Mari Jo Buhle | |
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Born | Mari Jo Kupski 1943 (age 80–81) |
Title | William J. Kenan Jr. University Professor Emerita |
Spouse | |
Awards | MacArthur Fellowship |
Academic background | |
Education | University of Connecticut |
Alma mater | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Institutions | Brown University |
Notable works | Encyclopedia of the American Left |
Mari Jo Buhle (born 1943) is an American historian and William J. Kenan Jr. University Professor Emerita at Brown University. [1]
Buhle was born in 1943 as Mari Jo Kupski. [2] She graduated from North Chicago Community High School in 1961.
Listed as Mari Jo Kupski Buhle in 1968,she received her Master of Arts degree in history from the University of Connecticut. [3] She earned a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1974. [4]
She served on the faculty of Brown University from 1972 until her retirement in 2009,where she was the first member of the faculty to hold a position dedicated to women's studies. She taught mainly on the history of American women,training students at the undergraduate and graduate levels in both the American Civilization and History departments. Buhle's own research began with a specialty in the history of American radicalism and expanded to include the history of the behavior sciences in the United States. Buhle has received fellowships from the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College;the Bunting Institute (now the Radcliffe Institute) at Harvard University;and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (1991–1996). [5]
Since the 1980s,Buhle,her husband Paul,and Dan Georgakas have been co-writing and publishing Encyclopedia of the American Left,first published in 1990.
In 1991,Buhle was named a MacArthur Fellow.
On December 30,1963,she married Paul Buhle. [2]
Buhle's papers (1971 to 2008) are held at Smith College. [6]
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