Nancy MacLean, Arts & Sciences Professor of History

Contact Info:

Office Location:	210 Carr Building
Office Phone:	(919) 681-6366
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2012):

• HISTORY 790S-04.01, NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY (TOP) Synopsis

  Carr 229, Th 03:05 PM-05:35 PM

Office Hours:

On leave in 2011-2012; by appointment only.

Education:

PhD	University of Wisconsin	1989
MA, magna cum laude	Brown University	1981
BA, magna cum laude	Brown University	1981

Specialties:

Labor and Working Class History
Politics, Public Life and Governance
Gender
Race and Ethnicity

Research Interests:

Nancy MacLean’s scholarship focuses on the role of social movements in changing American culture and public policy, with particular focus on the twentieth-century and on the roles of class, gender, race, and region in shaping these movements and determining their outcomes. Her first book, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), was among the first historical studies to apply a gender analysis to men in order to help make sense of the phenomenon of reactionary populism. More recently, she produced Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (Harvard University Press, 2006), which examined the role of jobs issues in the African American and Mexican American civil rights movements and the women’s movement, and exposed the enduring conservative opposition to the quest to create inclusive workplaces. Since then, she has produced two books for course use: The American Women’s Movement, 1945-2000: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009) and, with Donald T. Critchlow, Debating the American Conservative Movement: 1945 to the Present (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009). She is currently working on the deep history of the push to privatize public services and decision-making, with a focus on school vouchers.

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students  

• Stephanie R. Rytilahti  
• Jonathon M. Free  
• Rebecca Marchiel  
• Alexander Gourse  
• Fernando Carbajal  

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (2006), Havard University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation [catalog.php]
2. Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (1994), Oxford University Press [available here]
3. The American Women's Movement, 1945-2000: A Brief History with Documents (2008), Bedford/St. Martins [newcatalog.aspx]
4. Donald T. Critchlow and Nancy MacLean, Debating the American Conservative Movement: 1945 to the Present (2009), Rowman & Littlefield [CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0742548236]

Selected Grant Support

• 2008-2009 John Hope Franklin Senior Fellowship, National Humanities Center.      
• 2008-2009 Senior Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies.      
• 1999-2000 Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation.      
• 1995-1996 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship.