Susan Grayzel

Biography

Susan R. Grayzel joined the faculty at Utah State University in 2017, teaching classes in modern European history, gender and women's history, the history of total war, and war and culture. Her books include Women’s Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War (UNC Press, 1999); awarded the British Council Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies in 2000; Women and the First World War (Longman Seminar Series 2002, second edition forthcoming 2024); At Home and Under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz (Cambridge, 2012); The First World War: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford St Martins, 2012, Second Edition, 2021); and the co-edited volume Gender and the Great War (Oxford, 2017). Her latest book, The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War, an exploration of how one material object—the civilian gas mask—reveals how the state and individuals responded to the first weapons of mass destruction, was published in autumn 2022 by Cambridge University Press. The American Council of Learned Societies, the American Historical Association, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the US-UK Fulbright Commission have all helped to fund her work. With Professor Lucy Noakes of the University of Essex, she is engaged in ongoing, collaborative research on gender, citizenship, and civil defense in twentieth-century Britain and its empire along with other research on gender, war, emotions, and technology.