Year Honored: 1993
Birth: 1938 -
Born in: Delaware
Biography
Carol E. Hoffecker graduated from the University of Delaware with honors in 1960. She went on to earn a master’s degree in history at Radcliffe College, and her doctorate from Harvard University. After earning her Ph. D she taught at Northeastern and Sweet Briar College, before returning to the University of Delaware in 1970 to head the fellowship program at Hagley Museum.
Hoffecker is a Richards Professor of History at the University of Delaware, and has taught classes in U.S History, Urban History, and Women’s History. She has helped to shape and promote university goals by serving as president of the Faculty Senate in the 1980s, Chair of the Department of History (1983 – 1985), and as Associate Provost for Graduate Studies (1988 – 1995). She retired after three decades in 2003.
She has written a number of books on Delaware History, ‘Wilmington: A Pictorial History,’ ‘Delaware: A Bicentennial History,’ ‘Federal Justice in the First State,’ and ‘Beneath Thy Guiding Hand: A History of Women at the University of Delaware.’
Hoffecker has shared her knowledge of Delaware History throughout the state at a number of civic and professional organizations. She also served as editor of the ‘Delaware History’ Magazine, and as exhibit curator and consultant to the Delaware Historical Society, Delaware Public Archives, and Rockwood Museum.
In 2003 she was awarded the first ever College of Arts and Sciences Lifetime Service Award. She has also been awarded the Del Tufo Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Humanities (1988); an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Goldey-Beacom College (1993); the University of Delaware Medal of Distinction (1998); and the Delaware Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (1999).
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Sources and Additional Readings
Carol Hoffecker Delaware Bookplate Collection. Manuscript and Archival Collection Finding Aids. (n.d.). Retrieved January 11, 2022, from https://library.udel.edu/special/findaids/view?docId=ead%2Fgra0098_0001.xml%3Bquery
Delaware authors: Dr. Carol Hoffecker. LibGuides. (n.d.). Retrieved January 11, 2022, from https://guides.lib.de.us/c.php?g=670266&p=4983577
Lincoln Club of Delaware Records. Manuscript and Archival Collections Finding Aids. (n.d.). Retrieved January 11, 2022, from https://library.udel.edu/special/findaids/view?docId=pdf%2Fmss0568.pdf%3Btab
- Collections: 1993