CURRICULUM VITAE
Name:Sonya Orleans RoseE Mail:
Citizenship:U.S.A.
Education
B.A.Sociology and Anthropology, AntiochCollege, Yellow Springs, OH, June 1958
M.A.Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, June 1962
Ph.D.Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, June 1974
Fellowships and Awards
Bobbs Merrill Award in Sociology, 1962
NIMH Training Fellowship in Social Psychology, 1961-1963
Northwestern University Law and Society Fellow, 1965-1966
Newberry Library Summer Institute in Quantitative Social History, 1982
Visiting Fellow, Sociology and Centre for Social History, University of Essex, England, 1983-1984
American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid for the project, “Victorian Industrialists' Views of
Working Women,” 1986
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1989-1990
Fellow at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Radcliffe, 1989-1990
ACLS Travel Grant, 1990
Class of 1991 Distinguished Teaching Fellow, ColbyCollege
University of Michigan, Michigan Agenda Career Development Award, 1994
University of Michigan, Rackham Faculty Research Grant and Fellowship, 1997
University of Michigan, Office of the Vice President for Research Grant, 1997
University of Michigan, Institute for Research on Women and Gender Grant, 1997
University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts Dean’s Faculty Achievement Award,
1998
University of Michigan, RackhamSchool of Graduate Studies John D’Arms Award for Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities, 1999
University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts Excellence in Research Award, 1999
Harry and Frank Guggenheim Research Grant ($30,000), 2002-3 declined
Natalie Zemon Davis Collegiate Professorship, 2002-2007
Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, 2012
Professional Experience and Employment
2012-2015 Honorary Research Fellow, Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London (United Kingdom)
2007-2012 Honorary Professor, University of Warwick (United Kingdom)
2006- Professor Emerita Departments of History, Sociology and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan.
2002-2005 Chair, Department of History, University of Michigan
1995-1997Associate Chair of History, University of Michigan
1993-2006Professor of History, Sociology, and Women's Studies, University of Michigan
1987-1993Associate Professor of Sociology, ColbyCollege
1988-1991Interdisciplinary Studies Division Chair, ColbyCollege
1985-1991Chair, Department of Sociology, ColbyCollege
1984-1986Co-Director, Women's Studies Program, ColbyCollege
1982-1985Associate Dean of the College, ColbyCollege
1981-1982Associate Dean of Faculty, ColbyCollege
1980-1981Acting Dean of Faculty, ColbyCollege
1978-1980Assistant Dean of Faculty, ColbyCollege
1977-1987Assistant Professor of Sociology, ColbyCollege
1977-1978Consultant on a VA Funded Research Project: Health Services Utilization and Preference of Latino Veterans
1976-1977Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, BowdoinCollege
1975-1976Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry, VeteransAdministrationHospital, Sepulveda, California
PUBLICATIONS
Books
What Is Gender History? (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010). Spanish edition: Que Es, Historia De Genero? (Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2012); Editions in Japanese and Chinese forthcoming.
At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World, edited with Catherine Hall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Which People’s War? National Identity and Citizenship in Britain, 1939-45 (Oxford and New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2003).
Gender, Citizenship, and Subjectivities, edited with Kathleen Canning (London: Blackwell Publishers, 2002). (Special issue of Gender & History published fall 2001; book June 2002)
Gender and Class in Modern Europe, edited with Laura Frader (Cornell University Press, 1996).
Limited Livelihoods: Gender and Class in Nineteenth-Century England (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992).
Articles and Book Chapters
“Who are We Now? Writing the Post-War Nation, 1948-2001,” in Catherine Hall and Keith McClelland, eds., Race, Nation and Empire: Making histories, 1750 to the Present (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010).
“From the ‘New Jerusalem’ to the ‘Decline’ of the ‘New Elizabethan Age’, National Identity and Citizenship: Britain, 1945-56,” in Frank Biess and Robert G. Moeller, eds., Histories of the Aftermath: The Legacies of the Second World War in Europe (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2010).
