Amy M. Froide, Professor (Ph.D. Duke University)
Director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities
Professor Froide teaches courses in British history and European Women’s History, focusing on the years 1500-1800. Her areas of expertise include social, economic, and women’s history. She is the author of Silent Partners: Women as Public Investors during Britain’s Financial Revolution, 1690-1750 (Oxford University Press, 2016). Her other books include Never Married: Singlewomen in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press, 2005) and Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), co-edited with Judith M. Bennett. Professor Froide is the founding Director of UMBC’s Entrepreneurship & Innovation Minor and holds affiliate appointments in UMBC’s Gender and Women’s Studies program and the Language, Literacy, and Culture Ph.D. program. She mentors Master’s degree students in both early modern British and European women’s history. Former students have gone on to Ph.D. programs in the U.S. and the U.K. Prof. Froide was the recipient of the 2018 Maryland Board of Regents’ Award for Teaching Excellence and is currently UMBC’s Presidential Teaching Professor for 2024-27. She is the new Director for the Dresher Center for the Humanities.
Office: Performing Arts & Humanities Building, Rm 217
Contact: 410-455-2033 | froide@umbc.edu