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’s 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 °®ÒºAƬ:
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, “US in a Changing World,â€� 2000—2013,
co-taught with Hank Frundt 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’s Social Work and Humanitarian Aid, 1914-1950, in progress
Articles, selected, since 2010
“Missionaries and Jews in Soho: ‘Strangers within Our Gates’,� Journal of Victorian Culture 15, no. 2 (August 2010): 226-238
Playing Deaf’: Jewish Women at the Medical Missions of East London, 1880-1920s,� 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, no. 13 (2011) (an on-line refereed journal, Queen Mary University, London)
“St. Francis in Soho: Emmeline Pethick and Mary Neal, the West London Mission, and the Allure of ‘Simple Living’ in the 1890s,� Church History 83: 4 (December 2014): 843-883
“Militarism and Pacifism,� The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, ed. Celia Marshik (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
“The Country of the Fathers,� History Workshop Journal 84 (Autumn 2017): 265-272.
“‘Giggling Adolescents’ to Refugees, Bullets, and Wolves: Francesca Wilson Finds a Profession,� in
Precarious Professionals: Gender, Identities, and Social Change in Modern Britain, ed. Heidi Egginton and Zoë Thomas, Royal Historical Society and Institute of Historical Research, 2021
“Women and Wages in Britain’s ‘Classic’ Slums,� in The Oxford Handbook on the History of Slums, ed. Alan Mayne, Oxford University Press, forthcoming (forthcoming, 2022)
“‘Full of Spain’: Francesca Wilson and Republican Spain, 1937-1939,� paper in progress for journal submission