Mari Jo Buhle, Emerita
William J. Kenan Jr. University Professor, American Civilization and History:
American Civilization. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1974
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Mari Jo Buhle works in the fields of U. S. women's/gender history and cultural/intellectual history. She has published books and articles on women and American radical movements and is the co-author of "Out of Many," a college-level text designed for introductory history courses. "Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis," concerns the relationship between psychoanalytic and feminist theories in the United States since Freud's visit in 1909.
Biography
Mari Jo Buhle, William R. Kenan Jr. University Professor, began teaching at Brown University in 1972, as the first member of the faculty to hold a position dedicated to women's studies. She has taught mainly on the history of American women, training students at the undergraduate and graduate levels in both the American Civilization and History departments. She has directed nearly fifty dissertations and is currently chairing approximately fifteen Ph.D. committees. Her own research, which began with a specialty in the history of American radicalism, now centers on the history of the behavior sciences in the United States. In 1998, she published "Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis" with Harvard University Press. She is currently working on a companion study, a history of the intersection of Jungian analytical psychology and mainly American feminism in the twentieth century. She is the co-author of "Out of Many: A History of the American People," a best-selling U.S. history textbook, which is now in its 5th edition. With two other authors, she is currently working on a textbook on U.S. women's history, which is scheduled for publication in 2008. Buhle has received fellowships from the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College; the Bunting Institute (now the Radcliffe Institute) at Harvard University; and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (1991-1996).
Interests
Mari Jo Buhle works in the fields of U. S. women's/gender history and cultural/intellectual history. She has published books and articles on women and American radical movements and is the co-author of Out of Many, a college-level text designed for introductory history courses. Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis (Harvard University Press, 1998) concerns the relationship between psychoanalytic and feminist theories in the United States since Freud's visit in 1909. She is currently working on a book tentatively entitled A-rational Feminism: An American History, which concerns the intersection of Jung's analytical psychology and 20th-century feminist thought.
Degrees
PhD
Awards
1966 - College Honors, Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois
1968 - Phi Kapp Phi, University of Connecticut
1971 - Alice E. Smith Honoraria, Madison, Wisconsin
1976 - Henry M. Wriston Fellowship, Brown University
1977 - Louis M. Rabinowitz Fellowship
1978 - Faculty Development Grant, Center for Research on Women in Higher Education, Wellesley College
1978-80 - Research Associate, The Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College
1982 - Honorary Fellow, Women's Studies Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1985 - Odyssey Summer Grant, Brown University
1991-96 - Prize Fellowship, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
1996-95 - Salomon Faculty Research Award, Brown University
1997-99 - Harrison S. Kravis Endowed Professorship, Brown University
1999 - William R. Kenan Jr. University Professorship, Brown University
2000 - Elected Fellow, Society of American Historians
2002-03 - Faculty Fellow, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
Affiliations
Reprint Advisory Board, The Feminist Press, 1973-84
Consultant, American Labor History Project (NEH and Ford Foundation), 1976
Evaluation panel, Media Program, Division of Public Programs, NEH, 1981
Evaluation panel, Les Dames d'Escoffier Fellowship Program, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, 1980
Evaluation panel, Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College Fellowship Program, 1980
Consultant, "Reflections: Imagines of Women in Popular Culture," Media Program, Division of Public Programs, NEH, 1981
Co-Director, "Grandma Was an Activist," WBAI-radio series, New York Council for the Humanities, 1981
Evaluation panel, History Selection Committee, Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College Fellowship Program, 1983-84; 1984-85
Reviewer, Radcliffe College Research Scholars Fellowship Program, 1983-84
External Review Committee, American Studies Department, SUNY-Buffalo, 1985
Program Committee, Seventh Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, 1986
Workshop coordinator, conference on Graduate Training in U.S. Women's History, NEH and the Johnson Foundation of Racine, Wisconsin, 1988
Program Committee, Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, 1990
Editorial Board, Journal of American History, 1991-94
Consultant, The Great American History-Fact Finder (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993)
Consultant, "Love in the Cold War," Windfall Films, Cambridge, MA, 1993
Planning Committee, 50th Anniversary Program, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, 1993
Jury, Bancroft Prize in American History, Columbia University, 1994
External reviewer, Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, Bowling Green Sate University, 1996
Consultant, The Women's Museum: An Institute for the Future, Dallas, Texas. A Project of the Foundation for Women's Resources, June 1998
External Review Committee, Department of History, Columbia University, 1999
Evaluator, National Humanities Center Fellowships, 1993
Editor (with Anne Firor Scott, Nancy Hewitt, and Stephanie Shaw), Women and American History Series, University of Illinois Press, 1984-1999
Jury, Parkman Prize in American History, Society of American Historians, 2003
Consultant, Rhode Island Feminist Theater/Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, 1976; 1981
Consultant, "Working Women Make History: A Curriculum for Office Workers," Rhode Island Working Women/ NEH, 1981
Panelist, "Women and Children at Work," Lewis Hine exhibit, Slater Mill Historic Site, 1982
Teaching
Mari Jo Buhle has been teaching at Brown since 1972, when she was the first member of the faculty to hold a position dedicated to women's studies. She has taught mainly on the history of American women, training students at the undergraduate and graduate levels in both the American Civilization and History departments. She has directed nearly fifty dissertations and is currently chairing approximately fifteen Ph.D. committees.
Some of the recent courses taught include the graduate seminars, AC 201 Introduction to Interdisciplinary Methods, and HI285 Readings & Research in U.S. Women/Gender History; and AC161 Women and Social Activism, 1860-1920, which examines women's activities in a variety of reform/radical movements, beginning with volunteer efforts during the Civil War.
Funded Research
1976 - Henry M. Wriston Fellowship, Brown University
1977 - Louis M. Rabinowitz Fellowship
1978 - Faculty Development Grant, Center for Research on Women in Higher Education, Wellesley College
1982 - Honorary Fellow, Women's Studies Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1985 - Odyssey Summer Grant, Brown University
1991-96 - Prize Fellowship, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
1996-95 - Salomon Faculty Research Award, Brown University
Curriculum Vitae
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