Marjorie McIntosh

Marjorie Keniston McIntosh (born 15 November 1940) is an American historian of Great Britain.

Marjorie Keniston McIntosh was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on 15 November 1940. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1962 with a B.A. degree magna cum laude in European history. The following year she received a M.A. in English history from Harvard University. McIntosh studied at the Institute of Historical Research in London, England, in 1965–66 and was awarded her Ph.D. in Tudor/Stuart history by Harvard in 1967.

Dr McIntosh was appointed Assistant Professor of History at the University of Colorado in 1979, promoted to Associate Professor seven years later, and to full Professor in 1992. McIntosh received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1995. Prior to retiring from the University in 2006, Dr McIntosh was named a Distinguished Professor in History.

She founded the Center for British and Irish Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and served as its first executive director.

Dr McIntosh is the organizer and principal coordinator of the Boulder County Latino History Project, a community-based study of a century of Latino participation, based largely on oral history interviews and with much of the research done by Latino teen/youth interns in Boulder, Colorado between January, 2013 and the present. In addition to helping to create the Boulder County Latino History Project and preparing material for its website, she is now engaged with the Project’s work with K-12 teachers.

Additionally, Dr McIntosh spent several working summer sabbaticals in Uganda, where she served as Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, East Africa in 2002–03. She later taught, organized, and trained students at another local university to conduct a historical study based on interviews and photo documentation of Muslims living in villages on the slopes of Mt. Elgon, Uganda. That study was conducted beginning in 2008 by students at the Islamic University in Uganda and continued over the following few years.

Dr McIntosh has published numerous books:

• A Community Transformed: The Manor and Liberty of Havering, 1500–1620, Cambridge University Press, 1991
• Controlling Misbehavior in England, 1370–1600, Cambridge University Press, 1998
• Autonomy and Community: The Royal Manor of Havering, 1200–1500, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• Order, Control, and Regulation of Behavior in English Communities, 1350–1600
• Working Women in English Society, 1300–1620, Cambridge University Press, 2005
• Poor Relief in England, 1350–1600, Cambridge University Press, 2011
• Poor Relief and Community in Hadleigh, Suffolk 1547-1600, University Of Hertfordshire Press, 2013
• Women, Work & Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 1900–2003, with Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo, Ohio University Press, 2007
• Yoruba Women, Work, and Social Change, Indiana University Press, 2009
• Latinos of Boulder County, Colorado, 1900-1980, Volume I: History and Contributions, Old John Publishing, 2016
• Latinos of Boulder County, Colorado, 1900-1980, Volume II: Lives and Legacies, Old John Publishing, 2016

She has also contributed chapters to several anthologies:

• The Law and Social Change, edited by J. A. Guy, Royal Historical Society (London, England), 1984
• Bodies and Disciplines: Intersections of History and Literature in Fifteenth-Century England, edited by Barbara Hanawalt and David Wallace, University of Minnesota Press (Minneapolis, MN), 1996
• The Locus of Care: Families, Communities, Institutions and the Provision of Welfare since Antiquity, edited by Peregrine Horden and Richard M. Smith, Routledge (London, England), 1998.

Scholarly articles written by Dr McIntosh have been published in such scholarly and academic journals as

• Speculum
• Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
• Essex Archaeology and History
• Economic History Review
• Journal of Family History
• Albion
• Journal of British Studies
• Huntington Library Quarterly.

Harvard Graduate fellow, 1962–64 Frank Knox Memorial Traveling Fellow, 1965–66 Howard Foundation Fellow, Brown University, 1976–77 National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellow, 1983–84 Dean's Writing Prize, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1985, 1988 Arts and Humanities Writing Award, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1989 President's Award for Outstanding Service, University of Colorado, 1990 Essex Book Award, 1991, for A Community Transformed: The Manor and Liberty of Havering, 1500–1620 Robert L. Stearns Award for Extraordinary Achievement, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1995 Excellence in Teaching Award, Boulder Faculty Assembly, University of Colorado, 1995 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 1995–96 University of Colorado grants, 1998–99, 2002–03, 2004.

Dr McIntosh was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Dr McIntosh is married to J. Richard McIntosh, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. They have two sons and one daughter.

• Scanlon, Jennifer & Cosner, Shaaron (1996). American Women Historians, 1700s–1990s: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-29664-2.