Salameno School of American and International Studies (SSAIS)

Assistant Professor of History

Year Joined RCNJ: 2010

Contact Information:

• Phone: (201) 684-7735
• E-mail: staranto@ramapo.edu 
• Office: A-211
• Office Hours: MR 11:30-1:30 PM; Also by Appt.
   

Education:

• A.B. Duke University
• A.M. Brown University
• Ph.D. Brown University

Courses Offered:

• Introduction to U.S. History II
• America Since 1945
• U.S. Women's and Gender History
• The 1960s: America in Transition
• Women and American Politics
• Gender, Race, and American Politics
• From Roosevelt to Reagan: The Rise and Fall of Modern Liberalism

Teaching Interests:

• Post-1945 U.S. History
• U.S. Women's History

Research Interests:

• Post-1945 U.S. Political History
• The New Right
• Feminism
• Gender and the Family

Recent Publications:

• Kitchen Table Politics: Conservative Women and Family Values in the Seventies (on-going book manuscript project, under contract with University of Pennsylvania Press, Politics and Culture in Modern America Series).
•  Defending ‘Women Who Stand By the Sink’: Suburban Homemakers and Anti-ERA Activism in New York State, 1974-1975,” in Making Suburbia (forthcoming edited anthology).
•  "Ellen McCormack for President: Politics and an Improbable Path to Passing Anti-Abortion Policy," Journal of Policy History 24, No. 2, Spring 2012.
•  “The Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act and Its Reception in Rhode Island,” Rhode Island History 66, No. 1, Winter/Spring 2008.
•  Ph.D. Dissertation, "Defending 'Family Values': Women's Grassroots Politics and the Republican Right, 1970-1980" (Brown University, 2010).