“Masculinity, Citizenship, and the ‘Civic Public’ in Britain between 1867-1939,” in Gunilla Budde, Karen Hagemann and Sonya Michel, Civil Society, Public Space and Gender Justice: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2008).
“’Fit to Fight but Not to Vote?’ Masculinity and Citizenship in Britain, 1832-1918,” in Anna Clark, Stefan Dudink, and Karen Hagemann, eds., Negotiating Citizenship: Concepts and Representations of Masculinity in the Creation of Modern Western Political Culture (London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007).
“Empire and Citizenship, 1867-1928” co-authored with Keith McClelland in C. Hall and S. Rose, eds., At Home with the Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
“At Home with the Empire, An Introduction,” co-authored with Catherine Hall in C. Hall and S. Rose, eds., At Home with the Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
“Temperate Heroes: Masculinities in Wartime Britain,” in Stephan Dudink, Karen Hagemann, and John Tosh, eds., Masculinity at War and in Peace (Manchester: ManchesterUniversity Press 2004)
Introduction to “Labor History after the Gender Turn,” International Labor and Working Class History,
Spring 2003.
“Gender, Citizenship, and Subjectivities, a theoretical introduction,” with Kathleen Canning, in
Kathleen Canning and Sonya O. Rose, Gender, Citizenship, and Subjectivities (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2002); Gender & History special issue, Fall 2002.
“Race, Empire and National Identity in World War II Britain,” Historical Research, May 2001.
“Women’s Rights, Women’s Obligations: Citizenship in World War II Britain,” European Review of
History (Autumn 2000): 277-290.
“Racial Tolerance on a Wartime Ration,” Times Higher Education Supplement (June 30, 2000): II-III.
“Cultural Analysis and Moral Discourses: Episodes, Continuities, and Transformations,” pp. 217-38 in Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt, eds., Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).
“The 'Sex Question' in World War II Anglo-American Relations,” International Review of History (December 1998): 884-903.
“Sex, Citizenship and the Nation in World War II Britain,” American Historical Review (October 1998): 1147-1176.
“Resuscitating Class,” Social Science History (Spring 1998): 19-27.
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“Class Formation and the Quintessential Worker,” pp. 133-66 in John R. Hall, ed., Reworking Class (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997).
“Race, Sex, and Diplomacy in Second World War Britain,” The International History Review (February 1997): 146-160.
“Gender and the Reconstruction of European Working-Class History,” Historiographical and Theoretical Introduction to Laura Frader and Sonya Rose, eds., Gender and Class in Modern Europe, pp. 1-33 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996). Written jointly with Laura Frader.
“Factory Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Gender, Class and the LiberalState,” pp. 193-210 in Laura Frader and Sonya Rose, eds., Gender and Class in Modern Europe (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996).
“Gender and the LiberalState: Protecting Women Workers,” pp. 93-107 in Leora Auslander and Michelle Fournel, eds., The Gendering of Labor Law (Paris: University of Paris VIII, 1995).
“'Let England Blush!': State Protection of Women Workers in England, 1830-1914,” pp. 91-124 in Ulla Wikander, Alice Kessler-Harris and Jane Lewis, eds., Protecting Women: Labor Legislation in Europe, the United States and Australia 1880-1920 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995). Written jointly with Jane Lewis.
“Widowhood and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Nottinghamshire,” pp. 269-91 in John Henderson and Richard Wall, eds., Poor Women and Children in the European Past (London: Routledge, 1994).
“Social History and Feminist Theory,” pp. 273-75 in Peter Stearns, ed., Encyclopedia of Social History (New York: Garland Press, 1994).
“Et Magert Udkomme” (Introduction from Limited Livelihoods, translated into Danish), pp. 43-75 in Arbog for Arbejder bevaegel sens Historie (Arhus, Denmark: SFAH, 1993).
“Gender and Labour History: The Nineteenth-Century Legacy,” International Review of Social History, 38 (supplement), 1993: 145-162.
