She is a Professor Emerita of Cornell University,[1] and lectures and writes about the experiences of adolescents through history until the present day.
[7] The Body Project: A History of American Girls (1997)[8] was based on diaries written by adolescents from the pre Civil War Era until 1980s.
Although the author admired certain Victorian protections for girls, she also urged a new code of sexual ethics for a post virginal age.
[12] Brumberg research shows boys in early adolescence are not psychologically developed enough to be liable for their actions to the extent of an adult.
[13] Her first book, Mission for Life: The Judson Family and American Evangelical Culture (1978) won Honorable Mention from The Society of Church History.