5 March 2012
JUDITH ANN TROLANDER
Address:3934 Minnesota Avenue, Duluth, Minnesota 55802 (home)
Department of History
University of Minnesota, Duluth (work)
Telephone:218-727-4828 (home)
218-726-8271 (work)
Email:
Education:
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
B.A., June 1964 (History)
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
School of Library Science, M.S.L.S., September 1966
Department of History
M.A., September 1969
Ph.D., January 1972
Dissertation Title:"The Settlement Response to the Depression,
1929-1939"
Dissertation Adviser:David D. Van Tassel
Professional Experience:
Caseworker, St. Louis County Welfare Department, Virginia, Minnesota, 1964-65
Librarian, Los Angeles County Public Library, Los Angeles, California, 1966-67
Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, Spring 1971
Lecturer
University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, Summer 1971
Instructor
Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois, 1971-75
Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota, Duluth
Professor, 1987-
Associate Professor, 1975-87
Director, Northeast Minnesota Historical Center, 1976-81
Awards and Fellowships:
N.D.E.A. Title IV Fellowship (1967-1970)
Case Western Reserve University Travel Grant (1970)
University of Minnesota Grant in Aid of Research (1976-1978)
University of Minnesota Summer Faculty Research Appointment (1978)
Project Director for grants Awarded to the Northeast Minnesota Historical Center:
"Collections of the St. Louis County Historical Society," National Endowment for
the Humanities (1979-1981)
"Women in Politics," Minnesota Historical Society (1979)
"Business Development in Duluth," Minnesota Historical Society (1980)
"Labor Relations and Union Development in Duluth," Minnesota Historical
Society (1980-1981)
University of Minnesota Single Quarter Leave (Spring 1983)
University of Minnesota Educational Development Program Grant (Summer 1982)
Minnesota Humanities Commission: "History Component of the Midwest American
Settlement House Centennial" (Spring 1986)
Middlebury College travel grant and honorarium to attend NEH Follow-Up conference on Summer Institute for Teacher Educators (1986)
University of Minnesota Grant in Aid of Research, "Sexism, Racism, and Professionalism:
The Council on Social Work Education" (1991-1992)
University of Minnesota Duluth Sabbatical (1998-1999)
University of Minnesota, Duluth, College of Liberal Arts Travel Grant (1994, 1996, 1997, 1998,
1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011)
Minnesota Private College Research Foundation Travel Grant to attend a conference, “Creating
Partnerships, Creating Scholarship” in Plymouth, MN, 19 October 2001
University of Minnesota Duluth, Center for Urban and Regional Research Mini Grant to fund a
speaker series, 2001-02
University of Minnesota Duluth Chancellor’s Small Grant to participate in an Oxford Round
Table (2003)
University of Minnesota Office of International Programs Travel Grant (2003)
University of Minnesota Duluth Split Sabbatical (Fall 2005 and Fall 2006) with a Bush Sabbatical Supplement Grant
University of Minnesota Duluth Department of History Faculty Research Grants (2005, 2006, 2009)
University of Minnesota Duluth Tech Camp and Technophyte Grants (2005)
Biographical Listings:
Directory of American Scholars, volume I (New York: R. R. Bowker, 1982), p. 778.
Contemporary Authors, volume 61-64 (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1976), p. 564.
Who's Who of American Women (Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, Inc., 1979), p. 826
Publications:
Books:
Settlement Houses and the Great Depression. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1975 to be digitally reprinted by Cornell University in 2006.
Professionalism and Social Change: From the Settlement House Movement to Neighborhood Centers,1886 to the Present. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.
From Sun Cities to The Villages: A History of Active Adult, Age Restricted Communities.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011.
Articles:
“Twenty Years at Hiram House.” Ohio History 78 (Winter 1969), 25-38, 69-71.
“The Response of Settlements to the Great Depression.” Social Work 18, no. 5 (September 1973), 92-102.
“Social Change: Settlement Houses and Saul Alinsky, 1939-1965.” Social Service Review 56, no. 3 (September 1982), 345-365.
“From Settlement Houses to Neighborhood Centers: A History of the Settlement House Movement in the United States.” Hundred Years of Settlements and Neighbourhood Centres in North America and Europe. Edited by Herman Nijenhuis. Utrecht: GAMMA, 1986, 41-56.
“Introduction to the Transaction Edition.” The Settlement Horizon by Robert A. Woods and Albert J. Kennedy. New Brunswick: Transaction Publisher, 1990, vii-xxiii.
