Sara Alpern

{{Short description|Professor of United States history}} {{Infobox academic | name = | image =  |other_names = Sara Alpern-Tarlow | caption = | birth_name =  | birth_date =  | birth_place = | death_date =  | workplaces = | education = | alma_mater = University of Maryland | thesis_title = A woman of The Nation: Freda Kirchwey | thesis_url = https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6595501 | thesis_year = 1979 | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | awards = | website =  }}

'''Sara Alpern''' was a professor of history at Texas A&M University where she is known for her work on women's history, especially suffrage, eating disorders in women, and women in management.

== Education and career == Alpern studied at Western Reserve University and the University of California at Los Angeles. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1978. She began teaching at Texas A&M in 1979, first as an assistant professor and she was promoted to associate professor in 1988.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Alpern CV at Texas A&M |url=https://artsci.tamu.edu/history/_files/_documents/_profile-documents/sara-alpern.pdf}}</ref>

From 1991 until 1993 she was the president of the Women’s Faculty Network at Texas A&M.<ref name=":0" />

== Selected publications == * {{Cite book |last=Alpern |first=Sara |title=Freda Kirchwey, A Woman of the Nation |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=1987 |isbn=0674318285 |language=English}} <ref>Reviews of ''Freda Kirchwey'' * {{Cite journal |last=Wandersee |first=Winifred |date=1988 |title=Review of Freda Kirchwey: A Woman of the Nation |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1863703 |journal=The American Historical Review |volume=93 |issue=4 |pages=1132–1133 |doi=10.2307/1863703 |issn=0002-8762 |jstor=1863703|url-access=subscription }} *{{Cite journal |last=Kuczynski |first=Jürgen |date=1990 |title=Review of Freda Kirchwey, a Woman of the Nation |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40403075 |journal=Science & Society |volume=54 |issue=2 |pages=234–235 |doi=10.1177/003682379005400212 |issn=0036-8237 |jstor=40403075|url-access=subscription }} *{{Cite web |last=Sirkin |first=Elliott |date=1987-07-26 |title=The dainty firebrand who ran The Nation |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-the-dainty-firebrand-who-ran-the/157995185/ |access-date=2024-10-28 |website=Newsday; New York, New York |language=en-US}}</ref> * {{cite book |last=Alpern |first=Sara |title=The Challenge of Feminist Biography |date=1992 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=978-0-252-06292-6 |publication-place=Urbana}}<ref>Reviews of ''The Challenge of Feminist Biography'' *{{Cite journal |last=Bordin |first=Ruth |date=1994 |title=Review of The Challenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern American Women |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2080703 |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=80 |issue=4 |pages=1506–1507 |doi=10.2307/2080703 |issn=0021-8723 |jstor=2080703|url-access=subscription }} *{{Cite journal |last=Fitzpatrick |first=Ellen |date=1995 |title=Review of The Challenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern American Women |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/206665 |journal=The Journal of Interdisciplinary History |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=348–350 |doi=10.2307/206665 |issn=0022-1953 |jstor=206665|url-access=subscription }} *{{Cite journal |last=Wandersee |first=Winifred D. |date=1994 |title=Review of The Chalenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern American Women |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2167503 |journal=The American Historical Review |volume=99 |issue=2 |pages=676–677 |doi=10.2307/2167503 |issn=0002-8762 |jstor=2167503|url-access=subscription }}</ref> *{{Cite journal |last=Alpern |first=Sara |date=2005 |title=Harriet Williams Russell Strong: Inventor and California Businesswoman Extraordinaire |url=https://doi.org/10.2307/41172270 |journal=Southern California Quarterly of the Historical Society of Southern California |volume=87 |issue=3 |pages=223–268 |doi=10.2307/41172270 |jstor=41172270 |via=online.ucpress.edu|url-access=subscription }} *{{Cite book |last=Alpern-Tarlow |first=Sara |title=How Can I Change That? The Story of Advertising Woman Dorothy Dignam |date=January 29, 2020 |publisher=Independently published |isbn=979-8600300033 |publication-date=January 29, 2020}}

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