1/01/2013 CURRICULUM VITAE
LOIS W. BANNER
ADDRESS:
Department of History Home:
Univ. of Southern California 2111 Oak Street
Los Angeles, Ca. 900890034 Santa Monica, Ca. 90405
(213) 7401610 (213) 4502229
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EDUCATION:
Columbia University, 196570 Ph.D. 1970 (U.S. History)
Columbia University, 196062 M.A. 1962 (European History)
U.C.L.A., 195660 B.A. 1960 (History)
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS:
Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox (London and New York, Bloomsbury, 2012).
Favorably reviewed in the New York Times, Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Boston Globe, and newspapers throughout the United States and Great Britain. On the weekend of August 4-5, the most reviewed book in Great Britain. Featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Translated into Polish and featured in India.
Featured on best seller lists for Los Angeles Times and London Times, where honored as one of the best books of 2012. Honored by the Ferragamo Museum in Florence at a show on Marilyn Monroe and wrote part of the catalogue for the show. Wrote articles on Marilyn for many magazines. Contributed regularly on Marilyn to the Huffington Post.
Nominated by publisher for National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize.
MM Personal (Harry Abrams, January, 2011). Has been translated into French, German, and Italian. Widely reviewed throughout the nation.
Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and their Circle (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003); paperback edition, Vintage, 2004.Awarded 2004, Library Association Stonewall Book Award for Nonfiction.
Reading Benedict/ Reading Mead: Feminism, Race, and Imperial Visions, ed. with Dolores Janiewski (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).
Finding Fran: History and Memory in the Lives of Two Women (Columbia University Press, 1998). Paperback, spring, 2000.
Prize Awarded: Independent Publishers 1999 Book Awards, best book in the category of Women's Issues. Turkish edition, published fall, 2003.
In Full Flower: Aging Women, Power, and Sexuality: A History (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992). Paperback, Vintage Books, 1993.
Chap. 6: "The Eroticized Young Male and Women's Response" rewritten and published as "The Fashionable Sex, 1100-1600: Men's Clothing and Its Meaning in Medieval and Early Modern Europe," History Today, April 1992.
Chap. 8, on menopause, reprinted in Linda K. Kerber and Jane DeHart, ed. Women's America: Refocusing the Past, 3d. ed., (New York: Oxford, 1995).
American Beauty (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983). Paperback edition, University of Chicago Press, 1984. Reprint Edition, Figueroa Press, 2006.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Woman's Rights (Little, Brown, 1979).
Chap. 2 reprinted in Linda K. Kerber and Jane DeHart, Women's America: Refocusing the Past, 1st and 2nd eds., (Oxford, 1982); chap. 3 reprinted in Charlotte Rike and Anthony Picchoni, Readings in American History, Vol. 1 (Ginn Press, 1985).
Women in Modern America: A Brief History (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1974). Second Edition, revised by author, 1983. Chinese Edition, 1990. Third Edition, revised by author, 1994. Fourth edition revised by author, 2004.
First women's studies book translated into Chinese and awarded prize by Chinese booksellers association for the best book on women translated into Chinese. Translated into Dutch and widely used in secondary schools in Holland. Has remained continuously in print and used in college classes for nearly thirty years.
A two-page description and summary included in Frank N. Magill, ed., Masterpieces of Women's Literature (New York: HarperCollins, 1996), pp. 568-70. (Magill's book contains summaries of "the greatest works of literature by women authors.")
Clio's Consciousness Raised: New Perspectives on the History of Women, ed. with Mary S. Hartman (New York: Harper & Row, 1974; New York: Octagon, 1976). A collection of edited papers from the first Berkshire Conference in Women's History, conceived and organized by Banner and Hartman.
ARTICLES:
“Biography as History,” American Historical Review(June, 2009).
“The Creature from the Black Lagoon: Marilyn Monroe and Whiteness,” Cinema Studies, 47, #4, (Summer, 2008). (Cinema Studies is the major journal of the academic Cinema Studies Association.)
"Mannish Women, Passive Men, and Constitutional Types: Margaret Mead's Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies as a Response to Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, March 2003.
"'The Bo-Cu Plant:' Gender in the Life and Writings of Ruth Benedict," in Janiewski and Banner, Reading Benedict, Reading Mead, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).
"The Irony of Memory: Finding a Los(t) Angeles," Pacific Historical Review, spring, 1994. (Presidential Address, Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association).
"Autobiography and Biography: Intermixing the Genres," a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Fall, 1993.
"The Coming of Age: Women in History and the History Profession," Conference Group in Women's History Newsletter, June 1990.
"The Meaning of Menopause: Aging and Its TwentiethCentury Contexts," Working Papers, Center for TwentiethCentury Studies, University of WisconsinMilwaukee, Fall 1989.
"Margaret Mead, Men's Studies, and Women's Scholars," American Studies Association Newsletter, Spring 1988.