“A Historical Glance,” Voices of Henry Street: Portrait of a Community. New York: Henry Street Settlement, 1993, 7-16.
“Fighting Racism and Sexism: The Council on Social Work Education.” Social Service Review 71, no. 1 (March 1997), 110-134.
“Lillian Wald: Meeting the Needs of Neighborhoods, 1893-1933” in The Human Tradition in Urban
America, ed. Roger Biles. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources 2002, 103-118.
“Gender Discrimination in Higher Education: the United States and England.” Forum and Public
Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table, 1, no. 3 (2005), 227-46.
“Age 55 or Better: Active Adult Communities and City Planning:” Journal of Urban History 37,
no. 6 (November 2011), 952-974.
Entries in Reference Works:
Dictionary of American Biography. Supplement 5. (New York: Scribner's, 1977):
“Lingelbach, Anna Lane”, 432-33.
Dictionary of American Biography. Supplement 6, (New York: Scribner's, 1980):
“Dock, Lavinia Lloyd,” 166-68.
“Peck, Lillie,” 499-500.
Dictionary of American Biography. Supplement 7. (New York: Scribner's, 1981):
“Balch, Emily Greene,” 28-29.
Biographical Dictionary of Internationalists. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983):
“Peck, Lillie,” 571-72.
Biographical Dictionary of Social Welfare in America. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986):
“Alinsky, Saul David,” 20-23.
“Kennedy, Albert Joseph,” 453-55.
American Community Organization. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986):
“Addams, Jane,” 2-4.
“Hudson Guild,” 84-86.
“Settlement House Movement,” 160-62.
Great Lives from History: American Series. (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1987):
“Balach, Emily Greene,” 118-22.
“O'Connor, Sandra Day,” 165-69.
“Rockefeller, John D.,” 1930-35.
“Smith, Margaret Chase,” 2106-10.
Dictionary of American Biography. Supplement 8 (New York: Scribner's, 1988):
“Binford, Jessie Florence,” 39-41.
“Riis, Mary Phillips,” 534-35.
Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era. (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988):
"Balch, Emily Greene," 33
"Henry Street Settlement," 197.
"The Survey," 467.
Women's Studies Encyclopedia. (New York: Greenwood Press, 1991):
"Settlement House Movement," 405-07 (revised and expanded edition, 1287-1289).
Reprinted on CD Rom (1999)
Handbook of American Women's History. (New York: Garland Publishing, 1990) 2nd edition (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2000)
"College Settlement (New York)," 120. (2nd ed., 114).
"Henry Street Settlement," 252-53. (2nd ed., 239).
"National Federation of Settlements," 408-09. (2nd ed., 379-80).
Encyclopedia of New York City. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995):
"National Association of Social Workers," 800.
"Social Work," 1084.
American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carneo, 24 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)
"Coit, Stanton", volume 5, 185-86.
"Robbins, Jane Elizabeth", volume 18, 584-85.
"Swift, Linton Bishop", volume 21, 210-11.
American Cities and Suburbs: An Encyclopedia, ed. Neil Larry Shumsky
(Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1998):
“Addams, Jane (1860-1935),” volume I, 3-4.
“Henry Street Settlement,” volume I, 340-41.
“Hull House,” volume I, 369-70.
“Settlement House Movement,” volume II, 695-96.
“Wald, Lillian D. (1967-1940),” volume II, 861.
Notable American Women, Susan Ware, editor. (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004) “Helen Hall” 267-268.
“Adams, Jane” to be published in the Encyclopedia of the Midwest (Indian University Press).
“Settlement House Movement” to be published by the Encyclopedia of American Urban History
(Sage Publications)
Book Reviews:
The Response of Social Work to the Great Depression by Jacob Fisher. American Historical Review, October 1981, 947-48.
A Woman's Ministry: Mary Collson's Search for Reform as a Unitarian Minister, a Hull House Social Workers, and a Christian Science Practitioner by Cynthia Grant Tucker. Journal of American History, June 1985, 175.
The Christian Home in Victorian America, 1840-1900 by Colleen McDannell. South Dakota History, Fall 1986, 311.
The Homeless Transient in the Great Depression - New York State, 1929-1941 by Joan Crouse. American Historical Review, December 1987, 1295-96.
Emily: the Diary of a Hard-Worked Woman by Emily French. South Dakota History, Summer 1987, 175-76.
The Sentinels of Order: A Study of Social Control and the Minneapolis Settlement House Movement, 1915-1950 by Howard Jacob Karger. Minnesota History, Spring 1988, 38-39.
