Professor Emerita of History and Women's Studies - Retired
Year Joined RCNJ: 1976
Contact Information
- Phone: 201-684-7625
Founding member of School of Social Sciences and Social Work;
Designer, with others, of SSSW gen ed courses
Convener and Co-Convener of Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Minor and Program, 1980-2013
Retirement, 2014
Education:
B.A., and PhD., History, The University of Chicago
MA History, Columbia University
Courses Taught at 麻豆果冻:
Introductory Courses:
Social Issues
Women in Contemporary Society
Western Studies II
200- and 300-level Courses:
Britain since 1800
Twentieth-Century Europe
Witchcraft in History
Sexuality in Modern Western Societies
Advanced Courses:
Senior Seminar: World War I
Masters in Liberal Studies Program, 鈥淯S in a Changing World,鈥� 2000—2013,
co-taught with Hank Frundt聽 or Martha Ecker
Books
Love and Toil: Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918, Oxford University Press, 1993
Slum Journeys: Lady Explorers “In Darkest London”, anthology of collected original sources by women social workers, journalists, district nurses, etc., l860-l940, University of California Press, 2007
Trapped into Service: British Women鈥檚 Social Work and Humanitarian Aid, 1914-1950, in progress
Articles, selected, since 2010
鈥淢issionaries and Jews in Soho: 鈥楽trangers within Our Gates鈥�,鈥� Journal of Victorian Culture 15, no. 2 (August 2010): 226-238
Playing Deaf鈥�: Jewish Women at the Medical Missions of East London, 1880-1920s,鈥� 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, no. 13 (2011) (an on-line refereed journal, Queen Mary University, London)
鈥淪t. Francis in Soho: Emmeline Pethick and Mary Neal, the West London Mission, and the Allure of 鈥楽imple Living鈥� in the 1890s,鈥� Church History 83: 4 (December 2014): 843-883
鈥淢ilitarism and Pacifism,鈥� The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, ed. Celia Marshik (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
鈥淭he Country of the Fathers,鈥� History Workshop Journal 84 (Autumn 2017): 265-272.
鈥溾�楪iggling Adolescents鈥� to Refugees, Bullets, and Wolves: Francesca Wilson Finds a Profession,鈥� in
Precarious Professionals: Gender, Identities, and Social Change in Modern Britain, ed. Heidi Egginton and Zo毛 Thomas, Royal Historical Society and Institute of Historical Research, 2021
鈥淲omen and Wages in Britain鈥檚 鈥楥lassic鈥� Slums,鈥� in The Oxford Handbook on the History of Slums, ed. Alan Mayne, Oxford University Press, forthcoming (forthcoming, 2022)
鈥溾�楩ull of Spain鈥�: Francesca Wilson and Republican Spain, 1937-1939,鈥� paper in progress for journal submission