"Women's Studies and Men's Studies: A New Approach," International Journal of Women's Studies, IX (Spring 1986): 141144.
"United States Women's History: Recent Theory and Practice," Trends in History, IV (Fall 1985): 93121.
"The American Woman from 1900 to the First World War: A Profile," in Thomas Frazier, ed., The Underside of American History, vol. 2 (3d. ed.; New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1974). Reprinted in Virginia Lee Lussier and Joyce Jennings Walstedt, eds., Women's Lives: Perspectives on Progress and Change (Newark, Del.: University of Delaware, 1977).
"Religious Benevolence as Social Control: A Critique of an Interpretation," Journal of American History, LX (June 1973): 2341. Reprinted in Eward Pessen, ed., The Many Sided Jacksonian Era: New Interpretations (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1977), and in John F. Wilson and John M. Mulder, eds., Religion in American History: Essays in Interpretation (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: PrenticeHall, 1977).
"Why Women Have Not Been Great Chefs," South Atlantic Quarterly, LXII (Spring 1973): 198212.
"Presbyterians and Voluntarism in the Early Republic," Journal of Presbyterian History, L (Fall 1972): 283-99.
"Religion and Reform in the Early Republic: The Role of Youth," American Quarterly, XXIII (Dec. 1971): 67795.
"On Writing Women's History," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, II (Autumn 1971), 34758. Reprinted in Theodore K. Rabb and Robert I. Rotberg, eds., The Family in History: Interdisciplinary Essays (New York: Harper and Row, 1973).
COMMISSIONED ARTICLES, ETC.:
Articles written in the spring of 2012 on Marilyn Monroe for Arte (Germany); Huffington News and Post; “The Meaning of Marilyn.” Women’s Review of Books, June 2010.
“Feminism,” Encyclopedia of American Political History
"Cosmetics", “Dress Reform,” Encyclopedia of the World History of Women
Introduction, 2005 edition of Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, for Columbia University Press.
"Margaret Mead," Notable American Woman, ed. Susan Ware (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004).
"The Impact of Feminism on History, Literature, Art History, and Science," in Jane R. Glaser and Artemis A. Zenetou, eds., Gender Perspectives: Essays on Women in Museums (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993).
"The Revolution: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, editor," pamphlet, for The New-York Historical Society series on Makers of Change: Documents of American History, Sept., 1992.
"Dress," Encyclopedia of Social History, ed. Peter Stearns (New York: Garland, 1994).
"Fashion," The Readers' Companion to American History, ed. Eric Foner and John Garraty, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991).
"A Reply to 'Culture et Pouvoir' from the Perspective of United States Women's History," Journal of Women's History, l (May 1989).
Forward, "Personal Lives and Professional Careers: The Uneasy Balance," Published Report, Women's Committee, American Studies Association, February 1989.
"Men's Studies: A New Feminist Approach?" Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 14 (Spring, 1989): 703-08.
"Act One: Women and Reform in Antebellum America," Wilson Quarterly, Autumn, 1986.
"Feminism," Encyclopedia of American Political History, ed. Jack P. Greene (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985).
"The Emergence of Women," National Endowment for the Humanities journal, Humanities, Winter, 1983.
"Clara Bow," Notable American Women, ed. Barbara Sicherman (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard, 1980).
"Theresa Holburn," Dictionary of American Biography, ed. John A. Garraty (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons).
"Harriet Hubbard Ayer," Guide to American Writers, ed. Lina Mainiero (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1979).
Guest Editor, Feminist Studies, Fall 1973.
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS:
Greta Garbo and the Creation of Ideal Beauty. Book length project.
REPORTS:
"The National Mainstreaming Movement." A report on the success of the women's studies curriculum transformation movement, undertaken at the request of the Ford Foundation and funded by the Ford Foundation. February 1985.
"Women's Studies:A Bibliography, 1990." Included in the United States Information Agency bibliography in American Studies, widely distributed abroad.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Numerous book reviews have appeared in the following scholarly and popular journals: American Historical Review; American Studies; American Quarterly; Journal of American History; Reviews in American History; Journal of the History of the Early Republic; Journal of Interdisciplinary History; Journal of Social History; William and Mary Quarterly; Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society; Journal of Women's History; Bulletin of the History of Medicine; Labor History; Journal of Southern History; The Historian; National Women's Studies Association Journal; Business History Review; Presidential Quarterly; Pacific Historical Review; South Atlantic Quarterly; Reviews in Sociology; Journal of the Connecticut Historical Society; Journal of the Pennsylvania Historical Society; Philadelphia Inquirer; Science;Women's Review of Books.
