Laura S. Schor, former Provost of Hunter College and founding Dean of the Macaulay Honors College, is Professor of History at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, USA. She also directed the Center for Women’s Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Schor is the author of four books on women’s history in France:
Women and the Making of the Working Class: Lyon, 1830-1870;
What Were Little Girls and Boys Made Of? Gender Role Socialization in France, 1830-1880;
The Odyssey of Flora Tristan; and
The Life and Legacy of the Baroness Betty de Rothschild. She has also written two books about women’s history in Jerusalem:
The Best School in Jerusalem: Annie Landau’s School for Girls, 1900-1960; and
Sophie Halaby in Jerusalem: An Artist’s Life.