Kathryn Kish Sklar
Distinguished Professor of History Emerita Home phone in
State University of New York
Berkeley, California
kksklar@binghamton.edu
510-704-0398
Website: http://chswg.binghamton.edu/
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Professional
Employment:
2012-present
Distinguished Professor of History Emerita, SUNY, Binghamton
2005-2006 Harmsworth Professor of United States
History, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
1988-2012 Distinguished Professor of History, SUNY
Binghamton
2003-2005 Co-Director, Center for Teaching U.S. History,
SUNY Binghamton
1998-2012
Co-Director, Center for the
Historical Study of Women and Gender,
SUNY,
1981-1988 Professor of
History,
1974-1981 Associate Professor, UCLA
1969-1974 Lecturer and
Assistant Professor,
Education:
B.A. 1965
Radcliffe College, Harvard University,
Magna Cum Laude and
Highest Honors in American History and Literature
M.A. 1967
Online
Journal, Database and Website:
Selected Books:
Competing
Kingdoms: Women, Mission, Nation, and the Protestant American
Empire, 1812-1960, co-editor with Barbara Reeves Ellington and Connie A. Shemo, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010).
Selected Letters of Florence Kelley, 1869-1931, co-editor with Beverly
Wilson Palmer, (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009) An electronic database, Index to the Letters of Florence Kelley, is online at the Digital
Commons, Kheel Center, Industrial and Labor Relations School, Cornell
University-- http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/fkelley/1/.
Women’s Rights and Transatlantic Anti-Slavery in the
Era of Emancipation, co-editor with James Brewer Stewart, (Yale University Press, 2007)
Women and Power in American History: A Reader, co-editor, with Thomas
Dublin, 2 Volumes, (Engelwood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1991; 2nd edition,
2001; 3rd edition, 2008)
Women's Rights Emerges within the Antislavery
Movement: A Short History with Documents, 1830-1870, (
Social Justice Feminists in the
co-editor with Anja Schüler and Susan Strasser,
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998)
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995). Volume I
of a two-volume study.
Recipient of the 1996 Berkshire Prize of the
Recipient of the 1998 prize for Outstanding Book in
Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research,
awarded by the Association for Research on Nonprofit
Organizations and Voluntary Action. New
York Times Notable Books of 1995.
U.S. History as Women's History: New Feminist Essays, co-editor with Linda
Kerber and Alice Kessler-Harris, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1995)
The Social Survey Movement in Historical Perspective, co-editor, with Martin
Bulmer of London School of Economics, and Kevin Bales of the University of
Surrey, (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1992; pb edition CUP, 2011).
The Autobiography of Florence Kelley: Notes of Sixty
Years,
editor, (Chicago: Charles Kerr, 1986)
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life among the Lowly;
The Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks, editor, (New York:
Literary Classics of the United States, 1981)
Catharine Beecher, A Treatise on Domestic Economy, editor, (New York: Schocken, 1977; reprint of 1841 original)
Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973).
(Paperback edition, W.W. Norton, 1976). Recipient of the 1974 Berkshire Prize of the
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians; National Book Award finalist,
1974. Portions reprinted in anthologies.
Chapters in
Books:
“Human Rights Discourse in
the Proceedings of Women’s Rights Conferences in the United States, 1848 – 1869,”
in Miia Halme-Tuomisaari and Pamela Slotte, eds., Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press,
2015).
"Creating Meaning in a
Sea of Information: The Women and Social
Movements web sites,"
in Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki, eds.,
Writing History in the Digital Age,
co-author. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013). Online at
http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu/data/creating-meaning-in-a-sea-of-databases-sklar-dublin/
“Hillary
Rodham Clinton, the Race Question, and the ‘Masculine Mystique,’” in Liette
Gidlow, ed.,
Obama,
Clinton, Palin: Making History in 2008 (Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 2011); previously published as “A Women’s History Report Card on Hillary Rodham
Clinton’s Presidential Primary Campaign, 2008,” Feminist Studies, Vol.
34, nos. 1 & 2 (Spring/ Summer 2008), 315-322.
"Teaching
Students to Become Producers of New Historical Knowledge on the Web," in
Gary J. Korblith and Carol Lasser, eds., Teaching American History: Essays Adapted from the Journal of American
History, 2001-2007 (Boston: Bedford/
St. Martin’s, 2009), originally published in Journal of American History, Vol. 88, no. 4 (March 2002), pp.
1471-76.
"`The Throne of My Heart': Religion, Oratory and Transatlantic
Community in Angelina Grimké’s Launching of Women’s Rights, 1828-1838,” in
Kathryn Sklar and James Stewart, eds. Women’s Rights and Transatlantic
Slavery in the Era of Emancipation, (Yale University Press, 2007)
“
"Foreword," to Rima Lunin Schultz and
Adele Hast,
"The Women's Studies Moment: 1972," in The
Politics of Women's Studies: Testimony from 30 Founding Mothers,
"Introduction" to Ruth Bordin, Women
at
“The `Quickened Conscience’: Women’s Voluntarism and
the State, 1890-1920,”in Civil Society, Democracy, and Civic Renewal,”
Robert K. Fullinwider, ed., (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999)
"The Consumers' White Label of the National
Consumers' League, 1898-1918," in Susan Strasser, Charles McGovern, and
Matthais Judt, eds., Getting and Spending: American and European Consumption
in the Twentieth Century (New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1998)
"Two Political Cultures in the Progressive
Era: The National Consumers' League and
the American Association for Labor Legislation," in Linda Kerber, Alice
Kessler-Harris and Kathryn Kish Sklar, eds., U.S. History as Women's
History: New Feminist Essays (Chapel
Hill: UNC Press, 1995).