“Respectable Men, Disorderly Others: The Language of Gender and the Lancashire Weavers' Strike of 1878,” Gender and History, 5 (Autumn 1993): 382-97.
“Introduction to Dialogue: Women's History/Gender History, Is Feminist Inquiry Losing its Critical Edge?” Journal of Women's History (Spring 1993): 89-101.
“Gender Antagonism and Labor Relations in Nineteenth-Century Britain,” pp. 101-123 in L. Kreisburg, M. Dobkowski and I. Wallimann, eds., Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1993).
“'Brothers and Sisters in Distress': The Powerloom Weavers of Lancashire,” Geneses, 6 (November 1991): 53-72.
“'From Behind the Women's Petticoats': Factory Act Reform and the Politics of Motherhood in Britain, 1870-1878,” Journal of Historical Sociology, 4 (March 1991): 32-51.
“Gender, Technology and Industrial Relations: The English Carpet Industry, 1860-1895,” Material History Bulletin, 31 (Spring 1990): 79-90.
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“The Varying Household Arrangements of the Elderly in Three English Villages: Nottinghamshire, 1851-1881,” Continuity and Change, 3 (June 1988): 101-122.
“Proto-industry, Women's Work and the Household Economy in the Transition to Industrial Capitalism,” Journal of Family History, 13 (Spring 1988): 181-193.
“Gender Antagonism and Class Conflict: Exclusionary Strategies of Male Trade Unionists in Nineteenth-Century Britain,” Social History, 13 (Spring 1988): 191-208.
“Gender Segregation in the Transition to the Factory: The English Hosiery Industry 1850-1910,” Feminist Studies, 13 (Spring 1987): 163-184.
“Gender and Industrialization,” Newsletter of the Comparative Historical Section of the American Sociological Association (Summer 1986): 1-4.
“Gender at Work: Sex, Class and Industrial Capitalism,” History Workshop, 21 (Spring 1986): 113-131.
“Illustrious Psychiatric Administrators,” American Journal of Psychiatry, 134 (June 1977). (With Milton Greenblatt.)
“The Decision to Admit: Criteria for Admission and Readmission at a V.A.Hospital,” Archives of General Psychiatry, 34 (April 1977): 418-421. (With James Hawkins and Laurence Apodaca.)
Schwartz, R.D. and Orleans, S., “On Legal Sanctions,” University of Chicago Law Review (Winter 1967): 274-299.
Selected Reviews
Review of David Feldman and Jon Lawrence, Structures and Transformations in Modern British History, Journal of Modern History, forthcoming.
Review of Martin Francis, The Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force, 1939-1945, Twentieth Century British History 20 (2009).
“Cosmopolitanism and Difference,” Review essay of Mica Nava’s Visceral Cosmopolitanism, History Workshop Journal 67 Spring 2009.
Review of Claire Duchen and Irene Bandhauer-Schoffmann, When the War Was Over: Women, War and Peace in Europe, 1940-1956, in Gender and History, Vol 15, April 2003.
“Women on the Home Front in World War I,” review essay of Deborah Thom, Nice Girls and Rude Girls: Women Workers in World War I and Susan R. Grayzell, Women’s Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood and Politics in Britain and France During the First World War,in Journal of British Studies Vol. 42, July 2003.
Review of Penny Summerfield, Reconstructing Women’s Wartime Lives: Discourse and Subjectivity in Oral Histories, in American Historical Review, January 2000.
Review of Eileen Yeo, The Contest for Social Science, in International Review of Social History, January 1998.
Review of Richard Biernacki, The Fabrication of Labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914, in Social History, January 1998.
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Review of Robert Gray, The Factory Question and Industrial England, 1830-1860, in International Review of Social History, August 1997.
Review of Raphael Samuel, Theaters of Memory, Vol. 1 in Journal of Modern History, 1997.
Review of Anna Clark, Struggle for the Breeches; Gender in the Making of the British Working Class in Social History, 1996.
