Linda K. Kerber

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Linda K. Kerber
Born (1940-01-23) January 23, 1940 (age 84)
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, US
Other namesLinda Kaufman Kerber
Spouse
Richard Kerber
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(m. 1960)​
Academic background
American history
  • intellectual history
  • women's history
    • School or traditionFeminism
    InstitutionsUniversity of Iowa

    Linda Kaufman Kerber (born January 23, 1940, in

    feminist, a political and intellectual historian
    , and educator who specializes in the history and development of the democratic mind in America, and the history of women in America.

    Early life and education

    The daughter of Harry Hagman and Dorothy Haber Kaufman, Kerber graduated from Forest Hills High School in Queens, New York, and married Richard Kerber in 1960. She received a BA from Barnard College (1960), an MA from New York University (1961), and her PhD from Columbia University (1968) under the supervision of Richard Hofstadter.[2]

    Career

    Kerber joined the faculty at the University of Iowa in 1971, and is currently the May Brodbeck Professor in Liberal Arts & Sciences, and also lecturer in the College of Law.

    Kerber published her first book, Federalists in Dissent: Imagery and Ideology in Jeffersonian America, in 1970.

    Republican Motherhood
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    In 1998, Kerber published No Constitutional Right to be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship, a political history of women and the law that spans the history of the United States from the early Republic to the late twentieth century. She also published essays and books on the feminism and history and on women's intellectual history.

    From the beginning of her career, inspired by the women's movement, Kerber played an active role in enhancing the status of women in the historical profession. An early member of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, she began to attend meetings of the newly formed Coordinating Committee for Women in the Historical Profession. In 1969, she played an instrumental role in founding the West Coast History Association, now known as the Western Association of Women Historians.[4] In the early 1970s, when the American Historical Association appointed a Committee on Women Historians to provide recommendations as to how to improve the professional positions of women, she was among its first members and also served as its chair.[5]

    Kerber served as the president of the

    Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at Oxford University in 2006–2007, delivering the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Memorial Lecture at Oxford on November 16, 2006.[6]

    She has received fellowships from, among others, the

    Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is an elected member and serves on the Council of the American Philosophical Society,[7] a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[8] and a Fellow of the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.[9] Kerber serves on the international advisory board of the feminist academic journal Signs.[10]

    Works

    References

    1. ^ www.historians.org
    2. ^ "Alice Kessler-Harris, Linda K. Kerber Biography, American Historical Association, 2007". Retrieved 3 March 2021.
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    4. ^ WAWH History, Western Association of Women Historians. "Western Association of Women Historians". Western Association of Women Historians. Retrieved 2024-05-21.
    5. ^ "Alice Kessler-Harris, Linda K. Kerber Biography, American Historical Association, 2007". Retrieved 3 March 2021.
    6. ^ Kerber, Linda K. "The Stateless as the Citizen's Other: A View from the United States". American Historical Association. Retrieved 17 July 2009.
    7. ^ "Distinguished UI Historian Elected to Council of American Philosophical Society". Retrieved 3 March 2021.
    8. ^ "American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member: Linda Kerber". Retrieved 3 March 2021.
    9. ^ Linda K. Kerber, Department of History, Iowa University Archived 2009-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
    10. ^ "Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society: Editorial Board". Retrieved 3 March 2021.
    11. ^ "AHA Awards and Prizes | AHA".
    12. ^ "AHA Awards and Prizes | AHA".

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    Academic offices
    Preceded by Harmsworth Professor of American History
    2006     		Succeeded by
    Professional and academic associations
    Preceded by President of the American Studies Association
    1988–1989     		Succeeded by
    Preceded by President of the
    Organization of American Historians
    1996–1997     		Succeeded by
    Preceded by President of the
    American Historical Association
    2006     		Succeeded by
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