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).
Biographical entries, "Therese F. Benedek" and "Helene Deutsch," Notable American Women, Vol. 5(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004)
"Introduction," in Florence Howe, ed., The Politics of Women's Studies: Testimony from 30 Founding Mothers, (New York: The Feminist Press, 2000)
Short biographies of Jennie Collins and Milton H.Erickson, in John A. Garraty, ed., American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)
Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998)
The American Radical, edited with Paul Buhle and Harvey Kaye (New York: Routledge, 1994)
Out of Many: A History of the American People, with John Mack Faragher, Daniel Czitrom, and Susan Armitage (Upper Saddle River, N. J.: Prentice Hall, 1994, 1997, 2000; 2003; 2005); Brief Edition (Upper Saddle River, N. J.: Prentice Hall, 1995, 1998, 2000; 2003); AP Edition (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2002)
"Needlewomen and the Vicissitudes of Modern Life: A Study of Middle-Class Construction in the Antebellum Northeast," in Nancy Hewitt and Suzanne Lebsock, eds., Visible Women: An Anthology (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993)
"Feminist Approaches to Social History, in Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, and Peter W. Williams, eds., Encyclopedia of American Social History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993; 1999)
"Gender and Labor History," in J. Carroll Moody and Alice Kessler-Harris, eds., Perspectives on American Labor History: Conceptual Dilemmas and the Problem of Synthesis (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press,1990)
Encyclopedia of the American Left, edited with Paul Buhle and Dan Georgakas, 1st Edition (New York: Garland Publishing 1990; Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992); 2nd Edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998)
"The Struggle to Reshape Industrial America in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Knights of Labor, Socialism, and Feminism," in Irwin Marcus, ed., Major issues in the Rise and Consolidation of U.S. Workers and the Labor Movement (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1989)
"The New Labor History at the Cultural Crossroads," with Paul Buhle, Journal of American History (June, 1988); reprinted in Leon Fink, In Search of the Working Class (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994)
Short Biographies of Leonora O'Reilly, Rheta Childe Dorr, Rose Schneidermann, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman in John D. Buenker, ed., The Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988)
"Women and the Socialist Party of America," in Pourqui n'y a-t-il pas de socialism aux Etats-Unis?/Why Is There No Socialism in the United States? (Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1987)
"Women in the Labor Movement," in Paul Buhle and Alan Dawley, eds., Working for Democracy: American Workers from the Revolution to the Present (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985)
"Comment on Women in the Socialist Party Bureaucracy," in John Laslett and Seymour Lipsit, ed., Failure of a Dream? Essays in the History of American Socialism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984)
"Afterword," co-authored with Florence Howe, to Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Silent Partner (Old Westbury, NY: The Feminist Press, 1983)
Women and the American Left: A Guide to Sources (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1983)
"Lena Morrow Lewis: Her Rise and Fall," in Sally Miller, ed., Flawed Liberation (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,1981)
"From Sisterhood to Self: Woman's Road to Advancement in the Early 20th Century," In Howard Quint and Milton Cantor, eds., Men, Women, and Issues (Homewood,Ill: Dorsey Press, 1980)
"Politics and Culture in Women's History: A Symposium," Feminist Studies, 6(Spring, 1980)
The Concise History of Woman Suffrage, edited with Paul Buhle (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978); 2d edition with new preface (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005)
"Recent Contributions to Women's History," Radical History Review, II(Summer, 1975)
"Introduction to Socialist Woman/Progressive Woman," in Joseph Conlin, ed., The American Radical Press, 1880-1960 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1974)
Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981)
"Socialist Women and the 'Girl Strikers,' Chicago, 1910," Signs, I(Summer, 1976)
"Chicago Clothing Workers Striker of 1910," in Ronald L. Fillipelli, ed., Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor Conflict (New York: Garland, 1990)
Year | Degree | Institution |
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1974 | PhD | University of Wisconsin |
1968 | MA | University of Connecticut |
1966 | BA | University of Illinois |