University of Pittsburgh: Department of History

Maurine Weiner Greenwald

Associate Professor
University of Pittsburgh
Department of History
3530 Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412-648-7462 (office)
412-731-4324 (home)
412-731-4340 (fax)

email: greenwal@pitt.edu

Education

1977 Ph.D. American Civilization, Brown University

Dissertation: "Women, War, and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States"

Advisor: John L. Thomas

1966 B.A. English, University of Illinois, Urbana, cum laude

Predoctoral Awards and Honors

1970-71 National Defense Education Fellowship

1969-70 Teaching Associateship, Brown University

1968-69 Brown University Fellowship

1967-68 Alpha Lambda Delta National Fellowship

1966 Phi Beta Kappa

Academic Employment

Winter 1985 Visiting Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1978-Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh

1977-78Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh

1972-77 Instructor of History, University of Pittsburgh

1971-72 Instructor of History, Rhode Island College

Postdoctoral Grants and Honors

2000 Central Research Development Fund, University of Pittsburgh

1996 Honorary member, Golden Key National Honor Society

1994 Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award

1993-4 Russell Sage Foundation Grant
Pittsburgh Center for Social History Grant

1989 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Research Grant, University of Pittsburgh

1987 Central Research Development Fund, University of Pittsburgh

1986 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Research Grant, University of Pittsburgh

1985 Office of Faculty Development, Teaching Grant, University of Pittsburgh

1983 Provost's Development Fund Research Grant, University of Pittsburgh

1982 Office of Faculty Development, Teaching Grant, University of Pittsburgh

1977 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Grant, University of Pittsburgh

1976 College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Grant, University of Pittsburgh

1974 College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Grant, University of Pittsburgh

1973 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Grant, University of Pittsburgh

Professional Appointments

2000-2004 Coordinator, Working-Class History Seminar, Pittsburgh Center for Social History

1992-95 Historical Advisor, Pennsylvania Humanities Council's "Raising Our Sites: IntegratingWomen into Pennsylvania Historic Sites," supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities

1992-2000 Historical Advisor, Communications Committee, Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania

1992 Consultant, Kins House Museum, Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania

1990- Consultant, Clayton House Museum, Frick Art and Historical Museum

1989-2000 Member, Editorial Board, Pittsburgh History, a publication of the Heinz Center

1985-1994, Co-coordinator, Working Class History Seminar, Pittsburgh Center for Social History

1983-2000 Member, Editorial Board, Pennsylvania History

1983-92 Editor, Social and Labor History Series, University of Pittsburgh Press

1983-85 Member, Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession, Organization of American Historians

1982-84 Invitational Humanist, Pennsylvania Humanities Council

Publications

Books

1996 Pittsburgh Surveyed: Social Science and Social Reform in the Early Twentieth Century, co-edited with Margo Anderson. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

1980, 1990 Women, War, and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States. Greenwood Press; paperback reprint with new introductory essay by Cornell University Press. Cited in every college textbook on modern American history.

Articles

2001 "Working-Class Feminism and the Family Wage Ideal: The Seattle Debate on Married Women's Right to Work in the Era of the First World War,"in Women in Pacific Northwest History, revised edition, ed. Karen J. Blair. University of Washington Press, 94-134.

1999 "Elizabeth Beardsley Butler," American National Biography, ed. John A.Garraty. Oxford University Press.

1996 A Visualizing Pittsburgh in the 1900s: Art and Photography in the Service of Social Reform, @ Pittsburgh Surveyed: Social Science and Social Reform in the Early Twentieth Century. University of Pittsburgh Press, pp.124-152.

1996 co-authored with Margo Anderson, A The Pittsburgh Survey in Historical Perspective, @ in Pittsburgh Surveyed, pp. 1-14.

1991 "Organized Labor and Women in Modern America," in Women's Studies Encyclopedia, Volume III, ed. Helen Tierney. Greenwood Press, pp. 285-88.

1990 "Preface," Women, War and Work. Cornell University Press paperback edition, pp. ix-xxii.

1989 "Women and Class in Pittsburgh, 1850-1920" in City at the Point: Essays on the Social History of Pittsburgh, ed. Samuel P. Hays. University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 33-68.

1989 "Working-Class Feminism and the Family Wage Ideal: The Seattle Debate on Married Women's Right to Work in the Era of the First World War," The Journal of American History, v. 76 (June 1989), pp. 118-49.

