Nancy F. Cott

			directrice d'études associée à l'EHESS, 2003-2004 chaire de civilisation américaine de la French-American Foundation professeure à Harvard University

Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard University, and Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

EDUCATION:
B.A. l967, magna cum laude in History, Cornell University.
M.A. 1969, in History of American Civilization, Brandeis University.
Ph.D. 1974, in History of American Civilization, Brandeis University.

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS:
Wheaton College: Instructor of History, part-time, 1971.
Clark University: Instructor of History, part-time, 1972.
Wellesley College: Instructor of History, part-time, 1973-74.
Boston Public Library, National Endowment for the Humanities Learning Library
Program, Lecturer, 1975.
Yale University: Assistant Professor of History and American Studies, 1975-79;
Associate Professor, 1979-86; Professor, 1986-90; Chair of Women's Studies Program,
1980-1987, 1992-93; Chair of American Studies Program, 1994-97; Stanley Woodward
Professor of History and American Studies, 1990--2000; William Clyde DeVane Professor,
spring 1998; Sterling Professor of History and American Studies, 2001.
Harvard University: Professor of History and Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2002--

HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:
Phi Beta Kappa, l966; Phi Kappa Phi, l967.
Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, l978-79.
Liberal Arts Fellowship in Law, Harvard Law School, l978-79, 1993-94.
Radcliffe Research Scholarship, Spring l982.
Fellow, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, l983-84, 1987.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, l985.
Charles Warren Center Fellowship, Harvard University, l985.
American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid, 1988.
A. Whitney Griswold grant (Yale Univ.), 1984, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993, 2000.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1993-94.
Visiting Research Scholar, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, 1991, 1997.
Radcliffe College Alumnae Association Graduate Society Medal, 1997.
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford CA 1998-99.
Fulbright Lectureship Grant (Japan-U.S. Educational Commission), July 2001.

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
Root of Bitterness: Documents of the Social History of American Women (E.P.Dutton, l972; Northeastern U. Pr., 1986; rev. ed., coeditor with Jeanne Boydston, Ann Braude, Lori D. Ginzberg, and Molly Ladd-Taylor, 1996).
The Bonds of Womanhood: 'Woman's Sphere' in New England, l780-l835 ( Yale U. Pr., 1977; 2d ed. with new preface, 1997).
A Heritage of Her Own: Towards a New Social History of American Women, coeditor with E. H. Pleck (Simon & Schuster, l979).
The Grounding of Modern Feminism (Yale U. Pr., 1987).
A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters (Yale U. Pr., 1991).
No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States , editor (Oxford U. Pr., 2000).
Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (Harvard U. Pr., 2000).

PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES
"Young Women in the Second Great Awakening in New England," Feminist Studies, 3 (Fall 1975).
"Divorce and the Changing Status of Women in 18th-Century Massachusetts," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 33 (October 1976).
"Eighteenth-Century Family and Social Life Revealed in Massachusetts Divorce Records," Journal of Social History, 10 (Fall l976).
"Notes Toward an Interpretation of Antebellum Childrearing," The Psychohistory Review 6 (Spring 1978).
"Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Anglo-American Sexual Ideology, 1790-l840," Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 4 (1978).
"Feminist Politics in the l920s: The National Woman's Party," Journal of American History, 71 (June 1984).
"Feminist Theory and Feminist Movements: The Past Before Us," in What is Feminism? edited by Juliet Mitchell and Ann Oakley (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, l986, and N.Y., Pantheon, 1986).
"Women's Rights: Unspeakable Issues in the Constitution," The Yale Review, 77:3 (Spring 1988), 382-96.
"Beyond Roles, Beyond Spheres: Thinking about Gender in the Early Republic," with Linda Kerber et al., William and Mary Q., 3d ser., 46 (July 1989).
"The South and the Nation in the History of Women's Rights," in A New Perspective: Southern Women's Cultural History from the Civil War to Civil Rights, edited by Priscilla C. Little and Robert C. Vaughan (Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Charlottesville, 1989).
"What's in a Name? The Limits of Social Feminism or, Expanding the Vocabulary of Women's History," Journal of American History, 76:3 (December 1989).
"Across the Great Divide: Women's Politics Before and After 1920," in Women, Politics, and Change, edited by Louise Tilly and Patricia Gurin (N.Y.,Russell Sage Foundation, 1990); revised and reprinted in One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement, ed. M. Wheeler (NewSage, 1995).
"On Men's History and Women's History," in Meanings for Manhood: Constructions of Masculinity in Victorian America, Mark Carnes and Clyde Griffen, eds., (Chicago, U. Chicago Press, 1990).
"Historical Perspectives: The Equal Rights Amendment in the 1920s," in Conflicts in Feminism, Marianne Hirsch and Evelyn Fox Keller, eds. (N.Y., Routledge, 1990).
"Two Beards: Coauthorship and the Concept of Civilization," American Quarterly, 42:2 (June 1990).
"The Modern Woman of the 1920s, American Style," in La Storia Delle Donne, vol. V, Francoise Thebaud, ed., G. Laterza & Figli (Italy), 1992 (also published in French, Dutch, Spanish and American editions).
"Early Twentieth-Century Feminism in Political Context: A Comparative Look at Germany and the United States," in Suffrage & Beyond, ed. Caroline Daley and Melanie Nolan (Auckland, NZ, Auckland U.P., 1994).
"'Giving Character to Our Whole Civil Polity': Marriage and State Authority in the Late Nineteenth Century," in U.S. History as Women's History, ed. Linda Kerber et al. (Chapel Hill, U. N.C. Press, 1995).
"Justice for All? Marriage and Deprivation of Citizenship in the United States," in Justice and Injustice, Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought, ed. Austin Sarat (Ann Arbor, U. Michigan Press, 1996).
"Marriage and Women's Citizenship in the United States, 1830-1934," American Historical Review 103:5 (Dec. 1998), 1440-74.
“Women’s Rights Talk,” American Studies in Scandanavia 32:2 (2000), 18-29.
“Public Emblem, Private Realm: Family and Polity in the United States,” forthcoming in Democratic Vistas,, ed. Anthony Kronman.