"`Women Who Speak for an Entire Nation:'
American and British Women Compared at the World Anti-Slavery Convention,
"The Historical Foundations of Women's Power in
the Creation of the American Welfare State, 1830-1930," in Seth Koven and
Sonya Michel, eds., Mothers of a New World:
Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States (New
York: Routledge, 1993); reprinted in
Carl Guarneri, America Compared, (Houghton Mifflin, 1997); and Frank
Couvares and Martha Saxton, Interpretations of American History (Free
Press, 2000).
"Coming to Terms with
"Hull House Maps and Papers: Social Science as Women's Work in the
1890's," in K. K. Sklar co-editor with Martin Bulmer and Kevin Bales, The
Social Survey Movement in Historical Perspective (Cambridge University
Press, 1992); reprinted in Helene Silverberg, ed., Gender and American
Social Science: the Formative Years,
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998).
"Who Funded
"`The Greater Part of the Petitioners are
Female': The Reduction by Statute of Women's Working Hours in the Paid Labor
Force, 1840-1917," in Gary Cross, ed., The International History of the
Shortening of the Workday (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988)
Co-author with Nancy Henley et al, "The Social
Construction of Gender," Dean R. Gerstein et al, eds., The Behavioral
and Social Sciences: Achievements and
Opportunities, (New York: National Academy Press, 1988)
"Jane Addams's `The Subjective Necessity for
Social Settlements,'" in David Nasaw, ed., The Course of
"Female Teachers: 'Firm Pillars' of the West," in "Schools
and the Means of Education Shall Forever Be Encouraged": A History of Education in the Old Northwest,
1878-1880 (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1987)
"Why did most politically active women oppose
the ERA in the 1920's?" in Rights of Passage: The Past and Future of
the ERA, Joan Hoff-Wilson, ed., (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986)
"The Last Fifteen Years: Historians' Changing Views of American Women
in Religion and Society," in Women in New Worlds: Historical Perspectives on the Wesleyan
Tradition, Hilah F. Thomas and Rosemary S. Keller, eds., (Nashville:
Abingdon Press, 1981)
"Victorian Women and Domestic Life: Mary Todd Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
and Harriet Beecher Stowe," in The Public and the Private Lincoln,
Cullom Davis, et al., eds. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press,
1980)
"The Founding of
"Catharine Beecher and American Feminism"
in Earl A. French and Diana Royce, Portraits of a Nineteenth-Century Family
(Hartford: The Stowe-Day Foundation,
1975). Reprinted in Catherine Clinton
and G.J. Barker-Benfield, eds., Portraits of American Women (New York:
St. Martin's Press, 1990).
Articles:
“For the Future of Women’s
Past,” Journal of Women’s History 26:1
(Spring 2014).
"Historians Meet
Activists at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 2011,"
co-authored with Thomas Dublin, Journal of Women's History.24:4 (Winter
2012): 175-85.
“Building
Online Communities of Scholars in U.S. Women’s History,” Annual Report, Institute for Women’s Studies, Tokyo Woman’s
Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, No. 19 (2008-2009), pp. 22-27.
“Keeping
up with the Web, 1997-2008: Women and Social Movements in the
“Edicion
de la correspondencia seleccionada de Florence Kelley,” (“The Selected
Correspondence of Florence Kelley”), Historia, Anthropologia y Fuentes
Orales, vol. 40, no. 2 (2008), 79-109.
“A
Women’s History Report Card on Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Presidential Primary
Campaign, 2008,” Feminist Studies, Vol. 34, nos. 1 & 2 (Spring/
Summer 2008), 315-322.
“Launching
a New Journal: Women and Social Movements in the
“The
New Political History and Women’s History,” The
History Teacher, Vol. 39, No. 4 (August 2006), 509-514.
“La
centralidad
“The Future of Women’s History: Considering the State of U.S. Women’s
History,” co-author with Nancy Cott, Gerda Lerner, Ellen DuBois and Nancy
Hewitt, Journal of Women’s History,
Vol. 15, no. 1 (Spring 2003), pp. 145-64.
“`Some of Us Who Deal with the Social Fabric’: Jane Addams Blends Peace and Social Justice,
1907-1919,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Vol. 2, no. 1
(January 2003), pp. 80-96.
"Teaching Students to Become Producers of New
Historical Knowledge on the Web," Journal
of American History, Vol. 88, no. 4 (March 2002), pp. 1471-76.
"
"Our Histories, Ourselves: Transformation Scene," Women's Review of Books, Vol.
XVII, No. 5 (February 2000), pp. 12-13.
"Beyond Maternalism: Protestant Women and Social Justice Activism,
1890-1920," Women and
Twentieth-Century Protestantism,
"Florence Kelley," The American Lawyer, special issue, "The Lawyers of the
Century," Dec. 1999.
"Women's History: A Field We Can Lean On," Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly,
Vol. 28, No. 4 (Dec. 1999)
"Catharine Beecher," "Elizabeth
Glendower Evans," "Lavinia Dock," "Mary Kehew," "
"Equal Rights Amendment," "Single
Women," "Suburbanization," and "Woman's Christian
Temperance Union," in The Reader's
Companion to
"Engendering Women's History: New Paradigms and Interpretations in American
History," Amerikastudien/American
Studies, Vol. 41: 2 (1996)
"Jane Addams's Peace Activism, 1914-1922: A Model for Women Today?" Women's Studies Quarterly, Special Issue on Rethinking Women's Peace
Studies, (23 (Fall/Winter 1995), pp. 32-47; originally printed in "Women
Peacemakers and Women's Political Culture in World War I," Women and Peace: an International Conference,
(School of Social Work, University of Illinois, 1990)
"The Schooling of Girls and Community Values in
Massachusetts Towns, 1750-1820," special issue on women's education in History of Education Quarterly (Spring
1994 and Fall 1994)
"Biography in the Writing of U.S. Women's
History," 17th International Congress of Historical Sciences, Madrid,
Spain, August, 1990, Proceedings, 2
Vols., (Madrid: Comité International des Sciences Historique, 1991), Vol. 2,
1179-1189.
