Jean H. Baker

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Jean H. Baker
BornJean Hogarth Harvey
(1933-02-09) February 9, 1933 (age 90)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
OccupationHistorian
Education
SubjectsAmerican history
Years active1967–present
Spouse
Ralph Baker
​
(m. 1953)​
Children4

Jean Hogarth Harvey Baker (born February 9, 1933) is an American historian and professor emerita at Goucher College, where she was the Bennett-Hartwood Professor of History. Baker was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow in 1982.

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Early life and education

Jean Hogarth Harvey Baker was born in Baltimore, Maryland on February 9, 1933, to Rose Lindsay Hopkins and insurance agent F. Barton Harvey. She received her B.A. from Goucher College in 1961 and her M.A. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1965 [1] alongside fellow historian David Herbert Donald. [2] She completed her Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1971. [1]

Career

Baker was an instructor of history at Notre Dame of Maryland University from 1967 to 1969. She began her career at Goucher College as an instructor in 1969. She worked as an assistant professor at Goucher (1969–1975) before becoming an associate professor of history (1975–1978). In 1979, she was made a full professor of history until 1982, when she became the Elizabeth Todd Professor of History. In 1979, she was an editor for the Maryland Historical Magazine, a publication of the Maryland Historical Society. [1] As of 2018, Baker is a professor emerita at Goucher College and the Bennett-Hartwood Professor of History. [3] [2] She also taught courses at the Maryland Correctional Institution - Jessup (MCI-J) as part of the Goucher Prison Education Partnership. Baker was a visiting professor at Harvard College. [2]

Baker is a member of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, and Phi Beta Kappa. [1]

Her books have received positive reviews. [4]

Baker played an important role in advocating for increased recognition of the role of women in society. In her experience, women were frequently excluded from historical and academic narratives. The Women's Movement empowered Baker to explore these deficits. She wrote stories on suffragists including Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, and Frances Willard. The New York Times lauded Baker's work as "wider in scope than previous work and making use of sophisticated feminist historical and sociological scholarship." In anticipation of the hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, Baker was featured in WYPR's Beyond the Ballot program that features "the contributions of extraordinary Maryland women." [5]

Bibliography

Some of her books are: [1]

Additional books, publications, and writings:

Awards and honors

In 1976, Baker was elected an American Council of Learned Societies fellow. In 1979, she won a faculty teaching prize at Goucher College. She was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow in 1982 and won the Berkshire Prize in History in 1983 for her book Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Baker won the Willie Lee Rose prize in Southern History in 1989. She was a 1991 Newberry Library fellow. [1]

Personal life

Baker lives in Baltimore. [1] On September 12, 1953, she married Ralph Robinson Baker, [1] a surgeon and professor at Johns Hopkins University. [6] They have four children, [6] Susan Dixon, Robinson Scott, Robert Walker, Jean Harvey. [1] Baker is a Democrat and an Episcopalian, and enjoys playing tennis and swimming. As a hobby, Baker reads mystery stories. [1]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Organization of American Historians: Jean Baker". Organization of American Historians. Retrieved April 15, 2018.
  3. ↑ "History | Goucher College". Goucher College. Retrieved April 15, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Insane, or just difficult?". The New York Times. September 13, 1987.
  5. ↑ Parks, Sheri (July 12, 2018). "Jean Baker". WYPR. Retrieved July 15, 2018.
  6. 1 2 Kaplan, Laurie (March 19, 1998). "Jean Baker, a wealth of historical stories". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved April 15, 2018.
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