Department of History

Lynn Lubamersky studied history at the University of California at Berkeley, and at Indiana University, where she received her Ph.D.. She is an associate professor in the history department. She teaches courses in women’s history, the history of the family, and the history of early modern Europe. She has published several articles on noblewomen’s access to political power in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the eighteenth century in English, German, and Russian.  She has presented her research at several international conferences, the most recent, “Vigilante justice vs. the noblewoman’s freedom of choice in marriage and love: the foray/zajazd in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the 18th century” at the International Council for Central and East European Studies held every five years in Stockholm, Sweden.  July 28, 2010. Her long-term research projects include a collaborative inter-disciplinary research project to research, write, and stage a monologue play on the history of women in science and technology, “Off the Record,” as well as a history of the multi-cultural town of Kėdainiai, Lithuania from its establishment in the 14th century to the present.

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