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CURRICULUM VITAE FOR JUDITH R. WALKOWITZ
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Birthdate: 13 September, 1945
Address: 133 W. 17th Street, Apt. 5D, New York, N.Y. 10011
Telephone:212-243-6418
PRESENT POSITION:
Professor of History
Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, Md. 21218
Telephone: 410-516-8599
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
A.B., 1963-67 (High Honors in History), University of Rochester
M.A., 1968, University of Rochester
Ph.D., 1974, University of Rochester
Dissertation: "'We Are Not Beasts of the Field': Prostitution and the Campaign Against the
Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886".
ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS:
National Humanities Center, Donnelly Family Fellow, 2015-6
National Endowment for the Humanities, 2009-2010
Fellow, Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, New York Public Library, 2005-6
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, 2001-2
John S. Guggenheim Fellowship, 1993-94
Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, 1989-90
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1989-90
Fellow, Royal Historical Society (lapsed)
Fellow, Center for the Critical Study of Contemporary Society, 1987-88
Rockefeller Humanities Fellow, 1985
Visiting Scholar, New York Institute for the Humanities, 1981-82
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1981-1982
Berkshire Conference Book Prize, 1980-81
National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine Research Grant, 1976-1980
Rutgers Summer Faculty Fellowship, 1976
Herbert H. Lehman Fellow (New York State), 1967-71
Honorary Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1967
Phi Beta Kappa, University of Rochester, 1966
EMPLOYMENT RECORD:
2007 Simon Visiting Professor, University of Manchester
2007-8 Director of Graduate Studies, History Department, Johns Hopkins University
1989-, Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
1989-1997, Director of Women's Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
1984-89, Professor of History, Rutgers University
1979-84, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers UniversitySpring
1983, Visiting Associate Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
1974-79, Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers University
1971-74, Instructor, Department of History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New
Jersey
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London . London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.
City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1992. Reprinted in Spanish.
Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class and the State. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1980. Reprinted in Japanese, 2009.
Co-edited with Judith Newton and Mary Ryan, Sex and Class in Women's History: Essays
from Feminist Studies. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983.
Refereed Articles and Book Chapters:
Urban Pleasures,” in Celia Marshik, Cambridge Companion to Modernist Culture, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
“Gender and Transnational Commodity Culture,” Research on Women in Modern Chinese History (Taiwan) (spring 2013). 11,000 words Translated into Chinese.
“London’s Shady Nightclubs,” Journal of Intercultural Communication (Tokyo), 14 ( Spring 2013). 4250 words. Translated into Japanese.
“The Politics of Prostitution,” Zannegaar, Fall 2013, online peer-reviewed women’s studies journal , translated into Farsi, 2500 words.
"Cosmopolitanism, Feminism, and the Moving Body." Victorian Literature and Culture 38, no. 2 (2010): 427-449.
"Emergence of Cosmopolitan Soho." In The New Blackwell Companion to the City, edited by Sophie Watson, Bridge, Gary. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010.
“Voz de la Archivos,” Minerva 43 (2006): 112-116.
“El Feminismo y el Cuerpor en Movimento,” in La Fragilizacion de las relaciones socials (Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, 2007), 11,000 words or 30 pp of print.
“‘The Vision of Salome’: Cosmopolitanism and Erotic Dancing in Central London, 1908-1918.” American Historical Review , volume 108, no.2 (April 2003): 337-76.
"Going Public: Shopping, Street Harassment, and Streetwalking in Late Victorian London,"
Representations 62 (Spring 1998): 1-30.
"The Indian Woman, the Flower Girl, and the Jew: Photojournalism in Edwardian London."
Victorian Studies 42 (Autumn 1998/1999): 3-46.
With Ellen Ross, "Raphael Samuel (1934-1996): An Appreciation," Radical History Review
69 (1997): 275-279.
"Roundtable on Judith Walkowitz's City of Dreadful Delight," Journal of Victorian Culture
(Fall 1997).
