Professor Arianne Chernock

Arianne Chernock’s research focuses on modern Britain, gender, culture, politics, and monarchy. She is the author of two books: the prize-winning 'Men and the Making of Modern British Feminism' (Stanford University Press, 2010) and 'The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women: Queen Victoria and the Women’s Movement' (Cambridge University Press, 2019). She is currently writing a book called 'Wake Up, Women,' a group biography of women involved in Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953. Chernock will be using their stories as entry points into a broader reconsideration of women’s aims and ambitions in the immediate postwar period.

In her capacity as a historian of monarchy, Chernock has published numerous opinion pieces and editorials for CNN, NBC, the Washington Post, the Conversation and Cognoscenti. She provides frequent commentary to a range of print, radio and television outlets, including NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Boston Globe and the LA Times.

Chernock’s research has been supported by grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, Phi Beta Kappa, Huntington Library, the Humanities Foundation at Boston University, and the American Philosophical Society. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Honorary Research Associate at the Centre for Modern Monarchy (UK).

Chernock is currently serving as Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Social Sciences at Boston University.

Sub-specialties:
I am able to provide expert commentary on the history of the British monarchy, the history of women/gender, and the history of women in leadership/gender and power.