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  Felicia Kornbluh, Affiliated Faculty
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  Assistant Professor

Office Location:  226 Carr Bldg
Office Phone:  +1 919 668 1695
Email Address:  send me a message
Web Page:   http://www.duke.edu/womstud/~kornbluh

Education:

  • PhD Princeton University 2000
  • MA Princeton University 1994
  • BA Harvard-Radcliffe College University 1989

Specialties:

United States
19th and 20th Centuries
Women
Race
Law
Gender
Sexuality
Public Policy
Research Interests:

Dr. Kornbluh teaches courses on Women and Gender In The U.S. Since 1890, on Welfare And Public Policy In The U.S. And Other Societies, and on the Law And Society In America. Her articles on Women And The Welfare State, On Social Protest And Racial Politics Since 1965, have been published in the journals Feminist Studies, Signs, Social Policy, Radical History Review, and Black Labor History. Her current work focuses on "A Right to Welfare? Poor Women, Professionals, and Poverty Programs, 1935-1975"; a portion of that work is included in Women's America (edited by Linda Kerber and Jane DeHart). She has held fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation for research in Women's Studies, from the American Bar Association for research in law and social science, and from the New Your University Law School for research in legal history.

Recent Publications
  1. "Black Buying Power: Welfare Rights, Consumerism, and Northern Protest." Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980  (February, 2003).
  2. "Welfare Mothers: 'Maternalism,' 'Black Feminism,' and Welfare Rights."  currently in revision stage Journal of Women's History  (2003).
  3. "A Human Right to Welfare? Social Protest Among Women Welfare Recipients After World War II."  Also published in Women's America 4th ed., 2000, pp. 523-531. My article was the first ever published in this important textbook by a scholar who had not yet received her Ph.D Women's America 5th edition (forthcoming 2003).
  4. Leila Rupp, "Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement". Signs  (Winter, 2001): 606-609.
  5.  "Community Activism and Feminist Politics: Organizing Across Race, Class, and Gender". Signs  (Winter, 2001): 606-609.