The Female Frontier: A Comparative View of Women on the Prairie and the Plains by Glenda Riley. South Dakota History, Winter 1988, 274-75.
Poverty and Society: The Growth of the American Welfare State in International Comparison by Daniel Levine. American Historical Review, June 1990, 782.
The Roots of Community Organizing, 1917-1939 by Neil Betten & Michael J. Austin. Journal of American History, March 1991, 1393-94.
America's Welfare State from Roosevelt to Reagan by Edward D. Berkowitz. American Historical Review, June 1992, 956-57.
Archives of the Settlement Movement: The National Federation of Settlements and Successors, 1889-1958, microfilm edition. Journal of American History, March 1993, 1699-1700.
Phoenix in the Twentieth Century: Essays in Community History edited by G. Wesley Johnson, Jr., Western Historical Quarterly, August (Autumn) 1994, 408-09.
Regulating a New Society: Public Policy and Social Change in America, 1900-1933by Morton
Keller, American Historical Review, February 1996, 243.
Second Home: Orphan Asylums and Poor Families in America by Timothy Hacsi, North Carolina Historical Review, April 1999, 243-44.
Tales of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women: Case Records and the Professionalization of Social Work by Karen Tice, American Historical Review, October 1999, 1320-21.
Housing and the Democratic Ideal: The Life and Thought of Charles Abrams by A. Scott Henderson and From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors by Lawrence J. Vale, Journal of American History, December 2001, 1161-62.
Helping Others: Power, Giving and Community Identity in Cleveland, Ohio, 1880-1930 by Laura
Tuennerman-Kaplan, Journal of American History, June 2003, 255-56.
Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy by Louise Knight the Annals of Iowa,
Winter 2006, 75-77.
Book Review Essay:
"Hull-House and the Settlement House Movement: A Centennial Reassessment." Journal of Urban History 17, no. 4 (August 1991), 410-420.
Newsletter Essay:
“From the Annals of History: 1939 Lawsuit Alleged Cokato Lake Pollution,” Minnesota Lakes Association Reporter 8, no. 1 (April 2004), 7.
Conference Papers and Comments:
"Settlement Houses and the Great Depression," Northern Great Plains History Conference. Mankato, Minnesota: 18 October 1974.
"Organizing the Unemployed: The Settlement House Experience," Missouri Valley History Conference. Omaha, Nebraska: 7 March 1975.
"Settlement Houses and Race Relations: The Progressive Era and After," Great Lakes Regional History Conference. Grand Rapids, Michigan: 1 May 1975.
"The Transitional Generation: Women Settlement House Workers in the Great Depression," Conference on the History of Women. St. Paul: 25 October 1975.
Comment of "The Politics of Charity: Class, Sex, and Politics in Social Welfare Activities," Organization of American Historians Conference. New York City: April 1978.
Chair, "Urban History," Northern Great Plains History Conference. Duluth: 25 October 1980.
Comment on "Collection Development," National Conference on Regional Archival Networks. Madison: July 1981.
"Social Action: Settlement Houses and Saul Alinsky," First Reading III Conference on Research-in-Progress in American Culture. Duluth: 26 March 1982.
Panelist, "Women's History: Where Is It, and Where Is It Going?", Northern Great Plains History Conference, Moorhead, Minnesota: 4 October 1985.
"Criticisms of the Settlement House from the 1930s to the 1960s," Mid-West American Settlement House Centennial, Minneapolis: 30 April-1 May 1986.
"Results of Class Projects on Moral Development and the Constitution," NEH Follow-Up Conference on Summer Institute for Teacher Educators, Middlebury, Vermont: 7-9 June 1986.
"Settlement Houses: Agencies of Democracy or Institutions of Social Control," Minnesota Historical Society Workshop. St. Paul: 5 August 1988.
Comment on "Social Welfare," Northern Great Plains History Conference. Eveleth, Minnesota: 23September 1988.
Comment on "Understanding Social Work's Past: Historical Methodologies," Council on Social Work Education annual program meeting. Chicago: 5 March 1989.
"The Historical Impact of Federated Fund-Raising on the Development of Settlement Houses and Neighborhood Centers in the United States," Private Action and Social Policy Conference. Cleveland: 15 September 1989.
Comment on "Jane Addams and Margaret Sanger," Missouri Valley History Conference. Omaha, Nebraska: 9 March 1990.
Comment on "Women and Reform," Northern Great Plains History Conference. Mankato, Minnesota: 2October 1991.
"My Summary of Rajender Experiences." Faculty Women's Rajender Conference. Minneapolis: 6-7November 1992.
