Expert on First Ladies to speak

Friday, March 27, 2015

An expert on the First Ladies of the United States, Dr. Katherine A. S. Sibley, will present “First Ladies: From Ceremony to Substance” on Monday, March 30, at 6 p.m. in room 108 of the Noble Research Center at Oklahoma State University. The free lecture is sponsored by the OSU Department of History. 

Sibley has been professor of history at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia since 1991. She is currently editing “A Companion to First Ladies”(Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming), and spoke on Florence Harding during an appearance on C-SPAN’s First Ladies series in 2013. 

The most recent book she edited was “A Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover” (Wiley-Blackwell 2014), and last year she also contributed a chapter on World War II and the postwar era in the Globalyceum historical curriculum website (www.globalyceum.com). 

She has published four monographs: “First Lady Florence Kling Harding: Behind the Tragedy and Controversy” (2009), “Red Spies in America:Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War” (2004); “The Cold War”(1998) and “Loans and Legitimacy: The Evolution of Soviet-American Relations, 1919-1933”(1996).

Sibley edits a book series, the U.S. in International Perspective, with Paradigm Publishers, and serves on the editorial board of American Communist History, as well as on the Historical Advisory Committee to the Office of the Historian at the U.S. State Department.  She guest edited an issue of Diplomatic Historyon gender and sexuality in 2012.