Bio

Anya Jabour is an award-winning author whose scholarship has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Atlas Oscura, the Huffington Post, and other media outlets. She is a regular contributor to The Conversation and to “Made by History” in the Washington Post. Dr. Jabour earned her Ph.D. from Rice University and is Regents Professor of History at the University of Montana, where she  teaches U.S. women's history, the history of American families and children, and the history of gender and sexuality in the U.S. She also is a public historian whose projects include the PBS docudrama Mercy Street. Her new book, Sex Matters: Katharine Bement Davis and the Pioneering Study of Female Sexuality, is forthcoming from NYU Press.

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Books

My books explore the private lives and public roles of women and children in 19th and 20th century America.