性视界传媒

Associate Professor of History

Year Joined RCNJ: 2010

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-7735
• Email: staranto@ramapo.edu
• Office: A-211
• Office Hours: M 9:00-12:00 pm

Education:

• A.B. Duke University
• A.M. Brown University
• Ph.D. Brown University
• CV 2025

Courses Offered:

• HIST 102: Modern America Since 1865
• HIST 216: Abortion in American History
• HIST 226: The 1960s, America in Transition
• HIST 231: Women and Gender in American History
• HIST 316: A History of Women in American Politics
• HIST 323: New Directions: America Since 1945
• HIST 410: Capstone: Historical Research
• First-year Seminar in the Humanities
  • The History of America鈥檚 Modern Culture Wars (first-year seminar)
  • The History of Politics in the Era of Trump (first-year seminar)

Teaching Interests:

• Post-1945 U.S. History
• U.S. Women’s History

Research Interests:

• Post-1945 U.S. Political History
• The New Right
• Feminism
• Gender and the Family

Scholarly Activity:

• Associate Editor:听听(formerly at听The Washington Post)

Books

• Suffrage at 100: Women and American Politics Since 1920, co-editor (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020).
• Kitchen-Table Politics: Conservative Women and Family Values in New York听(University of Pennsylvania Press, Politics and Culture in Modern America Series, 2017).

Articles

• Goodbye to the Party of Rockefeller: A Case Study of How the GOP Abandoned Feminist Goals in the 1970s.鈥� in听The Silent Majority: A Transatlantic Perspective, ed. Anna von der Goltz and Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson (Cambridge听University Press, 2017), p. 317-338.

• 听“Defending 鈥榃omen Who Stand By the Sink鈥�: Suburban Homemakers听and Anti-ERA Activism in New York State,鈥澨�in Making听Suburbia: New Histories of Everyday America eds. John Archer, Paul J. P. Sandul, Katherine听Solomonson (University of Minnesota Press, 2015), p.36-50.

• 听“Ellen McCormack for President: Politics and an Improbable Path to Passing Anti-Abortion Policy,”听Journal of Policy History听24, No. 2, Spring 2012.
• 听鈥淭he Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act and Its Reception in Rhode Island,鈥�听Rhode Island History听66, No. 1,听Winter/Spring 2008.

Dissertation

• “Defending ‘Family Values’: Women’s Grassroots Politics and the Republican Right, 1970-1980” (Brown University, 2010).