Carol Berkin

Carol Berkin received her B.A. from Barnard College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University where she won the Bancroft Dissertation Award. She is professor of history at Baruch College and deputy chair of the department of history at the Graduate Center. She teaches early American and women's history. Her publications include: Jonathan Sewall: Odyssey of an American Loyalist (1974); Women of America: A History (1980); First Generations: Women of Colonial America (1996); and Women's Voices/Women's Lives: Documents in Early American History (1998). Carol Berkin has worked as a consultant on several PBS and History Channel documentaries, including, _Crime Stories: The Scottsboro Boys (1998) (TV)_, which was nominated for an Academy Award as the best documentary of 2000. She has also appeared as a commentator on screen in the PBS series by Ric Burns , _"New York: A Documentary Film" (1999) (mini)_ and in the A&E series, Founding Fathers (2000) and "The Tartan Apple: the Scots in New York City" (2003) (TV)_.