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Mary Ann Dzuback
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
Department of Education
Campus Box 1078
Washington University
St. Louis, Missouri 63130
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Columbia University. History and Education. 1987.
M.A. Teachers College, Columbia University. Curriculum Theory. 1981.
B.A. Franconia College. Education. 1974.
EXPERIENCE
1994 to the present Associate Professor of Education and History (Affiliate); Associate
Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, 2007—, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
2015 to the present Chair, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department,
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
2006 to 2015 Director, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department,
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (on leave 2011-12)
1987-1994 Assistant Professor of Education, Washington University,
St. Louis, Missouri
1983 Researcher and consultant, Children’s Television Workshop
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Robert M. Hutchins: Portrait of an Educator (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991).
(Reviewed in Reviews in American History, Teachers College Record, Journal of American History, American Journal of Education, American Historical Review, History of Education Quarterly, La Recherche, London Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, Times Literary Supplement, and numerous other scholarly and popular publications in the United States and Europe.)
Book Chapters
"Research at Women's Colleges, 1890-1940," in New Perspectives on Women's Education in the United States, ed. Margaret A. Nash (Palgrave McMillan, forthcoming 2018)
"Gender, Professional Knowledge, and Institutional Power: Women Social Scientists and the Research University," in The 'Woman Question' and Higher Education: Perspectives on Gender and Knowledge Production in America, ed. Ann Mari May (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2008)
"Berkeley Women Economists, Public Policy, and Civic Sensibility," in Civic and Moral Learning in America, ed., Donald Warren (New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2006)
"Creative Financing in Social Science: Women Scholars and Early Research," in Women and Philanthropy in Education, ed. Andrea Walton (Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 2005)
"The University of Chicago," Dictionary of American History (New York: Charles S.
Scribner’s Sons, 2002)
"Frank Louis Soldan"; "Robert M. Hutchins"; "Jessica B. Peixotto"; and "Barbara N.
Armstrong" in John Garraty, ed., American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)
"Nursing Historiography, 1960-1980: An Annotated Bibliography," in Ellen Condliffe
Lagemann, ed., Nursing History: New Perspectives, New Possibilities. (New York: Teachers College Press, 1983)
Articles
"Women, Social Science Expertise, and the State," Women's History Review (UK) 18 (February
2009): 71-95.
"Gender and the Politics of Knowledge," History of Education Quarterly 43 (summer 2003):
171-195.
"Women at Washington University: Introduction" and "Women Donors" for Washington
University Sesquicentennial website, produced with students (2003):
http://artsci.wustl.edu/~whhep/womenofwashu.htm
"Women and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College, 1915-1940," History of
Education Quarterly 33 (winter 1993): 579-608.
"Professionalism, Higher Education, and American Culture: Burton J. Bledstein’s The
Culture of Professionalism." History of Education Quarterly 33 (fall 1993): 375-85 (retrospective historiographical essay).
"Hutchins, Adler, and the University of Chicago: A Critical Juncture." American Journal
of Education 99 (1990-1991): 57-76.
Book Reviews
"Transformations in Higher Learning," Reviews in American History 21 (September,
1993): 488 -93 (review essay).
Others in History of Education Quarterly, History of Education (UK), Paedagogica Historica (Belgium), Journal of American History, Teachers College Record, Metropolitan Universities, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Political Science Quarterly, Journal of Social History.
