Elizabeth Garner Masarik

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Elizabeth Garner Masarik, Ph.D

(She/Her)

Assistant Professor

(585) 395-5625
emasarik@brockport.edu
Office: Liberal Arts 308
Website

Education

• PhD, University at Buffalo, 2020
• M.A., University at Buffalo, 2014
• B.A., University of Texas- Austin, 2001

Areas of Specialty

• U.S. Women’s History
• The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
• Welfare 
• Gender History

Courses Taught

• HST 478/578 Gender and Race in Modern America
• HST 511 New York History: The Empire State
• HST 615 Readings Seminar in Modern American History
• HST 651 U.S. Women’s History
• HST 420/420 From America’s Centennial to Pearl Harbor
• HST 390 U.S. Women’s Suffrage
• HST 333 Latinx History of the United States
• HST 328 Women in America
• HST 311 New York History
• HST 212 Modern American Seminar

• Awards/Recognitions
  • A. Elizabeth Taylor Article Prize from the Southern Association of Women Historians, 2020
  • Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching, UB History Department, 2019
  • Nominee, Excellence in Teaching Award for Graduate Teaching Assistants, UB, 2019
  • Fellow, University at Buffalo Humanities Institute, 2018-2019
  • Fellow, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University at Buffalo, 2017-2018
  • The American Association for State and Local History, Award of Merit, 2017
• Recent Publications
  • The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Created the American Welfare State, University of Georgia Press, 2023 (in production). 
  • Spiritualism’s Place: A Reflective History of Lily Dale, New York. Co-written with the producers of Dig: A History Podcast. Cornell University Three Hills Press, 2024 (in production). 
  • “Por la Raza, Para la Raza: Jovita Idar and Progressive-Era Mexicana Maternalism along the Texas–Mexico Border,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, vol. 122, no. 3, January 2019.

Current Projects

• Since 2014 I have been a producer for the award-winning podcast, Dig: A History Podcast.
• My new project focuses on the connections of Spiritualism and the women’s suffrage movement in the early twentieth century.