Associate Provost for Academic Affairs
Angel Kwolek-Folland is a Professor of History and Women’s Studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She came to UF in 2000 to assume the directorship of the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research and in 2005 became an Associate Dean in the College. She joined the Provost’s office in 2007. She earned her PhD in women’s history from the University of Minnesota in 1987, and taught at the University of Kansas for 13 years prior to coming to UF.
She has taught courses in history, women’s studies, and American studies, and her research focuses on US women’s history, women’s labor and business history, gender studies and material culture studies. Currently, she is researching international dimensions of contemporary gender rights categories. Her first book, Engendering Business: Men and Women in the Corporate Office, 1870-1930, was published in 1994 and won the 1995 Sierra Prize for best historical monograph from the Western Association of Women Historians. Her second book is Incorporating Women: A History of Women and Business in the United States.
She is a J. William Fulbright Senior Specialist candidate, which allows her to work with college and university departments outside the US on research and program development and curricular transformation. In 2004, she received a Florida Blue Key Distinguished Faculty Award.
Contact Information:
Dr. Angel Kwolek-Folland
Associate Provost for Academic Affairs
PO Box 113175 (238A Tigert Hall)
Gainesville, FL 32611-3175
Phone: 352-392-4792
Fax: 352-392-5155
E-mail: akf@aa.ufl.edu