Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is currently 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard. Her book A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize, and several other awards. Ulrich’s discovery of Martha Ballard and her work on Ballard’s diary have been chronicled in a documentary film written and produced by Laurie Kahn-Leavitt, with major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Experience television series. Ulrich, currently a Phi Beta Kappa Scholar, was also the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and many other honors and awards.