Professional Affiliation

Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, University of Pennsylvania

Expert Bio

Kathy Peiss is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania.  She received her B.A. from Carleton College in 1975 and Ph.D. from Brown University in 1982.  She is the author of Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (1986); Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture (1998); Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style (2011), and Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe (2020).