Susan R. Grayzel is Professor of History at the University of

Susan R. Grayzel is Professor of History at the University of Mississippi. She received
her A.B. Magna cum laude with Highest Honors in History and Literature from Harvard
University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of
California at Berkeley. She is the author of three books: Women's Identities at War:
Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War
(University of North Carolina Press, 1999), which won the British Council Prize from the
North American Conference on British Studies, Women and the First World War
(Longman, 2002), a global history, and At Home and Under Fire: Air Raids and Culture
in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz (Cambridge University Press, 2012). She has
also published numerous shorter pieces in academic journals and collections of essays,
such as The Journal of Modern History (2006) and The Journal of Women's History
(2006). Her current research focuses on state efforts to protect the civilian body from
aero-chemical warfare against civilians in Europe from the Hague Conventions (1899)
through World War II, with an emphasis on imperial Britain and France. She teaches
graduate and undergraduate courses on aspects of modern European culture and society,
on the experience of war in the twentieth century, and on women and gender.
DEGREES
BA
HISTORY HARVARD UNIVERSITY/CAMBRIDGE,
MASSACHUESETTS (1986)
MA
HISTORY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY/BERKELEY,
CALIFORNIA (1989)
PHD HISTORY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY/BERKELEY,
CALIFORNIA (1994)