1 Linda Gordon Home: 6 Washington Mews Professor of History, New York University New York, New York 10003 53 Washington Square (212) 228-1784 New York, New York 10012 email: [email protected] (212) 998-8627, fax (212) 995-4017 EDUCATION: Swarthmore College, B.A. Magna cum laude, History, 1961 Yale University, M.A., History and Russian Studies, 1963 Yale University, Ph.D., "With Distinction," History, 1970 ACADEMIC POSITIONS: 2013-14 Matina Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor, Radcliffe 2010- University Professor of the Humanities, NYU 2004 Lawrence Stone Visiting Professor, Princeton University 2001 Eugene Lang Visiting Professor, Swarthmore College 1999- Professor of History, New York University 1993- Vilas Distinguished Research Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 1990- Florence Kelley Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 1984- Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 1968-84 Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of History, University of Massachusetts/Boston. COURSES: History of the Family History of Welfare State, Comparative Social History of Women in the U.S. Family Violence History of Feminism U.S. Working Class History History of Feminist Thought Gender in Labor History Feminist Theory History and Theory History of Sexuality Social Movements 20th Century US Social History Immigration and Race in 20th-century US BOOKS: Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. Viking, 1976; Penguin paperback, 1977; revised 2nd edition, 1990. Nominated for the National Book Award in History, 1976. Cossack Rebellions: Social Turmoil in the Sixteenth-Century Ukraine. SUNY Press, 1983. Winner of the Antonovych Prize for 1983. Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence. Viking, 1988; paperback, Penguin, 1989; British edition, 1989. Winner of AHA's Joan Kelly Prize for the best book in women's history or theory, Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Book, runner-up for Los Angeles Times Book Award in History, nominated for the National Book Award in History and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the Origins of Welfare. The Free Press, 1994; paperback, Harvard University Press, 1995. Winner of the Berkshire Prize for best book in women's history, Gustavus Myers Award for best book on human rights in North America, Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Book. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. Harvard University Press, 1999; paperback 2000. Winner of the Bancroft Prize for best book in US history, the Beveridge Prize for best book on the history of the Americas, the Willa Cather Nonfiction Prize for Writing the West, Southwest Book Award, Wisconsin Library Association Banta Award for best book in all categories. 2 The Moral Property of Women: The History of Birth Control Politics in America. University of Illinois Press, 2003. This is a completely revised version of Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right. Honorable Mention, Cawelti award for best book on American culture, American Culture Association. Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits, W. W. Norton, 2009. Winner, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best biography. Winner, Bancroft Prize for best book in US history. Winner, National Arts Club Prize for Arts Writing. Winner WILLA award for best book by a woman on the West. Shortlisted, Cundill International Prize for History Dorothea Lange: Masters of Photography. NY: Aperture, 2014. Feminism Unfinished: A Short Surprising History of American Women’s Movements, with Cobble and Henry. NY: Norton, 2014. The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan in the American Political Tradition (Norton, 2017). Inge Morath, Refugee Photographer: A Life (London: Prestel, 2018). FORTHCOMING: “Populism and Fascism: Lessons from the 1920s Ku Klux Klan,” Canadian Review of Sociology. EDITED BOOKS WITH SCHOLARLY INTRODUCTIONS: Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment, Norton, 2006. Dear Sisters: Dispatches from Women's Liberation, with Baxandall, Basic Books, 2000. America's Working Women: A Documentary History, with Baxandall and Reverby. Random House and Vintage, 1976; entirely revised 2nd edition, 1995. Women, the State, and Welfare: Historical and Theoretical Essays. University of Wisconsin Press, 1990. SCHOLARLY WEBSITES AND EXHIBITS: “Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of the Japanese American Internment,” The Asia-Pacific Journal at http://apjjf.org/2017/03/Gordon.html Curated exhibit, “Dorothea Lange’s Photographs of the Japanese American Internment during WWII” for the Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART), mounted at the San Bruno BART station in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the internment. “Dorothea