Biography

Katherine Sparks Leonard is a professor in the History and American Studies departments. She received the PhD from the University of Delaware in 2008 and has taught at Rowan since 2013. Her book, How the Other Half Ate: A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century (University of California Press, 2014) is about how working-class Americans navigated the complex food landscape of industrializing America, combining home-grown and home-cooked food with ready-to-eat meals and prepared food. Professor Turner is most interested in nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States history, consumption, gender, and material culture. She is working on a book about clothing.