Background
Ruth M. Alexander was born on March 23, 1954, in New York, United States. Daughter of Charles K. (an actor, playwright, and director) and Margaret (a psychiatric social worker; maiden name, Kachur) Alexander.
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Ruth M. Alexander was born on March 23, 1954, in New York, United States. Daughter of Charles K. (an actor, playwright, and director) and Margaret (a psychiatric social worker; maiden name, Kachur) Alexander.
Ruth M. Alexander studied at City College of the City University of New York and gained a B.A. degree (cum laude) in 1976. Then she studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and got an M.A. degree in 1983. In 1990 she gained Ph.D. at Cornell University. In 1994-1995 she conducted a Postdoctoral Study at Colorado State University.
Ruth M. Alexander was an assistant professor at Colorado State University in 1988-1993. Since 1993 she has served as Professor of Department of History at Colorado State University. since 1996 she is a member of board of directors at University Press of Colorado. She is also Faculty Council Chair of the Public Lands History Center at Colorado State University. She has published "The 'Girl Problem': Female Sexual Delinquency in New York 1900-1930" and co-edited with Sharon Block and Mary Beth Norton "Major Problems in American Women's History: Documents and Essays". Ruth M. Alexander is working on a number of article and book projects at the present time.
Ruth M. Alexander was awarded Judith Lee Ridge Article Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians in 1989 for “‘We Are Engaged as a Band of Sisters’: Class and Domesticity in the Washingtonian Temperance Movement, 1840-50”. She was also named Outstanding Professor of the Year by the Mortar Board in 1995. Ruth M. Alexander won a Schlesinger Library grant from Radcliffe College in 1995-1996. Her book “Girl Problem’’ was named an outstanding academic book for 1996 by Choice.