"A Call for Comparisons," American Historical Review, Vol. 95, No.
4 (Oct. 1990), 1109-1114.
Co-author with Gerda Lerner, Graduate Training in U.S. Women's History: A Conference Report (1990). Available through the American Historical
Association.
"`Organized Womanhood': Archival Sources on
Women and Progressive Reform," Journal
of American History, June, 1988.
"Hull House as a Community of Women Reformers
in the 1890's," in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society,
special issue on Communities of Women (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
Vol. 10, No. 4, Summer 1985), pp. 657-77.
Reprinted in Mary Beth Norton, ed., Major
Problems in American Women's History (D.C. Heath, 1989); Nancy Hewitt, ed.,
Half of History: Women, Family and Community in
"A Conceptual Framework for the Teaching of
Recent United
States Scholarship on the History of Women, U.S. Report to Fifteenth
International Congress of Historical Sciences, Bucharest, 1980, Session on "Women and
Society." co-author with Barbara Sicherman, William Monter, and Joan
Scott. Published as a pamphlet by the
American Historical Association, 1980.
"Culture Versus Economics: A Case of Fornication in
"American Female Historians in Context: 1775-1930," Feminist Studies, Vol. 3, nos. 1 and 2 (Summer 1975). Reprinted in Nancy F. Cott, ed., History of Women in
"All Hail to Pure Cold Water: Women and the Water-Cure Movement in
Antebellum
Encyclopedia articles in: Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (2005); Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists (2004); Oxford
Companion to American History (2001); Historical
Encyclopedia of Chicago Women (2001);
Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia (2001); American
National Biography (1999); Readers'
Companion to U.S. Women's History (1998); Jewish Women in America: An
Historical Encyclopedia (1997); A
Companion to American Thought (1995); Encyclopedia
of New York City (1995); Companion to
American History (1993), Readers'
Encyclopedia of American History (1991); Encyclopedia of the American Left (1990); Biographical Dictionary of American Social Welfare Leaders (1986); Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery (1986);
Encyclopedia of Education (1970).
Book reviews in Journal
of Interdisciplinary History, American Historical Review, Journal of American
History, Reviews in American History, and others.
Online Publications: Author or co-author of
Document Projects on Women and Social Movements in the
“How Did Florence Kitchelt Bring Together Social Feminists
and Equal Rights Feminists to Reconfigure the Campaign for the ERA in the 1940s
and 50s?” co-author, Women and Social Movements in the U. S.,
1600-2000, Vol. 14, no. 1 (March 2010)
"How Did Changes in the Built
Environment at Hull-House Reflect the Settlement's Interaction with Its
Neighbors, 1889-1912?" author, Women
and Social Movements in the U. S., 1600-2000, Vol. 8, no. 4 (Dec.
2004)
"How Did the
National Women's Conference in Houston in 1977 Shape a Feminist Agenda for the
Future?" author, Women and Social
Movements in the U. S., 1600-2000, Vol. 8, no. 4 (Dec. 2004).
How Did the Removal of the Cherokee Nation from Georgia Shape Women’s Activism in the North, 1817-1838?, author, Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000, Vol. 8, no. 2 (June, 2004).
How have Recent Social Movements Shaped Civil Rights Legislation for Women? The 1994 Violence Against Women Act, co-author with Suzanne Lustig, Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000, Vol. 5, no. 1 (March, 2001).
How Did the Ladies Association of Philadelphia Shape New Forms of Women's Activism during the American Revolution, 1780-1781?, co-author with Gregory Duffy, Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000, Vol. 5, no. 1 (March, 2001).
What were the Origins of International Women's Day, 1886-1920?, co-author with Lauren Kryzak, Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000, Vol. 4, no. 1 (March, 2000).
Who Won the Debate over the Equal
Rights Amendment in the 1920s?, author, Women and Social Movements in
the
Why Did Some Men Support the Women's Rights Movement in the 1850s, and How Did Their Ideas Compare to those of Women in the Movement?, co-author with Gretchen Becht, Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000, Vol. 3, no. 1 (March, 1999).
What Was the Appeal of Moral Reform to Antebellum Northern Women, 1835-1841?, co-author with Daniel Wright, Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000, Vol. 3, no. 1 (March, 1999).
How Did Black and White Southern Women Campaign to End Lynching, 1890-1942?, co-author with Thomas Dublin and Karen Vill, Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000, Vol. 3, no. 1 (March, 1999).
How Did Florence Kelley's Campaign against Sweatshops in Chicago in the 1890s Expand Government Responsibility for Industrial Working Conditions?, co-author with Jamie Tyler, Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000, Vol. 2, no. 1 (March, 1998).
How Did the Views of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois toward Woman Suffrage Change, 1900-1915?, co-author with Chelsea Kuzma Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000, Vol. 2, no. 1 (March, 1998).
How Did Local Branches of the American Association of University Women
Contribute to Their Communities, 1900-1940?, co-author with Jenelle Lynette
Mullen. Women and Social Movements in the
How Did the Republican Party Respond to Suffragists' Entry into Electoral
Politics in New York, 1919-1926?, co-author with Nicole Hunt. Women and
Social Movements in the
Pacifism vs. Patriotism in Women's Organizations in the 1920s: How Was the Debate Shaped by the Expansion of the American Military?, co-author with Anissa Harper LoCasto Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000, Vol. 2, no. 1 (March, 1998).
