Dr. Gina M. Martino

Dr. Gina M. Martino

Title: Associate Professor
Dept/Program: History
Office: CAS 204B
Phone: 330-972-7712
Email: gmartino@uakron.edu
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Biography

Professor Gina Martino received her Ph.D. in early American history from the University of Minnesota after graduating with a B.A. in history and music from St. Olaf College and an M.A. in early modern European history from Minnesota State University, Mankato. She is particularly interested in women's history, legal history, the history of borderlands, war and society, and digital history.

Her current research focuses on women's legal history in the United States, particularly the history of coverture, from the colonial period through the twentieth century. She is the author of "'As Potent a Prince As Any Round About Her': Rethinking Weetamoo of the Pocasset and Native Female Leadership in Early America," published in the Journal of Women's History. Her book, Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast, was published by the University of North Carolina Press.

She is also working on a digital history project that re-catalogues thousands of sources from American history that contain outdated information and are difficult for scholars and students to find. This project also brings together hundreds of thousands of free primary sources from across the internet to provide a place where students and scholars, especially those without subscriptions to expensive databases, can conduct historical research. 

Dr. Martino's teaching interests include colonial American history, American women's history, the American Revolution, legal history, and historical methodologies.


Education

University of Minnesota