Jennifer Mittelstadt, Assistant Professor of History & Women's Studies
On Leave 2008-09 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars316 Weaver
814-865-0750
jlm71@psu.edu
Fields
20th Century U.S., gender and women, race, and the state
“I am a political and social historian of the United States with an interest in gender and women, race, and the state. I focus on the twentieth century, especially post-World War II; social policy and politics; liberalism; second-wave feminism; and, most recently, militarization and the all-volunteer Army.
My recent book, From Welfare to Workfare, the Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945-1965 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005), which focused on the transformation of welfare policies in the postwar period; and coming in fall 2008, Welfare in the United States: A History with Documents, with Premilla Nadasen and Marisa Chappell (New York: Routledge, 2008). My articles have appeared in such journals as Social Politics and the Journal of Women's History. I am currently at work on a book that situates the post-1973 all-volunteer military's benefits as part of the history of the welfare state, poverty, and politics in the late twentieth century United States. I will be on leave for 2008-2009 to pursue this project as a resident scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.”
Undergraduate Courses
The History of Poverty in America
Women in Modern Society
History of the Sixties
Introduction to Women's Studies
Graduate Courses
Gender and the Welfare State
Proseminar in Modern History
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