Research Associate Professor
Studies in Women and Gender
Fellow, Virginia Center for Digital History
University of Virginia
hcs8n@virginia.edu

A member of Studies in Women and Gender at the University of Virginia, Holly Cowan Shulman was born in New York City and educated at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and the University of Maryland. She taught in the history at the University of Maryland for many years where she was also Associate Director of the College Park Scholars Program in Science, Technology and
Society. Her initial scholarship was devoted to the history of the American media and international communications. More recently, she has turned her interest in communications into development of history on the world wide web, and focused her research on women in the United States. Her books include:

The Voice of America (1990);
The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia (1999,with Maurine Beasley, eds.)
Dolley Madison: Her Life, Letters and Legacy (2002, with David Mattern)
The Selected Correspondence of Dolley Payne Mattern (2003, with David Mattern.

In addition to running "The Dolley Madison Project" and "Wednesdays in Mississippi: Civil Rights as Women's Work,", she is currently working on a full-scale biography of Dolley Madison.