Martha A. Sandweiss

Martha A. Sandweiss is professor of history and American studies at Amherst College. Martha A. Sandweiss received a Ph.D. in history from Yale University. She began her career as a photography curator at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. She then taught American studies and history at Amherst College for twenty years. She is currently a professor of history at Princeton University. She has written numerous books on American history and photography including Print the Legend: Photography and the American West, which won the Organization of American Historians' Ray Allen Billington Award for the best book in American frontier history and the William P. Clements Award; Laura Gilpin: An Enduring Grace, which won the George Wittenborn Award for outstanding art book of 1987; and Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Passing Strange… (més)