Presidential Teaching Professor Award
Amy Froide
Professor and Chair, History
Amy Froide is professor of history and chair of the history department at UMBC. She teaches courses in British history, women’s history, and early modern European history. Her most recent book is Silent Partners: Women as Public Investors during Britain’s Financial Revolution, 1690-1750. She is also the author of Never Married: Singlewomen in Early Modern England and co-editor of Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800. Professor Froide is the founding director of UMBC’s entrepreneurship and innovation minor. She holds affiliate appointments in GWSST and the LLC Ph.D. program. Professor Froide mentors master’s degree students in early modern and European women’s history as well as Ph.D. students in eighteenth century history and culture. She was awarded the 2018 USM Board of Regents Award for Teaching Excellence. Professor Froide is the incoming Director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities.