Leslie Butler

|Associate Professor
Academic Appointments
  • Associate Professor of History

  • Vice Chair, Department of History

Leslie Butler is an American intellectual and cultural historian, with an emphasis on the nineteenth century. She is the author of two books: Consistent Democracy: The "Woman Question" and Self-Government in Nineteenth Century America (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform (University of North Carolina Press, 2007).

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Contact

646-9350
Carson Hall, Room C202
HB 6107

Department(s)

History

Education

  • B.A. University of Rochester
  • M.Phil. Yale University
  • Ph.D. Yale University

Selected Publications

  • Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007).

    Consistent Democracy: The "Woman Question" and Self-Government in Nineteenth Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2023).

  • "Ideas in American History," Nicholas Guyatt, ed., Oxford Illustrated History of the United States of America (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2023).

  • "The Liberal North Atlantic," The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 2, 1812-1900 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021).

  • "The 'Woman Question' in the Age of Democracy: From Movement History to Problem History," in Joel Isaac, James T. Kloppenberg, Michael O'Brien, and Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, eds., The Worlds of American Intellectual History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017).

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Works In Progress

Travel Writers and the Social Scientific Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America (book-length project)