• Jennifer Mittelstadt
  • Jennifer Mittelstadt
  • Professor of History
  • Degree: Ph.D., Univ of Michigan
  • Rutgers : At Rutgers since 2010
  • Specialty: Modern US: Political, Military, and Women's and Gender History
  • Office: 118 Van Dyck Hall
  • Phone: 848-932-8258

On Leave 2022-2023

RESEARCH INTEREST

I am a historian of the twentieth-century United States with broad interests in the state, political economy, women and gender, social and political movements, the military, and foreign affairs.  I am the author or editor of four books, including From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945-1964 (University of North Carolina, 2005) and The Rise of the Military Welfare State (Harvard University Press, 2015). My work has been supported by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, among others, and I served as the Harold K. Johnson Chair in Military History at the US Army War College.  I am a series editor of Power, Politics, and the World at Penn Press, and I am currently writing a book about grassroots right-wing participation in US foreign policy.

RECENT COURSES

Undergraduate

  • Sex, Gender and the U.S. Military
  • Law and History
  • U.S. Women's History
  • Post-1945 U.S. History
  • The History of Poverty and Economic Crisis in the United States
  • The 1960s
  • United States History since 1865

Graduate

  • Transnational Social Movements in the Twentieth Century: US and the World
  • Readings in Twentieth-Century U.S. History
  • Law and History
  • The Teaching of History

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

Articles and Essays

  • “Transferring Warmaking to the Private Sector,” with Mark Wilson, in The Military and the Market:  New Histories of War, Capitalism, and Empire, edited with Mark Wilson (Philadelphia:  Penn Press, forthcoming 2022)
  • “Women, Gender and the State,” with Rachel Moran, in Nancy Hewitt and Anne Valk, eds., Companion to American Women’s History (Willey-Blackwell, forthcoming 2020)
  • “Military Demographics in the Twentieth Century,” in Ed Martini and David Kieran, eds., At War: Militarism and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2018).
  • “The Soldier-Breadwinner And The Army Family: Gender and Social Welfare in the Post-1945 U.S. Military and Society,” in Gender And The Long Postwar:  Reconsiderations of the United States and the Two Germanys, 1945-1989, Karen Hagemann and Sonia Michel, eds., (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014).
  • “Stepping into It:  Lessons Learned from Entering the History You’re Writing,” Journal of Policy History, Vol. 24, no. 1, (Winter 2012).
  • “‘The Army is a Service Not a Job’: Unionization, Employment, and the Meaning of Military Service in the Late-Twentieth United States,” International Labor and Working-Class History, vol. 80, (Fall, 2011).
  • “Philanthropy, Feminism, and Left Liberalism, 1960-1985,” Journal of Women’s History, vol. 20, no. 4, (Winter 2008).

Amicus Briefs

  • Brief for Jane Doe 2 et al., Jane Doe 2 et al. v. Trump, December 10, 2018, US Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, for the Organization of American Historians and 47 Historians of the Military, National Security, and Foreign Relations

Opinion Editorials and Articles

SELECTED MAJOR AWARDS

  • Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, 2022-2023
  • Fellow, Dorothy and Lewis Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, 2020-2021
  • Harold K. Johnson Chair in Military History, US Army War College, 2017-2018
  • Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2008-2009

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • American Historical Association
  • Organization of American Historians
  • Society for the History of American Foreign Relations
  • Coordinating Council on Women’s History
  • Society for Military History
  • US Intellectual History