Review of Karen Hansen, A Very Social Time in Contemporary Sociology, January 1995.
Review of Dorothy Thompson, Outsiders: Class Gender and Nation in International Review of Social History, Winter 1994.
Review of Tom Lutz, American Nervousness, 1903 in Journal of Social History, Summer 1993.
Review of Iris Berger, Threads of Solidarity: Women in South African Industry, 1900-1980 in American Journal of Sociology, May 1993.
Review of Annie Phisacklea, Unpacking the Fashion Industry in American Journal of Sociology, May 1991.
Review of Susan Lehrer, Origins of Protective Labor Legislation for Women in Contemporary Sociology, March 1989.
Review of seventh Berkshire Conference on the History of Women in International Labor and Working Class History, Spring 1988. (With Carole Turbin.)
Review of Leonore Davidoff and Belinda Westover, Our Work, Our Lives, Our Words, and David Knights and Hugh Willmott, Gender and the Labour Process in Contemporary Sociology, Fall 1987.
Review of Maureen Honey, Creating Rosie the Riveter in Work and Occupations, February-March 1987.
Review of David Kertzer, Family Life in Central Italy, 1880-1910: Sharecropping Wage and Labor and Co-residence in Contemporary Sociology, November 1986.
Review of Joan Burstyn, Victorian Education and the Ideal of Womanhood in Contemporary Sociology, July 1985.
Invited Presentations
“Service and Sacrifice: Colonial Troops in the First World War,” Birbeck Institute for the Humanities, March 2012.
“Where is Gender History?” Department of History, University of Warwick, February 2011.
“Who Are We Now? Nation and Race in Postwar Britain, 1945-2001,” Department of History, University of Sussex, March 2008; Contemporary History Seminar, Institute for Historical Research, London
October 2008; Neale Conference presentation, University College London, April 2008.
“From the ‘New Jerusalem’ to the ‘Decline’ of the ‘New Elizabethan Age’, National Identity and Citizenship: Britain, 1945-56.” ( “Histories of the Aftermath: The European ‘Postwar’ in Comparative Perspective,” Conference at University of California-San Diego, February 2007.)
“Masculinity, Civil Society and the ‘Civic Public’” Contemporary History Seminar, Institute for HistoricalResearch, London, May 2006.
“Empire and Citizenship, 1867-1928,” University of Basel, Switzerland, January 2006.
“Gender, Citizenship and Empire”, Britain and the Wider World Seminar, Institute for Historical Research, London, October 2005.
“`Fit to Fight but not to Vote’: Masculinity and Citizenship in Britain, 1867-1918,” Scottish Women’s History Conference Plenary Address, University of Strathclyde, October 2005 and University of Basel, Switzerland, January 2006.
“Masculinity and Citizenship,” University of New Hampshire, October 2004.
“Virtuous Masculinity, the Languages of Citizenship, and the Gendering of the Public Sphere in Britain, 1867-1939,” Conference at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fur Sozialforschung (WZB), “Civil Society and Gender Equity: Historical and Comparative Perspectives,” July 9-11, 2004.
“Masculinity and the Languages of Citizenship in Britain,” History Colloquium, University of York (England), May 27, 2004 and the Institute for Historical Research (London), June 4, 2004.
“Respectable Men and Soldiers: Conflicting Visions of Masculinity and Citizenship” Negotiating Citizenship: Concepts and Representations of Masculinity in the Creation of Modern Western Political Culture, University of Trier, July 3-5 2003.
“Jobless Men, Masculinity and the `Public’ in Interwar Britain,” Gender Postwar Reconstruction and the Public in 20th Century Europe, Center for European Studies, HarvardUniversity, April 26, 2003.
“Citizenship as a Category of Historical Analysis, Technischen Universitat Berlin, May 2002.
“Citizenship, Identity Politics and Social Transformation,” keynote address, Gender History Conference, University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana, March 2001.
