O'Barr, Jean F.

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Jean Fox O'Barr was a professor and founder of Duke University's Women's Studies program, as well as a co-founder of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.

1964 B.A., Indiana University 1965 M.A., Northwestern University 1969 Joined the faculty at Duke University 1970 Ph.D., Northwestern University 1971 1983 Dean, Continuing Education, Duke University 1976 Editor, Language and Politics (The Hague: Mouton) 1976 Author, Third World Women: Factors in Their Changing Status (Durham: Duke University Comparative Area Studies Program) 1983 Founded the Women's Studies Program, Duke University 1984 Editor, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (journal) 1987 Women's Studies graduate courses began, Duke University 1987 Editor (with Sandra Harding), Sex and Scientific Inquiry (Chicago: University of Chicago) 1988 Co-founded the Women's Studies Archivist position (later became the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture), Duke University 1989 Editor, Women and a New Academy: Gender and Cultural Contexts (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin) 1992 Editor (with Mary Wyer), Engaging Feminism: Students Speak Up and Speak Out (Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia) 1992 Jean O'Barr Fund established by Duke University alumnae 1994 Undergraduate major established in Women's Studies, Duke University 1994 Author, Feminism in Action: Building Institutions and Community through Women's Studies (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina) 1998 2001 Named the first Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies, Duke University 2000 University Distinguished Service Professor, Duke University (The first woman in Duke's history to be so named) 2000 Jean Fox O'Barr Professorship of Women's Studies chair awarded to Duke University by Lee/Ewing Foundation 2008 Retired, Duke University

From the guide to the Jean O'Barr Papers, 1974-2008, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)

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