Lisa Norling is a U.S.

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

noted for her pioneering work on gender and the sea. As such she is part of a new move in maritime historiography to examine gender, race and class in relation to seafaring labor, passengers and people in port cities (i.e. interfaces with the sea).

Life

She graduated from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

, magna cum laude, and from

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

with a Ph.D. She teaches at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. ...

. She also teaches at the Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies at

Mystic Seaport Mystic Seaport Museum or Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea in Mystic, Connecticut is the largest maritime museum in the United States. It is notable for its collection of sailing ships and boats and for the re-creation of the cra ...

, and serves as a consultant to the USS Constitution Museum. She became involved in the Minnesota "Profile of Learning" controversy."Curriculum Policy, Controversy, and Change: Minnesota's Profile of Learning, 1993-2003", ''University of Minnesota'', Peggy Reed DeLapp
/ref> In 1994, she married

Steven Ruggles Steven Ruggles (born May 8, 1955) is Regents Professor of History and Population Studies at the University of Minnesota, and the director of the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation. He is best known as the creator of IPUMS, the worl ...

, another historian. She currently lives in

Minneapolis Minneapolis () is the largest city in Minnesota, United States, and the county seat of Hennepin County. The city is abundant in water, with thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks and waterfalls. Minneapolis has its origins ...

with her two children and her husband.

Awards

* 2001 Frederick Jackson Turner Award * 2000 John Lyman Book Awards for best book in American Maritime History,

North American Society for Oceanic History The North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH) is the national organization in the United States of America for professional historians, underwater archeologists, archivists, librarians, museum specialists and others working in the broad fi ...

Works

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References

American women historians American maritime historians Cornell University alumni Rutgers University alumni University of Minnesota faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime History faculty 20th-century American historians 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American historians 21st-century American women writers {{US-historian-stub