"Dangerous Sexualities," in Storia delle Donne vol. 4, edited by Georges Duby and Michelle
Perrot. (Rome: Laterza, 1990), 369-98. First published in Italian; reprinted in French, Spanish,
German, and English.
"Patrolling the Borders: Feminist Historiography and the New Historicism," (a symposium),
Radical History Review 43 (December 1988).
"Myths and Murderers," (review of books on Jack the Ripper), Women's Review of Books
5 (March 1988).
"Science and the Seance: Transgressions of Gender and Genre in Late-Victorian London,"
Representations 22 (Spring 1988):3-29.
"Science, Feminism, and Romance: The Men and Women's Club, 1885-1889," History
Workshop (April 1986): 37-59. Reprinted in German and Spanish..
"Male Vice and Feminist Virtue: Feminist and the Politics of Prostitution in
Nineteenth-Century Britain," History Workshop Journal 13 (Spring 1982): 79-93.
Reprinted in A. Swerdlow and H. Lessinger, eds. Class, Race and Sex: The Dynamics of
Control. (Houston, G.K. Hall, 1983), 10-20; Ann Snitow, et. al., Powers of Desire. (New
York: Monthly Review Press, 1983). Also translated and reprinted in Italian and Spanish.
"Jack the Ripper and the Myth of Male Violence," Feminist Studies 8, no. 3 (Fall 1982):
543-574. Reprinted in French and Italian.
"Politics of Prostitution," Signs 6, no. 1 (Autumn, 1980): 123-135.
"The Making of an Outcast Group: Prostitution and Working Women in Nineteenth-Century
Plymouth and Southhampton" in A Widening Sphere, edited by Martha Vicinus.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1977. 72-93.
"'We are not Beasts of the Field': Prostitution and the Poor in Plymouth and Southhampton
under the Contagious Diseases Acts, with Daniel J. Walkowitz. Feminist Studies no. 3-4,
(Winter Spring, 1973): 73-106. Reprinted in M. Hartman and L. Banner, eds. Clio's
Consciousness Raised: Historical Perspectives on Women. (New York: Harper and Row,
1974), 192-225.
Dictionary Entries:
"Josephine E. Butler." Featured entry for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography .
PAPERS, COMMENTARIES, LECTURES (since 1982)
“Urban Culture,” roundtable at Mid-Atlantic Conference of British Studies, Baltimore, March 2015.
“History and the Politics of Prostitution, Prostitution and the Politics of History.” Keynote Address to the European Union Working Group , Salamanca , Spain, Sept. 2014.
Commentary on Panel on Commercial ized Sex, Flappers, and Sex Trafficking, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Toronto, Ontario, May 2014.
“Roundtable on Judith R. Walkowitz’s Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London.” Johns Hopkins University, Feb. 4, 2013
Participant, “The Moment of British Women’s History,” Conference at Columbia University, Feb. 9, 2013.
“The Making of Cosmopolitan London,” Jewish Book Week, King’s Place, London, March 2013
“Schleppers and Shoppers,” Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, London, March 2013.
“Schleppers and Shoppers: Jews, Street Markets, and Ready-to-Wear Fashion,” Central European University, Budapest, April 2013.
Schleppers and Shoppers in Interwar London. R.K. Webb Lecture, UMBC , Sept. 2012
Chair, Women in War and War Relief, North American Conference of British Studies, Montreal, Nov. 2012
“Schleppers and Shoppers: Jews, Street Markets, and Selling of Ready-to-Wear in Interwar London,” Public Lecture , British Studies Series, Stanford University, March 1, 2012.
Roundtable on Judith Walkowitz’s Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London, University of Notre Dame in London, London, UK, March 2011.
“Cosmopolitan Soho” , Public Lecture, Bishopsgate Institute, London, UK, March 27, 2012
“ Soho’s Clubs, the Property Market, and Jewish Entrepreneurs,” London: City of Paradox Conference, University of East London, April 2012.
