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Linda K. Kerber is May Brodbeck Professor in Liberal Arts & Sciences , Professor of History and Lecturer in Law Emerita at the University of Iowa. She now lives in Hingham, and is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of History at Harvard University.

In her writing and teaching, Linda Kerber has emphasized the history of citizenship, gender and authority. Her books include Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America and No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship.

She has assisted in developing historians’ briefs for cases involving reproductive rights and same-sex marriage. In 2016 she was a co-author of the Historians’ Brief in Whole Women’s Health v Hellerstedt (579 US 582). She has served as president of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American History, and the American Studies Association. In 2006-2007 she was Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at Oxford University.