Studies in Women & Gender
Mailing Address:
Studies in Women
     and Gender
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400172
Charlottesville, VA
22904-4172
Physical Address:
227 Minor Hall
Charlottesville, VA

People

Holly Shulman

Holly Shulman
Originally trained as a 20th century U.S. historian, Holly Cowan Shulman has moved into the Early Republic and is currently the director of the Dolley Madison Project at the University of Virginia. In 2003 she published, with David B. Mattern, The Selected Letters of Dolley Madison (University of Virginia Press), a collection of 300 letters accompanied by six essays. The Electronic Imprint of the University of Virginia Press will publish The Complete Correspondence of Dolley Madison this winter. An online documentary edition of Dolley Madison's letters, this will be one of the first publications of the Electronic Imprint and one of the few complete documentary editions of any woman's letters in American history. She has also begun another project in American women's history, this one focused on the twentieth century: Wednesdays in Mississippi: Civil Rights as Women's Work. This project studies a group of women who participated in the civil rights movement in the 1960s under the umbrella of the National Council of Negro Women. To date this project has conducted a number of Oral Histories and is collecting original documents as part of the University of Virginia Library. Shulman's first book was The Voice of America: Propaganda and Democracy, 1941-1945. After teaching for many years in the history department at Maryland, she also spent five years as Associate Director of an honors program in Science, Technology, and Society where, among other areas, she taught an internship on web publishing and courses on women and race in science and technology. She has edited with Maurine Beasley, Professor of Journalism at the University of Maryland, The Encyclopedia of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Address:
Studies in Women and Gender
Minor Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903
hcs8n@virginia.edu
(434) 243-8881
Fax: 434-924-6969

Education:
Ph.D.   US History, University of Maryland (1984)

Employment:
Research Associate Professor
Studies in Women and Gender
University of Virginia

Honors and Awards (selected):

  • International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello
  • 1998 -- Arthur Schlesinger Research Fellowship, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
  • Beeke-Levy Research Fellowship, 1998; Smithsonian Fellow. Consultant: USIA; Holt, Rinehart and Winston

Publications

Current Projects:

  • 2004 -- "The Dolley Madison Digital Archive" (Electronic Imprint, University of Virginia Press).
  • "Wednesdays in Mississippi: Civil Rights as Women's Work"

Books:

  • 1990 -- The Voice of America: Propaganda and Democracy, 1941-1945.
  • 2000 -- with Maurine Beasly, The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia.
  • 2002 -- With David Mattern, "Dolley Madison: Her Life, Letters, and Legacy" (Rosen Publications).
  • 2003 -- With David Mattern, "The Selected Letters of Dolley Madison" (University of Virginia Press).

Articles (selected):

  • 1996 -- "Dolley Madison." American First Ladies , ed. Lew Gould.
  • 1997 -- "The Voice of America, U.S. Propaganda and the Holocaust: "I would have remembered." Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television. 1997.
  • 1994 -- "Reporting Abroad: The Importance of International News Reporting in the Gulf War," in Viewing War: How the Media Handled the Persian Gulf , eds. Susan Jeffords and Lauren Rabinovitz.
  • 1991 -- "One Way Radio." The New Republic.
  • 1988 -- "John Houseman and the Voice of America: American Propaganda on the Air." American Studies.