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  • Nancy A. Hewitt
  • Nancy A. Hewitt
  • Professor Emerita of History and Women's Studies
  • Degree: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; B.A., State University of New York, Brockport
  • Rutgers : At Rutgers from 1999-2013

 

 

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My interests include American women's history, nineteenth century U.S. history, women's activism from c.1800-1980s;, women and work; the interplay of race and class with sex/gender, religion and reform; and feminisms in comparative perspective. In the early 2000s, I began rethinking the grand narrative of American women's political/activist history from Seneca Falls to suffrage and across the history of women’s rights and feminism. I have attempted to place these movements in a more global context and to incorporate the versions and visions of women's rights embraced by African Americans, workers, and immigrants. That effort built on my studies of women’s activism in Rochester, New York and Tampa, Florida, and has resulted in an edited collection, No Permanent Waves as well as the article “Feminist Frequencies: Regenerating the Wave Metaphor” in Feminist Studies. These themes also run through my 2018 monograph, Radical Friend, a biography of nineteenth-century activist Amy Kirby Post. A radical Quaker who engaged in interracial movements to abolish slavery, advance women’s and workers’ rights, protect Native (specifically Seneca) sovereignty, promote religious liberty, and improve health care. In 2020, I coedited a second edition of A Companion to American Women’s History with Anne Valk and co-authored the 4th edition of Exploring American Histories: A Survey with Sources with Steven Lawson, which will appear in 2021.

COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT

Undergraduate

  • 512:103 Development of U.S. I
  • 512:380 Women in American History I
  • 512:383 Women’s Rights in America
  • 988:301/302 Comparative Feminisms

Graduate

  • 510:539 Colloquium in Women's and Gender History
  • 510:549 Research Seminar in Women's and Gender History
  • 510:560 Problems and Directed Readings in Women's and Gender History

PUBLICATIONS

  • Co-author (with Steven F. Lawson), Exploring American Histories: A Survey with Sources, 4th ed (Bedford/Macmillan, 2021)
  • Editor, Companion to American Women's History (Blackwell's Publishers, 2002) and Companion to American Women’s History, 2nd ed, with Anne M. Valk (Wiley, 2020)
  • Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds (University of North Carolina Press, 2018)
  • Co-editor with Christopher Densmore, Carol Faulkner and Beverly Palmer, Lucretia Mott Speaks: The Essential Speeches and Sermons. (University of Illinois Press, 2017)
  • Co-author (with Steven Lawson), Exploring American Histories: A Brief Survey with Sources (Bedford/St. Martin's, December 2012)
  • Editor, No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism (Rutgers University Press, 2010)
  • Editor, Companion to American Women's History (Blackwell's Publishers, 2002)
  • Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s (University of Illinois Press, 2001)
  • Co-author, Who Built America? Vol. 1 (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000)
  • “Rochester,” in Michael Roy, Frederick Douglass in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
  • “Feminist Frequencies: Regenerating the Wave Metaphor,” in Feminist Studies (Fall 2012): 658-680
  • “’Seeking  a Larger Liberty’: The U.S. Woman’s Rights Movement in Transatlantic Perspective,” in Kathryn Kish Sklar and James Brewer Stewart, eds., Woman’s Rights and Abolition in the Atlantic World (Yale University Press, 2007)
  • “Economic Crises and Political Mobilization: Reshaping Cultures of Resistance in Tampa’s Communities of Color, 1929-1939,” in Sharon Harley, ed., Women’s Labor in the Global Economy: Speaking in Multiple Voices (Rutgers University Press, 2007
  • “Luisa Capetillo: Feminist of the Working Class,” in Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography and Community, eds. Vicki Ruiz and Virginia Sanchez Korrol (Oxford Univ Press, 2005)
  • "Re-rooting American Women's Activism: Global Perspectives on 1848," in Patricia Grimshaw, et al, eds., Woman's Rights as Human Rights (Palgrave, 2001)
  • "The Emma Thread," in Nupur Chaudhuri and Eileen Boris, eds., Voices of Women Historians (Indiana University Press, 1999)

AWARDS

  • James C. Bradford Prize in Biography for Radical Friend, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, 2019
  • Honorary Doctorate of Letters, State University of New York System, May 2010
  • Roy S. Rosenzweig Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession, OAH, April 2016
  • Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions, University of Cambridge, 2009-2010
  • Fellow, Society of American Histories, 2007
  • Julia Cherry Spruill Prize for SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT, Southern Association of Women Historians, 2002
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. 2000-2001
  • Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1996-97
  • Director, Sawyer Seminar, “Women’s Grassroots Activism in Global Perspective,” Duke University, 1995-1996

