Dr. Mulhall Adelman teaches American history, including classes on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women鈥檚 history, and family history. She is currently working on a book manuscript that uses a study of nineteenth-century orphan asylums to uncover family survival strategies of the working poor and study the ways perceptions of children and childhood were contingent on the class, racial, ethnic, and gender identities of the children in question. Dr. Mulhall Adelman鈥檚 publications include an article in The Journal of Women鈥檚 History entitled 鈥淓mpowerment and Submission: The Political Culture of Catholic Women鈥檚 Religious Communities in Nineteenth-Century America鈥, which won the American Society of Church History's Jane Dempsey Douglass Prize, 鈥溾楬ow this occurred I cannot say鈥: Record-Keeping and Double Age in Nineteenth-Century New York City Orphan Asylums,鈥 in The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, and a chapter in Separate and Unequal: Historical Perspectives on American Education (Lexington Books, 2009), among others. She has received research fellowships from the Gilder-Lehrman Institute for American History, the New-York Historical Society, and the Maryland Historical Society and has presented her work at various academic and policy conferences.