How Did Suffragists Lobby to Obtain Congressional Approval of a Woman Suffrage Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1917-1920?, co-author with Kathleen Hoerger, Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000, Vol. 2, no. 1 (March, 1998).
What Infant and Maternal Health Services Did Middle-Class Clubwomen
Provide for Immigrant Women and Children in New York City, 1917-1920?,
co-author with Kathryn Martin. Women and Social Movements in the
How Did Women Peace Activists respond to "Red Scare" Attacks
during the 1920s?, co-author with Helen Baker, Women and Social
Movements in the
How Did Women Activists Promote Peace in Their 1915 Tour of Warring European Capitals?, co-author with Kari Amidon, Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000, Vol. 2, no. 1 (March, 1998).
How Did the Perceived Threat of Socialism Shape the Relationship between Workers and their Allies in the New York City Shirtwaist Strike, 1909-1910?, co-author with Thomas Dublin and Deirdre Doherty, Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000, Vol. 2, no. 1 (March, 1998).
How Did the National Woman's Party Address the Issue of the Enfranchisement of Black Women, 1919-1924? co-author with Jill Dias, Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000, Vol. 1, no. 1 (March, 1997).
How Did African-American Women Define Their Citizenship at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893?, co-author with Erin Shaughnessy, Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000, Vol. 1, no. 1 (March, 1997).
Fellowships
and Grants:
Resident
Scholar, June 2007, Japan Residency Program, Organization of American
Historians
Rothermere
Historical Institute, University of Oxford, Harmsworth Professor of
U.S. History, 2005-2006
Recipient with Beverly
Palmer, National Historical Publications and Records Commission grant for a
one-volume
edition of Selected Letters of Florence Kelley, June 1, 2004- Dec. 30, 2006.
Recipient with Beverly Palmer,
National Endowment for the Humanities grant for a one-volume
edition of Selected Letters of Florence Kelley,
Recipient
with Thomas Dublin, U.S. Department of Education grants: Teaching
for Cooperation between Secondary Schools and
Universities, 2001-2004, and 2004-2007.
Recipient with Thomas Dublin, National Endowment for
the Humanities grant to collaborate with
twelve
college and university teachers to produce projects in
Wide
Website, http://womhist.binghamton.edu, "Women and Social Movements
in the United
States,1775-2000," 2001-2003. (Women’s Web Camp)
Recipient with Mary Rothschild, American Association
of University Women Educational Foundation,
University Scholar-in-Residence Award for the creation of an oral
history archive of the emergence
of U.S.
Women's History as a field of academic study, 2000-2002.
Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities,
1998-1999
Recipient with Thomas Dublin, NEH Teaching with
Technology Grant for the development of a World
Wide Website, http://womhist.binghamton.edu,
"Women and Social Movements in the United
States, 1830-1930," 1998-2000
Recipient with Thomas Dublin, NEH Humanities Focus
Grant for the development of a World Wide
Website, http://womhist.binghamton.edu,
"Women and Social Movements in the
1830-1930," 1997-1998
Co-Director with Thomas Dublin, NEH Summer Seminar
for College Teachers, "The History of
American
Women through Social Movements, 1820-1930," SUNY,
Summer,
1996
Fellow,
Recipient, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grants to
conduct summer seminars for dissertation writers in
the
graduate program in U.S. Women's History at the State University of New York,
May-July
1994 and 1995
Fellow,
American Association of University Women, Founders'
Fellowship, 1990-91
Co-Director (with Gerda Lerner), NEH-sponsored
conference on graduate training in U.S. Women's
History,
70 participants, Johnson Foundation,
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
and Social Sciences,
Spencer Foundation Research Grant, 1987-1988
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1984-1985 (postponed to
1985-1986)
American Council of Learned Societies, Grant in Aid,
1983
NEH Fellowship, Newberry Library, 1982-1983
Woodrow Wilson International Center Fellowship,
summer 1982
Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship,
1981-1982
Schlesinger Library Grant,
Demonstration Grant for Curricular Development,
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1976-1978
Daniels Fellow, American Antiquarian Society, summer
1976
Fellow, National Humanities Institute, Yale
University, 1975-1976
Ford Foundation Faculty Research Grant for the Study
of Women in Society, 1973-1974
Fellow, Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 1973-1974
Professional
Activities:
Honorary
Memberships and Awards:
Phi Beta
Kappa,
Berkshire
Book Prize awarded by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians for the best
book
written by a woman historian in
American
Antiquarian Society, Elected to Membership, 1977
Society of
American Historians, Elected to Membership, 1987
Berkshire
Book Prize awarded by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians for the best
book
written by a woman historian in
Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research
awarded by the Association for Research on
Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, 1998
University
Award for Excellence in Research,
University
Award for Excellence in Teaching,
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, State University of New
York, 2002
University
Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, SUNY
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative
Activities, SUNY, 2002
Service in
Professional Organizations:
National Women’s History Museum
National Scholars Council, 2012 to present
American
Historical Association
President,
Vice-President,
Program
Committee,
Editorial Board, Guide to Historical Literature (1995)
Chair,
Committee on Women Historians, 1980-1983
Member, Coordinating
Committee on Women in the Historical Profession, 1973-present
Evaluator, AHA-NEH Stanford Institute on Women's
History, 1977-79
Founder and Coordinator, UCLA Workshop on Teaching U.S.
Women's History for College Teachers of U.S. Women's History in the West and Southwest,
1978 to 1988. The group still meets
annually, now coordinated by Professor Katherine Marino.
