Joanne L. Goodwin Associate Professor, Department of History Box 455020 University of Nevada, Las Vegas Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-5020 Office Phone (702) 895-1026 Office FAX (702) 895-1782 E-Mail Address: [email protected] EDUCATION Summer Institute, Columbia University Oral History Program, 2005. Ph.D. U.S. History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1991 M.A., U.S. Women’s History, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, 1983 B.F.A. Fine Arts, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1973 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Executive Director, Women’s Research Institute of Nevada, UNLV, 1999-- present. Professor, Department of History, UNLV, July 2014—present. Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1997—2014. Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1991—1997. Lecturer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1989-1990. PUBLICATIONS Books: Changing the Game: Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940-1990 (University of Nevada Press, forthcoming Fall 2014). Claudine Williams: A Life in Gaming, interview and editing by Joanne L. Goodwin (Las Vegas, NV: Women’s Research Institute of Nevada, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2007). Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform: Mothers’ Pensions in Chicago, 1911-1929. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Reference Works: [digital] “Our History: Profiles of Nevada Women,” digital biographical encyclopedia. Launched March 2011 with over 100 entries which include text, image, sound, and video sources. http://wrinunlv.org/research/our-history-profiles-of-nevada-women/ [digital] Co-editor. Nevada Online Encyclopedia. The Nevada Humanities. 2004-2006. Co-editor. Joyce Appleby, Eileen Cheng, and Joanne Goodwin, eds. Women in American History, 1585—present. New York: M.E. Sharp Publishers, 2002. Articles in Refereed Journals: “Wages, Rights, and Civic Life: Women’s Lives in Las Vegas, 1940-1990,” (under revision with the Journal of Social History). “From the Ground Up: building archival sources for the history of women in Las Vegas,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (Winter 2006): 263-276. “Mojave Mirages: Gender and Performance in Post-war Las Vegas,” Women’s History Review: Special Issue: U.S. Women and the Performing Arts, 11:1 (Spring 2002): 115-131. Joanne L. Goodwin Curriculum vitae page 1 rev. 1/28/2014 “’Employable Mothers’ and ‘Suitable Work’: A Re-evaluation of Welfare and Wage-earning in the Twentieth Century United States,” Journal of Social History (December 1995), 253-274. Nominated for the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women Article Prize. “An American Experiment in Paid Motherhood: The Implementation of Mothers’ Pensions in early Twentieth-Century Chicago,” Gender & History (Autumn 1992), 323-42. Refereed Book Chapters, Contributions, Introductions, and Review Essays: “Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940-1980,” In Oral History, Community, and Work in the American West. Ed. Jessie Embry (Tucson AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2013), 175-96. “Revealing New Narratives of Women in Las Vegas.” In Finding Women in the Sources. Eds. Nupur Chauduri, Sherry Katz, and Elizabeth Perry (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2010), 177-191. This collection won the Barbara "Penny" Kanner Prize of the Western Association of Women Historians. “Employment” and “Education” chapters in The Status of Women and Girls in Nevada a report sponsored by the Nevada Women’s Fund and released November 2005 (Reno: NWF, 2005). “Mothers’ Pensions in Chicago, 1911-1931.” In Major Problems in the History of American Families and Children. Anya Jabour, pp. 302-311 (NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2004). “’She Works Hard for Her Money’, A Reassessment of Las Vegas Women Workers, 1940-1980.” In The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas. Edited by Mike Davis and Hal Rothman, 243-259. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. “Industry, Modernity, and Diversity: a Historical Overview of the Twentieth-Century.” Joyce Appelby, Eileen Cheng, and Joanne Goodwin, eds. Vol. 3, pp. 1-5. Women in American History, 1585—present. New York: M.E. Sharp Publishers, 2002. “Bigger than a Ballot Box.” Review essay of Sara Hunter Graham, Woman Suffrage and the New Democracy. Yale University Press, 1996; Anne Meis Knupfer, Toward a Tenderer Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood: African-American Women's Clubs in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago. New York University, 1996; Carol Cornwall Madsen, ed. Battle for the Ballot: Essays on Woman Suffrage in Utah, 1870-1896. Utah State University Press, 1997; and Suzanne M. Marilley, Woman Suffrage and the Origins of Liberal Feminism in the United States, 1820-1920. Harvard University Press, 1996. In Journal of Women’s History 11:1 (Spring 1999): 219-28. “’Employable Mothers’ and ‘Suitable Work’: A Re-evaluation of Welfare and Wage-earning in the Twentieth Century United States.” Journal of Social History (December 1995), 253-274. Reprinted in Mothers and Motherhood: Readings in American History, Janet Golden and Rima Apple, eds. Ohio State University Press, 1997. Review essay of Anne Firor Scott, Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American History. University of Illinois Press, 1991; Noralee Frankel and Nancy S. Dye, eds. Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era. University of Kentucky Press, 1991; and Ruth Hutchinson Crocker, Social Work and Social Order: The Settlement Movement in Two Industrial Cities, 1889-1930. University of Illinois Press, 1992. In SIGNS, Journal of Women in Culture and Society 20:2 (Winter 1995): 455-58. Invited Contributions: “Nevada Civil Rights Act of 1965.” Nevada Lawyer (February 2012): 25 “Pioneering Women in Nevada Law” “Nevada Female Lawyer Firsts,” with Kathleen J. England, Nevada Lawyer, published March 2011, pp. 6-12. “Gender.” In Encyclopedia of American Urban History. David R. Goldfield, ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006. Vol. 1: 299-302. 2500 word essay describing the way in which gender plays out in urban history. Joanne L. Goodwin Curriculum vitae page 2 rev. 1/28/2014 “Social Services and Charity.” In Encyclopedia of American Urban History. David R. Goldfield, ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006. Vol. 2:745-749. 2500 word essay describing the evolution of social services in urban history. “The Progressive Era and the 1920s.” In Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy. Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O’Connor, eds. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2004. 3500 word essay describing the major currents in social welfare during the specified time period. “Mothers’ Pensions,” In Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America. John M. Herrick and Paul H. Stuart, eds. Sage Publications, forthcoming 2004. 1500 word essay on the origins of publicly funded local programs for single mothers. Three articles on “Social Services,” “Mothers’ Pensions,” and “Charity Organization Societies.” In Encyclopedia of Chicago History. James Grossman, et.al. eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 34 individual entries. In Women in American History, 1585-present. Vol. 3 The Twentieth Century. Goodwin, et.al. eds. New York: M.E. Sharp Publishers, 2002. “Maude Frazier.” In American National Biography. John Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. “Historical Background on Nevada.” Statewide Child Care Strategic Plan for Nevada. Nevada Institute for Children, UNLV, 1998. Four entries. In Encyclopedia of the American West. 4 vols. Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod, eds. New York: Macmillan Reference Co., 1996. The Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism, ed. Susan Auerbach (New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp., 1994). Thirty-eight entries on women’s history subjects. Book Reviews: James P. Kraft. Vegas at Odds: Labor Conflict in a Leisure Economy, 1960-1985. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. In the Pacific Historical Review, Volume 80: Issue 2, pp. 324-325. Jill Gerson. Hope Springs Maternal: Homeless Mothers talk about making sense of adversity. New York: Gordian Knot Books, 2007. In The Oral History Review, 37:1 (January 2010), pp. 100-102. S.J. Kleinberg, Widows and Orphans First: the family economy and social welfare policy, 1880- 1939. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006. In American Historical Review 112:3 (2007): 879-880. Rebecca J. Mead. How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868- 1914. New York and London: New York University Press, 2004. In Journal of Peace and Change 32:2 (April 2007): 227-229. Maureen A. Flanagan. Seeing With Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871-1933. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. In Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 3:4 (October 2004): 411-414. Michael Katz, The Price of Citizenship, redefining the American welfare state. Metropolitan, 2001. In Journal of American History (June 2002): 315-316. Suzanne Mettler, Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy. Cornell University Press, 1998. In Law & History Review 19:2 (Summer 2001): 460-461. Elizabeth Rose, A Mother’s Job, The History of Day Care, 1890-1960. Oxford University Press, 1999. In Children and Youth Services Review 22:1 (January 2000): 75-76. Joanne L. Goodwin Curriculum vitae page 3 rev. 1/28/2014 Review essay of Sanford M. Jacoby, Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal. Princeton University Press, 1997; Steven A. Sass, The Promise of Private Pensions: The First Hundred Years. Harvard University Press, 1997. In American Historical Review (December 1999): 1703-1704. Kriste Lindenmeyer. A Right to Childhood: The U.S. Children’s Bureau and Child Welfare, 1912-1946. In Journal of Mississippi History 61:2 (June 1999): 199-200. Eileen Boris. Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States. In Journal of American History (June 1995): 277-78. Beverly Stadum. Poor Women and their Families: Hard Working Charity Cases, 1900-1930. State University of New York Press. 1992. In History of Education Quarterly 33:4 (Winter 1993): 613-15. Oral Histories/Interviews (selected): Myrna Williams (2009) Claudine Williams (2007) Florence McClure (2007).