Jane Sherron De Hart (born 1936)[1] is an American feminist historian and women's studies academic.
De Hart has authored and edited several works on the history of women in the United States, the Federal Theatre Project, the Equal Rights Amendment, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
She married while attending graduate school and moved to Princeton, New Jersey where she continued work on her dissertation and taught at Douglass College.
[2] In 1970, De Hart joined University of North Carolina at Greensboro for ten years, first temporarily before becoming permanent professor and founding the women's studies program.
De Hart became a professor of history and director of women's studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.