American historian

Charlotte J. Erickson (October 22, 1923 in Oak Park, Illinois – July 9, 2008 in Cambridge) was an American historian.

Contents

• 1 Life
• 2 Awards
• 3 Works
• 4 References

Life

Erickson was born in Oak Park, Illinois a suburb of Chicago, where her father was a Swedish Lutheran minister. She graduated from Augustana College at Rock Island, Illinois in 1945, and from Cornell University with a MA and a PhD.

In 1944, when she attended the summer seminar of the Ins*ute of World Affairs.She studied at the London School of Economics, between 1948 and 1950, under the guidance of Professor T.S. Ashton and under Professor David Gl*.In 1950 to 1952, she taught at V*ar College.

She returned to England in 1952 to marry Louis Watt; they had two sons, Tom and David; but their marriage was dissolved in 1992.

In 1976–78, she was Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at the California Ins*ute of Technology. In 1982, she was the Paul Mellon chair of American History at Cambridge University. From 1983 to 1986 she was chair of the British *ociation for American Studies.

Awards

• 1966–67 Guggenheim Fellow in Washington D.C.
• 1990 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

• American Industry and the European Immigrant, 1860-5, Harvard University Press, 1957
• British industrialists: steel and hosiery, 1850-1950 University Press, 1960
• Invisible Immigrants: the adaptation of English and Scottish immigrants in 19th-century America London School of Economics and Political Science; Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972, ISBN:9780297994688
• Leaving England: essays on British emigration in the nineteenth century, Cornell University Press, 1994, ISBN:978-0-8014-2820-3

References