Mari Jo Buhle (born 1943) is an American historian and William J. Kenan Jr. University Professor Emerita at Brown University.[1]
Early life and education
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]
Career
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.
Personal life
On December 30, 1963, she married Paul Buhle.[2]
Legacy
Buhle's papers (1971 to 2008) are held at Smith College.[6]
Works
- It Started in Wisconsin: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest, (Verso, 2012, ISBN 978-1-84467-888-4
- The concise history of woman suffrage, eds. Mari Jo Buhle and Paul Buhle (University of Illinois Press, 2005), ISBN 978-0-252-07276-5
- Out of Many, Volume 1: A History of the American People, John Mack Faragher, Mari Jo Buhle, Susan Armitage, Daniel Czitrom (Prentice Hall, 2005), ISBN 978-0-13-195129-7
- Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis (Harvard University Press, 2000), ISBN 978-0-674-00403-0[7]
- The American radical, eds. Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, Harvey J. Kaye (Routledge, 1994), ISBN 978-0-415-90804-7
- Encyclopedia of the American Left, Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, Dan Georgakas (Garland Pub., 1990), ISBN 978-0-8240-3713-0
- Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920 (University of Illinois Press, 1983), ISBN 978-0-252-01045-3[8]
References
- ^ "History Department at Brown University". Archived from the original on October 9, 2012. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
- ^ a b Rooney, Terrie M. (1998). Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television. Gale. p. 61. ISBN 0787619973.
- ^ "Commencement Programs". University of Connecticut. June 3, 1968. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
- ^ "Buhle, Mari". vivo.brown.edu. Retrieved September 9, 2018.
- ^ "Collection: Mari Jo Buhle papers | Smith College Finding Aids". findingaids.smith.edu. Retrieved March 30, 2022.
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- ^ "Personal Family Papers "B"". Smith College. Retrieved September 9, 2018.
- ^ Hughes, Judith M. (May 1, 1999). "Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis (review)". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 30 (1): 152–153. doi:10.1162/jinh.1999.30.1.152. ISSN 1530-9169. S2CID 142722210.
- ^ Stevens, Errol Wayne (December 1, 1982). "Women and American Socialism, 1870–1920 by Mari Jo Buhle". Indiana Magazine of History. ISSN 1942-9711.
External links
- Mari Jo Buhle papers at the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Special Collections
