Sarah J. Deutsch, Professor Emerita

My work engages issues of difference, particularly racial, gender, class, and spatial formations. My current book project is “Making a Modern U.S. West, 1898-1942.” I have written three other books, Women and the City: Gender, Space and Power in Boston, 1870-1940 (2000); From Ballots to Breadlines: American Women, 1920-1940 (1994); and No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940 (1987).

Office Location:	326 Classroom Building, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	+1 919 684 3014
Email Address:

Office Hours:

Wednesdays 2-4, Carr Building Rm. 326

Education:

Ph.D.	Yale University	1985
M.Lit.	Oxford University (United Kingdom)	1980
B.A.	Yale University	1977

Specialties:

Race and Ethnicity
Gender
Labor and Working Class History
United States and Canada

Research Interests: History of the U.S. West, 1898-1942

My work engages issues of difference, particularly racial, gender, class, and spatial formations. My current book project is “Making a Modern U.S. West, 1898-1942.” I have written three other books, Women and the City: Gender, Space and Power in Boston, 1870-1940 (2000); From Ballots to Breadlines: American Women, 1920-1940 (1994); and No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940 (1987).

Current Ph.D. Students  

• Orion A Teal  
• Jenny W. Crowley  
• Eric W Weber  
• Georgia P. Welch  

Representative Publications

1. Deutsch, S, Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940 (2000), Oxford University Press  [abs]
2. Deutsch, S, From Ballots to Breadlines, in No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States, edited by Cott, NF (2000), Oxford University Press  [abs]
3. Deutsch, S, excerpt from No Separate Refuge, in Major Problems in the History of American Families and Children, edited by Jabour, A (2004), Houghton Mifflin
4. Deutsch, S, Labor, Land, and Protest since Statehood, in Telling New Mexico: A New History, edited by Weigle, M (2009), pp. 269-284, Museum of New Mexico Press  [abs]
5. Deutsch, S, "Being American in Boley, Oklahoma", in Beyond Black and White: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the United States South and Southwest, edited by Cole, S; Parker, AM, vol. 35 (2004), pp. 97-122 (introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt.)  [abs]
6. Deutsch, S, The Politics of Race and Sex in Boston’s NAACP, 1920-1940, in Boston’s Histories: Essays in Honor of Thomas H. O’Connor, edited by Toole, JO; Quigley, D (2004), pp. 191-213, Northeastern University Press  [abs]
7. Deutsch, S, Connections, in Chicana Leadership: The Frontiers Reader (2002)  [abs]
8. Deutsch, S, excerpts, in Women’s America, 4th (2002) (This excerpt from No Separate Refuge (1987) was reprinted in the Japanese translation of Women's America in 2002..)