1986 Co-authored, "Assessing the Past, Looking to the Future: A Report by the OAH Committee on the Status of Women," Organization of American Historians Newsletter, 14, no.2, special insert.

1984 "Women at Work Through the Eyes of Elizabeth Beardsley Butler and Lewis Wickes Hine," introductory essay to reprint of Women and the Trades (1909) by Elizabeth Beardsley Butler, University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. vii-viv

1975 "Women Workers and World War I: The American Railroad Industry, A Case Study," Journal of Social History 9, No. 2 (December 1975), pp. 154-77.

1971 "Women's History in America ," in Betty E. Chmaj, ed. American Women and American Studies, American Studies Association Commission on the Status of Women.

Review Essays

1989 "Homestead: The Story of a Steel Town," Museum Exhibition, The Journal of American History, v. 76, pp. 881-89.

1985 A From Hired Hand to Day Worker: Domestic Servants in the United States , 1800-1920," International Labor and Working Class History, No. 27, pp.60-71.

1979 "Historians and the Working-Class Woman in America,"International Labor and Working Class History, No. 14/15, pp. 23-32.

Book Reviews

American Historical Review

Business History Review

Choice Magazine, regular reviewer of books in modern American social history

The Historian

The Journal of American History

Pennsylvania History

Societas

Research in Progress

Current research: book on women and the U.S. advertising industry since 1950. In its broadest sense, my study concerns women and U.S. corporate power during a fifty-year period of demographic and political change in American society. The advertising industry is my laboratory for examining (1) gender relations in small and large corporations; (2) feminist activism inside and outside the industry; (3) marketing to women consumers, and (4) the rise of women-owned agencies. This study is based on interviews with former and current advertising executives as well as extensive archival sources at the J. Walter Thompson Archives at Duke University; the Schlesinger Library on women's history at Radcliffe Institute; the Advertising Archives at the Smithsonian Institution; and manuscript collections at Smith College. Published sources include national newspapers, trade periodicals, and scholarly studies.

Professional Activities

Lectures

Summer 2004
Lectures on U.S. women's political activism and wage work in the twentieth century for A Voices Across Time: American History through Song, @ a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for Secondary School Teachers, University of Pittsburgh

Lectures on the Gilded Age for Elderhostel and the Frick Art and Historical Center

Summer 2003
Lectures on the Gilded Age for Elderhostel and the Frick Art and Historical Center

Summer 2002
Seminars for Pittsburgh Public High School Social Studies Teachers, Summer Training Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

1990-2003
Training of Docents at Frick Art and Historical Center: Lectures on gender relations, labor relations, and family life in Gilded Age Pittsburgh

March 1990
Class Attitudes towards Birth Control and Premarital Sex in the Early Twentieth Century," California State University

April 1987
"Feminism as a Cross-Class Phenomenon" Trinity College (Hartford)

November 1986
"The Case for Working-Class Feminism: Seattle Wage Earners and Married Women's Right to Work in the 1920s," Women and Trade Union Scholars Group, New York University

1982-1984
Pennsylvania Humanities Council Invitational Humanist Lectures

Guest lectures sponsored by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, "Laws, Customs, and Attitudes: American Feminism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries""Abortion and Birth Control in America: An Historical Perspective""The Demographic Revolution in Women's Wage Work and Family Life in the United States"

One or more of the above lectures was delivered before the following civic and cultural organizations and academic institutions: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Cedar Crest College, Northampton County Area Community College, the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Bloomsburg State College, the University of Pittsburgh - Oakland, the Easton YWCA, the Oakland Women's Center, Lucerne County Community College, Lycoming College, Columbia and Montour Counties' Women's Conference, the Pennsylvania State University - Beaver Campus, the University of Pittsburgh - Johnstown, the North Hills, Pittsburgh Chapter of the National Organization of Women

March 1981
"For Love, Money, or Social Change: Seattle Wage Earners on Issues of the 1920s," Yale University

Papers and Comments at Professional Conferences

Spring 2004
A Oral History and the Writing of Business History in Postwar America, @ European Social Science History Meeting, Berlin, Germany

Fall 2000
Participant on roundtable on Pittsburgh as a site of social science history, Social Science History Association Meeting, Pittsburgh

Participant on roundtable on the media and the 1960s, Social Science History Association Meeting

Commentator, Panel on new scholarship on Appalachia, Social Science History Association Meeting

March 1999
Co-authored paper with Richard Oestreicher, A Engendering U.S. History, @ Organization of American Historians

Spring 1994
Coordinator, Conference assessing the historical origins and legacy of the Pittsburgh Survey, 1909-1914 that became a book in 1996.

January 1993
Paper, "Gender and Pennsylvania Labor History," Pennsylvania and Museum Commission, Harrisburg

May 1992
Speaker, "Women Changing Pennsylvania Politics, 1992 and Beyond," a conference for women political officials, hosted by the University of Pittsburgh's Women's Studies Program and Institute of Politics, Johnstown

April 1994
Paper, "Mealtime over Time: Food Consumption Patterns and Women's Demographic Revolution Since 1950," Organization of American Historians

November 1993
Paper, "Visualizing Pittsburgh in the 1900's: Photographs and Sketches in the Service of Social Reform," Pittsburgh Center for Social History Working Conference

May 1992
Commentator, "Industrialization, Urbanization, and Democracy, 1890-1930," Conference on the Social Construction of Democracy, PittsburghSocial History Center, University of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Mellon University

March 1991
Chair and Commentator, "The Politics of Labor in the Wilson Presidency," Organization of American Historians

June 1990
Chair, "Personnel Management as Gender Policy," Eighth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women," Douglass College

September 1989
Paper, "Between Two Worlds: The Seattle Working Class and Changing Marital Ideals,1918-21," Conference on Labor and World War I, George Meany Memorial Archives

October 1988
Participant, Conference on Graduate Training in U.S. Women's History, National Endowment for the Humanities, Racine . By invitation only, 66 women historians discussed training graduate students.

March 1988
Paper, "The Case for Working-Class Feminism: The Seattle Debate on Married Women's Right to Work in the Era of the First World War," Organization of American Historians, Reno

March 1988
Paper, "Women Wage Earners in Pittsburgh: A Comparative Perspective, 1880-1980," Conference on Making History: Women in Western Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Humanities Council

June 1987
Chair, "Perspective on the Late 19th Century Female Work Force" panel Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Wellesley College

October 1985
Commentator, "The Struggle to Reshape Industrial America in the Late Nineteenth Century" panel, U.S. Working Class History and the Contemporary Labor Movement Symposium, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

June 1984
Commentator, "After Suffrage: Equity or Protection for Women?" panel, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Smith College

January 1984
Participant, Women and War, An International Conference by Invitation, Center for European Studies, Harvard University

December 1983
Commentator, "Class, Ideology, and Opportunity: Wives and Daughters of Skilled Native-Born Workers in Late Nineteenth Century America" panel, American Historical Association Convention, San Francisco

October 1983
Commentator, "Internal Labor Markets and Women's Employment" panel, Social Science History Association, Washington, D.C.

April 1980
Commentator, "To Study the People," Core Session on Labor History, Organization of American Historians, San Francisco

October 1979
Commentator, "The Structure of Work and the Working Class," panel, Social Science History Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts

April 1979
Commentator, "Worker Militancy and the Changing Character of Factory Life, 1933-1946" panel, Organization of American Historians, New Orleans

March 1979
Panel participant, "Organizing Women's Studies Programs," Brown University

November 1978
Commentator, "Women's Work Culture" panel, Social Science History Association, Columbus, Ohio

October 1977
Commentator, "Protecting the Working Girl" panel, Midwest Conference on Women's History, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, Minnesota

December 1976
Paper, "The Transformation of Work and Workers' Consciousness: The Telephone Industry, 1880-1925," the American Historical Association Convention

June 1976
Commentator, "Women and National Emergencies" panel, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Bryn Mawr College

March 1976
Paper, A Scientific Management and the Telephone Industry," The Institute for Policy Studies,Washington, D.C.

