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Gender History
We invite applications from students interested in studying how gender roles and identities were constructed in past times. Historians have used gender fruitfully as a category of historical analysis to help us improve our understanding of issues ranging from nationalism, imperialism, and colonization, to family roles, masculinity, and women's work, to name only a few. Gender history also opens up exciting paths to explore other theoretical perspectives in the humanities and social sciences, such as feminist theory, queer theory, post-colonial studies, post-modernist inquiry, and cultural studies. With the help of the many faculty at Fordham whose research and teaching interests center on gender issues, students are encouraged to examine how gender has influenced the history of sexual roles and behaviors, family life, gay and lesbian identity, work and economic issues, and politics, among other topics. This program focuses on how sexual difference has functioned historically, paying particular attention to the myriad ways femininity and masculinity have been expressed. The program also encourages an interdisciplinary approach to the study of gender by recommending that students take two gender-oriented courses outside the history department.
Program Requirements
Eight courses distributed in the following manner. The course of study can be completed in one calendar year, but students may also enroll part-time. No language is required.
I. A year-long proseminar-seminar sequence, resulting in a major paper that focuses on some aspect of the history of gender
II. Two history courses that focus of gender
III. A concentration of two additional courses in either American, Medieval, or Modern European History
IV. Two additional courses that focus on gender (at least one must be in another discipline)
Selected History Courses
Gender and History
African-American Women's History
Gender and the Latin American City
Gender Roles in Early America, 1600-1800
Gender Roles in America, 1800-present
The Gendering of Nationalism
Medieval Women and the Family
Early Modern Women & Family
Infanticide in Early Modern Europe
Women in Modern Europe
History Faculty in the Gender Program
Elaine Forman Crane (PhD. NYU), colonial & revolutionary America, women and law
Nancy J. Curtin (PhD. Wisconsin), 18th-20th century Britain and Ireland, gender and nationalism
Maryanne Kowaleski (PhD. Toronto), medieval economy and demography, women and the family, masculinity and warfare
W. David Myers (PhD. Yale), early modern religious and cultural history, Germany, central Europe
Silvana Patriarca (PhD. John Hopkins), modern Italy, gender and nationalism, demography
S. Elizabeth Penry (PhD. Miami), colonial Latin America, ethnicity and gender, popular culture
Ivette Rivera-Giusti (PhD. SUNY-Binghamton), U.S. Latina/o History; Labor, Gender, Immigration and Ethnicity; Hispanic Caribbean History
Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal (PhD. Cal-Berkeley), European intellectual history, Russia, modern women's history
Kirsten N. Swinth (PhD. Yale), Gilded Age and Progressive Era, American visual culture, modern women's history
Susan Wabuda (PhD. Cambridge), Tudor-Stuart England, women and religious, English reformation
Irma Watkins-Owen (PhD. Michigan), African American history, women's history
Associated Faculty from Other Departments
Susan Beck (Political Science) - gender and American social policy
Susan Berger (Political Science) - women's movement in Guatemala
Mary Bly (English) - Shakespeare, feminist, linguistic, and cultural theory
Lynn Chancer (Sociology) - criminology and deviance, gender and feminist theory
Yvette Christianse (English) - African-American literature, poetics of race and gender
Mary Beth Combs (Economics) - gender and economics development
Joanne Dobson (English) - gender and American Literature
Mary Erler (English) - medieval and Tudor drama and literature, women and reading
Maria Farland (English) - American literature and gender studies
Nicole Fermon (Political Science) - 18th-century politics and feminism
Jeanne Flavin (Sociology) - Gender, race, and crime, criminalization of reproductive rights
Beth Frost (English) - women and poetry
Greta Gilbertson ( Sociology) - race and ethnicity
Judith Green (Philosophy) - contemporary American philosophy
Susan Greenfield (English) 18th-century women writers, women and the family
Constance Hassett (English) 19th-century women's literature
Christine Hinze (Theology) - Christian social thought, marriage and family ethics
Anne Hoffmann (English) 20th-century literature and theory
Elizabeth Johnson (Theology) feminist theology
Eve Keller (English) - Milton and 17th-century literature, the body and early modern medicine
Elizabeth Parker (Art History) - women and medieval art
Susan Peirce (Classics) - women in antiquity
Nicola Pitchford (English) - contemporary British fiction, feminist theory, pornography debates
Nina Rowe (Art History) - medieval art, manuscript culture
Gale Swiontkoski (English) - psychoanalytic and feminist theory
Maureen Tilley (Theology) - Augustine, hagiography, women in Christianity
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