Suzanne Sinke

Associate Professor of History

Suzanne Sinke received her PhD in 1993 from the University of Minnesota. Thereafter, she taught at Clemson University, with a brief respite to serve as a Fulbright Professor at the University of Tampere in Finland. She joined the faculty at Florida State University in the fall of 2002. A specialist in immigration and gender studies in the U.S. context, she teaches a variety of courses in U.S. and comparative social history. She is the author of Dutch Immigrant Women in the United States, 1880-1920 (2002), and co-editor of Letters Across Borders: The Epistolary Practices of International Migrants (2006) and A Century of European Migrations, 1830-1930 (1991) as well as many articles on women and migration. She served as the Book Review Editor for the Journal of American Ethnic History. Her current research links marriage and international migration across U.S. history from bride ships, male majorities, and anti-miscegenation policies in the colonial era to web-matchmaking, female majorities, and fiancee visas in the late twentieth century.

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				Suzanne Sinke Associate Professor of History Suzanne Sinke received her PhD in 1993 from the University of Minnesota. Thereafter, she taught at Clemson University, with a brief respite to serve as a Fulbright Professor at the University of Tampere in Finland. She joined the faculty at Florida State University in the fall of 2002. A specialist in immigration and gender studies in the U.S. context, she teaches a variety of courses in U.S. and comparative social history. She is the author of Dutch Immigrant Women in the United States, 1880-1920 (2002), and co-editor of Letters Across Borders: The Epistolary Practices of International Migrants (2006) and A Century of European Migrations, 1830-1930 (1991) as well as many articles on women and migration. She served as the Book Review Editor for the Journal of American Ethnic History. Her current research links marriage and international migration across U.S. history from bride ships, male majorities, and anti-miscegenation policies in the colonial era to web-matchmaking, female majorities, and fiancee visas in the late twentieth century.