March 1973
Moderator and Commentator, "Women and War" panel, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Rutgers University1971 "The New Field of Women's History", Wheaton College

Professional Consulting

2002
Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities, Historical Preservation Grants

Ongoing Reader of book-length manuscripts in American social history, labor history, and women's history for the following publishers: Allyn and Bacon, the University of Pittsburgh Press, Greenwood Press, the University of Missouri Press, Mayfield Publishing Co., Temple University Press, Houghton Mifflin, Rutgers University Press, Yale University Press, D.C. Heath and Company, and Dorsey Press

1988-89
Reviewer of women's studies applicants, North Carolina Humanities Center

1985-86
Historical Advisor, "Single Mothers by Choice," video, Mon Valley Media

1985
Historical Advisor, "Maimie Pinzer, The Life of a Prostitute" public radio program, Institute for Women in History

1984
Historical Advisor, "Women of Steel," Mon Valley Media

1978
Reviewer, grant applications for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Fellowships and Seminars, Division of Research Programs

University Service at the University of Pittsburgh

2003-2005 FAS Tenure Review Board

2003-2005 FAS Tenure Review Board Nominating Committee

2002-2005 College of Arts and Sciences Writing Board

2000-2002 Provost's Budget and Review Committee

1993-1995 College of Arts and Sciences Writing Board

1972-1992 Women's Studies Program Core Faculty

1989-1993 Interviewer, Marshall and Rhodes Fellowship Nominees, Honors College

1988-1990 Member, Academic Integrity Review Board

1986-1988 Member, Social Science Committee, College of Arts and Sciences

1981-85,86-87 Graduate Placement Director, History Department

Spring 1983 Acting Chair, History Department

1980-82 Member, University Affirmative Action Committee

1980-82 Member, Graduate Council of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

1978 Acting Coordinator, Women's Studies Program

1977-78 Member, Provost's Committee on Continuing Education for Women

1977 Chairperson, History Department Graduate Program Committee

Courses

Undergraduate

United States History Since 1865, a lower-level lecture and discussion course. Topics include U.S. foreign relations, race relations, immigration, economic development, gender politics, popular culture, public opinion.

Gender Relations in International Perspective, 1950-2000

Gender and Visual Representation: Public Art and Photography in the U.S. and Europe, 1900-1950

History of Women, Work, and Family in the U.S. to 1865, upper-level lecture

History of Women, Work, and Family in the U.S. since 1865, upper-level lecture

Interpreting Photographs as Historical Documents, a writing intensive course for history majors

Graduate

Doctoral Comprehensive Preparation in Modern American History

Pedagogy Seminar: the Theory and Practice of Teaching History Effectively

Topics in Women's and Gender History, focus changes each time it is taught


Maurine Weiner Greenwald Associate Professor University of Pittsburgh Department of History 3530 Posvar Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15260 412-648-7462 (office) 412-731-4324 (home) 412-731-4340 (fax) email: greenwal@pitt.edu Education 1977 Ph.D. American Civilization, Brown University Dissertation: "Women, War, and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States" Advisor: John L. Thomas 1966 B.A. English, University of Illinois, Urbana, cum laude Predoctoral Awards and Honors 1970-71 National Defense Education Fellowship 1969-70 Teaching Associateship, Brown University 1968-69 Brown University Fellowship 1967-68 Alpha Lambda Delta National Fellowship 1966 Phi Beta Kappa Academic Employment Winter 1985 Visiting Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1978-Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh 1977-78Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh 1972-77 Instructor of History, University of Pittsburgh 1971-72 Instructor of History, Rhode Island College Postdoctoral Grants and Honors 2000 Central Research Development Fund, University of Pittsburgh 1996 Honorary member, Golden Key National Honor Society 1994 Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award 1993-4 Russell Sage Foundation Grant Pittsburgh Center for Social History Grant 1989 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Research Grant, University of Pittsburgh 1987 Central Research Development Fund, University of Pittsburgh 1986 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Research Grant, University of Pittsburgh 1985 Office of Faculty Development, Teaching Grant, University of Pittsburgh 1983 Provost's Development Fund Research Grant, University of Pittsburgh 1982 Office of Faculty Development, Teaching Grant, University of Pittsburgh 1977 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Grant, University of Pittsburgh 1976 College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Grant, University of Pittsburgh 1974 College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Grant, University of Pittsburgh 1973 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Grant, University of Pittsburgh Professional Appointments 2000-2004 Coordinator, Working-Class History Seminar, Pittsburgh Center for Social History 1992-95 Historical Advisor, Pennsylvania Humanities Council's "Raising Our Sites: IntegratingWomen into Pennsylvania Historic Sites," supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities 1992-2000 Historical Advisor, Communications Committee, Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania 1992 Consultant, Kins House Museum, Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania 1990- Consultant, Clayton House Museum, Frick Art and Historical Museum 1989-2000 Member, Editorial Board, Pittsburgh History, a publication of the Heinz Center 1985-1994, Co-coordinator, Working Class History Seminar, Pittsburgh Center for Social History 1983-2000 Member, Editorial Board, Pennsylvania History 1983-92 Editor, Social and Labor History Series, University of Pittsburgh Press 1983-85 Member, Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession, Organization of American Historians 1982-84 Invitational Humanist, Pennsylvania Humanities Council Publications Books 1996 Pittsburgh Surveyed: Social Science and Social Reform in the Early Twentieth Century, co-edited with Margo Anderson. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1980, 1990 Women, War, and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States. Greenwood Press; paperback reprint with new introductory essay by Cornell University Press. Cited in every college textbook on modern American history. Articles 2001 "Working-Class Feminism and the Family Wage Ideal: The Seattle Debate on Married Women's Right to Work in the Era of the First World War,"in Women in Pacific Northwest History, revised edition, ed. Karen J. Blair. University of Washington Press, 94-134. 1999 "Elizabeth Beardsley Butler," American National Biography, ed. John A.Garraty. Oxford University Press. 1996 A Visualizing Pittsburgh in the 1900s: Art and Photography in the Service of Social Reform, @ Pittsburgh Surveyed: Social Science and Social Reform in the Early Twentieth Century. University of Pittsburgh Press, pp.124-152. 1996 co-authored with Margo Anderson, A The Pittsburgh Survey in Historical Perspective, @ in Pittsburgh Surveyed, pp. 1-14. 1991 "Organized Labor and Women in Modern America," in Women's Studies Encyclopedia, Volume III, ed. Helen Tierney. Greenwood Press, pp. 285-88. 1990 "Preface," Women, War and Work. Cornell University Press paperback edition, pp. ix-xxii. 1989 "Women and Class in Pittsburgh, 1850-1920" in City at the Point: Essays on the Social History of Pittsburgh, ed. Samuel P. Hays. University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 33-68. 1989 "Working-Class Feminism and the Family Wage Ideal: The Seattle Debate on Married Women's Right to Work in the Era of the First World War," The Journal of American History, v. 76 (June 1989), pp. 118-49. 1986 Co-authored, "Assessing the Past, Looking to the Future: A Report by the OAH Committee on the Status of Women," Organization of American Historians Newsletter, 14, no.2, special insert. 1984 "Women at Work Through the Eyes of Elizabeth Beardsley Butler and Lewis Wickes Hine," introductory essay to reprint of Women and the Trades (1909) by Elizabeth Beardsley Butler, University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. vii-viv 1975 "Women Workers and World War I: The American Railroad Industry, A Case Study," Journal of Social History 9, No. 2 (December 1975), pp. 154-77. 1971 "Women's History in America ," in Betty E. Chmaj, ed. American Women and American Studies, American Studies Association Commission on the Status of Women. Review Essays 1989 "Homestead: The Story of a Steel Town," Museum Exhibition, The Journal of American History, v. 76, pp. 881-89. 1985 A From Hired Hand to Day Worker: Domestic Servants in the United States , 1800-1920," International Labor and Working Class History, No. 27, pp.60-71. 1979 "Historians and the Working-Class Woman in America,"International Labor and Working Class History, No. 14/15, pp. 23-32. Book Reviews American Historical Review Business History Review Choice Magazine, regular reviewer of books in modern American social history The Historian The Journal of American History Pennsylvania History Societas Research in Progress Current research: book on women and the U.S. advertising industry since 1950. In its broadest sense, my study concerns women and U.S. corporate power during a fifty-year period of demographic and political change in American society. The advertising industry is my laboratory for examining (1) gender relations in small and large corporations; (2) feminist activism inside and outside the industry; (3) marketing to women consumers, and (4) the rise of women-owned agencies. This study is based on interviews with former and current advertising executives as well as extensive archival sources at the J. Walter Thompson Archives at Duke University; the Schlesinger Library on women's history at Radcliffe Institute; the Advertising Archives at the Smithsonian Institution; and manuscript collections at Smith College. Published sources include national newspapers, trade periodicals, and scholarly studies. Professional Activities *Lectures* Summer 2004 Lectures on U.S. women's political activism and wage work in the twentieth century for A Voices Across Time: American History through Song, @ a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for Secondary School Teachers, University of Pittsburgh Lectures on the Gilded Age for Elderhostel and the Frick Art and Historical Center Summer 2003 Lectures on the Gilded Age for Elderhostel and the Frick Art and Historical Center Summer 2002 Seminars for Pittsburgh Public High School Social Studies Teachers, Summer Training Institute, Carnegie Mellon University 1990-2003 Training of Docents at Frick Art and Historical Center: Lectures on gender relations, labor relations, and family life in Gilded Age Pittsburgh March 1990 Class Attitudes towards Birth Control and Premarital Sex in the Early Twentieth Century," California State University April 1987 "Feminism as a Cross-Class Phenomenon" Trinity College (Hartford) November 1986 "The Case for Working-Class Feminism: Seattle Wage Earners and Married Women's Right to Work in the 1920s," Women and Trade Union Scholars Group, New York University 1982-1984 Pennsylvania Humanities Council Invitational Humanist Lectures Guest lectures sponsored by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, "Laws, Customs, and Attitudes: American Feminism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries""Abortion and Birth Control in America: An Historical Perspective""The Demographic Revolution in Women's Wage Work and Family Life in the United States" One or more of the above lectures was delivered before the following civic and cultural organizations and academic institutions: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Cedar Crest College, Northampton County Area Community College, the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Bloomsburg State College, the University of Pittsburgh - Oakland, the Easton YWCA, the Oakland Women's Center, Lucerne County Community College, Lycoming College, Columbia and Montour Counties' Women's Conference, the Pennsylvania State University - Beaver Campus, the University of Pittsburgh - Johnstown, the North Hills, Pittsburgh Chapter of the National Organization of Women March 1981 "For Love, Money, or Social Change: Seattle Wage Earners on Issues of the 1920s," Yale University Papers and Comments at Professional Conferences Spring 2004 A Oral History and the Writing of Business History in Postwar America, @ European Social Science History Meeting, Berlin, Germany Fall 2000 Participant on roundtable on Pittsburgh as a site of social science history, Social Science History Association Meeting, Pittsburgh Participant on roundtable on the media and the 1960s, Social Science History Association Meeting Commentator, Panel on new scholarship on Appalachia, Social Science History Association Meeting March 1999 Co-authored paper with Richard Oestreicher, A Engendering U.S. History, @ Organization of American Historians Spring 1994 Coordinator, Conference assessing the historical origins and legacy of the Pittsburgh Survey, 1909-1914 that became a book in 1996. January 1993 Paper, "Gender and Pennsylvania Labor History," Pennsylvania and Museum Commission, Harrisburg May 1992 Speaker, "Women Changing Pennsylvania Politics, 1992 and Beyond," a conference for women political officials, hosted by the University of Pittsburgh's Women's Studies Program and Institute of Politics, Johnstown April 1994 Paper, "Mealtime over Time: Food Consumption Patterns and Women's Demographic Revolution Since 1950," Organization of American Historians November 1993 Paper, "Visualizing Pittsburgh in the 1900's: Photographs and Sketches in the Service of Social Reform," Pittsburgh Center for Social History Working Conference May 1992 Commentator, "Industrialization, Urbanization, and Democracy, 1890-1930," Conference on the Social Construction of Democracy, PittsburghSocial History Center, University of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Mellon University March 1991 Chair and Commentator, "The Politics of Labor in the Wilson Presidency," Organization of American Historians June 1990 Chair, "Personnel Management as Gender Policy," Eighth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women," Douglass College September 1989 Paper, "Between Two