Martha Sandweiss


Martha Sandweiss is Professor of American Studies and History at Princeton University. Sandweiss has authored pioneering scholarship on photography in the nineteenth century and on the American West including the award-winning book Print the Legend: Photography and the American West (Yale, 2002).  Professor Sandweiss is co-editor of  The Oxford History of the American West (Oxford, 1996). Her most recent book is Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love A Deception Across the Color Line (Penguin, 2009). For more information on Professor Sandweiss, visit: http://www.princeton.edu/history/people/display_person.xml?netid=masand@princ