Lois G. Schwoerer Explained

Lois Green Schwoerer, born June 4, 1927 in Roanoke, Virginia, is an American historian of seventeenth century England and Elmer Louis Kayser Professor Emeritus of History at George Washington University. From 1976 to 2008, she taught advanced courses on the Renaissance, Tudor-Stuart England, and European Women, along with the survey course on Western Europe. She helped create the Women’s Studies major. She graduated from Smith College (BA 1949) and took a PhD from Bryn Mawr University in 1956. Schwoerer was elected President of the North American Conference on British Studies. She received awards from the American Philosophical Society, Folger Shakespeare Library, National Endowment for the Humanities, the Huntington Library, and the British Royal History Society. Scholars presented her with a festschrift, Politics and the Political Imagination in Later Stuart Britain (1997). She was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters from George Washington University in 2002.[1] [2]

She has contributed four articles to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.[3]

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  1. Directory of American Scholars: History (1978) p. 610.
  2. See Columbian College of Arts & Sciences, "Emeritus Faculty--Lois G. Schwoerer"
  3. http://www.oxforddnb.com/search/results/contributors.jsp?contributorId=41160 Contributor page