External links
- Faculty profile at University of Maryland
- Feminist Studies journal website
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Claire Goldberg Moses | |
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| Born | 1941 (age 83–84) Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Awards | Joan Kelly Prize (1985) for the Best Book in Feminist Theory and History |
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| Alma mater | Smith College (A.B., 1963) George Washington University (M.Phil., 1972; Ph.D., 1978) |
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| Discipline | Women's studies,history |
| Sub-discipline | Feminist theory,social Movements,French women’s and feminist history |
| Institutions | University of Maryland,College Park |
Claire Goldberg Moses (born 1941) is an American historian and women's studies scholar who is Professor Emerita at the University of Maryland,College Park. She was a founding faculty member of the university's women's studies program in 1977 and served as Editorial Director of Feminist Studies from 1977 to 2011. Her book French Feminism in the Nineteenth Century won the Joan Kelly Prize for the Best Book in Feminist Theory and History from the American Historical Association in 1985. The Claire G. Moses Award for the Most Theoretically Innovative Article was established by Feminist Studies in her honor. [1]
Moses was born in 1941 in Hartford,Connecticut. She graduated from Frederick U. Conard High School in West Hartford in 1959. [2] She received her A.B. from Smith College,Magna cum Laude,Phi Beta Kappa,in 1963. [3] She then pursued graduate studies at Columbia University and George Washington University,earning her M.Phil. in 1972 and her Ph.D. in 1978. [2]
Moses was the first faculty member hired in Women's Studies at the University of Maryland,College Park in 1977,where she developed and taught the program's first interdisciplinary courses. [2] She served as chair of women studies from 1993 to 2003,during which time she oversaw its reorganization from a program into a full academic department. [2] Under her leadership,the department gained approval to offer Bachelor of Arts,Master of Arts,and Ph.D. degrees. [2]
Her research specializations include feminist theory,the history of feminist movements in France,the United States,and internationally;the history of European women;colonialism;and the political economy of globalization. [2]
From 1977 to 2011,Moses served as Editorial Director of Feminist Studies ,one of the premier academic journals in women's studies. [1] In recognition of her contributions to feminist scholarship,the journal established the Claire G. Moses Award for the Most Theoretically Innovative Article in her honor. [1]
Moses has been active in numerous professional women's studies organizations. [2] She was one of the founding organizers of the Program Directors and Administrators group within the National Women's Studies Association,helping to establish standards and practices for the discipline across the United States. At the Women’s World Conference in Beijing in 1995,with representatives from Australia,Canada,and France,she co-founded the Worldwide Association of Women's Studies (WOWS),eventually representing 53 countries,and organizing conferences every 5 years,each on a different continent. She also organized (with Canadian Marilyn Porter) the Feminist Knowledge Network of women's studies journals from more than 20 countries. [2] [4] [5]
Moses is best known for her book French Feminism in the Nineteenth Century,published by SUNY Press in 1984. [6] This work,which examines the development of feminist thought and activism in 19th-century France,won the prestigious Joan Kelly Prize for the Best Book in Feminist Theory and History. [6]
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