Ann Fabian writes on the cultural history of the United States in the nineteenth century. She joined the American Studies Department in the fall of 2000 and is currently the Dean of Humanities for the School of Arts and Sciences. Before coming to Rutgers, she taught at Yale, where she received her Ph.D. in American Studies. She earned a BA in Philosophy from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Fabian’s books include Card Sharps, Dream Books, and Bucket Shops: Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America and The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America. Her new book on skull collecting will be published by the University of Chicago Press in spring 2010. She has written articles on popular imagery of the American West, economic panics, basketball betting scandals, criminal confessions, the American West, the history of the book, the ancient skeleton known as Kennewick Man, and U.S. explorations in Fiji. She is a member of the Council of the American Antiquarian Society and on the board of directors of the Classic Stage Company in New York.

Sample Writing:
Card Sharps, Dream Books, and Bucket Shops: Gambling in 19th-century America
The Unvarnished Truth