Spring 2003
CURRICULUM VITAE
Jean Fox O'Barr
Professor of the
Practice of Women’s Studies
Founding Director
of Women's Studies at
University
Distinguished Service Professor
210 East Duke
Building,
Office phone 919‑684‑3867;
voice mail 684-3867; fax 684-4652
Home telephone
(preferred contact) 919-489-7879
E-mail: jeanobar@duke.edu
Education
1970 Ph.D., Political Science,
Northwestern University
Certificate in
African Studies, Northwestern University
1965 M.A., Political Science, Northwestern University
1964 B.A. (honors),
Political Science,
Other Studies
1983 Visiting Fellow, Queen
Elizabeth House,
1974 Institute for
Administrative Advancement, University of
1962 Imperial History,
Constitutional Law, and Comparative Government,
Teaching and
Research Experience
Professor
of the Practice of Women's Studies,
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Political Science,
Teaching Faculty, Rockefeller Summer Institute on Women's Studies for
North Carolina College Teachers (1984 and 1985); Ford Curriculum Project (1988)
Research Trips to
Lecturer in Political Science,
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science,
Field Research in
Lecturer,
Fields of Interest
Current Teaching
Fields: Women's Studies; Women and
Education; Social Movements; Gender and Organizations; Contemporary American
Feminism.
Administrative
Experience
Founding Director
of Women's Studies, Duke University, 1983-2001; Margaret Taylor Smith Director, 1997-2001
Director of FOCUS
(first year seminar program), Social Ideals, l997 to present
Co-director,
Faculty Associates Program, Duke University, 1995-1997
Editor, SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society,
1985‑1990
Director of Continuing
Education,
Publications: Books and Monographs
1997 Women Imagine Change:
A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance from 600 B.C.E. to Present.
1996 Talking Gender: Public Images, Personal Journeys, and
Political Critiques.
1994 Feminism
in Action: Building Institutions and
Community through Women's Studies.
1993 Africa
and the Disciplines: Contributions of
the Study of Africa to the Humanities and Social Sciences, Robert H. Bates,
Valentin Y. Mudimbe and
Jean O'Barr, coeditors.
1992 Engaging
Feminism: Students Speak Up and Speak Out, Jean O'Barr
and Mary Wyer, coeditors.
1990 Ties
that Bind: Essays on Mothering and Patriarchy, Jean O'Barr,
Deborah Pope and Mary Wyer, coeditors.
1989 Black
Women in America: Social Science Perspectives, Micheline
Malson, Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi,
Jean O'Barr and Mary Wyer, coeditors.
1989 Sisters
and Workers in the Middle Ages, Judith Bennett, Elizabeth Clark, Jean O'Barr, Anne Vilen and Sarah Westphal‑Wihl, coeditors.
1989 Feminist
Theory in Practice and Process Micheline Malson, Jean OBarr, Sarah Westphal‑Wihl, and Mary Wyer,
coeditors.
1989 Women
and A New Academy: Gender and Cultural Contexts.
1988 Reconstructing the Academy: Women's
Education and Women's Studies, Elizabeth Minnich,
Jean O'Barr and Rachel Rosenfeld, coeditors.
1987 Sex
and Scientific Inquiry, Sandra Harding and Jean O'Barr,
coeditors.
1985 Passbook
Number #F. 47927: Women and the Mau Mau in
1982 Perspectives
on Power: Women in
1976
1976 Language
and Politics. The Hague: Mouton, (Based on a symposium held at Duke
University in January 1973; W. M. O'Barr and J.F. O'Barr, coeditors, 506 pp.; two
chapters by J. F. O'Barr, "The Evolution of
Tanzania's Political Institutions," pp. 49‑68, and "Language
and Politics in Tanzanian Governmental Institutions," pp. 69‑84).
1971 Shindano:
Swahili Essays and Other Stories, by Johannes Mlela
and Jean O'Barr.
