Core Faculty: Bethany Moreton

A native of Mississippi and a former resident of Georgia, Bethany Moreton is delighted to be joining the Institute for Women’s Studies in Athens. After earning a B.A. in Russian at Williams College in 1992, she worked overseas and as an international relations specialist at the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. She completed a Ph.D.in history at Yale University in 2006, where her dissertation won the Theron Rockwell Field Prize, one of Yale’s two university-wide endowed graduate honors. She comes to the IWS from a year as a post-doctoral Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of several articles on globalization, religion, and the feminization of work in the service economy, and her book Everyday Values: Wal-Mart and the Making of Christian Free Enterprise is forthcoming from Harvard University Press.

Mailing Address:
Department of History
University of Georgia
LeConte Hall
Athens, GA 30602-1602