Worlds: The Seattle Working Class and Changing Marital Ideals,1918-21," Conference on Labor and World War I, George Meany Memorial Archives October 1988 Participant, Conference on Graduate Training in U.S. Women's History, National Endowment for the Humanities, Racine . By invitation only, 66 women historians discussed training graduate students. March 1988 Paper, "The Case for Working-Class Feminism: The Seattle Debate on Married Women's Right to Work in the Era of the First World War," Organization of American Historians, Reno March 1988 Paper, "Women Wage Earners in Pittsburgh: A Comparative Perspective, 1880-1980," Conference on Making History: Women in Western Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Humanities Council June 1987 Chair, "Perspective on the Late 19th Century Female Work Force" panel Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Wellesley College October 1985 Commentator, "The Struggle to Reshape Industrial America in the Late Nineteenth Century" panel, U.S. Working Class History and the Contemporary Labor Movement Symposium, Indiana University of Pennsylvania June 1984 Commentator, "After Suffrage: Equity or Protection for Women?" panel, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Smith College January 1984 Participant, Women and War, An International Conference by Invitation, Center for European Studies, Harvard University December 1983 Commentator, "Class, Ideology, and Opportunity: Wives and Daughters of Skilled Native-Born Workers in Late Nineteenth Century America" panel, American Historical Association Convention, San Francisco October 1983 Commentator, "Internal Labor Markets and Women's Employment" panel, Social Science History Association, Washington, D.C. April 1980 Commentator, "To Study the People," Core Session on Labor History, Organization of American Historians, San Francisco October 1979 Commentator, "The Structure of Work and the Working Class," panel, Social Science History Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts April 1979 Commentator, "Worker Militancy and the Changing Character of Factory Life, 1933-1946" panel, Organization of American Historians, New Orleans March 1979 Panel participant, "Organizing Women's Studies Programs," Brown University November 1978 Commentator, "Women's Work Culture" panel, Social Science History Association, Columbus, Ohio October 1977 Commentator, "Protecting the Working Girl" panel, Midwest Conference on Women's History, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, Minnesota December 1976 Paper, "The Transformation of Work and Workers' Consciousness: The Telephone Industry, 1880-1925," the American Historical Association Convention June 1976 Commentator, "Women and National Emergencies" panel, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Bryn Mawr College March 1976 Paper, A Scientific Management and the Telephone Industry," The Institute for Policy Studies,Washington, D.C. March 1973 Moderator and Commentator, "Women and War" panel, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Rutgers University1971 "The New Field of Women's History", Wheaton College Professional Consulting 2002 Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities, Historical Preservation Grants Ongoing Reader of book-length manuscripts in American social history, labor history, and women's history for the following publishers: Allyn and Bacon, the University of Pittsburgh Press, Greenwood Press, the University of Missouri Press, Mayfield Publishing Co., Temple University Press, Houghton Mifflin, Rutgers University Press, Yale University Press, D.C. Heath and Company, and Dorsey Press 1988-89 Reviewer of women's studies applicants, North Carolina Humanities Center 1985-86 Historical Advisor, "Single Mothers by Choice," video, Mon Valley Media 1985 Historical Advisor, "Maimie Pinzer, The Life of a Prostitute" public radio program, Institute for Women in History 1984 Historical Advisor, "Women of Steel," Mon Valley Media 1978 Reviewer, grant applications for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Fellowships and Seminars, Division of Research Programs University Service at the University of Pittsburgh 2003-2005 FAS Tenure Review Board 2003-2005 FAS Tenure Review Board Nominating Committee 2002-2005 College of Arts and Sciences Writing Board 2000-2002 Provost's Budget and Review Committee 1993-1995 College of Arts and Sciences Writing Board 1972-1992 Women's Studies Program Core Faculty 1989-1993 Interviewer, Marshall and Rhodes Fellowship Nominees, Honors College 1988-1990 Member, Academic Integrity Review Board 1986-1988 Member, Social Science Committee, College of Arts and Sciences 1981-85,86-87 Graduate Placement Director, History Department Spring 1983 Acting Chair, History Department 1980-82 Member, University Affirmative Action Committee 1980-82 Member, Graduate Council of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences 1978 Acting Coordinator, Women's Studies Program 1977-78 Member, Provost's Committee on Continuing Education for Women 1977 Chairperson, History Department Graduate Program Committee Courses *Undergraduate* United States History Since 1865, a lower-level lecture and discussion course. Topics include U.S. foreign relations, race relations, immigration, economic development, gender politics, popular culture, public opinion. Gender Relations in International Perspective, 1950-2000 Gender and Visual Representation: Public Art and Photography in the U.S. and Europe, 1900-1950 History of Women, Work, and Family in the U.S. to 1865, upper-level lecture History of Women, Work, and Family in the U.S. since 1865, upper-level lecture Interpreting Photographs as Historical Documents, a writing intensive course for history majors *Graduate* Doctoral Comprehensive Preparation in Modern American History Pedagogy Seminar: the Theory and Practice of Teaching History Effectively Topics in Women's and Gender History, focus changes each time it is taught