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • American Historical Association
  • Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
  • National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites
  • Organization of American Historians
  • Society of American Historians
  • Southern Association of Women Historians
  • Southern Historical Association

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • Editorial Board, Rutgers University Press
  • Editor, Feminist Studies
  • Editor, Women in American History Series, University of Illinois Press
  • Advisory Board, HistoryMatters: American History on the Web
  • Advisory Board, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
  • William Gillette
  • William Gillette
  • Professor Emeritus of History
  • Degree: Ph.D., Princeton
  • Rutgers : At Rutgers from 1967-2015
  • Research Interests: Civil War and Reconstruction, New Jersey history, American political history, American Western history

Additonal Degrees

  • M.A., Columbia
  • B.S.F.S., Georgetown

COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT

Undergraduate

  • 512:104 Development of US II
  • 512:303 Civil War and Reconstruction
  • 512:410 New Jersey History
  • 506:401 Seminar: History of New Jersey since 1801

PUBLICATIONS

  • The Right to Vote: Politics and the Passage of the Fifteenth Amendment
  • Retreat from Reconstruction, 1869-1879
  • Jersey Blue: Civil War Politics in New Jersey, 1854-1865
  • author of 25 chapters or articles, including 9 recent articles in The Encyclopedia of New Jersey.
  • has given 109 guest lectures in the United States, Austria, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Russia

AWARDS

  • 1979: Landry Prize, Lousiana State University Press
  • 1980: Chastain Prize, Southern Political Science Association
  • 1982-1983: Fulbright Lecturer, University of Salzburg, Austria
  • 1996: Award of Merit, American Association for State and Local History
  • 1996: Special Award, New Jersey Historical Commission
  • 1997: McCormick Prize, New Jersey Historical Commission
  • 1997-1998: Fulbright Lecturer, Japan Women's University and Tsuda College, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2008: Senior Fulbright Lecturer, the Nikolay V. Sivachev Distinguished Chair in American History, Moscow State University , Moscow, Russia
  • 2009: appointed by the Governor of New Jersey to the New Jersey Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • New Jersey Historical Society
  • Advocates for New Jersey History
  • Lloyd Gardner
  • Lloyd Gardner
  • Professor Emeritus of History
  • Degree: PhD University of Wisconsin, Madison

Publications

  • Ziva Galili
  • Ziva Galili
  • Distinguished Professor Emerita of History
  • Degree: Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, 1980; BA, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1970
  • Rutgers : At Rutgers from 1981-2017

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

For much of my academic life I studied and taught the social and political history of Russia in early 20th century, especially the revolutionary years before, during and after 1917. In later years, my focus shifted to the history of Zionism in Soviet Russia of the 1920s and the impact of ideologically committed immigrants from the Soviet Union on the formation of Jewish society in Palestine and the State of Israel. 

Since retiring from Rutgers, I have completed a project that kept me working for years in the archives of the Soviet security services, the Communist Party, and other agencies. The result, a two-volume annotated scholarly edition, was published in Moscow under the series “Political Parties of Russia.” It traces the ideological, programmatic and organizational evolution of 12 Zionist parties, youth movements, and training organizations active on Soviet territory in the 1920s and early 1930s and their interactions with the Soviet authorities.

I am currently at work on a history of my parents, tracing their early lives in Soviet Russia, their turn toward socialist-Zionism, and their engagement with a series of labor and kibbutz movements in Europe and Palestine. Tentatively titled “From Russia to Palestine and Elsewhere: The life and work of Klara and Lasia Galili of Kibbutz Afikim,” the study is conceived in a dual key – with me, the author, present both as a historian and a daughter.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

  • Sionistskie partii i organizatsii v SSSR. 20-e gody (“Zionist Parties and Organizations in the USSR. 1920s.”). 2 volumes. Co-editor with V. Vasylev, V. Khristoforov. Rospen. Moscow, 2019.
  • Exiled to Palestine: The Immigration of Zionist Convicts from Soviet Russia, 1924-1934. With Boris Morozov. Routledge, London, 2006.
  • Men'sheviki v bol'shevistskoi Rossii ("The Mensheviks in Bolshevik Russia"). 4 volumes. Co-editor with A. Nenarokov. Rospen. Moscow:, 1999-2004.
  • Men'sheviki v 1917 godu ("The Mensheviks in 1917"). 4 volumes. Co-editor with A. Nenarokov. Progress-Akademiia & Rospen, Moscow, 1994-1997.
  • The Menshevik Leaders in the Russian Revolution: Social Realities and Political Strategies. Princeton University Press, 1989. (Translated into Russian as Men'shevistskie lidery v Russkoi revoliutsii: sotsial'naia real'nost' i politicheskaia strategiia, Respublika, Moscow, December 1993).