"Changing Methods of Reform and Advocacy in the Settlement House Movement from the Great Depression to the War on Poverty." Henry Street Settlement Centennial Conference. New York: 25 March 1993.
Chair, "Education and Moral Reform in the Progressive Era," Northern Great Plains History Conference. St. Paul: 1 October 1994.
Comment on "Progressive Era Reformers," Illinois History Symposium. Springfield: 2December 1994.
“Community Renewal and Private, Non-Profit Housing: A Case Study of Town View Improvement
Corporation,” the Biennial Southern American Studies Conference. Seaside,
Florida: 2 March 1997.
“Community Renewal and Private, Affordable Housing,” First Reading XVII Conference. Duluth, MN: 18 April 1997.
Chair, “Working Class Households and American Consumers’ Culture,” Organization of American Historians Conference. Indianapolis: 3 April 1998.
“The Effects of Gender Discrimination Litigation on Academia: The Rajender Consent Decree,” Organization of American Historians. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: 23 April 1999.
“Gender Discrimination Litigation in American Higher Education,” Women’s Research Network. Birmingham, U.K.: 7 March 2000.
Comment on “North of Dixie,” Organization of American Historians Conference. St. Louis: 30 March 2000.
“Internationalizing U.S. History in the Classroom,” Organization of American Historians’ Midwest Regional Conference. Ames, Iowa: 4 August 2000.
“Gender Discrimination Litigation: The United States and England,” Northern Great Plains History Conference. Mankato, MN: 29 September 2000.
“Gender Discrimination Litigation in Academia: The United States and England,” Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee: 16 November 2000.
“Gender Discrimination Litigation in Higher Education: The U.S. and the U.K.,” First Reading XXI Conference. Duluth, MN: 27 April 2001.
“Lillian Wald: Meeting the Needs of Neighborhoods, 1893-1933,” First Reading XXII Conference.
Duluth, MN: 19 April 2002.
Panelist, “The Settlement House Movement in New York City from Lillian Wald to Now,” Gotham
Center of the City University of New York. New York City: 5 December 2002.
“Gender Discrimination Litigation in Higher Education: The United States and the United Kingdom,”
Oxford Round Table. Oxford, U.K.: 11 August 2003.
Poster Session, “Using Swedish Migration to Minnesota to Internationalize a U.S. History Course and Promote University of Vaxjo, Sweden/University of Minnesota Duluth Student Exchanges.” Study Abroad Curriculum Integration Conference. Minneapolis, MN: 16 April 2004.
“Retirees Head South: The Origins of Active Adult, Age-Restricted Retirement Communities and the Snowbird Lifestyle,” Organization of American Historians Regional Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska: 8 July 2006.
“Democratizing Retirement Destinations: Work and Leisure,” Organization of American
Historians Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, Minnesota: 31 March 2007.
Chair, “Crime and Crime Control” panel, Northern Great Plains History Conference,
Duluth, Minnesota: 4 October 2007.
“Age 55 or Better: The Significance of Active Adult Communities for City Planning.” 14th
National Conference on Planning History. Baltimore: 19 November 2011.
“Age 55 or Better: A History of Active Adult Communities with Emphasis on Sun City, AZ,”
Sun Cities Area Historical Society, Sun City, AZ: 18 April 2012. Also presented at the
Sage Center, Sun City Festival, Buckeye, AZ on 16 April 2012.
Manuscript Referee/Reviewer Assignments:
Upper Midwest History (1980-81)
Alfred A. Knopf (1985-86)
Yale University Press (1986-87)
Annals of Iowa (1988-89)
Journal of American History(1989-90)
(1990-91)
(1991-92)
(1992-93, 2 articles)
Journal of Policy History(1989-90)
(1991-92)
(1992-93)
(1994-95)
(2003)
West Publishing Company (1990-91)
D.C. Heath (1991-92)
St. Martin's Press (1992-93)
Journal of Urban History (1997-98)
Agricultural History (1998)
Social Service Review (2000)
Pacific Historical Review (2003)
Cambridge University Press (2003)
Florida Historical Quarterly (2012)
Grant Proposal Referee/Review Assignments:
National Endowment for the Humanities(1979-80)
(1981-82)
(1983-84)
(1984-85)
(1986-87)
(1988-89)
(1990-91)
(1993-94, 2 proposals)
(1994-95)
(1996-97)
(2001)
Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Historic Preservation and Access,
30October 1995
Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Public Programs, 30 March 1998
Publishers’ Focus Groups:
Longman’s (U.S. history survey texts), 31 March 2000
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