Other
"Becoming a Historian: Educational Choices, Sponsored Mobility, and Institutional Challenges" Leaders in the History of American Education (Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2011)
Series: Leaders in Educational Studies, Vol. 3
"Foreword," in Jana Nidiffer, Pioneering Deans of Women: More Than Wise and Pious
Matrons (New York: Teachers College Press, 2000)
PAPERS
"Women Economists in the Academy, 1900-1940: Struggles and Strategies" (revision), History
of Economics Society, Durham, NC, June 2016
"Women Economists in the Academy, 1890-1940: Struggles and Strategies," American
Economics Association, History of Economics Program, San Francisco, January 2016
"Gender, Professional Knowledge, and Institutional Power: Women Social Scientists and the
Research University," revised and re-presented at the Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 2007
"Negotiating the University: Women Academic Social Scientists in the United States," Women's
History Network Conference "Thinking Women: Education, Culture, and Society," Durham University, UK, September 2006
"Professional Identity and Personal Space: Academic Women at Home and Work,"
Organization of American Historians, Washington, D.C., April 2006
"Gender, Professional Knowledge, and Institutional Power: Women Social Scientists and the
Research University," The 'Summers Question': Women and Higher Education in the
U.S. Symposium at Middlebury College, April 2006 (invited)
"Women, Social Science Expertise, and the State," Berkshire Conference on the History of
Women, Claremont, California, June 2005
"The New Education and the Women's Colleges in the United States," International Standing
Conference for the History of Education, Geneva, July 2004
"Social Science Research in the Colleges," Social Science History Association Annual Meeting,
Baltimore, Maryland, November 2003
"Gender and the Politics of Knowledge," Presidential Address, History of Education
Society, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 2002
Commentary on Martha Nussbaum’s "Women’s Education: An International Challenge,"
Women and Citizenship Conference, Washington University, April 2002
"The Vitality of Networking" for a symposium: "Speculating on a Synthesis for Women’s
Educational History: A Discussion of Four Interpretive Frameworks" History of Education Society Annual Meeting, New Haven, October 2001
"Gender, Social Science, and Institutional Culture in Higher Education," invited address,
University of Michigan, November 1, 2001
"Academic Women and Professional Power: Passing the Torch," symposium paper,
History of Education Society, San Antonio, October, 2000 (under review)
"Creative Financing in Social Science: Women Scholars and Early Research," symposium
paper, Social Science History Association, Fort Worth, November, 1999
"Women Scholars and the University: Exposing the Culture of Higher Education
Institutions," symposium paper, American Educational Research Association, San Diego, April, 1998; also presented at Washington University, May, 1998
"Joining the Ancient and Universal Company of Scholars: Women in Social Science
Graduate Study, 1890-1940," Vice-Presidential Address, American Educational
Research Association, Chicago, March, 1997
"Women Social Science Scholars in the Academy: Problems and Questions," at the Center
for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, May, 1996
(Visiting Scholar at the Center, May and June, 1996)
"Jessica Peixotto: First Woman Full Professor at the University of California, Berkeley,"
Conference on The History of Women at Cal: The First 125 Years, Berkeley,
April, 1995
"Berkeley Women’s Economic Research: A Model of Commitment to Public Policy,"
History of Education Society, Chapel Hill, November, 1994
"Placing Schooling in Context: Education Policy Broadly Conceived," Eliot Society
Seminar Series, Washington University, October, 1994
"Women and Social Research at Bryn Mawr, 1915-1940," History of Education Society, Boston,
October, 1992.
"The Professional Construction of Knowledge: Women Scholars and the University,"
Presentation to the Department of Education, Washington University, October 25, 1990
"Robert M. Hutchins and University Scholarship and Teaching," American Educational Research
Association, San Francisco, March, 1989.
"Lessons from the Past: The Hutchins Idea of One Best Curriculum," American Educational
Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, November, 1988.
"Robert M. Hutchins in the Chicago Years: Outside the University," History of Education Society, Stanford University, October, 1986.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Women Social Science Scholars in the Academy, 1890-1940
"Women Economists in the Academy: Struggles and Strategies, 1890-1940"
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
History of Education Society
Social Science History Association
Organization of American Historians
American Association of University Women
American Economics Association
HONORS AND AWARDS
Washington University Center for the Humanities Grant for co-convening "Queering the Global/Transnational Conversation" Reading Group
Certificate of Appreciation, Women's Panhellenic Society, Washington University, 2011
Distinguished Leadership Award, Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Washington University, 2009
Special Recognition for Excellence in Mentoring, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Student Senate, Washington University, April 2000, April 2002, April 2008
Washington University Committee on Programs Grant, "Global Feminisms" Conference, April
2006 (with co-chairs Shanti Parikh and Priscilla Stone)
Association of Women Faculty Appreciation Award, April, 2000
Spencer Foundation Grant, 1994-96, for "Women Social Science Scholars" ($132,000).
