Professor Amy M. Froide
Professor · Tenured
Department of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies Department of History Language, Literacy and Culture
About
Amy M. Froide is Professor of History and the Director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities. She teaches early modern British and women’s history. She is the author of Never Married: Singlewomen in early modern England and Silent Partners: Women as Public Investors during Britain’s Financial Revolution. She is the UMBC Presidential Teaching Professor for 2024-27.
Research interests
Economic and social history of women, women investors, women and philanthropy
Teaching interests
British History, European Women's History, Early Modern European History, History of Entrepreneurship; History of Finance
Education
- Ph D, Early Modern British History — Duke University (1996)
Publications
Presentations
- Playing the Stock Market for Marriage and Profit: Englishwomen as Financial Investors 1680-1750 2014
- Did Capitalism have a Gender? Women in the Spaces and Places of England’s Financial Revolution 2014
- Gender and Financial Literacy during England's Financial Revolution 2013
Grants and Contracts
- CAHSS Fellowship 2013
- Folger Shakespeare Library Short-term Fellowship 2013
Courses Taught
- The Age Of Enlightenment
- Pre Candidacy Doc Rsch
- Tudor & Stuart England
- History of the Family in Britain and the U.S.
- Early Modern World History
- Historical Research: Enlightenment London
- The Age Of Enlightenment