Lange: The Photographer as Agricultural Sociologist,” at http://www.indiana.edu/~jah/teaching/2006_12/ “Impounded: The Japanese American Internment through the Lens of Dorothea Lange,” at http://www.laborarts.org/exhibits/impounded/ “Internment Without Charges: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment,” at http://www.japanfocus.org/products/details/2260 3 IN PROCESS: Book on the history of social movements in the 20th-century US SCHOLARLY ARTICLES: “Intersectionality, Socialist Feminism, and Contemporary Activism,” Gender and History 20#2, August 2016. “Comparison in Historical Scholarship and Teaching: Why comparison is so difficult, why so much comparative scholarship is ahistorical, and why we ought to do it anyway,” New Literary History, 2013. “Une `guerre contre les femmes’? Pas si simple.” In movements sociales (Paris, 2012). “The American Right Wing” (trans. Into Italian), C'era una volta l'America (Torino, 2012). “Participatory Democracy from Civil Rights to Occupy,” in Tom Hayden, ed., Inspiring Participatory Democracy (2012). “The Port Huron Statement and Prefigurative Politics at 50,” History Workshop Journal, 2012. “Childhood and Capitalism,” comment on the work of Viviana Zelizer, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 2012. “Welfare: U.S. Historical Perspectives,” in The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion (University of Chicago Press, 2009). “Redoing the New Deal,” Dissent, 2009. “Dorothea Lange’s Oregon Photography: Assumptions Challenged,” Oregon Historical Quarterly, winter 2009. "Making Citizens: Integration and Civil Participation", in proceedings of New Dimensions of Citizenship, Fordham Law School conference, 2008. “The Perils of Innocence, or What’s Wrong with Putting Children First,” Journal of the History of Children and Youth, vol. I #3, fall 2008, 331-350. “History Constructs an Historian,” in Becoming Historians, ed. James Banner and John Gillis, University of Chicago Press, 2008. “Biography as Microhistory, Photography as Microhistory: Documentary Photographer Dorothea Lange as Subject and Agent of Microhistory,” in Small Worlds: Method and Meaning in Microhistory, ed. James Brooks, School of American Research Press, 2008. “Dorothea Lange: The Photographer as Agricultural Sociologist,” Journal of American History 93 #3, December 2006. “The Imperial Within: Internal Colonialism and Gender,” Labrys: estudos feministas (Brazil), agosto/dezembro 2005; and expanded version in Haunted by Empire, ed. Stoler, Duke University Press, 2006. “Entscheidungsfreiheit versus “Pro-Life”: Der politische Kampf um Reproduktionsrecht in den USA,” in Kinder kriegen–Kinder haben: Analysen im Spannungsfeld zwischen staatlichen Politiken und privaten Lebensentwüfen, ed. Maria Mesner (Vienna, Austria, 2006); also in English as The Policies of Reproduction at the Turn of the 21st Century. “New Deal Secularists and Images of Religion,” Reviews in American History 33 #4, December 2005. “Moralizing Doesn’t Help: Reply to Verity Burgmann,” International Labor and Working Class History 67, spring 2005. "Aid to Families with Dependent Children," with Batlan, Major Acts of Congress. “If the Progressives were Advising Us Today, Should We Listen?” Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive Era April 2002. “Second Wave Feminism,” with Baxandall, in Companion to American Women’s History, 2002. “Harry Hopkins Brings Relief,” in Days of Destiny, ed. McPherson and Brinkley (NY: Agincourt Press for the Society of American Historians, 2001). “Who Deserves Help? Who Must Provide?” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2001. Reprinted in several anthologies. “Race and Family: Studying the Arizona Orphans,” Chronicle of Higher Education June 9, 2000. “Shareholders in Relief: The Political Culture of Relief and Public Jobs in the Depression,” Russell Sage Foundation Working Paper #135, 1998. "Family Resilience and Family Violence," in Promoting Resiliency in Families and Children at Risk (1999, Sage). “How Welfare Became a Dirty Word,” Journal of International and Comparative Social Welfare XIV, 1998. Reprinted in several anthologies and magazines. “Reflections on the Concept of Patriarchy,” with Allen Hunter, Radical History Review #71, spring 1998. "US Women's History," synthetic essay (revision of a 1990 work), in Eric Foner, ed., The New American History (Phila.: Temple University Press for the AHA, 1997). Introduction to microfilm edition of Schlesinger Library manuscripts on sexuality and birth control, 1997. "Teenage Pregnancy and Out-of-Wedlock Birth," in Morality and Health, ed. Brandt and Rozin (Stanford University Press, 1997). 4 "Social Security and the Construction of an Underclass in the United States," in Populations at Risk in America, ed. George J. Demko and Michael C. Jackson (Westview Press,