Professor Emerita of History and Women's Studies - Retired

Year Joined RCNJ: 1976

Contact Information

• Phone: 201-684-7625

Founding member of School of Social Science and Human Services;

Designer, with others, of SSHS gen ed courses

Convener and Co-Convener of Women’s and Gender Studies Minor and Program, 1980-2013

Retirement, 2014

Education:

B.A., and PhD., History, The University of Chicago

MA History, Columbia University

Courses Taught at Ramapo:

Introductory Courses:

Social Issues

Women in Contemporary Society

Western Studies II

200- and 300-level Courses:

Britain since 1800

Twentieth-Century Europe

Witchcraft in History

Sexuality in Modern Western Societies

Advanced Courses:

Senior Seminar: World War I

Masters in Liberal Studies Program, “US in a Changing World,” 2000—2013,

co-taught with Hank Frundt  or Martha Ecker

Books

Love and Toil: Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918, Oxford University Press, 1993

Slum Journeys: Lady Explorers “In Darkest London”, anthology of collected original sources by women social workers, journalists, district nurses, etc., l860-l940, University of California Press, 2007

Trapped into Service: British Women’s Social Work and Humanitarian Aid, 1914-1950, in progress

Articles, selected, since 2010

“Missionaries and Jews in Soho: ‘Strangers within Our Gates’,” Journal of Victorian Culture 15, no. 2 (August 2010): 226-238

Playing Deaf’: Jewish Women at the Medical Missions of East London, 1880-1920s,” 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, no. 13 (2011) (an on-line refereed journal, Queen Mary University, London)

“St. Francis in Soho: Emmeline Pethick and Mary Neal, the West London Mission, and the Allure of ‘Simple Living’ in the 1890s,” Church History 83: 4 (December 2014): 843-883

“Militarism and Pacifism,” The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, ed. Celia Marshik (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016)

“The Country of the Fathers,” History Workshop Journal 84 (Autumn 2017): 265-272.

“‘Giggling Adolescents’ to Refugees, Bullets, and Wolves: Francesca Wilson Finds a Profession,” in

Precarious Professionals: Gender, Identities, and Social Change in Modern Britain, ed. Heidi Egginton and Zoë Thomas, Royal Historical Society and Institute of Historical Research, 2021

“Women and Wages in Britain’s ‘Classic’ Slums,” in The Oxford Handbook on the History of Slums, ed. Alan Mayne, Oxford University Press, forthcoming (forthcoming, 2022)

“‘Full of Spain’: Francesca Wilson and Republican Spain, 1937-1939,” paper in progress for journal submission