SELECTED RECENT ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

  • “The Paradox of Soviet Influence: The Case of Kibbutz Hashomer Hatza’ir from the USSR,” From Europe’s East to the Middle East: Israel’s Russian and Polish Lineages, Eds. Kenneth Moss, Benjamin Nathans, Taro Tsurumi, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2021.
  • “The Russian Revolution: A Retrospective Reading”, Historiia, Jerusalem, Fall 2017, Nos. 39-40, pp. 15-36 (Hebrew).
  • “Zionism in the Soviet Union from the Revolution to the Second World War,” Jewish History in Russia. From the 1917 Revolution to the Fall of the Soviet Union, ed. Mikhail Beizer, Gesharim, Moscow, 2017, pp. 110-144 (Russian).
  • Zionism in Soviet Russia, 1917-1939, Geo-Cultural Aspects of Zionism. 2 vols., ed. Alon Gal. Jerusalem, 2009, pp. 91-133 (Hebrew).
  • “Zionism in the Early Soviet State: Between Legality and Persecution,” Revolution, Repression, and Revival. The Soviet Jewish Experience. Ed. Zvi Gitelman and Yaacov Ro’i. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, New York, 2007, pp. 37-67.
  • “Archives and Historical Writing: The Case of the Menshevik Party, 1917,” Archives, Documentation and Institutions of Social Memory. Essays from the Sawyer Seminar, edited by Francis X. Blouin Jr. and William G. Ronseberg, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2006, pp. 443-450.
  • “The Soviet Experience of Zionism: Importing Soviet Political Culture to Palestine,” Journal of Israeli History, Vol. 24, No. 1 (March 2005), pp. 1-33.
  • Opennings for Zionist Activity in Soviet Russia in the 1920s, Iyunim bi-tkumat Israel, Volume 14 (Winter 2004), pp. 479-508 (Hebrew).

AWARDS

  • Residential Fellowship, Remarque Institute, New York University, 2013-2014
  • Daniel Gorenstein Memorial Award for Outstanding Scholarly Achievement and Exceptional Service to Rutgers University, 2008
  • Residential fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, 2003
  • Senior Research Fellow, W. Averell Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union, Columbia University, 1992-1993
  • Trustees' Award for Excellence in Research, Rutgers University, 1987
  • Research Fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (1989), National Endowment for the Humanities (1985), International Research and Exchange Board (1984).
  • Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Russian Institute, Columbia University, 1979-1980.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

  • Acting Executive Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, 2006-2008
  • Vice-Dean, Graduate School-New Brunswick, 1997-2002
  • Chair of History Department & Director of Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, 1994-1997, 2003-2006
  • Jack Cargill
  • Jack Cargill
  • Professor Emeritus of Ancient History
  • Degree: Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, B.A., M.A. University of Texas, Austin
  • Research Interests: Ancient Greece, the Near East, and Rome, and the interactions between them, with special interests in classical Greek epigraphy and historical issues related to the Bible and archaeology

COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT

UNDERGRADUATE

  • 510:201 Ancient Greece
  • 508:200 Ancient Near East (cross-listed with Jewish St. and Middle Eastern St.)
  • 510:301-302-303 Early-Classical-Hellenistic Greece
  • 506:402 Seminars in Ancient Topics, classical and biblical (sometimes cross-listed)

PUBLICATIONS

  • Family, Feelings, Play, Politics, and Holy War: Poems by Jack Cargill (Authorhouse.com 2005)
  • Mercenary of the Gods: Memoirs of a Greek in Service to Judah and Egypt (Regina Books, Claremont, CA 2004)
  • "Death, War, Whimsey: More Poems on Ancient Themes," Ancient World 35 (2004) 117-129
  • "Homage to Cavafy: Some Poems in Ancient Settings," Ancient World 32 (2001) 217-231
  • "Ancient Israel in Western Civ Textbooks," History Teacher 34 (2001) 297-326
  • complete texts of above three available at personal website
  • Handbook for Ancient History Classes (Regina Books, Claremont, CA 1997)
  • "The Decree of Aristoteles: Some Epigraphical Details," Ancient World 27 (1996) 1-12
  • Athenian Settlements of the Fourth Century B.C. (E.J. Brill, Leiden 1995)

AWARDS

  • Misc. research grants, graduate fellowships, undergraduate scholarships

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • Association of Ancient Historians (past 2-term Sec./Treas.)
  • American School of Classical Studies at Athens Alumni Association (past Council member)
  • American School of Classical Studies at Athens Managing Committee (past RU representative)
  1. Brown, Carolyn
  2. Clemens, Paul
  3. Chambers, John W.
  4. Adas, Michael

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