Dolores Janiewski

Associate Professor

BA, Liberal Arts (Sarah Lawrence)
MA (1974, Oregon)
PhD (1979, Duke, North Carolina)

Contact details

Historical specialisation: US History, l9th & 20th Century; Social/Cultural History of US; U.S. Southern History, U.S. Western History, U.S. Women's History

Lectures in

HIST 120: Making History
HIST 215: Creating the United States, 1776-1890 [not offered in 2009]
HIST 217: The United States and Global Power, 1890-2000 [not offered in 2009]
HIST 315: Media and the Modern USA: From Hiroshima to Hollywood [not offered in 2009]
HIST 321: International History: The Cold War World, 1945-1991 [not offered in 2009]

Research Areas

• U.S. history including recent American history
• issues of gender, race, class and culture

Current research

• Reigning Passions: Masculinity, Power, and Reactionary Populism in the New South
• Islands and Interiors: Gender, Race, and American Frontiers
• New Zions for New Zealanders?: Pentacostalism, the New Right, and the Americanisation of New Zealand

Recent publications

Books

• New Rights New Zealand: Myths Market and Moralities (Auckland University Press, 2005 )
• Reading Benedict Reading Mead (The John Hopkins University Press, 2004)
• Sisterhood Denied: Race, Gender and Class in a New South Community (Philadelphia:Temple University Press, 1985, reprinted l995)
• Contributing Editor, The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor: 1887-1890, Vol. II, The Samuel Gompers Papers (Urbana: University of Illinois Press,1987)
• Associate Editor, The Making of a Union Leader, 1850-1886, Vol. I, The Samuel Gompers Papers (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986)

Recent Chapters in Collections and Refereed Articles

• "'Confusion of Mind:' Colonialist and Post-Colonialist Discourses about Frontier Encounters", Journal of American Studies 32:1998, pp. 81-102
• "Gendered Colonialism: The 'Woman Question' in a Settler Society," in Ruth Pierson and Nupur Chaudhuri, eds. Nation, Empire, Colony: Historicizing Gender and Race (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998)
• "The Reign of Passion: White Supremacy and the Clash between Passionate and Progressive Emotional Styles in the New South," in Peter Stearns and Jan Lewis, eds., An Emotional History of the United States (New York: New York University Press, 1998), pp. 126-154
• "Southern Honor, Southern Dishonor: Managerial Ideology and the Creation of Gendered Labor in a Racially Divided Society," reprinted in Joan Scott, ed., Feminism and History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 293-316
• "Gendering, Racializing and Classifying Settler Colonization in the United States, 1590-1990,"in Nira Yuval-Davis and Daiva Stasiuilis, eds. Unsettling Settler Society: Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Class in Settler Societies (London: Sage, l995), pp. 134-160
• "Giving Women a Future: Alice Fletcher and the Indian Reform Movement", in Nancy Hewitt and Suzanne Lebsock, eds., Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism (Urbana, Ill: University of Illinois Press: 1993), pp. 325-344
• "Learning to Live Like White Folks: Gender, Ethnicity & the State in the Inland Northwest", Dorothy Helly and Susan Reverby, eds., Connected Domains: Beyond the Public/Private Dichotomy in Women's History (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell U. Press: 1992), pp. 167-180

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