Dale Booth

Dale Booth specializes in British social and cultural history from 1600-1900, with specific focus on the history of the body, queer and trans history, labor history, and the history of science. Prior to joining Barnard, they taught at Bryn Mawr College in the Department of History and in the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, as well as at Rutgers University. Professor Booth teaches courses on queer and trans history, the history of witchcraft and magic, urban histories of Britain, and the history of Europe since the Renaissance. 

Professor Booth is working on their first book project titled “Fluid Economies, Fluid Identities: Gender, Water, and Work in Britain, 1600-1900” which brings together a social and economic history of women in the fishing industry, with an inquiry into scientific discourses and popular understandings of sex, gender, and species.

Education

• Ph.D. in History, Rutgers University
• M.A. in Comparative History, College of William & Mary
• B.A. in History and Anthropology, College of William & Mary