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Professor
Office: Herter 605
Telephone: (413) 545-6759
Fax: (413) 545-6137
E-mail: jberkman@history.umass.edu
Degree: Ph.D., Yale (1967).
Field(s) of interest: U.S., British and European Women's History.
Graduate Courses Offered:
Seminar in U.S. Women and Gender History
Topics in U.S. Women's History
Research Interests and Professional Activities
Professor Berkman is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Danforth Associate
and in 1980 won the University's Distinguished Teacher Award, and
in 1988 and 1989 University nominee for CASE (Council for the Advancement
and Support of Education) Professor of the Year Award. Professor
Berkman's most recently published book is The Healing Imagination
of Olive Schreiner: Beyond South African Colonialism (University
of Massachusetts Press, 1989, paperback editions, 1993; E. Donker,
1990; Tokyo: Shobun-Sha, 1992). She is also one of the editors of
African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965 (University
of Massachusetts Press, 1997). At present, her three research projects
are: a comparative analysis of the impact of World War I on two
feminist volunteer nurses--the German philosopher and later nun,
Edith Stein, and the English journalist and novelist, pacifist and
feminist, Vera Brittain; co-editing a volume of interdisciplinary
essays on Edith Stein; and a study of the twentieth-century history
of the concept of empathy. Her work on Stein contributed to her
receiving a Fulbright Award as a scholar in Fulbright's Summer 2000
German Studies Seminar. Additionally, she co-directs the Valley
Women's History Collaborative that oversees research, oral history,
and documentation projects of the history of feminist and/or lesbian
activism in Massachusetts' Pioneer Valley from 1968 to the present.
Finally, she is engaged in diverse undertakings involving K-12 social
studies and history teachers.
Photo: Brian Ogilvie
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