Joan Scott

EDUCATION

• B.A. Brandeis University, 1962
• M.S. University of Wisconsin, 1964
• Ph.D University of Wisconsin, 1969 Honors: Magna Cum Laude Phi Beta Kappa Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (elected 2008)

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

I.

• 1970 - 72 Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle

• 1972 - 74 Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
• 1974 - 77 Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• 1977 - 80 Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• 1980 - 85 Nancy Duke Lewis University Professor and Professor of History, Brown University
• 1981 - 85 Founding Director, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women,Brown University
• 1985 - 2014 Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Harold F. Linder Professor (2000)
• 2014 Professor Emerita
• 2015 - Adjunct faculty, Graduate Center, CUNY

II.

• Summer 1977 Director, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, "The History of the Familyas Social History"

• 1978 - 79 Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

• 1980 - 81 Director, NEH Residential Seminar for College Teachers, "The New Labor History"

• May 1984 Directeur d'études associé, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

• 1985 - 1991 Adjunct Professor, Brown University

• 1993 - 2005 Adjunct Professor of History, Rutgers University

• 1996 - 98 Visiting Professor, Associates Program, Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University

• Summer 1997 Faculty, School of Criticism and Theory

• 2012 Treaty of Utrecht Chair, University of Utrecht

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

• The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth Century City. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974; French translation, Flammarion, 1982.

• Women, Work and Family (coauthored with Louise Tilly). New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1978; Routledge, 1987; Italian translation, 1981; French translation, 1987; Korean translation, 2008.

• Gender and the Politics of History. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988; Revised edition, 1999. Japanese translation, Heibonsha 1992; Spanish translation, Fondo de Cultura Economica,2008.

• Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man. Harvard University Press, 1996; French translation: Albin Michel, 1998; Portuguese translation: Editora Mulheres 2002; Korean translation, Sang Sanchi 2006.

• Parité: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. French translation: Albin Michel 2005. Korean translation: Ingansarang 2009.

• The Politics of the Veil. Princeton University Press, 2007. Bulgarian translation 2008; Arabic translation, Toubkal, 2009; Turkish translation, 2011; Albanian translation, 2010; Swedish translation, 2009.

• Théorie Critique de l’Histoire: Identités, expériences, politiques. Fayard, 2009.

• The Fantasy of Feminist History. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.

Edited:

• Western Societies: A Documentary History (edited, with Brian Tierney), 2 vols. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1983; 2nd edition, 1999.

• Learning about Women: Gender, Power and Politics, (edited with Jill Conway and Susan Bourque). University of Michigan Press, 1987.

• Feminists Theorize the Political (edited with Judith Butler). New York, Routledge, 1992.

• Alper, Benedict S. Love and Politics in Wartime: Letters to my Wife, 1943-5. University of Illinois Press, 1992.

• The Mythmaking Frame of Mind: Social Imagination and American Culture (edited with James Gilbert, Amy Gilman, and Donald Scott). San Francisco, Wadsworth, 1992.

• Feminism and History (A volume in the Oxford series, Readings in Feminism). Oxford University Press, 1996.

• Transitions, Environments, Translations: Feminisms in International Politics (edited with Cora Kaplan and Debra Keates). Routledge, 1997.

• Schools of Thought: Twenty-five Years of Interpretive Social Science (edited with Debra Keates). Princeton University Press, 2001.

• Going Public: Feminism and the Shifting Boundaries of the Private Sphere (edited with Debra Keates). Champaign IL: University of Illinois Press, 2004.

• Women’s Studies on the Edge. Durham, Duke University Press, 2009.