PUBLICATIONS: REVIEW ESSAYS
"Abortion, Birth Control, and Public Policy," The Yale Review, 67 (Summer 1978).
"Liberation Movements in Two Eras," American Quarterly, 32 (Spring 1980).
"The Confederate Elite in Crisis: A Woman's View," The Yale Review, 71 (Autumn 1981).
"The House of Feminism," New York Review of Books, 30 (March 17, 1983).
"Women and the Ballot," Reviews in American History, 15:2 (June 1987).
"Patriarchy in America is Different," American Bar Foundation Research Journal, 1987:4 (Fall 1987).
"Adversarial Invention," American Quarterly, 47:2 (June 1995).

PUBLICATIONS: MISCELLANY
"Mary Ritter Beard," in Notable American Women: The Modern Period (1980);
in Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the U.S. ; A Companion to American Thought, ed. Richard Wightman Fox and James Kloppenberg (Cambridge, Basil Blackwell, 1995); and American National Biography (1999).

Afterword to Sarah Eisenstein, Bread and Roses, ed. Harold Benenson (London, Routledge Kegan Paul, 1983).
"Women as Law Clerks: Memoir of Catherine G. Waugh," in The Female Autograph, New York Literary Forum, 12-13 (l984).
Introduction to A New England Girlhood by Lucy Larcom (Boston, Northeastern University Press, 1985).
Editorial, Special issue of Women's Studies Quarterly, XVI:1/2 Spring/(Summer 1988), "Teaching the New Women's History."
"Comment on Karen Offen's 'Defining Feminism: A Comparative Historical Approach,'" Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 15:11 (1989).
"Charles A. Beard and Mary Ritter Beard," Readers' Encyclopedia of American History, ed. Eric Foner and John Garraty, 1991.
"Privacy" and "Domesticity" in A Companion to American Thought, ed. Richard Wightman Fox and James Kloppenberg (Cambridge, Basil Blackwell, 1995).
"Bonnie and Clyde," in Past Imperfect: History and the Movies, ed. Mark Carnes (N.Y., Henry Holt, 1995).
"A Conversation with Eric Foner," culturefront 4:3 (Winter 1995-96).
"Challenging Boundaries: Introductory Remarks," Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, 9 (1997).
Introduction to Jane Levey’s “Imagining the Postwar Family,” Journal of Women’s History, Fall 2001.
“The Great Demand,” in Days of Destiny, James MacPherson and Alan Brinkley, eds.,
Society of American Historians (Agincourt Press, 2001).

“Janet Flanner,” Notable American Women vol 5, forthcoming.

PUBLICATIONS: REVIEWS
in American Historical Review, American Prospect, Boston Globe, Business History Review, Intellectual History Newsletter, International Labor and Workingclass History, Journal of American History, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, New Mexico Historical Review, New York Times Book Review, Pacific Studies, Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, The Times Literary Supplement, Women's History Review, and The Yale Review.