EDITORIAL BOARDS:
Journal of Women's History, 1989-2005
American Studies 1986-88
American Anthology, KCET Television, Los Angeles, 1987-89
HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
2005 Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize for lifetime achievement, American Studies Association
Fulbright Experts Grant, New Zealand, August, 2004
Fellow, History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University Summer, 2004 Canberra, Australia, May-August, 2004
Stipend award from American Council of Learned Societies as mentor to Craig Loftin, University of Southern California graduate student, awarded fellowship under ACLS program on sex research, 2004
Humanities Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation , 197879
Fellow, Radcliffe Institute, 197475
Phi Beta Kappa, 1960
AWARDS FOR TEACHING AND RESEARCH AT USC
University of Southern California
Mellon Award for Undergraduate Mentoring 2006
Outstanding teaching award, General Education 2003
Raubenheimer Award for Excellence in teaching, research, and service, College of Letters,
Arts, and Sciences (award given each year to three outstanding faculty members in the
College), 1996
Innovative Teaching Award 198586
Innovative Research Award 198889
Associates Award for Creativity in Research and Scholarship (award
given to two faculty members in the university
each year, among a faculty of 2,000) 1988
Phi Kappa Phi, Faculty Excellence 1990
James Irvine Foundation Curriculum Enrichment Grant, 1993
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:
Professor, University of Southern California Fall, 1983present
(History and the Program for the Study of
Women and Men in Society)
Adjunct Professor, Josai University, Tokyo, 1996-99
Director, National Endowment for the Humani-
ties Summer Seminar for College Teachers,
USC: "Women and Men in United States History:
The New Gender Scholarship" Summer, 1992
Director, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for
College Teachers, George Washington University, "Men, Women, and
Popular Culture" , summer, 1984
William Robertson Coe Professor, Stanford Univ., Summer, 1983
Jane Watson Irwin Professor, Hamilton College, Spring, 1983
Visiting Associate Professor, U.C.L.A. , Summer, 1982
Visiting Associate Professor, George Washington University
(History and American Studies). 1981-83
Coplanner and instructor, NEH summer institute at Princeton
University on integrating the history of women into U.S. history survey
Courses, 1980
Visiting Senior Lecturer, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1980-81
National Endowment for the Humanities Professor, University of Scranton, 1979-80
Princeton University, Lecturer, 1977-78
Douglass College, Rutgers University
Assistant Professor 197177
Instructor, 1967-71
Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, Connecticut
Teacher, grades 912, 1962-65
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE: PUBLIC
Commissioner, City of Santa Monica, Commission on the Status of Women, 198586
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE: ACADEMIC
Director, Graduate Studies, Dept. of History, 2004-2006
Chair, Department of History, USC 1994-98
Director, Institute for the Study of Women 1991-93
and Men, USC
Chair, Program for the Study of Women 198992
and Men, USC
Director, Women in Film, Pioneer Women Summer, 1989
Oral/Video History Project
Chair, American Studies Program Planning 198889
Committee, USCConstructed an American
Studies Program
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE: PROFESSIONAL
Vice-President and President, Pacific 1991-93
Coast Branch, American Historical
Association
President, American Studies Association 198688
(First woman president)
Member, Board of Directors, Commonwealth 198890
Center for American Studies, College of
William and Mary
Vice President, American Studies Association 198486
Member, Council, Pacific Coast Branch, 198790
American Historical Association
Member, Committee on Part-Time and Adjunct Teaching
American Historical Association, Organization of
American Historians 2004-07
Chair, Lerner-Scott Prize Committee, for the 1997-98
best dissertation in women's history,
Organization of American Historians
Member, Program Committee, Western Association of
Women Historians, 198586
Member, National Council, American Studies 198083
Association
Chair, Search Committee, Executive Director, 1982
American Studies Association
President, Conference Group in Women's 197981
History, American Historical Association
Director, Princeton Project on Women in the 197677
College Curriculum, Princeton University
(Conducted a nationwide survey on the uses of material on women
in the college curriculum, funded by the Ford Foundation)
Program Committee, Organization of American 197576
Historians
Program Chair, Berkshire Conference of Women 1973
Historians (organized the first national
Berkshire conference in women's history)
Acting Director, Women's Studies, Douglass 197273
College
CoDirector and Instructor, Hampton Institute, Summer, 1970
summer program in black history, for the Telluride Foundation, Cornell University
COURSES TAUGHT:
Introductory American History Survey; Introductory European History Survey; History of Women in the United States; Women in Comparative Cultures from the Greeks to the Present; History of the Family in the United States; Social History of the United States from 1607 to the Present; History of Black Americans; History of Radical Thought in America; Introduction to Gender Studies; Senior Internship Seminar (Women's Studies); Feminist Theory; Beauty and the Body in the History of the United States; Biography and Autobiography in the American Past; Popular Culture in the History of the United States; Gender Roles in United States History from 1920 to the Present; Introduction to the Study of Women and Men in Society (Women's Studies); Gender and Sexuality in the History of the United States