Ellen Litwicki
Professor
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1992
E307 Thompson Hall
Office Phone: 716/673-3879
E-mail: ellen.litwicki@fredonia.edu
Research Interests: My research focuses on the history and significance of American cultural rituals of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Previous project was a history of American holidays. Current project is a cultural history of gift giving in the United States.
Teaching Interests: I teach courses on American cultural history and the Gilded Age/Progressive Era history. In the past, I have taught the following courses:
- Hist 106 U.S. History since 1877
- Hist 201 Doing History
- Hist/Amst 215 Holidays and American Cultures
- Hist 330 Industrial America, 1880-1920
- Hist 338 19th Century American Culture
- Hist 339 20th Century American Culture
- Hist 353 U.S. Consumer Culture
- Hist 490 Public History Internship