Southwestern Women's History and Western History Archives

Susan E. Gray is an Associate Professor of United States History at Arizona State University. A nineteenth-century historian, her research interests include race, gender, and internal migration with particular emphasis on the trans-Appalachian West. Gray's major publications include The Yankee West: Community Life on the Michigan Frontier (1996) and a co-edited book, The American Midwest: Essays on Regional History (2002). She is currently working on Lines of Decent: Mixed-Race Family Histories from the North Country and Great Lakes Frontier: Michigan, 1650-1920.

Professor Gray has received fellowships from the NEH and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University in addition to serving as a visiting professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Gray also co-edits Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies.