Jane Sherron De Hart

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Jane Sherron De Hart
Born1936 (age 84–85)
Asheville, North Carolina, U.S.
Other namesJane DeHart Mathews
OccupationFeminist historian, women's studies academic
Awards Victoria Schuck Award (1991)
Academic background
Alma mater Duke University
Academic work
Institutions University of North Carolina at Greensboro
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of California, Santa Barbara
Doctoral students Sarah Wilkerson Freeman

Jane Sherron De Hart (born 1936) [1] is an American feminist historian and women's studies academic. She is a professor emerita at University of California, Santa Barbara. De Hart has authored and edited several works on the history of women in the United States, the Federal Theatre Project, the Equal Rights Amendment, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. During the 1970s, she founded the women's studies program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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Early life and education

De Hart was born in Asheville, North Carolina and raised in Bryson City, North Carolina. She graduated with a degree in history from Duke University. On a Carnegie Fellowship, De Hart earned a Ph.D. at Duke University in 1967. She married while attending graduate school and moved to Princeton, New Jersey where she continued work on her dissertation and taught at Douglass College. Her dissertation on the Federal Theatre Project became her first book. [2]

Career

In 1970, De Hart joined University of North Carolina at Greensboro for ten years, first temporarily before becoming permanent professor and founding the women's studies program. She was co-bicentennial chair of American studies at University of Helsinki from 1981 to 1982. De Hart became a professor of history and director of women's studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [2]

In 1992, De Hart joined the University of California, Santa Barbara. [2]

In 2018, De Hart published Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life. It was the first full-length biography of Ginsburg. [2]

Awards and honors

De Hart was a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1975 and 1998. [3] In 1991, she was awarded the Victoria Schuck Award alongside Donald G. Mathews for their book on the intersection of the Equal Rights Amendment and sex, gender, and politics. [2]

Selected works

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References

  1. ↑ "VIAF". Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Feminist Historian De Hart to Receive 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award | Duke Graduate School". Duke The Graduate School. April 18, 2019. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  3. ↑ "Jane S. De Hart – Department of History, UC Santa Barbara" . Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  4. ↑ Reviews of The Federal Theatre, 1935-1939:
  5. ↑ Reviews of Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA:
  6. ↑ Reviews of Women's America:
  7. ↑ Reviews of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life:
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