Anne Kugler
Professor/Chair
Background
Anne Kugler’s research and teaching interests include gender, culture, and politics in early modern Europe. She is author of Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper (1644-1720), an edition of selections from Sarah Cowper's diary, and articles on aging and family relations in early modern England.
Areas of Expertise
- European history and the Aegean Bronze Age
Higher education: curricular revision - faculty governance
- faculty development
Research Interests
Literary culture, aging, gender, politics in early Modern England
Education
Ph.D. History, University of MichiganM.A. Classical Archaeology, Indiana University
A.B. Classical Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College
Courses Taught
Early Modern England, French Revolution and Napoleon, Women in Europe 1500-1945, History Methods, The Spanish Armada, Revolutionary Europe, Women in Ancient Greece and Rome, Homer and the Bronze Age, Elizabethan England, History of the Supernatural, History of European MedicinePublications
The Diary of Sarah, Lady Cowper, vol. 7 in Old Age in England 1600-1800, Lynn Botelho and Susannah Ottaway, eds.. Pickering and Chatto, 2009.
‘Errant Plagiary’: The Life and Writing of Sarah Cowper, Stanford University Press, 2002.
“The Experience of Old Age” for vol. 4 (eds. S. Ottaway and R. Brannon) of A Cultural History of Old Age in the Era of Enlightenment and Revolution (eds. T. Parkin and D. Troyansky) forthcoming Bloomsbury Press 2026.
Mary Dabney, Susan Allen, Anne Kugler, Anastasia Papathanasiou, and James Wright, “The Neolithic Settlement on Tsoungiza at Ancient Nemea,” Hesperia 89:1 (March 2020) 1-65.
"Prime of life: older women in England and America" Nouvelles études d'histoire. XI : publiées à l'occasion du XXe Congrès international des sciences historiques, Sydney, 2005.
“Sarah Cowper,” and “Mary, Countess Cowper,” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
“Women and Aging: A Trans-Atlantic Perspective,” in Power and Poverty: Old Age in the Pre-Industrial Past, eds. Susannah Ottaway, Katharine Kittredge, and Lynn Botelho, Greenwood Press, 2003.
“’I Feel Myself Decay Apace’: Old Age in the Diary of Sarah, Lady Cowper,” Women and Ageing in British Society eds. Pat Thane and Lynn Botelho, Routledge, 2001.
“Constructing Wifely Identity: Prescription and Practice in the Life of Lady Sarah Cowper” Journal of British Studies 40:3 (July, 2001).
