Joan Hoff | |
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Born | Butte, Montana, U.S. | June 27, 1937
Other names | Joan Hoff-Wilson |
Alma mater |
University of Montana, Cornell University, University of California, Berkeley |
Occupation(s) | Historian, academic, research professor, editor, author |
Known for | U.S. foreign policy, U.S. political history, biographies, women's history, law history |
Joan Hoff (born June 27, 1937), [1] [2] [3] also known as Joan Hoff-Wilson, [3] is an American historian, research professor, editor, and author. [4] [5] She specializes in U.S. foreign policy, U.S. political history, biographies, women's history, [6] and law history. Hoff is the former director of the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University. She has worked at California State University, Sacramento; Arizona State University; Indiana University; and Montana State University. [7] [8] She retired in 2001 and lives between Big Sky, Montana and New York City, as of 2003. [9]
Joan Hoff was born on June 27, 1937, in Butte, Montana. [1] She attended the University of Montana where she received a BA degree (1957); [1] Cornell University where she received a MA degree (1959) and was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow; [1] and University of California, Berkeley where she received a PhD (1966). [5] [2] [4] Hoff received a Fulbright Award (1958 to 1959) for study at the University of Strasbourg. [1]
Hoff has taught at the following universities and colleges: the College of San Mateo; [10] California State University, Sacramento from 1967 to 1970; [1] Arizona State University from 1970 to 1976; [7] Dartmouth College; [10] Indiana University from 1981 to 1998; [8] Ohio University from 1998 to ?; [8] and Montana State University. [5]
Historian Susan Kingsley Kent criticized Hoff's article, Gender as a postmodern category of paralysis (1994, Women's History Review), as it "breaks no new intellectual ground, but for anti-intellectualism, disingenuousness, and sheer incivility". [11] In the 1990s, she has appeared as a panelist in discussions broadcast by C-Span. [12]
in 1981, Hoff was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of U.S. history. [8] She has also received the Vivian Paladin Award, and fellowships to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Radcliffe Institute, as well as a National Endowment of the Humanities research grant. [8]
Joan Hoff | |
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Born | Butte, Montana, U.S. | June 27, 1937
Other names | Joan Hoff-Wilson |
Alma mater |
University of Montana, Cornell University, University of California, Berkeley |
Occupation(s) | Historian, academic, research professor, editor, author |
Known for | U.S. foreign policy, U.S. political history, biographies, women's history, law history |
Joan Hoff (born June 27, 1937), [1] [2] [3] also known as Joan Hoff-Wilson, [3] is an American historian, research professor, editor, and author. [4] [5] She specializes in U.S. foreign policy, U.S. political history, biographies, women's history, [6] and law history. Hoff is the former director of the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University. She has worked at California State University, Sacramento; Arizona State University; Indiana University; and Montana State University. [7] [8] She retired in 2001 and lives between Big Sky, Montana and New York City, as of 2003. [9]
Joan Hoff was born on June 27, 1937, in Butte, Montana. [1] She attended the University of Montana where she received a BA degree (1957); [1] Cornell University where she received a MA degree (1959) and was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow; [1] and University of California, Berkeley where she received a PhD (1966). [5] [2] [4] Hoff received a Fulbright Award (1958 to 1959) for study at the University of Strasbourg. [1]
Hoff has taught at the following universities and colleges: the College of San Mateo; [10] California State University, Sacramento from 1967 to 1970; [1] Arizona State University from 1970 to 1976; [7] Dartmouth College; [10] Indiana University from 1981 to 1998; [8] Ohio University from 1998 to ?; [8] and Montana State University. [5]
Historian Susan Kingsley Kent criticized Hoff's article, Gender as a postmodern category of paralysis (1994, Women's History Review), as it "breaks no new intellectual ground, but for anti-intellectualism, disingenuousness, and sheer incivility". [11] In the 1990s, she has appeared as a panelist in discussions broadcast by C-Span. [12]
in 1981, Hoff was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of U.S. history. [8] She has also received the Vivian Paladin Award, and fellowships to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Radcliffe Institute, as well as a National Endowment of the Humanities research grant. [8]