Barbara Sicherman | |
---|---|
Nationality | American |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Swarthmore College Columbia University |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Trinity College |
Barbara Sicherman is an American historian and academic who specializes in women's history. She is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Institutions and Values Emerita at Trinity College in Hartford,Connecticut. [1] [2]
Sicherman earned her B.A. from Swarthmore College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. [2]
Sicherman was a professor at Trinity College from 1982 through 2005. She taught courses on women's history,American culture,and women's studies. She helped establish Trinity's Women's Studies Program and was involved in efforts to increase faculty diversity. [2]
Sicherman is a specialist in women's history and has conducted research on topics such as medical and psychiatric history,women's biography,and the role of reading in women's lives. [3] [4] She is the author of several books,including Alice Hamilton:A Life in Letters, [5] [6] Well-Read Lives:How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women, [3] [4] and The Quest for Mental Health in America,1880-1917. [7] She is also a co-editor of the biographical dictionary Notable American Women:The Modern Period. [8]
Sicherman has published articles and chapters on a variety of topics,including reproductive rights and women's reading habits. She was a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe from 1973 to 1974,and a Guggenheim fellow in 1996. [9] [10] She served on the board of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center for many years and was a volunteer tutor at Literacy Volunteers of Greater Hartford. [2]
Emily Greene Balch was an American economist,sociologist and pacifist. Balch combined an academic career at Wellesley College with a long-standing interest in social issues such as poverty,child labor,and immigration,as well as settlement work to uplift poor immigrants and reduce juvenile delinquency.
Edith Hamilton was an American educator and internationally known author who was one of the most renowned classicists of her era in the United States. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College,she also studied in Germany at the University of Leipzig and the University of Munich. Hamilton began her career as an educator and head of the Bryn Mawr School,a private college preparatory school for girls in Baltimore,Maryland;however,Hamilton is best known for her essays and best-selling books on ancient Greek and Roman civilizations.
Gisela Marie Augusta Richter was a British-American classical archaeologist and art historian. She was a prominent figure and an authority in her field.
Ella Alexander Boole was an American temperance movement leader and social reformer. She served as president of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) from 1931 to 1947,after serving as president of the National WCTU in the U.S.
Esther Louise Forbes was an American novelist,historian and children's writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal. She was the first woman elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society.
Alice Hamilton was an American physician,research scientist,and author. She was a leading expert in the field of occupational health,laid the foundation for health and safety protections,and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology.
The American Journal of Archaeology (AJA),the peer-reviewed journal of the Archaeological Institute of America,has been published since 1897. The publication was co-founded in 1885 by Princeton University professors Arthur Frothingham and Allan Marquand. Frothingham became the first editor,serving until 1896.
Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd was an American social reformer who founded Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes,Kentucky. She worked as a writer,editor,and educator. She supported women's suffrage and was a freethinker.
Mary Hamilton Swindler was an American archaeologist,classical art scholar,author,and professor of classical archaeology,most notably at Bryn Mawr College,the University of Pennsylvania,and the University of Michigan. Swindler also founded the Ella Riegel Memorial Museum at Bryn Mawr College. She participated in various archaeological excavations in Greece,Egypt,and Turkey. The recipient of several awards and honors for her research,Swindler's seminal work was Ancient Painting,from the Earliest Times to the Period of Christian Art (1929).
Louise Leonard McLaren born in Wellsboro,Pennsylvania,was founder of the Southern Summer School for Women Workers.
Edith Bremer (1885–1964) was born in Hamilton N.Y. and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1907. She pioneered immigrant social service work and had a major influence on the institute movement. She founded and led the International Institute movement,which was focused on improving the lives of female immigrants. The International Institute was a movement for cultural pluralism with efforts towards protection of immigrant girls in 1910. She was a resident at the University Chicago settlement as well as a researcher for the Chicago Women's Trade Union League. She then became a special agent for the United States Immigration Commission and also worked as a field investigator for the Chicago Juvenile Court. These field works inspired her to focus on the problems of female immigrants. She believed that other immigrant social welfare agencies,both public and private,poorly served women.
Grace Hutchins was an American labor reformer and researcher,journalist,political activist and communist. She spent many years of her life writing about labor and economics,in addition to being a lifelong dedicated member of the Communist Party,along with Anna Rochester,a Marxist economist and historian and her companion of 45 years. Together they were known for promoting radical Christian pacifism in the United States,although Hutchins was also regularly involved in strikes,demonstrations and labor disputes.
Joanna Carver Colcord was pioneering social worker,and author. Born at sea,she was also notable for publishing texts on the language,work songs,and sea shanties of American seamen during the early 20th century.
Katherine Hamilton was a women's suffrage activist and a cousin and intimate friend of Alice Hamilton.
Kay Cleaver Strahan was an American writer of short stories and mystery novels. She created the character of the "crime analyst" Lynn McDonald.
Dorothea Rhodes Lummis Moore was an American physician,writer,newspaper editor,and activist. Although a successful student of music in the New England Conservatory of Music,in Boston,she entered the medical school of Boston University in 1881,and graduated with honors in 1884. In 1880,she married Charles Fletcher Lummis,and in 1885,moved to Los Angeles,California,where she began practicing medicine. She worked as dramatic editor,musical editor,and critic at the Los Angeles Times. She was instrumental in the formation of a humane society which was brought about through her observations of the neglect and cruelty to the children of the poor,and Mexican families,visited in her practice;and the establishment of the California system of juvenile courts.
Mary Ely Lyman was an American professor of religion.
Angela Diller was a pianist and music educator.
Janet Wilson James was an American historian,educator,and pioneer in the field of women's history. As a professor at Boston College,James played a significant role in the development of the Women's Studies program,later renamed the Women's and Gender Studies program,and mentored young women scholars. The annual Janet James Award at Boston College acknowledges her legacy by recognizing undergraduate students' academic achievements and personal commitment to women's and gender issues.
Carol Hurd Green is an American scholar,author,and editor,including of women's biography collections. Green is the director of the Donovan Urban Teaching Scholars Program and faculty member in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development.