Arianne Chernock

Arianne Chernock is a Professor of History at Boston University. She is the author of Men and the Making of Modern British Feminism (Stanford 2010), which won the Jon Ben Snow Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies. Her second book, The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women: Queen Victoria and the Women’s Movement, was published with Cambridge University Press in 2019. The book explores women’s rights campaigners’ engagement with Queen Victoria – and the backlash that their engagement precipitated. Material from this project was published in Victorian Studies, Romantic Circles Praxis Series, and in the edited collection Engendering Women’s History: A Global Project (NYU Press, 2013). Chernock is currently pursuing two new projects. One is a study of transatlantic theater in the interwar period. (An article on Laurence Housman’s Victoria Regina recently appeared in Twentieth Century British History.) The other – Wake Up, Women – is a group biography of women involved in Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953. Chernock will be using their stories as entry points into a broader reconsideration of women’s aims and ambitions in the immediate postwar period.

Chernock is currently serving as Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Social Sciences.