Rockefeller Archive Center Research Grant, 1994-95, for "Women Social Science
Scholars"
Bunting Fellowship finalist, 1994-95
Faculty Research Grant, Summer 1993, for "Women Social Science Scholars"
Frederick B. Artz Summer Research Grant, Oberlin College, 1991, for "Women Social
Science Scholars"
Faculty Research Grant, Washington University, Summer, 1989, for assistance in
completion of Robert M. Hutchins: Portrait of an Educator
Spencer Foundation Small Grant, 1988-1989, for further research and writing, Robert M.
Hutchins
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
National/International
Professional Organization Service
2016 Social Science History Association Sharlin Book Award Committee (member)
2014-15 Social Science History Association Program Co-Chair
2014-15 Ad Hoc Committee to Recommend Upgrades the Social Science History Association Conference Website (member)
2014 Participant (co-sponsoring institution), Feminist Critical Analysis Course Conference: Feminism's Affective Objects, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2014
2013 Participant (co-sponsoring institution), Feminist Critical Analysis Course/Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2013
2012-17 Editorial Board member, Social Science History
2012-13 Program committee, History of Education Society
2008 to
the present Chair, History of Education Society Archives Committee
2007-2010 American Educational Research Association, Scholars and Advocates of Gender Equity Committee, member
2007 Program Committee, American Educational Research Association, Division F, for 2008 annual meeting
2005-14 Education, Knowledge Production, and Science Studies Network Representative, Social Science History Association
2003-04 Member, Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Program, Selection Committee
2002-03 Past-president and Director, History of Education Society (and Board member)
2001-2002 President, History of Education Society
2002-2005 Editorial board member American Journal of Educational Research
2000-01 Vice-President, History of Education Society
Program Chair, 2001 History of Education Society Annual Meeting, New Haven, Connecticut
1999-2000 Committee on the Quarterly, History of Education Society
1995-97 Vice-President, Division F (History and Historiography),
American Educational Research Association
1993-96 Director, History of Education Society Committee on Teaching
1993-99 Associate Editor, History of Education Quarterly
1996-98 Task Force on Strategic Planning, American Educational Research Association
1992-93 Program Chair and Co-Chair, Division F (History and Historiography),American Educational Research Association.
1991 Program Committee, History of Education Society
Conference Presentations and Panels
2016 SSHA Panel, Chair/discussant, "Science Authority and STEM Education in Historical Perspective," Chicago, November 2016
2015 Chair/Discussant, "Women's Colleges in the United States and Canada,"
History of Education Society, St. Louis, November 2015
2015 Panelist, Book Panel: Geraldine Jonçich Clifford, Those Good Gertrudes
History of Education Society, St. Louis, November 2015
2015 Discussant, "Histories of Knowledge, Pedagogy, and Infrastructure,"
Social Science History Association, Baltimore, November 2015
2014 Chair, "Education Policy and the Quest for Equity," Social Science History Association, Toronto, November 2014
2014 Discussant, "Race, Gender, and Bodies in Higher Education," Social Science History Association, Toronto, November 2014
2013 Chair, "Author Meets Critics: Elizabeth Popp Berman's Creating the Market University," Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 2013
2013 Discussant, "Ethnicity, Indigeneity, and Educational Identities," Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 2013
2013 Chair/discussant, "Values? Whose Values?: History of Higher Education," History of Education Society, Nashville, October 2013
2012 Chair/Discussant, "Education and Identity: Narrative and Social Construction of Gender," Social Science History Association, Vancouver, BC, November 2012
2011 Chair, "Adrea Lawrence's Lessons from an Indian Day School: Negotiating Colonization in Northern New Mexico, 1902-1907," Book Session, Social Science History Association, Boston, November 2011
2011 Discussant, "Establishing Foundations in Higher Education," History of Education Society, Chicago, November 2011
2010 Chair, "Jeffrey Mirel's Patriotic Pluralism: Americanization Education and European Immigrants," Book Session, Social Science History Association, Chicago, November, 2010
2010 Panelist, "Former History of Education Society Presidents: Their Past Scholarship, Their Present Scholarship," History of Education Society, November 2010
