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Dr. Priscilla Brewer, professor of American studies at University of South Florida, was a cum laude with honors graduate of Williams College (1977), and earned a Master of Arts degree (1981) and doctoral degree (1987) in American civilization from Brown University. Early in her career she worked at the Hancock Shaker Village (Massachusetts) and Slater Mill (Rhode Island), which strongly influenced her academic interests in American material culture and technology, American family history, American religious history and American popular literature to 1914. She wrote Shaker Communities, Shaker Lives (1986) and From Fireplace to Cookstove: Technology and the Domestic Ideal in America (2000), and was conducting research for 'Our Little College World' : Student Life at Northern Women' s Colleges 1865-1930. She also published numerous articles and book chapters, review essays and book reviews, and made a number of presentations at academic conferences.
Dr Brewer joined the USF faculty in 1987 after teaching at Brown University for two years, and over the course of her 21-year career at USF, joined her love of teaching with her academic interests. She was recognized by peers and colleagues for her research and teaching, receiving the USF Alumni Professor Award in 1990, and the USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award four times. Most recently, she was presented with the Distinguished Scholar Award by the Communal Studies Association at its annual conference held in Tampa. She was active in university and professional service, as a member of several committees of USF' s College of Arts and Sciences, an undergraduate advisor and member of the Faculty Senate. She also served as chair of the department of humanities and American studies from 1999 to 2002.
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