PUBLICATIONS: EDITORIAL PROJECTS
Guest Editor, special issue of Women's Studies Quarterly, XVI:1/2 (Spring/Summer 1988), on "Teaching the New Women's History."
Editor, History of Women in the United States, 20 volumes (article reprint series), K.G. Saur Publishing Co., 1993-94.
General editor, The Young Oxford History of Women in the United States, 11 volumes, Oxford University Press, 1994.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
GRANT PROJECTS:
Principal investigator, National Endowment for the Humanities Pilot Grant to Women's Studies, Yale University, l98l.
Principal Investigator, National Endowment for the Humanities Implementation Grant, "Strengthening Women's Studies at Yale," l983-86.
Steering Committee, Ford Foundation Project on Women and Gender in the Curriculum in Newly-Coeducational Institutions, 1985-90.
Dissertation seminar in gender history for graduate students, Mellon Foundation, 2002.

ACADEMIC JOURNALS AND REFERENCE WORKS:
American National Biography, senior editor, 1989-98.
American Quarterly, editorial board, l977-l980.
Feminist Studies, associate editor, l977-85, editorial consultant, 1985-97.
Gender and History, advisory board, 1987-92; editorial collective, 1993-6.
Journal of American History, editorial board, 1996-99.
Journal of Social History, editorial board, l978-.
Journal of Women's History, editorial board, 1987--.
Notable American Women, volume 5, advisory board, 1999—
Orim: A Jewish Journal at Yale, editorial board, l984-88.
The Readers' Encyclopedia of American History, advisory board, 1989-91.
Reviews in American History, editorial board, 1981-85.
Women's Studies Quarterly, editorial board, 1981-94.
Journal of Social History, editorial board, l978-.
Journal of Women's History, editorial board, 1987--.
Notable American Women, volume 5, advisory board, 1999—
Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, advisory board, 1988--.
The Yale Review, editorial board, 1980-88, 1991--.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, OFFICES:
American Studies Association: Nominating Committee, l98l-84;
National Council, 1987-90; American Quarterly Review Committee, 1989.
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians: Co-Chair, Eighth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women (1990).
Organization of American Historians: Binkley-Stephenson Prize Committee, 1987-1990 (chair, 1988); elected member of Nominating Committee, 1993-95 (Chair, 1994-5);
elected member of Executive Board, 1997—2000; OAH Lecturer, 1997--
Elected member: American Antiquarian Society, Massachusetts Historical Society, Society of American Historians.

ADVISORY BOARDS
Schlesinger Library on the History of Women, Radcliffe College, 1977-80.
The Correspondence of Lydia Maria Child, 1977-80.
Project on Gender in Context, Mt. Holyoke College, l982-83.
Princeton University Program in Women's Studies, l985-2001.
Journal of Social History, editorial board, l978-.
Journal of Women's History, editorial board, 1987--.
Notable American Women, volume 5, advisory board, 1999—
Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, advisory board,
Gender and Culture series, Univ. of N. Carolina Press, 1987--.
Northeastern University Press, 1989-98.
The Museum of Women/The Leadership Center, New York State, (chair of historians’ advisory board) 2000--.
Journal of Social History, editorial board, l978-.
Journal of Women's History, editorial board, 1987--.
Notable American Women, volume 5, advisory board, 1999—
Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, advisory board,
Gender and Culture series, Univ. of N. Carolina Press, 1987--.

AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA PROJECTS
Advisory Board, Stanton Project on Films on Women in American History,
1974-77.
Consultant, Dan Klugherz (Film) Productions, N.Y., l98l-82.
Consultant, Connecticut Public Radio series, "Choices"/Everyday History, Radio Programs for Children 8 to 12," 1982-83.
Advisory Board, "Legacies: Family History in Sound," radio course on the
history of women and the family in the U.S., l984-86.
Consultant, "Lowell Fever," film by Made in U.S.A., Inc. 1985-87.
Consultant, "Mary Silliman's War," film by Steven Schechter, 1987.
Advisory Board, "The American Experience," WBGH-TV, Boston, MA, 1986--.
Advisory Board: "One Woman, One Vote: The Struggle for Woman Suffrage in the
U. S.," Educational Film Center, 1991-95.
Consultant, Margaret Sanger film project (by Bruce Alfred), 1994--.
Affiliated Scholar, Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue, American
Repertory Theatre and W.E.B. DuBois Institute, summer 1999.
Principal consultant, WGBH documentary Program on the History of Marriage in
America, 2002.
The Museum of Women/The Leadership Center, New York State, (chair of historians’ advisory board) 2000--.
Journal of Social History, editorial board, l978-.
Journal of Women's History, editorial board, 1987--.
Notable American Women, volume 5, advisory board, 1999—
Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, advisory board,
Gender and Culture series, Univ. of N. Carolina Press, 1987--.