“The Victorians and Time,” Keynote Address, CUNY Victorianist Conference, New York, NY, May 2012
“Jack Isow and London’s Shady Nightclubs.” Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan, June 2012.
“New Trends in Transnational History, Gender, and Consumer Culture,” Keynote Address, Modern History Institute, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2012.
“Schleppers and Shoppers: Jews, Street Markets, and Selling of Ready-to-Wear in Interwar London,” Yale Colloquium in British Studies, February 2011.
“Jews Night Out: Jews and Mass Leisure Sites in Interwar London,” Columbia University Seminar in British History, April 2011.
“Schleppers and Shoppers: Jews, Street Markets, and Selling of Ready-to-Wear in Interwar London,” Frei University, Berlin, Germany, October 2011.
“Schleppers and Shoppers: Jews, Street Markets, and Selling of Ready-to-Wear in Interwar London,” Lecture Series on Space. Eisenberg Historical Institute. University of Michigan, Nov. 2011.
Roundtable on Prostitution and Victorian Society: Thirty Years On( my publication of 1980)
North American Conference of British Studies, Baltimore, Md., Nov. 2010
“Windmill Theatre: Middlebrow, Erotic Display, and the Spirit of the Blitz.”, Simon Lecture, University of Manchester, Oct. 2007; Plenary Talk, North American Conference of British Studies.
Commentator, “Transnational Issues in the History of Gender and Sexuality,” American Historical Association, Jan. 2007.
“Feminism and the Moving Body,” Keynote Address, National Victorian Studies Association, Bloomington, Indiana, Oct. 2003; Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, 2004; Madrid , Spain, 2005; Northwestern University, 2006
Roundtable on “Castes of Mind,” American Association of Asian Studies, New York, March 2003.
“Cosmopolitanism and Erotic Dancing in Central London,” Queen Mary College, University of London, Sept. 2002; Goldsmith College, University of London, Dec. 2002;
Schleppers and Shoppers: Jews, Street Markets, and Ready-to-Wear Fashion in Interwar London.” University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 2003.
Chair, “Feminism and the Enlightenment.” UC, Berkeley, October. 2001.
“The Contagious Diseases Acts Revisited.” “Rethinking the Victorians.” Science Museum, London, July 2001.
"Plenary Panel on the Future of British History." NACBS, Cambridge , Mass. November
1999.
"Sex, Spies, and Erotic Dancing in Central London." Ball State University, Muncie Indiana,
Nov. 1999; University of Pennsylvania, UC, Berkeley, Stanford University, and UCLA, Spring 2000; AHA, Jan. 2001; Texas A &M, March 2001; Institute for Historical Research, London, June 2001; Center for Advanced Study, Palo Alto, Nov. 2001.
"Conrad and the Consuming Passions of Soho." Villanova University, Nov. 1998.
"The Indian Woman, the Flower Girl, and the Jew: Photojournalism in turn-of-the-century
London." Keynote Address, Australian Historical Society, Melbourne, July 1996. Also
presented in 1997 at University of Illinois-Champagne, California Institute of Technology,
Anglo-American History Conference, Institute for Historical Research, London, England,
University of Southampton; Raphael Samuel Centre for Metropolitan Cultural History,
London, England. .
"Narrating London's Modernity," Gauss Lectures, Princeton University, March 1995.
"Olive Christian Malvery: Photojournalism and the Cockney Flower Girl in Edwardian
London." Keynote Address, Western Canadian Victorian Studies, September, 1994.
"Olive Christian Malvery: Photojournalism and the Spectacle of Poverty in Edwardian
London," Columbia University, October 1994.
Key Note Speaker, New Zealand Historical Society, Jan. 1993.
"Going Public: Shopping, Sexual Harassment, and Streetwalking in Late-Victorian London."
Columbia University, Nov. 1991; Harvard University 1992; Loyola College, Sept. 1992;
American Historical Association 1992; University of California, Berkeley, November 1993;
UCLA, November 1993; Birkbeck College, 1994; Victorian and Albert Museum 1994,
University of Sydney, 1995.
Commentator, "Middle-Class Bengali Women and Indian Nationalism," Conference on
Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial Subject, Princeton University, May 10, 1990.
"Karl Pearson's Men and Women's Club," Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New
Jersey, March 29, 1990; Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, April 3, 1990.
"Science and the Seance: Transgressions of Gender and Genre in Late-Victorian London,"
Presented at a one-daycolloquium sponsored by Representations, University of California,
Berkeley, April 1987.
"The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon," Davis Seminar, Princeton University, Princeton,
New Jersey, October 1986; Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, November 1986;
Lecture Series in Comparative History and Social Thought, University of California, Davis,
May, 1987, at "Dickens and Victorian Women" Conference, University of California, Santa
Cruz, August, 1987.
Feminist Scholarship and Feminist Studies, Conference on Women's Studies Journal,
Amsterdam,
Netherlands, April 1985.
Science, Feminism, and Romance: The Men and Women's Club, 1885-1889," at Sex,
Gender and Consumerism Seminar, New York Institute for the Humanities, New York,
February, 1985; Penn Mid-Atlantic Seminar in Women's Studies, University of
Pennsylvania, March 1985; Harvard University, March 1986.
Panelist, "A Discussion of Judith R. Walkowitz's Prostitution and Victorian Society, Social
Science History Association, Toronto, Canada, October, 1984.
Commentator, "Feminist Perspectives on Women's Education," National Conference of
British Studies, Washington, D.C., October 1983.
"Jack the Ripper and the Melodramatic Imagination," Presented at: Pacific Coast
Conference of British Studies, March, 1988; History Faculty Seminar, University of
California, Berkeley, April 1983; Public Lecture, Montana State University, Bozemen,
Montana, May 1983.
Panelist, "Pornography and the Law," Women and the Law Conference, Detroit, Michigan,
March, 1982
Commentator, "Sexuality and the Law," Conference on Reproductive Rights, Rutgers
University Law School, February, 1982.
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Tenure Review, Ohio State University, University of Cincinnati, Harvard University,
Columbia University, Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, University of
Illinois, Boston College, Northwestern University, University of Chicago and other places.
Outside Review, Women's Studies Program, Northwestern University, May 1999
Advisory Board, Social and Cultural History
Editorial Board, Journal of Victorian Culture, 1995-
Editorial Board, Victorian Studies, 1992-
Co-Organizer, "Gender and Nationalism," conference held at Bellagio, Italy, 1992
Member, Outside Review Committee for the graduate program in history at SUNY,
Binghampton, March 1988
Editorial Board, differences, 1988-
Reviewer, Rockefeller Grants on Gender Roles in Postindustrial Societies Program, Fall
1988
Speakers Bureau, American Historical Association
President, Berkshire Conference on Women Historians, 1987-1990
Chair, Committee on Women Historians, AHA, 1987-1988
Executive Committee, Modern European History Section, AHA, 1985-1988
Board of Editors, Journal of British Studies, 1985- 1996
Judge, Hamilton Book Prize in Women's Studies for University of Michigan Press, 1983
Program Committee, Sixth Berkshire Conference on Women's History, 1982-1984
Executive Committee, Columbia Seminar on Women and Society, 1982-1985
Selection Committee, Woodrow Wilson Research Grants in Women's Studies, 1977-1978
Consultant, National Science Foundation, 1977-1982
Program Committee, Fourth Berkshire Conference on Women's History, 1977-1978
Program Committee, Third Berkshire Conference on Women's History, 1975-1976
History Editor, Feminist Studies, 1974-1984
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
American Historical Association
Columbia Seminar on Women and Society