Biography

Marguerite Hoyt
Department: Womens Studies
Title: Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies
Office: Van Meter 116
Phone: 410-337-6228
Email: marguerite.hoyt@goucher.edu

Marguerite Hoyt is an assistant professor of Women’s Studies at Goucher College.  She received her Ph.D. in history from The Johns Hopkins University in 2003. She published an article, “ Sending Signals:  Visions of Women in World War II Propaganda Posters” in Readings in Gendered Communication in 2004, and has presented her research on women in Anglophone World War II propaganda posters at the American Historical Association annual conference, the Organization of American Historians annual conference, The Northeast Popular Culture Association annual meeting, the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association, as well as several other national and international conferences.  She received the best graduate student presentation award at the 1999 Northeast Popular Culture Association annual meeting.  She received several research fellowships including the Bernadotte Schmitt Fellowship from the American Historical Association, a Canadian Studies Graduate Student Fellowship from the Canadian Embassy, and the highly competitive Dean’s Teaching Fellowship at Johns Hopkins.  She is currently turning her dissertation, “You Have a Date with a Blond Bond:  Women in Anglophone World War II Poster Art” into a book manuscript.