Wendy A. Woloson

Wendy A. Woloson is professor of history at Rutgers University-Camden. She is the author of Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America; and two books published by the University of Chicago Press, In Hock: Pawning in America from Independence through the Great Depression, and Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. She also coedited Capitalism by Gaslight: Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America and Commercial Intimacy: Affinity and the Marketplace.