Deborah Simonton

Deborah Simonton is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Associate Professor of British History, emerita, University of Southern Denmark, Visiting Professor, University of Turku. She was Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Utah State University (2016). She publishes on women’s work, gender and towns and girlhood, including A History of European Women’s Work (1998), Women in European Culture and Society, and Sourcebook (2006, 2007). Her network Gender in the European Town led to six volumes and she is General Editor of The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience (2017). With Anne Montenach she won the Association of American Publishers Prose Award for The Cultural History of Work (6 vols, Bloomsbury, 2018). Her Gender in the European Town (Routledge 2023) is in production. She is also co-editor with Katie Barclay and Elaine Chalus of the Routledge History of Loneliness (2023) in production. She is contributing to the Cultural History of Luxury and the Cambridge History of Urban Europe and is writing a history of The Working Girl and Girlhood in the eighteenth century and a four volume sources set for Routledge on Women in Industry, 1760–1914.