Publications: Articles and Book Chapters in African
Politics
1995 "African Women in Politics," by Jean O'Barr and Kathryn Firmin-Sellers. In Jean Hay and Sharon Stichter,
eds., African Women South of the Sahara, revised edition (all new
chapter) (
1987 "Feminist
Issues in the Fiction of
1986 "Reflections on
Forum '85 in
1984 "Power in Gender
Relationships: The Case of Kenyan Novels
By Women Authors" in Cheris
Kramarae, William O'Barr
and Muriel Schultz, eds., Language and Power (
1984 "African Women in
Politics," in Jean Hay and Sharon Stichter,
eds., African Women South of the
1982 "Participant
Citizenship in
1977 "
1976 "Pare Women: A Case of Political Involvement," Rural
Africana, 29, pp. 121‑134.
1975 "Making the
Invisible Visible: African Women in Politics and Policy" in Nancy Hafkin and
1973 "The Study of
Political Participation in Rural
1972 "Cell Leaders in
1972 "The
Role of the Ten‑House Cell Leader in
1971 "Report
on Changes in Tanzanian Rural Society and Their Relevance for Development
Planning," Rural Africana, l3, pp. 43‑49.
Forthcoming
2003 “Women’s
Studies in Higher Education”, entry for The Encyclopedia
of Education, 2nd
Edition,
“The
Movement to Establish Women’s Studies”, entry for An Encyclopedia
of Social Movements,
“The
Women’s Studies PhD: An Archive”, with Stephanie Shields, for The NWSAJournal, Spring, 15:1
In Print
2001
“Women’s Studies is Alive and Well”, National
Council of Jewish Women Journal, Vol.
24,
No. l, Spring, pp.22-24.
2000 "My Master List
for the Millenium", commissioned essay for a
special issue of SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol.
25, No. 4, Summer, pp.1205-1208. Reprinted in Judith Howard and Carolyn Allen,
eds., Feminisms at a Millenium (
2000 "Naming, Sharing,
Speaking: Teaching in Midlife", in Phyllis Freeman and Jan Schmidt,
editors, Wise Women: Reflections of Teachers at Mid-Life (Routledge), pp. 221-230. Summarized in ON CAMPUS WITH WOMEN
(American Association of Colleges and Universities, Spring
2000), Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 6-7.
1998 Proceedings of the
"Locating Feminism" lecture series (Women's Studies, Duke) 46 pp.
1997 "Legitimacy
Maintenance: The Politics of Women's Studies" in Catherine Marshall, editor, Feminist Critical Policy Analysis: A
Perspective from Post-Secondary Education, Volume 2 (
1995 "Women's
Studies Programs," The
1992 "Exclusions
and the Process of Empowerment: The Case for Feminist Scholarship" in
David Glarety and Constance Backhouse, Challenging
Times: The Women's Movement in
1990 "The Chilly Climate
on College Campuses: An Expansion of the
'Hate Speech' Debate," by Katharine Bartlett and Jean O'Barr,
Duke Law Journal, Vol. 1990, No. 3, June, pp. 574‑586.
1990 Foreword
to Beth Stafford, ed., Directory of Women's Studies Programs and Library
Resources (
1989 The
Changing Patterns of Our Lives: Women's Education and Women's Studies. 83 page proceedings of a Sesquicentennial
Symposium at
1989 Coeditor of special issue of Duke University Libraries
on Feminist Scholarship and author of "Women's Studies and the Perkins
Library System: A Working Partnership," 3,1,
Fall, pp. 2‑6.
1989 "Re‑entry
Women in Academy: The Contributions of a
Feminist Perspective," in Carol Pearson, Donna Shavlik
and Judy Touchton, eds., Educating the Majority:
How Women are Changing Higher Education (
1988 "Evaluating
Courses for Inclusion of New Scholarship on Women," Project on the
Status and Education of Women, American Association of Colleges, 4 pp.
1988 "Feminists
Continue Struggle for Place in Political Realm," The Chronicle,
1986 "University
Should Accommodate Re‑entry Women," Duke Dialogue,
1985 "Planning
Ahead with Undergraduates: Duke Teaches
a Dual Careers Course," Network News:
A Publication of the Spouse Employment Assistance Program (
1984 "Women and the University," University
of
1983 "The
New Scholarship on Women: Stirring In or Stirring Up?,"
Duke University Letters, November.
