Philip Merrill College of Journalism | University of Maryland

2006-07 Carnegie Instructors

The Fall 2006 Instructors:

IRA BERLIN
Distinguished University Professor, Dept. of History
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1970
US History, African-American History, Slavery
iberlin@umd.edu
301-405-4266
2101L Francis Scott Key hall
Office hours: Tuesdays 3-5

   “Ira Berlin has written extensively on American history and the larger Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly the history of slavery. His first book, Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South (1975) won the Best First Book Prize awarded by the National Historical Society. Berlin is the founding editor of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project, which he directed until 1991. The project's multi-volume Freedom: A Documentary history of Emancipation (1982, 1985, 1990, 1993) has twice been awarded the Thomas Jefferson Prize of the Society for History in the Federal Government, as well as the J. Franklin Jameson Prize of the American Historical Association for outstanding editorial achievement, and the Abraham Lincoln Prize for excellence in Civil-War studies by the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute of Gettysburg College.
    “In 1999, his study of African-American life between 1619 and 1819, entitled Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in Mainland North America was awarded the Bancroft Prize for the best book in American history by Columbia University; Frederick Douglass Prize by the Gilder-Lehrman Institute; Owsley Prize by the Southern Historical Association, and the Rudwick Prize by the Organization of American Historians. In 2002, Generations of Captivity: A History of Slaves in the United States was awarded the Albert Beveridge Prize by the American Historical Association and the Ansfield Wolf Award.
     “Berlin has been awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Arco Foundation, the National Historical Publication and Records Commission, and the University of Maryland. He was Bi-Centennial Professor (Fulbright) at Centre de Recherche sur l'Histoire des Etats-Unis, Universite Paris VII (Institut D'Anglais Charles V), Cardozo Professor of History at Yale University, and Mellon Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois. In 2002, same year, he was inaugurated as president of the Organization of American Historians and in 2004 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.”
--http://www.history.umd.edu/Bio/berlin.html

HARRIET PRESSER
Distinguished University Professor, Department of Sociology
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1969
Demography: gender, work and family
presser@socy.umd.edu
301-405-6422
Art/Sociology Bldg., room 3114
Office hours: Wednesdays 2-3 and by appt.

   “Harriet B. Presser is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Sociology. She was the founding Director of the Center on Population, Gender, and Social Inequality (now the Maryland Population Research Center) at the University of Maryland, College Park, serving from 1988 to 2001. She is Past President of the Population Association of America (1989), and was named George Washington University’s 1992 Distinguished Alumni Scholar, having received her B.A. from there in 1959. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969. She has held residential fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford (1986-87,1991-92, and 2003-04), the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Science (1994-95), the Russell Sage Foundation (1998-99 and summer 2000), and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study and Conference Center (March-April 2000).
   “In 2002, Professor Presser was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The certificate conveying this honor states: ‘For innovative research on issues of population, labor force, gender, and social inequality; for exceptional institution building; and for outstanding service to demographic and sociological societies.’
   “In addition to conducting basic research in social demography, Presser studies population and family policy issues from a national and international perspective. She teaches courses in these areas. She has recently completed her book, Working in a 24/7 Economy: Challenges for American Families, published by the Russell Sage Foundation.
“Professor Presser has received grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the W.T. Grant Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Population Council. Her current grant from the Russell Sage Foundation (with Janet Gornick at CUNY, Baruch) is on Nonstandard Work Schedules and Public Policy in Cross-National Perspective, examining variations within Europe and the U.S.”
-- http://www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/faculty/hpresser.html

BARBARA FINKELSTEIN
Professor and Distinguished Scholar Teacher, International Center for Transcultural Education
Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University
bf@umd.edu
301-405-3588
3112G Benjamin Building
Office hours:

“Dr. Barbara Finkelstein, is an historian of education who examines historical and cultural dimensions of education policies and practices as they have impinged on the lives of children, youth, minority groups, and women, and shaped the quality of education opportunities available to them. She has received an array of awards for historical work that integrates the experiences of childhood and youth into the history of education in the United States, documents the evolution of teacher behavior in popular primary schools, explores civic purpose in education, and analyzes the involvement of government in child-rearing. She has also done extensive oral historical field work centered on minority group experience with literacy and school reform in both Japan and the United States, and has, through her work as Founding Director of the International Center for Transcultural Education, organized, participated, and engaged students in interdisciplinary research collaborations centering on the recovery of previously invisible historical voices, on reconstitution policies in the United States, immigrant education policies in Japan and the U.S., and cultural stereotyping in the Middle East, Japan, and the United States. She has been past president of the history of Education society, the American Educational Studies Association, and Vice President of Division F (History and Historiography) of the American Education Research Association, editor of the reflective history series at Teachers College Press, and U.S. editorial advisor to the leading European history of education journals. She has published and lectured extensively on the role of teachers as cultural mediators, the uses of literacy among minority groups, the shape of diversity policies in various educational settings, and more recently on the historical roots of child abuse. She has been the recipient of UMCP’s Woman of the Year Award, (1997-1998), the UMCP Distinguished International Service Award, (1994-1995), and has been nominated for four consecutive years as EDPL Mentor of the Year.”
--http://www.education.umd.edu/EDPA/faculty/finkelstein.html