Professor Emerita, History; PhD, Columbia University
Toby Ditz received her PhD in Sociology from Columbia University in 1982. She came to Johns Hopkins University as an Assistant Professor in the same year and has remained at Johns Hopkins until her retirement in 2018. Her main specialties are early American history/Atlantic history and the history of women and gender. She has published on inheritance, family life and the commercialization of agriculture; the culture of manhood and risk among eighteenth century transatlantic merchants; and race, manhood, and citizenship. Just before retiring she became interested in local public history.
Current Interests: Police Reform Legislation, Local Public History, Birding