Organization
of American Historians
Co-Chair, Program Committee, 1998
Executive Board, 1983-1986
Nominating Board, 1977-1978
Merle
Curti Prize Committee, 1978-1979
Program
Committee, 1979-1980
OAH
Lecturer, 1982-present
Search
Committee for Editor of Journal of American History, 1984
Committee on the Status of Women, 1985-88
Prize
Committee Best Foreign-Language Book on
Program Committee,
Conferences at
Chair, Book Prize Committee, 2000-2002;
member, Book Prize Committee, 2009
American
Studies Association, Council Member at Large, 1978-1980
Society
for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
President, 1994-95
Vice President,
1993-94
Council Member, 1989-1993
Upstate
Program Committee Chair, 1994
Western Association of Women Historians
Keynote address with Tom Dublin, “Our Joint Journey in the World of
Women’s History,”
annual
meeting, Sacramento, CA, May 15, 2015
Member, New
York Council for the Humanities, 1992-99,
Executive Committee, 1995-1996, Chair, Awards Committee, 1995-1996
Member,
Member,
Advisory Board,
Listed in
a variety of biographical directories, including: Who's Who in
Editorial
Boards:
Women and Social Movements in Modern
Empires since 1820 (2012 to 2018)
Women
and Social Movements, International, 1840 to present (2007 to 2018)
Women
and Social Movements in United States History, 1600 – 2000 (1997 to 2018)
American
Quarterly, 1976-1979
Journal
of American History, 1978-1981
Feminist
Studies, Guest Editor, Fall 1976
Ms.,
Scholarly Advisory Board, 1980-1984
Journal
of Women's History, Founding Editorial Board, 1987-2004
History
of Women Religious Newsletter, 1988-1992
American
National Biography, 1990-2000
Cambridge
Dictionary of American Biography, (published 1995)
Feminist
Press, 1990-2001
Hayes
Historical Journal: A Journal of the Gilded Age,1991-1994
Women's
History Review, 1990-2018
Historical
Encyclopedia of
Social
Work Dictionary, (1999 edition)
Advisory
Editor, Harriet Martineau’s Writing on the British Empire, Deborah
Logan, editor,
5
volumes (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2003)
Advisory Editor, Harriet Martineau: Writings on British History and Military Reform,
Deborah
Logan, editor, 6 volumes (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2005)
Other
Professional Activities:
Program
Chair, Global Network on Women's Advocacy in Civil Society, an electronic
conference on
"Women's Organizations
and the Building of Civil Society in the Twenty-First Century," Dec. 2000
Advisory
Board, Working Group on Catholic Women, "Catholicism in Twentieth Century
Bancroft
Prize Juror, 1997-98 & 2002
National
Commission on Civic Renewal, Scholars Working Group, Institute for Philosophy and
Public Policy,
Visiting
Committee to Evaluate the Department of History,
Examiner,
Honors Program,
Co-Coordinator
(with Gerda Lerner), NEH-sponsored Conference of Graduate Teachers in U.S.
Women's History, October, 1988, Wingspread
Producer,
Interviewer, "A Talk with Genora Johnson Dollinger, a Founder of
Industrial Unionism,"
45 minute videotape,
Distributed by Media Library, UCLA (1985).
National
Research Council, Committee on Basic Research in the Behavioral and Social
Sciences,
Gender Studies Working Group, 1985
Advisory
Board, Southern
Research and Services, 1981 to 1988
Pulitzer
Prize Juror in History, 1976
Fellow,
Newberry Library Family and Community History Seminar, 1973
Committee
Service in Women's Studies:
Chair, committee to design a women's studies
program, University of Michigan,
1972-73
Chair,
committee to design a women's studies program, UCLA, 1974-75
Chair,
Committee to Administer Program in Women's Studies, UCLA
1974-75, 1976-77, 1977-78, 1979-80,
1980-81, and Committee member, 1983-84, 1986-87.
Chair,
Advisory Committee, Center for the Study of Women, UCLA, 1984-1985
(the Center's inaugural year)
Co-Founder and Co-Director, Center for the Historical Study of Women and
Gender,
SUNY Binghamton, 1998-2018
Selected Scholarly Presentations:
“How Did Empire Affect Women's Transnational Activism, 1900-1960? Three Views of Empire through Women's Eyes,” International Federation for Research in Women’s History, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, August 2018
“Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since
1820,” International Federation for
Research in Women’s History, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, August
2018
“Challenges and Choices in Creating the online
archive, Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires,” Western Association of
Women Historians, San Diego, CA, 2017
“Native Women in North America: an online project,”
American Society for Ethnohistory, November 5, 2015, Las Vegas, Nevada
“Our Joint Journey in the World of Women’s History,”
Keynote address with Tom Dublin,
Western
Association of Women Historians, annual meeting, Sacramento, CA, May 15, 2015
"Research Possibilities in the Proceedings of
Women's Transnational Organizations, 1880-2010," American Historical
Association, Washington, DC, January 2014
"Women and Social Movements, International:
the Proceedings of Women's Transnational Organizations, 1880-2010," International
Federation for Research in Women's History, Sheffield University, Sheffield,
UK, August 2013
“Centennial thoughts on the
1913 Woman Suffrage March in Washington,” in “Three Generations Fighting for
the Vote,” George Washington University, March 2, 2013
“One Hundred Years Later: The Legacy of 1912 and the Future of
Progressive Politics in
America” paper invited by program committee,
Organization of American Historians, Milwaukee, April 2012.
“New Research in the History
of Women’s Transnational and International Social Movements: Using the New Online Archive and Database,
Women and Social Movements, International—1840 to Present,”
Society of Historians of
American Foreign Relations, Hartford, June 28, 2012.
“One Hundred Years
Later: The Legacy of 1912 and the Future
of Progressive Politics in America,” paper invited by program committee, Organization
of American Historians, Milwaukee, April 2012.
“Women and Social Movements,
International, 1840 to Present: An
Online Database,” International Federation for Research in Women’s History,
Amsterdam, August 2010.