2010 Chair, discussant, "Visions of the University," Paper session, History of Education Society, Cambridge, MA, November 2010
2009 Chair, "HES Committee on Archives," Report and Discussion session, History of Education Society, Philadelphia, October, 2010
2009 Chair, "National Education Goals, Agency, and Action: A Discussion of Maris Vinovskis's From 'A Nation at Risk' to No Child Left Behind," Book Session, Social Science History Association, Long Beach, CA, November 2009
2008 Chair, "Opting Out of the System," Paper session, Social Science History Association, Miami, October 2008
Panelist, "The Past, the Present, and the Future of the History of Education," History of Education Society, St. Petersburg, FL, November 2008
Chair. Discussant, "Women's Space in Higher Education," History of Education Society, St. Petersburg, FL, November 2008
2007 Participant, Lunch with the Presidents, History of Education Society, Cleveland, October 2007
Chair/Discussant, "Higher Education in the Progressive Era," History of Education Society, Cleveland, October 2007
2006 Chair/Discussant, "Author Meets Critics: Linda Eisenmann, 'Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965'," Social Science History Association, Minneapolis, November 2006
Chair, "Ethnicity, Gender, and Nation-Building: Models of Higher Education,"
Social Science History Association, Minneapolis, November 2006
Discussant, "International Perspectives on 19th-Century Educational Expansion,"
History of Education Society, Ottawa, October 2006
2005 Discussant, "Academic and Professional Cultures: The College and University in History," American Educational Research Association, Montreal, April 2005
2004 Chair, "Gender and Markets for Expertise," Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 2004
2003 Discussant, "Expanding the Pool of Higher Education Faculties," History of
Education Society Annual Meeting, Evanston, Illinois, November 2003
2002 Chair/discussant, "New Perspectives on Adult and Higher Education in the Progressive Era," History of Education Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 2002
2001 Chair, "Ken Ludmerer’s Time to Heal," History of Education Society Annual Meeting, New Haven, Connecticut, October 2001
2001 Faculty member (invited) for "Mentoring Seminar," History and Historiography
Division, American Educational Research Association, 2001
2000 Chair/Discussant, "Commencement Programs in Historical and Theoretical Perspective," American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2000
Chair/Discussant, "Academic Women in the 1950s: Moving toward a Reinterpretation," American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2000
Chair/Discussant, "On the Margins? Institutions and Gender in the History of Higher Education," American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2000
1999 Chair/Discussant, "Meeting New Needs: Higher Education in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s," History of Education Society, Decatur, Georgia, October, 1999
1998 Chair/Critic, "Women and Higher Education Leadership," History of Education Society, Chicago, October, 1998
1997 Chair/Discussant, "Women and Identity in Higher Education," History of
Education Society, Philadelphia, October, 1997
1996 Discussant, "Women and Colonialism: Missionaries, Nurses, and Teachers," History of Education Society, Toronto, October, 1996
Discussant, "Does History Inform Policy? A Review of Learning from the Past," American Educational Research Association, New York, April 1996
1995 Chair/Discussant, "Biography, Leadership, and Reform in Higher Education during the Progressive Era: The Contributions of Hall, Harper, and Talbot," History of Education Society, Minneapolis, October, 1995
1994 Symposium participant, "Educational History and the Policy Studies
Conundrum," History of Education Society, Chapel Hill, November, 1994
1994 Chair/Discussant, "Policies toward Teachers: Historical Views across Countries," American Educational Research Association, New Orleans,
April, 1994
1993 Chair/Discussant, "Meaning and the Higher Pedagogy," History of Education Society, Chicago, October, 1993
1993 Discussant, "Hutchins and the University of Chicago: A Forum Celebrating Mary Ann Dzuback’s Robert M. Hutchins: Portrait of an
Educator" (book session), American Educational Research Association,
Atlanta, April, 1993
1992 Chair, Regina Morantz-Sanchez, "Educating Humane Physicians: What We Learn from the History of Women in American Medicine," Invited Address, American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, April, 1992
1992 Chair, "Women Leaders in Higher Education," Paper Session, American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, April, 1992