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Texas State University

Dr. Sara Tabak Damiano

  • Associate Professor - History
  • TMH 223
  • tel:+15122455750
  • std35@txstate.edu
  • Grants
  • Scholarly/Creative work
  • Awards
  • Service

Featured grants

  • 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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Featured scholarly/creative works

  • 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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Featured awards

  • 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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Featured service activities

  1. Editorial Review Board Member

    Journal of the Early Republic

    July 2025 - Present
  2. Member

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

    2024 - Present
  3. Reviewer / Referee

    Law and History Review

    November 2024 - Present
  4. Chair

    History Department Graduate Studies Committee

    August 2024 - Present
  5. Member

    Graduate Council

    August 2024 - Present
  6. Member

    Liddle Fellowship Selection Committee

    January 2023 - Present
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