Dr. Ginzberg is Professor of History and Women's Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of several books on 19th century women's intellectual lives and political identities.

Her most recent book, Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life, offers a view of the complicated life and legacy of the 19th century's foremost feminist thinker.

Professor Ginzberg's other books include Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman's Rights in Antebellum New York (2005) and Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States (1990).

Professor Ginzberg teaches courses in U.S. history, women's history, lesbian and gay history, and feminist theory. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University.