Laura Prieto
- Name
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Phone
- 617-521-2253
- Office
- 300 The Fenway - C-319C , MA
- laura.prieto@simmons.edu
Laura Prieto teaches courses in U.S. history, including Women and Gender, Race, and American Cultures. Her book, At Home in the Studio: The Professionalization of Women Artists in America (Harvard University Press, 2001) studies how women painters, sculptors, and illustrators created a professional identity for themselves in the face of exclusion. Other publications include contributions to Women and the Arts , the Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia , and the Journal of the Early Republic.
Her ongoing research centers on American womanhood and imperialism during the era of the Spanish-American War.