Kathy Peiss

Kathy Peiss is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe; Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York; Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture; and Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style.