Kimberly A. Hamlin

Kimberly A. Hamlin is an award-winning historian, author, and professor specializing in the history of women, gender, and sex in the United States. Her most recent book Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener tells the fascinating story of the “fallen woman” who reinvented herself and became “the most potent factor” in congressional passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and the highest-ranking woman in federal government. This project received both the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Public Scholar Award and the Carrie Chapman Catt Award for Research on Women and Politics. Hamlin contributes to the Washington Post’s “Made by History” column and other media, and she regularly speaks to audiences across the country about women’s and gender history.

Author photo: Mikki Schaffner

Books by Kimberly A. Hamlin
Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener