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Sherrill Harbison

Sherrill Harbison is a senior lecturer in the Department of German and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She received her PhD from UMass, where she studied on the friendship and correspondence between Sigrid Undset, the Norwegian Nobel laureate, and the American frontier writer Willa Cather. 

Books for Women’s History Month

In honor of Women’s History Month in March, we are sharing books by women who have shaped history and have fought for their communities. Our list includes books about women who fought for racial justice, abortion rights, equality in the workplace, and ranges in topics from women in politics and prominent women in history to

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