Rate My Professor Emily Westkaemper

Westkaemper’s scholarly work focuses on U.S. history, women’s and gender history, and cultural history, particularly exploring gender and consumer culture, working women’s activism, popular memory of feminism, twentieth-century feminisms, and advertising history. She teaches courses on U.S. history, women’s history, historical research methods, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. Key publications include her book Selling Women's History: Packaging Feminism in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2017), the chapter “Popular Cultures” in A Companion to American Women’s History, 2nd ed. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021), and “Home Economics” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History (Oxford University Press, 2008). She also contributed as Editorial Assistant to The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, volume IV (Rutgers University Press, 2006), and co-developed “Virginia Constitution 1971: Curriculum for Undergraduate Courses” (2021). Her accolades encompass prestigious fellowships such as the Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship (2008), Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship (2007–2008), Radcliffe Institute Dissertation Grant (2006–2007), and National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar stipend (2017), alongside multiple grants from James Madison University, including the Provost’s Faculty Diversity Curriculum Development Grant (2018) and Faculty Educational Leave (Fall 2022).