Rosalind Rosenberg
Rosalind Rosenberg, Professor Emerita of History
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American Studies, History, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Rosalind Rosenberg has been a member of the Barnard History Department since 1984 and has twice served as chair of the department. She has also been affiliated with the American Studies Program and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Professor Rosenberg’s research and teaching interests center on women, gender, sexuality, civil rights, and the law. She has received the Emily Gregory Award for Excellence in Teaching, and her research has been supported by an Ann Whitney Olin Professorship
B.A., Ph.D., Stanford University
- American history
- Women's history
Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017 (winner of the Prose Award for the Best Book in the Humanities, from the American Association of Publishers, and the basis for the documentary, “My Name Is Pauli Murray”).
Divided Lives: American Women in the Twentieth Century. New York: Hill and Wang, 1992; London: Penguin,1993; second edition, 2008.
Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think About Sex and Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004)
"Gender," in The Cambridge History of Science (2002).
"The Woman Question," in The Columbia History of the Twentieth Century (1998).
Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982 (winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, from the Organization of American Historians).