Deborah Valenze

Deborah M. Valenze is an American historian and professor known for her work in British cultural and economic history. She is currently the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her research and teaching have covered the impact of political economy on social thought in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the cultural history of economic life in Europe, the history of food and commodities, women’s work and industrialization, and the social history of religion.