Jean H. Quataert

Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles
Women's history, German history, Human Rights and Transnational History
Co-editor: Journal of Women's History (2010-2015)
Office: LT 809
Phone: (607) 777-4055   E-mail: profquat@binghamton.edu
Web Site: http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~profquat

Jean Quataert takes graduate students in modern German History but is committed to broadening their training beyond the borders of Europe, by encouraging a field in comparative history or by analyzing German/European developments in their wider global contexts or by innovative methodological work that spans distinct cultures. On the undergraduate level, she teaches Modern World History and encourages her graduate students to work with her as Teaching Assistants to become involved in expanding this important new teaching field. Jean Quataert also offers a minor field in human rights history.

Recent or current undergraduate courses:

• Modern World History
• Human Rights Since 1945

Recent or current graduate courses:

• Global History Colloquium
• Historicizing Human Rights
• Central Europe, 1517-1989
• Gendering German History
• Globalizing European History

"America and Torture in the Modern Age: A Forum" April 21, 2006

Significant Publications

Books:

• Advocating Dignity: Human Rights Mobilizations in Global Politics (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009).
• Gendering Modern German History: Rewriting Historiographies, editor with Karen Hagemann, Berghahn Books, May, 2007.
• The Gendering of Human Rights in the International Systems of Law in the Twentieth Century, American Historical Association series in Global and Comparative History. General Editor Michael Adas. Washington, D.C., 2006.
• Staging Philanthropy: Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916, Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, 2001.
• Connecting Spheres: Women in the Western World from 1500 to the Present, co-author and editor with Marilyn J. Boxer. Oxford University Press, 1987; second edition, 1999.
• Gendered Colonialisms in African History, co-editor with Nancy Rose Hunt and Tessie R. Liu, Gender and History, vol 8, no. 3, November 1996. Oxford and Cambridge, 1996.
• Reluctant Feminists in German Social Democracy, 1885-1917. Princeton, New Jersey, 1979.
• Socialist Women: European Socialist Feminism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, editor and contributor with Marilyn J. Boxer, New York, 1978.

Recent Articles:

• “War-Making and the Restraint of Law: the Formative Years, 1864-1914,” in The Cambridge History of War: War and the Modern World (l850-2005), eds., Roger Chickering, Dennis Showalter and Hans van de Ven, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, 9000 words.
• “Gendered Medical Services in Red Cross Field Hospitals during the First Balkan War and World War I,” in Peace, War, and Gender from Antiquity to the Present: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, eds. Jost Dülffer and Robert Frank (“Frieden und Krieg” series), Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2009, pp. 219-33.
• “‘Being heard on important matters of international life’: Transnational Perspectives on Women’s Movements, l890-1914,” in Wilhelmine Germany and Edwardian Britain: Essays on Cultural Affinities, eds., Robert Gerwarth and Dominik Geppert, Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. 173-195.
• "Comparing Historiographies and Academic Cultures in Germany and the U.S. through the Lens of Gender," with Karen Hagemann in Hagemann and Quataert, Gendering Modern German History: Rewriting Historiographies, New York, Berghahn Books, 2006.
• "Preface: European Women's History at the Crossroads," in Deborah Simonton, ed., The Routledge History of Women in Europe, since 1700, London and New York, Routledge, 2006, pp. x-xvii.
• "Gendered Medical Services in the Mobile Field Hospitals during the Balkan Wars and World War I, l9l2-l9l8," in History and the Global Perspective: Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences, Sydney, 2005, ed. Marilyn Lyons, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2006, ISBN: 0-646-45719-5.
• "Women's Wartime Services Under the Cross: Patriotic Communities in Germany, 1912-1918," in Roger Chickering and Stig Forster, eds., Great War, Total War; Combat and Mobilization in the Western Front, 1914-1918 (Washington, D.C. and Cambridge, 2000): 453-483.
• "German Patriotic Women's Work in War and Peace Time, 1864-90," in Stig Förster and Jörg Nagler, eds., On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861-1871. Cambridge, 1997, pp. 449-77.
• "Demographic and Social Change," in Roger Chickering, ed., Imperial Germany: A Historiographical Companion. Westport, Connecticut and London, 1996, pp. 97-130.
• "Writing the History of Women and Gender in Imperial Germany," in Geoff Eley, ed., Society, Culture and the State in Germany 1870-1930. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1996, pp. 43-65.
• "Survival Strategies in a Saxon Textile District during the Early Phases of Industrialization, 1780-1860," in Daryl M. Hafter, ed., European Women and Preindustrial Craft. Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1995, pp. 153-78.

Honors and Awards

Jean Quataert received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities of the State University of New York for 2009-2010. She also is the recipient of the Chancellor's and University's Distinguished Teaching Award (1999), the Central European History Prize for the best article in a two year period (1987) and the Berkshire Prize for the best article in the field of History written by a woman (1986), for: "The Shaping of Women's Work in Manufacturing: Guilds, Household and the State in Central Europe, 1648-1870, The American Historical Review, vol 90, no. 4 (December 1995): 1122-1148.

Professional Activities

Jean Quataert served as co-chair of the Program Committee for the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, 1990; 1990-95 served as Chair of the Committee on International Historical Activities of the American Historical Association; served on the Berlin Program Selection Committee of the German Studies Association and the Free University of Berlin, 2008-10; she will be co-editor of the Journal of Women's History, 2010-15 and is currently on the editorial board of Frauengeschichte-Geschlechterverhaltnis. Zeitschrift für historische Frauenforschung, Bonn, Germany.