Julie Des Jardins

Julie Des Jardins is a historian who writes on American women and gender. Born in Evanston, Illinois, she got her doctorate in history at Brown University and taught at Harvard and CUNY. Her books are conversations between the past, the present, and the future. From Madame Curie, to Walter Camp, to Missy Meloney, her subjects have been specially picked because they shed light on questions that preoccupy us now: the "woman" problem in STEM, the crisis of CTE in football and constructions American masculinity, the dilemma of 'work-life balance,' and the animosity against women in charge.