Pamela Haag

Pamela Haag is an American writer and historian.

Education

Haag received a Ph.D. in History from Yale University in 1995, and a B.A. from Swarthmore College, where she graduated with Highest Honors. She also earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from Goucher College in 2008. She has held numerous fellowships, including a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, and postdoctoral positions at both Brown and Rutgers universities.

Publications

She published her first work, Consent: Sexual Rights and the Transformation of American Liberalism (Cornell University Press) in 1999. In the late 1990s she worked for the nationally prominent women's organization, the AAUW Educational Foundation, and became their director of research. During her tenure there she published Voices of a Generation (Marlowe/ThundersMouth: 2000).

Haag has also published creative nonfiction, personal essay, and memoir. Haag has published in National Public Radio, The American Scholar, the Christian Science Monitor, Antioch Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, Michigan Quarterly Review, the Washington Post, Ms. magazine, The New York Post, The Huffington Post, where she currently blogs, and many other publications.

Her book, Marriage Confidential, published in June 2011 by HarperCollins, received a great deal of media attention. It explores the quirks, troubles, and innovations of marriage in the "post-romantic" age, such as swinging couples and child-focused marriages.

• The Gunning of America (Basic Books, 2016)
• Marriage Confidential (New York: HarperCollins, 2011).
• Consent: Sexual Rights and the Transformation of American Liberalism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999)
• Voices of a Generation: Girls Talk about Their Lives Today (Marlowe: 2000)