Joan Wallach Scott
Joan Wallach Scott (born December 18, 1941 ) is an American historian . She is Professor Emeritus at the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey .
Life
Joan Scott was born the niece of actor Eli Wallach . She studied from 1962 at Brandeis University in Massachusetts and received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1969. She then taught history at the universities of Illinois in Chicago, Northwestern University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Rutgers University and Johns Hopkins University . At Brown University , she was a founding member of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. Scott served as Chair of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) committee.
Awards
Joan Scott has received numerous honorary doctorates , including from Harvard , Wisconsin-Madison , the University of Bergen, Norway, and in 2012 from Princeton . Several of her books have won awards from the American Historical Association . In 1999 she was awarded the Hans Sigrist Prize of the University of Bern for Gender Studies. She was also admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.
Fonts (selection)
- The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth Century City , Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974; Translation into French by Flammarion, 1982.
- Women, Work and Family (with Louise Tilly). New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978; Routledge, 1987; translates into Italian, French and Korean
- Gender and the Politics of History . New York: Columbia University Press, 1988; Japanese and Spanish translation.
- Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man . Harvard, University Press, 1996; Translation into French, Portuguese and Korean.
- Parité: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. French and Korean translations.
- The Politics of the Veil . Princeton University Press, 2007. Bulgarian and Arabic translations.
- Théorie Critique de l'Histoire: Identités, expériences, politiques . Fayard, 2009.
Web links
- Joan Scott's CV (PDF; 243 kB)
- Scott's homepage at the Institute for Advanced Study
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| SURNAME | Scott, Joan Wallach |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 18, 1941 |