Which People’s War? Race and Empire in Second World War Britain, Plenary Lecture, Anglo-American HistoriansConference, Institute for Historical Research, University of London, July 7, 2000.
Race, Empire and the Nation in World War II Britain, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, May 11, 2000.
All Together Now: Men and Women on the British Homefront, 1939-45, New Accents in British History, public lecture series sponsored by Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, March 17, 2000.
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“Women's Rights, Women's Obligation: Citizenship in World War II Britain,” Conference on Citizenship, University of Huddersfield, England, May 1999.
“Feminist Historical Sociology,” BrandeisUniversity, Department of Sociology, March 1999.
“ 'Be Truly Feminine': Constructions of Femininity in World War II Britain,” YorkUniversity, Department of History, February 1999.
“Sex and Citizenship in World War II Britain,” University of Warwick, January 1998; London History Workshop Seminar, February 1998; CambridgeUniversity, May 1998.
“The 'Sex Question' in Anglo-American Relations in World War II,” Institute for Historical Research, London, January 1998.
“Cultural Analysis and Social Transformation,? American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, August 1997.
“Defining the Nation in World War II Britain,? History Colloquium, PortsmouthUniversity, May 1997.
“The Culture of 'Moral Panics',” Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, April 1997; University of Chicago Wilder House Seminar, May 1997.
“Gender and Class Formation,” University of Bristol (U.K.), March 1997.
“Reimagining the Nation,” Center for European Studies, HarvardUniversity, February 1997.
“Historical Perspectives on Gender and Worklife in Europe,” Plenary address: Conference on Worklife in a Changing Europe (Copenhagen, Denmark), September 1996.
“The Culture of 'Moral Panics': Episodes, Continuities, and Conjuctures” Conference on “Culture After the Linguistic Turn,” University of California at Berkeley, April 1996.
“Sex and Citizenship in World War II Britain,” D.C. Area British Studies Seminar, University of Maryland, March 1996.
“Class Formation and the Quintessential Worker,” Colloquium on Political Economy, Indiana University Department of Sociology, Center for the Study of Social Change, University of California at Berkeley; Center for Historical Analysis, University of California at Davis, April 1995.
“Protective Labor Legislation in Nineteenth-Century Britain,” Crossing Borders Conference, Stockholm, May 1994.
“Gender, Class and the LiberalState: Protective Labor Legislation in Nineteenth-Century England,” Conference on Gender and Labor Law, Paris, June 1993.
“Gender, Race and Sexuality in World War II Britain,” University of Essex, December 1992.
“Respectable Men, Disorderly Others,” ClarkUniversity, March 1992.
Invited Participant E.S.R.C. Conference on New Directions in Gender and Family History, University of Essex, England, December 1991.
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“'Let England Blush!': State Protection of Women Workers in England, 1830-1914,” Conference on Protective Labor Legislation in Comparative Perspective, Stockholm, Sweden, June 1991. (With Jane Lewis.)
“Mary had a Little Loom: Gender and the Politics of Labor in Nineteenth-Century England,” Comparative Studies in Social Transformations, Graduate Student Colloquium University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, November 1990.
Comment on Panel, “Worker Identity and Class Consciousness,” Conference on Soviet Working-Class Formation, MichiganStateUniversity, East Lansing, November 1990.
“Protecting Motherhood: The English Factory Act of 1874 as a Cultural Production,” Conference on Protective Labor Legislation in Comparative and Historical Perspective, Louvain, Belgium, August 1990.
“Gender and Trade Union Politics: The Textile Weavers of Lancashire,” Center for European Studies, HarvardUniversity, April 1990.
“Sex and Gender in the Workplace,” Keynote address at Conference on Women and Careers in the 1990's, BowdoinCollege, March 1990.
“Gender and the Politics of Labor in Nineteenth-Century England,” Bunting Colloquium, Cambridge, MA, January 1990.
Comment on Panel, “Opportunities/Limitations,” Winterthur Conference, “The Material Culture of Gender/The Gender of Material Culture,” Winterthur, DE, November 1989.