Lara Vapnek

Lara Vapnek specializes in the history of gender and labor in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States.She is the author of Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920 (2009) and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Modern American Revolutionary (2015). Vapnek’s articles appear in Feminist Studies, the Journal of Women’s History, and No Permanent Waves: Recasting the History U.S. Feminism. Vapnek serves as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians and as a scholarly advisor to the New-York Historical Society and the Alice Austen House. She is a Fellow at the New York Academy of History. Her current research examines the history of infant feeding and public health in New York City from the 1850s through the 1930s.​