Amanda Regan

I am a first year PhD student at George Mason University and one of theDigital History Fellows at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.   My research interest is primarily U.S. Women’s history with a particular focus on physical culture and beauty in the early twentieth century.  Additionally I am interested in Digital History and the ways in which it can enhance historical scholarship.

I earned my masters degree in history at California State University, San Marcos.  My masters thesis was titled “Madame Sylvia of Hollywood and Physical Culture, 1920-1940.”  It examines the changing nature of women’s physical and beauty culture by looking at one editorialist, Sylvia Ullback, who wrote for Photoplay magazine in the twenties and thirties.