College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

June Melby Benowitz Department of History College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee 8350 N. Tamiami Trail, C 263 Sarasota, FL 34243

Business Phone: 941-359-4344 Business Email: [email protected]

EDUCATION: Ph.D., United States History, University of Texas at Austin, August 1996. Minor field: English History since 1800. M.A., History, Portland State University B.A., History, Portland State University

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee, Sarasota, Florida

Associate Professor of History August 2011 to Present Assistant Professor of History August 2005 to 2011 Instructor of History August 2002 to July 2005

Manatee Community College, Venice/Bradenton, Florida May 2001 to May 2002 Adjunct History Instructor

Keiser College, Sarasota, Florida Oct. 1997 to May 2002 Adjunct History Instructor

Portland State University, Portland, Oregon 1991-1993 and Summer Adjunct History Instructor 1997

RELATED EMPLOYMENT Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Portland, OR 1992 Rated third and eighth grade essays for annual Oregon Statewide Writing Assessment.

Washington County Museum, Portland, Oregon 1986-1987 Was an intern at the museum. Assisted visitors and researchers, and processed

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OTHER EMPLOYMENT United States Probation Office, Portland, OR 1973-1986 Worked as an Administrative Assistant

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS Benowitz, June Melby. Challenge and Change: Right-Wing Women, Grassroots Activism, and the Baby Boom Generation, University Press of Florida (2015)

Benowitz, June Melby. Days of Discontent: American Women and Right-Wing Politics, 1933-1945, Northern Illinois University Press (2002)

Benowitz, June Melby. Encyclopedia of American Women and Religion, ABC-CLIO (1998).

I am currently under contract with ABC-CLIO to publish an updated, revised, and expanded (to two volumes) edition of Encyclopedia of American Women and Religion. I submitted the first volume (A-L) in February, 2016. Publication of the entire book is scheduled for fall 2017.

JOURNAL PUBLICATION Benowitz, June Melby, “Reading, Writing and Radicalism: Right-Wing Women and Education in the Post-War Years,” in History of Education Quarterly (Vol. 49, No. 1, February 2009), 89-111.

BOOK CHAPTERS AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES Benowitz, June Melby. “Women, Gender Activism, and Public Policy” (Chapter 10), in Oxford Handbook of the New Deal, edited by Nancy Beck Young, Oxford University Press (forthcoming, 2017).

Benowitz, June Melby. “Transportation,” in Handbook to Life in America, Book 1, Facts on File, Inc. (2009) 209-222.

Benowitz, June Melby. “Social Attitudes,” in Handbook to Life in America, Book 5, Facts on File, Inc. (2009), 51-66.

Benowitz, June Melby. “United States: Opposition to U.S. Entry into World War II by Right-Wing American Women,” in Bernard Cook, ed., Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO (2006).

Benowitz, June Melby. “Minute Women of the U.S.A.,” in Roy R. Barkeley and Mark F.

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Benowitz, June Melby. “Carrie Chapman Catt.” In Women in World History, Vol. 3, edited by Anne Commire. Yorkin Publications (1999), 554-560.

Benowitz, June Melby. “Abigail Scott Duniway.” In Women in World History, Vol. 4, edited by Anne Commire. Yorkin Publications (1999), 857-863.

Benowitz, June Melby. “Lucretia Mott.” In Women in World History, Vol. 11, edited by Anne Commire. Yorkin Publications (1999), 492-497.

Benowitz, June Melby. Seven essays: “Acuff, TX”; “Bayside, TX”; “Copano, TX”; “Johnston, Eliza Griffin”; “Minute Women of the U.S.A.” (this essay was reprinted in The Portable Handbook of Texas, 2000); “Neblett, Elizabeth Scott”; and “Nuestra Senoria Del Refugio Mission” in New Handbook of Texas, Texas State Historical Society (1996).

OTHER PUBLICATIONS Book review of Ann Short Chirhart and Kathleen Ann Clark, editors, Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times, vol. 2, in Journal of Southern History, vol. 81, no. 4, November 2015.

Book review of Jonathan Daniel Wells and Sheila R. Phipps, editors, Entering the Fray: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the New South, in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Vol. 107, No. 4, Autumn, 2009.

Book review of Aviva Weingarten’s Jewish Organizations’ Response to Communism and to Senator McCarthy in American Jewish History, Vol. 94, No. 3, September 2008.

Authored booklet From Log Cabin to High Rise: The Washington County Courthouse, 1849-1988, Washington County, Oregon (1988).

