Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor

Professor, Department of History, University of California, Davis

American women's history, History of Capitalism, Consumer Cultures, Domestic labor, Slavery
Women in Business History

Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor is professor of history at the University of California, Davis, where she focuses on American women's history and business and economic history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Service to the BHC

Scholarly Society Liaison Committee 2014 - 2017 [Chair 2016 - 2017]

Board of Trustees 2014 - 2017

Program Committee 2008 - 2009

Prizes and Grants from the BHC

K. Austin Kerr Prize, 2004

Recent Conference Participation

2025 BHC meeting: Discussant, Forging Laboring Identities in the Atlantic World
2024 BHC Meeting: Discussant, Sewn, Mended, Printed: Textile History as Business History