Corinne Field
Adjunct Professor (2007)
Office Hours: Wednesday 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Office: Nau 352
Email: cf6d (at) virginia.edu
Fields & Specialties
U.S. gender and race; childhood and adulthoodPh.D. Columbia University 2008
B.A. Stanford University 1987
PUBLICATIONS
“‘Made Women of When They are Mere Children’: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Critique of Eighteenth-Century Girlhood,” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (Spring 2011): 197-222.
“‘Are Women . . . All Minors?’: Woman’s Rights and the Politics of Aging in the Antebellum United States,” Journal of Women’s History, vol. 12, no. 4 (2001): 113-137.
“Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Gendered Politics of Aging,” Iris: A Journal About Women, no. 42 (Spring 2001): 28-31.
"Breast-Feeding, Sexual Pleasure, and Women's Rights: Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication," Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture, vol. 9, no. 2 (1995): 25-44.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Monograph tentatively titled Perpetual Minors: Women’s Rights and the Struggle for Equal Adulthood in the Atlantic World. To be completed May 2011.
“Frances E. W. Harper and the Politics of Intellectual Maturity,” an invited essay to be included in a volume on black women’s intellectual and cultural history, edited by Farah Griffin, Mia Bay, and Martha Jones.
“Matriarchy in Black and White: Frances Harper and Elizabeth Cady Stanton on the Empowerment of Older Women,” invited article to be submitted to Feminist Studies.
Currently researching monograph, tentatively titled Minors to Men: Maturation, Gender, and Race in the Early American Republic, which will explore the political significance of manhood as a stage of life.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Fellow in Residence, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Fall 2010-Spring 2011
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia, Spring 2010
Fellow, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Fall 2009
Finalist, 2009 Organization of American Historians’ Lerner-Scott Dissertation Prize
Radcliffe Dissertation Grant, Schlesinger Library, 1996-1997
TEACHING
University of Virginia, Adjunct Faculty, Studies in Women and Gender. 2007-2009.
Columbia University, Preceptor, Contemporary Civilization. 1996-1997.
COURSES TAUGHT
History of Women in America, 1600-1865
Gender and Race in US History
Women’s Rights in America From the Revolution to the Right to Vote
Feminism in America, 1910-Present
Contemporary Civilization
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
“A Humanistic Perspective on Generational Difference,” presented at the 2010 Virginia Humanities Conference (Staunton, Virginia, March 2010).
“Grand Old Women and Old Maids: Birthday Celebrations and the Politics of Aging in the Nineteenth-Century Woman’s Rights Movement,” presented at the 2007 Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting (Minneapolis, March 2007).
“Matriarchal Theory, Internationalism, and Colonialism in the Late Nineteenth-Century Woman’s Rights Movement,” presented at the Thirteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women (Claremont, California, June 2005).
“Age, Gender, Race, and the Construction of Citizenship in the United States,” presented at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association (Washington, DC, January 2004).
SERVICE
Panel Organizer, "How Age and Generation Matter for Women's History in Modern Europe and North America." Accepted for the 2011 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women.
Panel Organizer, “The Transatlantic Roots of Early American Feminism: The Influence of Mary Wollstonecraft.” Accepted for the 2011 meeting of the Organization of American Historians.
Panel Organizer, “Black Women and Religious Leadership: A Transnational Perspective.” Accepted for 2011 meeting of the American Historical Association.
Panel Organizer. “Black Women and Intellectual Activism.” Accepted for the 2011 meeting of the American Historical Association.
Panel Organizer, “Beyond the Boundaries of the Nation State: Struggles for Woman Suffrage in International and Colonial Contexts, 1870 to 1950.” 2005 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women.
