Serenity Sutherland

Book
In Pursuit of a Useful Science: The Life of Ellen Swallow Richards, 1842-1911, University of Massachusetts Press, publishing May 2027. Preorder at umasspress.com (using code UMASS20 to save 20%) or at Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, or anywhere books are sold.

Volume Editor
Serenity Sutherland and Adrianna Link, “Women in Science: Achievements, Barriers, Opportunities” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society volume 114, no. 4 (December 2025).

Serenity Sutherland and Adrianna Link, “Women in Science: Achievements, Barriers, Opportunities” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society volume 114, no. 3 (September 2025.) 

Chapters & Articles 

Juniper Johnson, Serenity Sutherland, Neal Millikan, & Ondine LeBlanc, “Digital Publishing as a Cooperative for Small-scale Editions” in Digital Publishing & Editing in the 21^st Century, James O’Sullivan, Michael Pidd, Sophie Whittle, Bridgette Wessles, Michael Kurzmeier, and Órla Murphy, eds. (Edinburgh: Scottish Universities Press, 2025), 165-188. 

Serenity Sutherland and Jennifer Fogel, "Domestic Lives as Commodity: The History of Housewifery as a Consumer Good from Early America to Bravo’s Real Housewives," in Historians on Housewives: Fashion, Performance and Power, Kacey Calahane, Jessica Millward, and Max Speare, eds. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2025): 123-144. 

Serenity Sutherland, “Remediating Digital Humanities Graduate Training,” in Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities, Gabriel Hankins, Anouk Lang and Simon Appleford, eds. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2024): 321-328. 

Serenity Sutherland, “Speculative Texts and What’s Next,” Explorations in Media Ecology, Vol. 23, Issue 1 (March 2024): 47-51. 

Serenity Sutherland, “Assessing User Experience Using Digital Humanities Projects in a Design Classroom,” Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook (June 2022). 

 

Serenity Sutherland, “Pedagogies of Scholarly Editing and Digital History in the Seward Family Digital Archive,” Scholarly Editing 39 (2022). 

Jennifer Fogel and Serenity Sutherland, “Wellness, Womanhood and Witchcraft in Outlander: Televised Historical Portrayal of Women’s Shifting Roles in Medicine,” in Diagnosing History: Medicine in Television Period Drama, Kathryn Byrne, Julie Taddeo and James Leggott, eds. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022): 30-46. 

Serenity Sutherland, “Coeducation and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Summer Mining School, 1879,” Mining History Journal 27 (2020): 23-39.  

Fiona Coll, Serenity Sutherland and Candis Haak, “Finding Our Way to a Digital Humanities Community at SUNY Oswego,” Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities Vol. 1 (May 31, 2020). 

Serenity Sutherland, “Women in Chemistry’s Workforce: The Women’s Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1876-1911” Ferrum Vol. 91 (2019): 58-65. 

Education: 

• PhD in American History, University of Rochester
• Graduate Certificate in Women and Gender Studies, University of Rochester
• BS in Environmental Management and Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology
• BA in History and English/Creative Writing,  Binghamton University

Areas of Interest:

• Digital Humanities
• Media Studies
• Science and Technology Studies
• Women and Gender Studies
• American History