Professor Muncy's scholarship has focused especially on women and social reform in twentieth-century America [1]. Her first book, Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935 [2], analyzes the role of middle-class white women in creating the U.S. welfare state. Her second book, Engendering America [3], is a documentary history of gender in the U.S. since 1865. This work is co-edited with Professor Sonya Michel and is intended for classroom use. Her current project, a political biography of activist Josephine Roche, analyzes the liberal reform tradition in twentieth- century America. It will be part of the Politics and Society Series at Princeton University Press.

          While the early twentieth-century captured Professor Muncy's early attention, the postwar period has engaged her more recently as suggested in her article, "Cooperative Motherhood and Democratic Civic Culture in Postwar Suburbia, 1940-1965," (Journal of Social History, 2004). The focus of earlier articles ranges from women's participation in partisan politics ("'Women Demand Recognition': Women in Colorado's Election of 1912") to the ways that gender informed debates on economic policy early in the century "Trustbusting and White Manhood, 1898-1914").

         Professor Muncy has received several grants and fellowships.   In 2007-08, she was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.  She won a Fulbright (declined), an NEH Summer Stipend, and GRB Semester awards. She currently serves on Editorial Board of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. She chaired the Scott-Lerner Dissertation Prize committee for the Organization of American Historians, and has been awarded the Outstanding Teacher Certificate of the Panhellenic Association many times. In 2004 and 2005, she was featured in Who's Who Among America's Teachers. She also won the Outstanding Professor Award of Alpha Lamda Delta (1992-1993), and received an Outstanding Faculty Certificate from the College Park Associate of Parents.