“Editing The Selected Letters of Florence Kelley,”
Organization of American Historians, Washington D.C., April 9, 2010
“Editing The Selected Letters of Florence Kelley,”
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., April 7,
2010
“Internationalizing U.S. Women’s History, 1840-2010,”
Hollins College, April 5, 2010
“Editing The Selected Letters of Florence Kelley,”
Herbert Lehman Center for the Study of American History, Columbia University,
Nov. 9, 2009
“Researching about American
Women Online,” Keynote address, Second Biennial Conference on Women and History
in Northeastern Pennsylvania, March 14, 2009
“Weaving
Berkshire Conference in
Women’s History,” June 2008,
“A
Women’s History Report Card on the Presidential Candidacy of Hillary Rodham
Clinton,”
Berkshire Conference in
Women’s History,” June 2008,
“Mainstreaming U.S. Women’s History, 1600-2000,”
Workshop in U.S. Women’s History, Tokyo Woman’s
“The Centrality of Feminism in American Political
History: The abolitionist example of the
1830s,”
“New Approaches to Race, Class and Gender: The Women and Social Movements Website,” presented
at several British universities, including Cambridge University, the University
of London, the University of Leeds and the University of Newcastle.
“The Centrality of Feminism in American Political
History, 1776-2000,” Inaugural Lecture, Harmsworth Professor of
“Feminisms in American
History, 1776-2000,” keynote address at conference on “Feminism Unbound: Crossing Borders,” The Huntington Library,
“
"`Some
of Us Who Deal with the Social Fabric:'" Jane Addams Blends Peace and
Social Justice, 1907-1919," Rediscovering Jane Addams, Conference at
"`The Throne of My Heart': Angelina Grimké’s
Religious Radicalism and the Emergence of Women's Rights within Garrisonian
Abolitionism, 1828-1838," conference on "Sisterhood and Slavery: Transatlantic Antislavery and Women's
Rights," Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and
Abolition, Yale University, October 2001.
"Reinterpreting the Progressive Era as
Coalitions among Some Protestants, Some Catholics, and Some Jews,"
Organization of American Historians,
"The Ethical Origins of Modern
September, 2000; and
"Scholarly Electronic Networking and Women's
Global Advocacy,"
"Integrating Catholic-American History and
American History: Problems and Prospects," Keynote Address, Conference on
Catholicism in Twentieth Century America, Cushwa Center for the Study of Catholicism,
University of Notre Dame, March 2000
"The Multiple Discourses of Progressive
Reform," Conference on Hull House Legacy:
Reuniting the Local with the Global, University of Illinois, Chicago,
September 1999
"Progressive Reform Discourses,"
Distinguished Speaker, Society of Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive
Era,
“A Historical Model of Women’s Voluntarism and the
State, 1890-1920,” International Society for Third-Sector Research, Geneva,
Switzerland, July 1998
Keynote Address, "Interpreting Women's History
in Local Sites," annual meeting, Regional Council of Historical Agencies,
Keynote address, "What do historians of
twentieth century women miss when they overlook the importance of religion as a
category of analysis?" Protestant Women in the Twentieth Century, a
project funded by the Pew Memorial Foundation,
Keynote address, "The Power of a Symbol: the Consumers' White Label, 1899-1917,"
Conference on the Culture of Politics and the Politics of Culture,
Keynote address, "Women Reformers and Social
Welfare: Maternalism or Social
Justice?" Labor and the Welfare State, Ninth Symposium of the George Meany
Memorial Archives, Sponsored Jointly with the National Archives, November, 1996
"Historical Understanding and the Making of
Public Policy," Social Science History Association, October 1996
"
"Social Reform Themes in the Woman Suffrage
Movement, 1900-1920," various versions presented at about twenty colleges
and universities, 1994-1997, most recently Huntington Library, (April 1997).
"`Doing the Nation's Work': Florence Kelley and Women's Political Culture
1830-1930," various versions presented at about seventy colleges and
universities, 1980-1995.
Commentator, session devoted to "Florence
Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise
of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900," at the annual meeting of the
Social Science History Association (November 1995)
"The White Label Campaign of the National
Consumers' League, 1899-1909," Presidential address, Society for Historians
of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, annual meeting with the Organization of
American Historians, Chicago, April, 1995; and conference on Consumer Culture
in the Twentieth Century, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.,
October, 1995.
"Florence Kelley and German Political Culture
in the 1880s," German Historical Institute, Washington D.C., September,
1995.
"Engendering Women's History: New Paradigms and
Interpretations in American History," keynote address, annual convention
of the German Association for American Studies, Hamburg, Germany, June, 1995.
"Women and Welfare in Conservative Eras,"
"The World that Lillian Wald Built,"
keynote address, Centennial Conference, Henry Street Settlement, March 1993
"Why did Women Factory Inspectors Wield More
Power in the
"Biography in the Writing of
"Women Peacemakers and Women's Political
Culture in World War I," keynote address, International Conference on
Women, Peace, and Social Welfare Policies, University of Illinois, April 1989
"American Women Social Scientists in the
1890's,"
"British and American Women at the World
Anti-Slavery Convention in
"A Theoretical Framework for the Comparative
Study of Women and Politics in the
"Teaching Values in Public Schools: an Historical Perspective," Summer
Workshop,
"Sources of Change in the Schooling of Girls in
Twenty-Eight Massachusetts Towns, 1750-1810," Conference on Gender,
Education and Technology, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy, Oct. 1985.
"Personal Power and Historical Causation,"
Vth International Conference in Oral History, Barcelona, March 1985.