1981 "Continuing Education and Older
Adults," National Institute on Aging's
National Research Planning Panel, 10 pp. Reprinted in Joseph Teaff,
Leisure Services with the Elderly,
1980 "Women
in Higher Education: Agenda for the '80s," Comment, June, pp. 6‑7.
1980 "Funding
Adult Counseling Programs," The Forum for
Continuing Education, Summer, pp. 6, l4.
1980 "Dual
Careers at Duke: Conference Programming on a Popular‑but-Little‑Understood
Topic," The Forum for Continuing Education, Spring,
pp. 12, 17.
1980 Conflict of
Interest: A Growing Challenge for
Working Couples (
1979 "Dual
Careers for Faculty and Family: Can Both
Prosper?" American
Association of Higher Education Bulletin, 32, pp. l, 3‑4, 9‑l0. Reprinted in Anthropology
Newsletter, AAA, 2l, pp. 16, 12‑13.
1979 "Where
the Jobs Are," Redbook, May 1979.
1979 Continuing
Education at Duke: Ten Years of Experience (
1979 "Continuing
Education and the Older Learner: A
Program Development Model Based on
1978 "Peer
Teaching," Generations: Journal of the Western Gerontological
Society, 3, pp. 10‑11.
1978 Careers
for Humanists (
1977 "Coping with the Future," Cornerstone,
1976 "Support
for the Adult Student," Adult Leadership, 25, pp. 21‑23.
1975 Second
Careers for Women (
Publications: Indexes and
Abstracts
1986 SIGNS: A Ten‑Year Subject Index, SIGNS:
Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 104 pp.
198l "Women
in Developing Societies," Political Economy of Development: Political
Science Reading Lists and Course Outlines, Allan Kornberg,
ed. (
1966‑ Abstracts
of U.S. and Canadian journal articles dealing with
1971 African
Abstracts (
1966 "Computer
Keyword Indexing: Applications to Current Anthropology," Current
Anthropology, 7, pp. 632‑664.
2001
Blanche Cooke, Eleanor,
Volumes I and II, and Allida M Black, Courage in a
Dangerous World, in the National Women’s Studies Journal, Vol. 13,
No. 3, pp. 199-202.
2001 Ruth Rosen, The World
2000
Barbara Risman, Gender Vertigo: American Families in Transition,
in Men and Masculinities, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 353-354.
1999
Katharine H.S. Moon, Sex
Among the Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S./North
Korean Relations, in American Political
Science Review, Vol. 93, No. 2, p. 493.
1998 Timothy
Quinnan, Adult Students "At-Risk":
Cultural Bias in Higher Education, in Contemporary Gerontology, 5,
1, pp. 1-3.
1996 Frances
Maher and Mary Kay Tetreault: The Feminist
Classroom; Linda Garber: Tilting the Tower; Jane Martin: Changing
the Educational Landscape in SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture
and Society, 21:3, Spring, pp. 253-7.
1990 Elizabeth
Spelman: Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion
in Feminist Thought in The American Book
Review, 12.2, May‑June, p. 12.
1982 Cyril
Houle: Continuing Learning in the Professions
in the Journal of Higher Education 53, 5, September‑October, 608‑609.
1981 Valene L. Smith (ed.): Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism in International
Journal of Comparative Sociology, 22, 3‑4, 273‑274.
1981 Leopold
Kohr: Development Without Aid: The Translucent Society, in the Journal
of Politics, February.
1980 Martin
King Whyte: The Status of Women in Pre‑industrial
Societies, in International Journal of Comparative Society, 21, 3‑4,
305‑307.
1980 Karen
Sacks: Sisters and Wives and Ilsa
Schuster: New Women of
1980 Christopher
Mojekwu et al.: African Society, Culture and
Politics in African Studies Review, 23, 210‑211.
1977 Swedish
Development Authority: Women in Developing Countries in African
Economic History, 3, pp. 87‑89.
1975 "New Films on Women in Developing
Countries," DEA News, Newsletter of APSA, 7, pp. 8‑9.
