Director of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) at The University of Kentucky; the 2009-10 Stanley Kelley Jr., Visiting Associate Professor for Distinguished Teaching in the Department of Religion at Princeton University.Professor Kern earned a Ph.D. in American history at the University of Pennsylvania where she was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities and a winner of the Dean’s Award for distinguished teaching. Since 1989 she has been a member of the History Department at the University of Kentucky as well as an affiliated member of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program. At UK, she has won the Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Teaching (1995) and the Alumni Great Teacher Award (2003), and the College of Education’s “Teachers Who Make a Difference” Award (2001, 2004). Professor Kern’s research concerns gender, religion and the women’s rights movement in nineteenth-century America.