CONFERENCE PAPERS PRESENTED “Challenging the Odds: African American Educators in Jim Crow Florida.” Joint British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH) and Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) Conference, University of Reading, Reading, England, September 5-7, 2014.

“Right-Wing Women, American Morality, and the Battle Over School Prayer.” King’s College International Conference on “Religion in American Life,” Kings College, London, February 22-24, 2013.

“Right-Wing Women and Grassroots Revolt – the 1930s and Beyond.” Historians of the Twentieth Century United States Annual Conference, St. Anne’s College and the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, England, July 7-9, 2011.

3 “Antisemitism in the America First Committee.” Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., December 21-23, 2008.

“Right-Wing Women and Education: The Post-War Years.” American Historical Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, January 5-8, 2006.

COURSES TAUGHT  19th Century Europe  American Revolutionary Era  Age of Jefferson  U.S. 1877-1914  U.S. 1914-1945  Pro-seminar: Age of FDR  World War II in Literature and Film  Research Methods in History: The Cold War Era  American Women II  Modern Florida  American History Survey Courses

SERVICE University  Serve as History disciplinary unit chair (2011 to Present)  Faculty advisor to USF Sarasota-Manatee History Club, 2003-2012 and 2013- 2014, and 2015 to Present.  Member of USFSM Tenure and Promotion Committee, Spring 2015 through Spring 2016.  Served on Academic Programs Committee, August 2010-Spring 2012 and Spring 2015.  Served on University of South Florida System Faculty Council, Fall 2013-Spring 2014  Served on College of Arts and Sciences Annual Review Committee, Spring 2012, 2014, 2015,  Served on search committee for ISS/Political Science instructor, 2013-2014.  Judged student paper submissions to Student Research Symposium, October 2013.  Chaired a College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee, and was a member of another, Fall 2013.  Served on search committee for General Education Coordinator, Spring 2012.  Chaired Mid-Tenure Review Committee in College of Arts and Sciences and was a member of another, Spring 2012  Served on College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee, 4 2011.  Served on USFSM Campus “Feel” Committee from August 2007-Spring 2009.  Served on search committees for Assistant Professor of History and for Associate Professor of History, Spring 2007.  Chaired Development Funds Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, USFSM, January-February 2007.  Served on hiring committee for Associate Dean for College of Arts and Sciences, USFSM, February-June 2006.  Faculty advisor to USFSM College Democrats, 2005-2007.  Served on student grievance committees, 2005 and 2009.

Community  Served as a Judge for Manatee County History Fair, evaluating student history papers, exhibits, documentaries, and performances, 2002 to Present.  On Board of Directors, Friends of Sarasota County History Center, 2006-2012  Served on a committee to create an online museum of the history of Sarasota, 2012.  Presented a talk before the Turtle Bay Women’s Club on the topic “Women, Gender Activism, and the New Deal,” January 2012.  Guest speaker at education workshop of Sarasota-Manatee regional chapter of National Association of Social Workers. Topic: “Women’s Issues for Practice: FDR Era to the Baby Boomers, September 2009.  Assisted Friends of Sarasota County History Center in implementing celebration of Historic Preservation Week.

Professional  Member of American Historical Society, Organization of American Historians, Florida Historical Society, and Historians of Twentieth Century United States.  Reviewed Alec Marsh’s John Kasper and Ezra Pound (2015) for Journal of Southern History.  Charter member of the National Women’s History Museum, 2009-Present.  Served a three-year term on American Historical Association’s Committee on the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, a five-member committee that each year selects the best book published in the field of women’s history and gender studies, January 2011-December 2013.  Reviewer, several books for Oxford University Press, 2007 to Present. I have also reviewed books for Routledge, University Press of Kansas.

HONORS/FELLOWSHIPS  Florida Book Awards (sponsored by Florida Humanities Council), Bronze Medal for General Non-Fiction, 2015. In honor of the 2015 awardees, Governor Rick

5 Scott proclaimed April 8 Florida Authors Day.  2010 - Chosen by American Historical Association’s Committee on Committees to serve a three-year term (2011-2013) on the Committee on the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize.  Choice magazine “Outstanding Academic Book of 1999” award for Encyclopedia of American Women and Religion  Dora Bonham Grant, University of Texas, 1992  Inducted into Phi Kappa Phi, 1988  Rossi Internship, Washington County Historical Society, 1986  Inducted into Phi Alpha Theta History honors society in 1981