Ann Fabian

Ann Fabian (born August 18, 1949) is an American historian.

Life

She grew up in Southern California.

Career Fabian completed her B.A. in philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her Ph.D. in American studies at Yale University. She is professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University.

Distinctions Fabian is a member of the Organization of American Historians, and American Antiquarian Society, as well as former president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic and Society of American Historians. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002.

Works

Card Sharps and Bucket Shops: Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America (1999) The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America (2000) The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead (2010) Race and Retail: Consumption across the Color Line, co-edited with Mia Bay (2015)