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Maxine Wagenhoffer, Ph.D., director of the Hankey Center for the History of Women's Education and assistant professor of history at ������Ƶ, teaches U.S. history courses and is particularly focused on writing and exhibiting women ������Ƶ ’s history.  

Wagenhoffer earned a doctorate in modern U.S. history from The Ohio State University in August 2023, following a master ������Ƶ ’s degree in history from Ohio State in 2018 and a bachelor ������Ƶ ’s degree in history from Rutgers University in 2016. Her dissertation focused on the intersections of celebrity, politics, and gender through the lens of Alice Roosevelt Longworth.  

She is a 2025 recipient of a Kathy Chamberlain Research Award from the Women Writing Women ������Ƶ ’s Lives seminar group and has presented her research at several academic conferences, including the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical Association, the Institute for Political History ������Ƶ ’s Policy History Conference, and the conference of the Ohio Academy of History.  

When she is not teaching, writing, or researching, you can find her at the ������Ƶ Fitness Center pumping iron. For more information regarding her approach to history and her teaching philosophy, see the Wilson Magazine Fall 2023 article ������Ƶ “. ������Ƶ ”&�Բ�����;