Suzanne Sinke

Associate Professor of History

Suzanne M. 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 2002. As a specialist in migration and gender studies in the U.S. context, she teaches a variety of courses in U.S. and comparative 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 a host of articles on gender and migration in journals such as International Migration Review, OAH Magazine, Gender Issues, Journal of American Ethnic History, and Immigrants and Minorities.

She currently serves as an Organization of American Historians distinguished lecturer and AP curriculum development advisory council member. In recent years she served as book review editor for the Journal of American Ethnic History, executive board member and program co-chair for the Social Science History Association, and president of the Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies. In 2009-10 she is co-editing a book of papers from a conference she organized in Canada. Her recent research and next monograph project 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 fiancée visas in the late twentieth century.

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				Suzanne Sinke Associate Professor of History Suzanne M. 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 2002. As a specialist in migration and gender studies in the U.S. context, she teaches a variety of courses in U.S. and comparative 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 a host of articles on gender and migration in journals such as International Migration Review, OAH Magazine, Gender Issues, Journal of American Ethnic History, and Immigrants and Minorities. She currently serves as an Organization of American Historians distinguished lecturer and AP curriculum development advisory council member. In recent years she served as book review editor for the Journal of American Ethnic History, executive board member and program co-chair for the Social Science History Association, and president of the Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies. In 2009-10 she is co-editing a book of papers from a conference she organized in Canada. Her recent research and next monograph project 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 fiancée visas in the late twentieth century.