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About Libra Hilde

Libra Hilde is a Professor in the Department of History in the College of Social Sciences at San Jose State University.

Positions

2018 - Present Professor, San Jose State University History
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2017 - 2018 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, Stanford University ‐ Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
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2012 - 2018 Associate Professor, San Jose State University History
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2005 - 2012 Assistant Professor, San Jose State University History
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Professional Service and Affiliations

2016 - Present Board of Trustees, Sourisseau Academy for State and Local History
Present Member, American Association of University Women
Present Member, American Historical Association
Present Member, Organization of American Historians
2021 Panelist and Organizer, African American Studies, CoSS, and the Department of History, San Jose State University
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Courses

  • History 210B: U.S. History, 1790-1900, Graduate Colloquium
  • History 276: Seminar in Early U.S. History (New World Slave Systems)
  • History 274: Seminar in U.S. Social History (Race and Gender in the Nineteenth Century)
  • History 100W: Writer’s Workshop
  • History 171 (now 181): American Constitutional and Legal History
  • History 176: The Civil War and Reconstruction
  • History 181: Sex, Gender and Medicine
  • History 175: Inventing America, 1790-1860
  • History 181: Native American Experiences
  • History 170: Topics in American History: American Citizenship

Education

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2003 Ph.D., Harvard University
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1991 B.A. magna cum laude, History and Native American Studies, University of California - Berkeley
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Presentations (7)

Publications (3)

Reviews (4)

SJSU Author & Artist Celebration (2)