![]() In 1995, she accepted a position at Harvard University as James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History and Professor of Women’s Studies. By then, she had become a full- time member of the UNH history department. Her second book, A Midwife’s Tale followed in 1990. ![]() ![]() She published her revised dissertation Good Wives with Alfred A. in Early American History in 1980, she accepted a part-time position administering a freshmen humanities program at UNH. Taking advantage of tuition benefits available to faculty wives, she gradually shifted her focus from literature to history. Taking one course a semester, she completed an MA in English at Simmons College in 1971.īy then, she and her family had moved to Durham, New Hampshire, where Gael took a faculty position in the Engineering School at the University of New Hampshire. Exponent II (now a magazine available in print or on-line). ![]() During the next ten years, while engaged with her growing family, she worked with a dynamic group of Mormon women to produce a popular guidebook to Boston (a fund-raising project for their local congregation) and helped to found a Mormon feminist newspaper. That fall she moved with her husband, Gael Ulrich, to Boston, Massachusetts so he could begin graduate work at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). She graduated from the University of Utah in 1960 with a BA in English. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich was born in 1938 in Sugar City, Idaho. Photograph by Jim Harrison, Harvard Magazine, 1999. ![]()
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