1975
Unpublished Manuscripts
Women’s
Studies and Women’s Education
"The Impact of Women's Studies: Graduates Discuss Their Experiences," by
Natasha Lifton, Lisa Mottet
and Jean O'Barr, 1995. (Report on 1994-95 study of
graduates of the Women's Studies Program over ten years).
"Women in Science and
Engineering: A Duke University Community
Initiative, 1992-1994" by Mary Wyer, Jean O'Barr and Brenda Denzler, 1994. (Executive summary of a National
Cell Leaders in
"Micro-Level Political Development: Some Observations
from
"Ujamaa: Rural Development and Socialist
Transformation in
"Men on Gender Roles: African Writing on
Women in Society"
I am working on a book of essays on institutional power and innovation
in higher education that focuses on the way Women's Studies shapes and is
shaped by the academy. Six of the ten
essays are completed.
Recent Courses Taught
FOCUS: Social Movements; Gender, Politics and Organizations
Honors
Received and honorary degree from
Received Named Symposium from the Laura and Robert Muglia
Family Foundation, in 2001
Named University Distinguished Service Professor, first woman to be
named in university’s history, in 2000
A Chair in Women’s Studies, named the Jean Fox O’Barr
Professorship of Women’s Studies, was
awarded to
Received Distinguished Alumni Award from the Northwestern
Named the Margaret Taylor Smith Director of
Women's Studies, first endowed directorship of Women's Studies in the
Richard Lublin Award for
Excellence in Teaching in l997
ACT Evaluator for test materials
Exemplary
Recognized by alumnae of
External Evaluator for Women's Studies at the
University of California at San Luis Obispo; University of Colorado at Boulder;
University of Texas at San Antonio; University of Kansas; Appalachian State
University; Western Kentucky University; Colby College; The University of
Virginia; Dartmouth College; University of Wisconsin System; Southern
Methodist
University, Georgetown University, Columbia College, Greensboro College, Elon College, UCLA, Princeton, Furman University, North
Carolina State University, Arizona State University, University of Texas-Dallas,
University of California-Santa Barbara, University of Richmond, University of
Tulsa, Wesleyan University,UC-Santa
Barbara.
Fulbright Faculty Exchange to the
Recognized by INSTRAW as first person to teach a
course on women and development (1975) in
Faculty Women's Network Award for Distinguished
Contributions to the Status of Women at Duke (1988)
Selected for study by Ford and Exxon Education
Foundation Study (under direction of Helen Astin and
Carole Leland) as one of 25 women whose educational leadership has shaped the
direction and structure of the women's movement. The study was published in 1991 by Jossey-Bass under the title Women of Influence, Women of
Vision: A Cross‑Generational Study of Leaders and Social Change.
Named by Change Magazine in 1978 as one of
l00 outstanding young leaders in education
Selected to participate in ACE National
Identification Program for Women in Higher Education Administration National
Forum (1978)