"Education and its Social Setting in the
Anglo-Saxon World," Centre D'Investigacio Historica de La Dona, University
of Barcelona, Spain, November 1984; and "Education for Women and Social
Change, 1800-1920" Jose Ortega Y Gasset Foundation, Madrid, Spain,
November 1984.
"The Debate between
"American Women's Changing Life cycles,
1800-1980," Jing Lyman Lecture, Center for Research on Women,
Isabel MacCaffrey Lecture,
Keynote Speaker, Annual National Convention, Girl
Scouts of
"A Conceptual Framework for the Teaching of
U.S. Women's History," University of Montana, November 1980; Northwestern
University, January 1981; Roosevelt University, November 1981; Seneca Falls,
New York, National Park Service conference on "Women and
Communities," July 1982; American Historical Association, Dec. 1979.
"Celebrations and Challenges in Women's
History," keynote address,
"Why Should Writers Use History?" American
Writers' Congress,
"The Conflicting Demands of Family and
Work: Myths and Realities,"
American Association of University Women, Wingspread Conference on Families and
Work,
"Recent Scholarship by
"Historians' Changing Views of American Women
in Religion and Society during the Last Decade," Keynote address, at the
first national conference on church women's history, "Women in New
Worlds: Historical Perspectives on The Wesleyan
Tradition," Cincinnati, February 1980.
"Autonomous Female Politics, 1820-1920,"
Keynote address at "Women in History:
A Conference on Sources and Methods," Sacramento, CA, May 1977.
"American Female Historians in Context,
1770-1930," Keynote address at Western Association of Women Historians,
Annual Convention,
Dissertations Directed
Completed
at UCLA
Kathleen C. Berkeley, "Like a Plague of
Locusts: Immigration and Social Change
in
Carole Srole, "Female Clerical Workers: A Study of the Socio-Economic Background of
the Turn-of-the-Century Working Woman" (1984). Published as Transcribing Class and
Gender: Masculinity and Feminity in
Nineteenth-Century Courts and Offices (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010). Professor, California State University, Los
Angeles
Jaclyn Greenberg, "Industry in the Garden: A Social History of the Canning Industry and
Cannery Workers in the
Elizabeth Salas, "Soldaderas: History and Myth of Mexican Army Women"
(1987). Published as Soldaderas in
the Mexican Military: Myth and History
(Austin: University of Texas Press,
1990). Associate Professor, Chicano Studies Program,
Emma Perez, "Through Her Love and
Sweetness: Work and Social Change During
Yucatan's Revolution, 1910-1924" (1988). Portions published in Perez's
book, The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History :Theories of
Representation and Difference (Indiana University Press, 1999), Professor
of History, University of Texas, El Paso.
Margaret Rose, "Women in the United Farm
Workers: A Study of Chicana and Mexicana
Participation in a Trade Union, 1950-1980" (1988). History Associate, University of California,
Santa Barbara
Carolyn Luverne Williams, "Religion, Race, and
Gender in Antebellum American Radicalism: The
Linda Tomko, "Women's Culture, Art-Dance and
Social Change in the United States, 1890-1920" (1991). Associate Professor, Department of Dance
History,
Cynthia Orozco, "The Origins of the League of
United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the Mexican-American Civil Rights
Movement in Texas with an Analysis of Women's Political Participation in a
Gendered Context, 1910-1929" (1992).
Assistant Professor,
Nan Towle Yamane, "Women, Power, and the
Press: The Case of
Dissertations
Directed at SUNY Binghamton
Robyn Rosen, “Federal Responsibility or Government
Tyranny? -- Women's Reproductive Reform and the Growth of the Welfare State,
1917-1940.” (1992), published as Reproductive Health, Reproductive
Rights: Reformers and the Politics of
Maternal Welfare, 1917-1940 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press,
2003). Professor of History, Marist
College, Poughkeepsie, New York.
Kathleen R. Babbitt, "Production and
Consumption in the Countryside: Rural
Women and Cooperative Extension Home Economists in
Kimberly Schmidt, "Transforming Tradition: Women's Work and the Effects of Religion and
Economics in Two Rural Mennonite Communities." (1995) Recipient, American Association of University
Women Fellowship, 1993-94. Author of
“Schism: Where Women’s Outside Work and
Insider Dress Collided,” in Kimberly D. Schmidt et al, Amish and Mennonite
Women in History (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2001). Professor of History, Eastern Mennonite
University, Harrisonburg, VA. Director, Washington
Community Scholars' Center, Washington, D.C .
Amy
E. Butler, "The Search for Equality:
Alice Paul and Ethel Smith in the Equal Rights Amendment Debate,
1921-1923" (1997), published as Two Paths to Equality: Alice Paul and Ethel M. Smith in the E.R.A.
