the couple had four children together.

Notable works

* ''The Extraordinary Mrs. R: A Friend Remembers Eleanor Roosevelt'' (1999, with William Turner Levy) * ''Second to None: A Documentary History of American Women'' (1993), edited with Ruth Barnes Moynihan and Laurie Crumpacker * ''Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood'' (1989,

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) (winner, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Annual Book Award) * ''Darwin in America: The Intellectual Response, 1865-1912'' (1976) * ''The Concept of Equilibrium in American Social Thought'' (1968)

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1937 births 2013 deaths Women's studies academics Yale University faculty Yale University alumni Trinity Washington University alumni American historians Deaths from multiple myeloma American women historians 21st-century American women {{US-historian-stub