Selected as Outstanding Young Woman of
Fellowships, Grants, and Fundraising Activities
2000 Received five fellowships and an
endowed professorship from the Lee/Ewing Foundation
1999
Travel Grant from alumna
to build Teaching Endowment
1999 University
Research Council for
book project
1997 Raised
a permanent endowment of one million dollars for the directorship
1994 University
Research Council for Legacies project
1993 NSF Women in Science grant
1993 Meyerhoff Foundation grant for study of gender and
adolescent development
1992 Raised a permanent endowment of two million dollars for Women's
Studies at
1990 Ford
Motor Company Fund for Women's Studies Seminar at Executive Headquarters in
1988 Ford
Motor Company Fund for Sesquicentennial Symposium at
1986
1984 Women
in Development Grant, Center for International
Studies,
1984‑ Mainstreaming
Women's Studies in Survey Courses, project director for grants to faculty
present members, Dean's office,
1983 Curriculum Development Grant,
Ford Foundation, Duke‑UNC‑CH Women's
1982
1981 Bloomsbury
Conference Grant, North Carolina Humanities Committee, Duke University Women's
Studies Research Center Grant, Ford Foundation, Duke
University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1981 Duke
University International Studies Conference Grant to sponsor conference,
Perspectives on Power: Women in
1980 D.
H. Lawrence Conference
Teaching Council Grant to offer an intergenerational humanities course,
U.S. Department of Labor CETA Grant to
establish a Displaced Homemakers' Center,
1979 North
Carolina Board of Science and Technology Grant to develop a roster of retired
scientists and engineers,
1977 Edna
McConnell Clark Foundation Grant to establish an Institute for Learning in
Retirement,
Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Grants l) to establish Peer Counseling Program and 2) to assist the Institute for
Learning in Retirement, Duke University
Social Dissent Conference
Value Issues in Landmark Preservation Conference
1976 Middle
Class Values Conference
1975 Second
Careers Conference Grant, Mary Duke Biddle Foundation,
Life Long Learning Policy Conference,
1975 Comparative
Area Studies Program Grant to sponsor a conference and prepare college
curriculum materials on women in developing societies,
1973 Carnegie
Foundation Grant to the National Coalition for Research on Women's Education
and Development for a study of women's continuing education programs, resulting
in the publication by Helen Astin, Some Action of Her
Own
1973 Program
of Comparative Legislative Studies Grant to sponsor Language and Politics
Symposium,
1970 Wenner‑Gren Foundation Travel Grant to attend
Symposium on "Changes in Tanzanian Rural Society and Their Relevance for
Development Planning,"
1967 Program
of Intersocietal Studies Field Research Grant, Northwestern University
1966 N.D.F.L.
(Swahili Language), Northwestern University
1965 University
Fellow, Northwestern University
1964 Woodrow
Wilson Fellow, Northwestern University
Selected Organizational Activities, Affiliations and Offices
National National Council
for Research on Women Executive Board, 1999 to 2002
Consultant, MacArthur Foundation, Spencer
Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation
American Council on Education Commission on Women, Member 1977‑1979,
Chair 1979
American
Association of Higher Education, candidate for President 1981
Catalyst Advisory Committee on Dual Careers Campus Resources Project,
1984
National Women's Studies Association
Center for Public Intellectuals
Lee/Ewing Family Foundation
State Women
Administrators in North Carolina Higher Education (WANCHE) Executive Committee
l995-7
ACE National Identification Project of Women in Administration, Steering
Committee 1975‑present
N.C. Humanities Committee Member 1978‑1982, Executive Committee
198l‑1982, Vice Chair 1982‑1984
N.C. Adult Education Association Executive Committee, 1979‑1980
Community Bridges Advisory
Board, 1993-1999
Carolina Friends School Board of Directors, 1984-1993; Chair of Long Range
Planning Committee 1989‑1991; Secretary of Board, 1991-1993
Displaced Homemakers Advisory Board, Chair, 1979‑1981
Governor's Conference on Leadership Development, Program Chair, 1979‑1980
Campus Political Science
Department Curriculum Committee, l998-1999
Social Science Research Council Grants Committee Chair, l996
Women in Science and Engineering Task Force, l996-1998
Dean of the Faculty Executive Committee, l995-1998
Duke University Medical Center Curriculum
Committee, l995-1997
Advisor, Duke Journal of Law, Gender and Public Policy, l994-2001
Center for Teaching and
Learning Advisory Board, 1994-1997, 1999-2001
Academic Council Committee on Non-traditional students, l994-1996
Overview committee on status of women at Duke, 1994-1998
Summer Priorities Committee, 1993-1995
Duke‑UNC Center for Research on Women,
Advisory Board, 198l‑present; Acting Director, 198l‑1982
African Studies Committee, 1979‑1998
Advisory Council on Aging and Human Development, 1979‑ present
Faculty Women's Network, 1977‑present
Honorary Degree Committee of Board of Trustees, 1991‑1993,
2000-2003
Women's Center Advisory Board, 1989‑1990
Academic Council Committee on the Faculty Commons, 1988‑1991
Academic Council Committee on the Status of Women, 1987‑1990
Accreditation Study Committee, 1987‑1989
Task Force for a Women's Center, 1987‑1989
Continuing Education Council of Directors, 1982‑1983
Academic Council Committee on Role of East Campus, 1979-present, Chair
1979‑1982
Academic Council Committee on Faculty Degrees, 198l‑1982
Chancellor's Committee on Residential Life, Chair, 1979‑1981