Debate, 1921-1929 (
Carol Faulkner, “Women's Radical
Reconstruction: the Freedman's Aid
Movement, 1862-1876,” (1998), published as Women's
Radical Reconstruction: the Freedman's
Aid Movement, 1862-1876 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.) Portions published as "How Did White Women
Aid Former Slaves during and after the Civil War and What Obstacles Did They
Face?" on "Women and Social
Movements in the United States, 1600-2000," http://womhist.binghamton.edu. Fellow, National Historical Records and
Publications Commssion, Lucretia Mott Papers, Pomona College, Claremont,
California (1998-1999); Price Visiting Fellowship, Clements Library, University
of Michigan (2000); participant. Schlesinger Library Workshop on Gender,
2007. Assistant and Association Professor,
SUNY Geneseo, 1999-2007; Associate Professor,
Jan
Doolittle Wilson, "`Citizens with Unselfish Aim': The Women's Joint Congressional Committee and
Its Campaign for Progressive Legislation, 1920-1930," (2000). Dissertation published as The Women’s Joint Congressional
Committee and the Politics of Maternalism (
John McGuire, “A Catalyst for Reform: The Women's Joint Legislative Conference and
Its Fight for Labor Legislation in New York State, 1918-1933” (2001). Author of “From the Courts to the State
Legislatures: Social Justice Feminism,
Labor Legislation, and the 1920s,” Labor History, Vol. 45 No. 2 (May
2004). Recipient, Margaret Storrs
Grierson Grant, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, summer 1999; Dissertation Research Grant, Roosevelt
Library, 2000. Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellowship, The Franklin and Eleanor
Roosevelt Institute, 2004; State Historical Society of Iowa Grant, 2004; Archie
K. Davis Fellowship, North Caroliniana Society, 2004. Peer-reviewed
articles: “’The Most Unjust Piece of Legislation’: Section 213 of
the Economy Act of 1932 and Feminism during the New Deal,” Journal of Policy History, (fall 2008); “Making Social Justice Feminism A National Movement:
Molly Dewson and Democratic Party Politics in the United States, 1933-1940,” Women’s History Magazine (UK) 54:3 (Autumn 2006): 12-20; “Making the Case for Night Work Legislation in
Progressive Era New York, 1911-1915.” Journal
of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 5:1 (January
2006): 47-70; “Caught in the Middle: Sue Shelton White and the
Conflict Between Social Justice
Feminism and Equal Rights in
New Deal Politics.”
Linda Shoemaker, "Charity and Justice":
Gender and the
Connie
Shemo, "The Medical Ministries of Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu in the
Barbara Reeves-Ellington,
"`That Our Daughters May Be as Corner Stones': American Missionaries, Bulgarian Nationalists
and the Politics of Gender 1832-1876" (2002). Published as Domestic Frontiers:
Gender, Reform, and American Interventions in the Ottoman Balkans and Near East (U. of Massachusetts Press, 2013.) Author of "Petko Slaveykov's
Daughters," in Krassimira Daskalova and Raina Gavrilova, eds., Limits of Citizenship: European Women
between Tradition and Modernity (in Bulgarian) (Sofia, Bulgaria: Lik,
2001), 121-134. Recipient, Fulbright
Fellowship to
Michelle M. Kuhl, "Modern Martyrs: African
American Responses to Lynching, 1880-1940" (2004). Harry Frank Guggenheim
Dissertation Fellowship, 2000-2001. Associate
Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, 2004-present.
Daniel
S. Wright, “`The First of Causes to Our Sex’: The Female Moral Reform Movement
in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834-1848" (2004). Recipient, Best Dissertation in the Social
Sciences, SUNY
Halle Lewis, "Cripples are not the dependents
one is led to think": Work and Disability in Industrializing Cleveland,
1863-1916” (2004). Excellence in
Teaching Award, SUNY
Suronda Gonzalez, "`Immigrants Who Are in Our
Midst': Grace Abbott and the Immigrants' Protective League, 1908-1921"
(2004). Director, Languages across the
Curriculum, SUNY Binghamton, 2001-present.
Laura Murphy, "`The Worker’s Right to a Decent
Livelihood’: Catholic Activists,
Catholic Social Thought, and the U.S. Minimum Wage, 1869-1938,"
(2005). Dissertation Fellowship, Project
on Catholic Women in the Twentieth Century, Cushwa Center, University of Notre
Dame; University Dissertation Fellowship, SUNY Binghamton, 2001-2002;
Excellence in Teaching Award, SUNY Binghamton, 2003. Associate Professor, Dutchess County
Community College, 2004-present.
the
Development of a Politicized Female Reform Culture, 1880-1892" (2005). Hostick fellowship for the Study of Illinois
History, Illinois Historical Society, 2002.
Dissertation Fellowship, Department of History, SUNY
Linda
Janke, "Prisoners of War: Prostitution, Sexuality, Venereal Disease, and Women’s
Incarceration during World War I" (2006).
Recipient, Littleton-Griswold Award, American Historical Association,
2003. Associate Professor and Chair,
Department of History,
Michele
Materese, "The Nurse and the Community:
Lillian Wald and Social Activism, 1893-1920" (2006). Assistant
Professor, Department of Health Sciences & Physical Activities,
Deanna Gillespie, “They Walk, Talk, and Act Like New
People:" Black Women and the Citizenship Education Program, 1957-1970.”
(2008) Travel Award and Dissertation
Fellowship, Department of History, SUNY
Meylssa
Wrisley, “Fashioning a New Femininity:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Discourses of Dress, Gender and
Sexuality, 1875-1930.” (2008) Department
of History, SUNY
Gaylynn
Welch, "Local and National Forces Shaping the American Woman Suffrage
Movement: 1870-1890." (2009) Department of History Research Travel Grant,
Summer 2004; Department of History Dissertation Research Grant, Fall 2004.
Instructor, Department of History, SUNY
Jennifer Tomas, "The
Women's History Movement in the United States: Professional and Political
Roots of the Field, 1922-1987" (March, 2012) Joan S. Dubofsky
Research Travel Grant, 2008, SUNY Binghamton Department of History; Kramer
Research Travel Award 2009, SUNY Binghamton, Department of History , Rosa
Colecchio Travel Award, 2009, Binghamton
University Foundation; Schlesinger Library Dissertation Research Grant,
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University , 2009; Guion
Griffis Johnson Visiting Scholar Grant 2009, The Southern Historical Collection
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Project Director, "A History of the Journal of
Women's History: 25 Years." Assistant Professor of History, Piedmont
Virginia Community College, 2013 to present.
Anne Derousie, "The Signers of the ‘Declaration of Sentiments’: Kinship and Economic Ties in a Reform Community, 1779-1879.” (July 2012). Park Historian, Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, New York, 2001-2015.