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Dr. Sara Tabak Damiano

  • Associate Professor - History

Education

Doctorate Degree

PhD in History

Johns Hopkins University, 2015

Master's Degree

MA in History

Johns Hopkins University, 2010

Bachelor's Degree

BA in History

Brown University, 2008

  • Damiano, Sara Tabak. Faculty Development Leave. (Submitted: October 2022, Funded: January 2024 - May 2024). Grant.
  • Damiano, Sara Tabak. Policing Households: Law Enforcement in Colonial American Cities, Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, $8000. (Submitted: October 13, 2020, Funded: January 1, 2021 - May 31, 2022). Grant.
  • Damiano, Sara Tabak. History Department Research Fund, $1800. (Submitted: February 17, 2020, Funded: February 27, 2020 - August 31, 2020). Grant.
  • Damiano, Sara Tabak. History Department Research Fund, $1230. (Submitted: February 17, 2019, Funded: March 8, 2019 - August 31, 2019). Grant.
  • Damiano, Sara Tabak. To Her Credit: Gender, Law, and Economic Life in Eighteenth-Century American Cities, Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, $8000. (Submitted: October 11, 2016, Funded: July 1, 2017 - August 31, 2017). Grant.
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  • Damiano, S. T. (2024). Gender and Family. In T. Burnard, E. Hart, & M. Houllemare (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years War (pp. 653–670). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
  • Damiano, S. T. (2021). Women and the Law. In T. Burnard (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Oxford University Press.
  • Damiano, S. T. (2021). To Her Credit: Women, Finance, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England Cities. Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Damiano, S. T. (2017). Writing Women’s History Through the Revolution: Family Finances, Letter Writing and Conceptions of Marriage. William and Mary Quarterly, 74, no. 4, 697–728.
  • Damiano, S. T. (2015). Agents at Home: Wives, Lawyers, and Financial Competence in Eighteenth-Century New England Port Cities. Early American Studies, 13, no. 4, 808–835.
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  • Award / Honor Nominee: History Department Nominee, Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, Associate/Full Level. February 1, 2024
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. June 2023
  • Award / Honor Nominee: History Department Nominee, Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities, Lecturer/Assistant Professor Level. February 1, 2021
  • Award / Honor Recipient: College of Liberal Arts Golden Apple for Teaching, Texas State University College of Liberal Arts. August 2020
  • Award / Honor Nominee: College of Liberal Arts Nominee, Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, Texas State University. February 28, 2020
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  1. Reviewer / Referee

    Law and History Review

  2. Editorial Review Board Member

    Journal of the Early Republic

  3. Chair

    Search Committee, Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine in Early North America and the Atlantic World, 1500-1800

  4. Member

    Member, American Historical Association Book Prize Committee for Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society

  5. Chair

    History Department Graduate Studies Committee

  6. Member

    Graduate Council

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