history,<\/a> not only contributed to but also helped establish the field of women\u2019s history in the 1970s. A historian interested in the U.S. women\u2019s rights movement and women in the labor force, her many published works and years teaching illustrate an impassioned career as a feminist scholar. <\/p>\n\n\n\nShe was raised on a farm in Camillus, and central New York remained an important part of Dudden\u2019s sense of home and research interests throughout her life. She attended Cornell University as an undergraduate before receiving her master\u2019s and doctoral degrees in American history from the University of Rochester. She went on to teach at Union College for 14 years, founding what is now its Gender, Sexuality, and Women\u2019s Studies Program. In 1997, she joined Colgate\u2019s faculty, where she taught a course on upstate history, among other subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dudden\u2019s published works similarly revolved around New York. She looked at the Knights of Labor in Homer, N.Y., in one notable article and addressed the relationships between mistresses and maids in northern New York through the 1850s in her first book, Serving Women: Household<\/em> Service in Nineteenth-Century America<\/em>. She also spent a great deal of time studying the women\u2019s rights movement and examined the relationship between the advocates of women\u2019s suffrage and Black suffrage in her last book, Fighting Chance: The Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America<\/em>. In addition to these research endeavors, she published articles in the Journal of Social History<\/em> and in Labor History<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nDudden proved as successful a researcher as she was a passionate one, receiving competitive grants from the American Antiquarian Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and Colgate University. She published Women in the American Theatre: Actresses and Audiences, 1790-1870<\/em>, which won the George Freedley Memorial Prize. She also served as the history department chair at Colgate from 2000\u201305 and later as a member of the Promotion and Tenure Committee from 2013\u201315.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cShe was a brilliant, field-changing historian \u2014 one of just a handful who shaped the writing of U.S. women\u2019s history over the past 40 years,\u201d says Andy Rotter, who is the Charles A. Dana Professor of history and peace and conflict studies. \u201cFaye typifies a generation of women historians who made a place for themselves in a male-dominated profession because of their determination and excellence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dudden traveled extensively while at Colgate: directing the London history study group on two occasions; joining faculty on a Freeman Foundation trip to Beijing, Tokyo, and Seoul; and taking a core curriculum trip to India. She continued traveling after her retirement in 2016, and she pursued her other hobbies. A gardener, Dudden designed the hillsides behind her homes in Syracuse and the garden for an early 19th-century farmhouse she and her husband restored. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At age 72, Dudden passed away. She is survived by her husband, Marshall Blake, as well as her brother, sister, niece, and nephew. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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