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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referencedIn News Service Biographical Files, ., circa 1930s - 2004 University Archives, Duke University.
referencedIn Records, 1962 (1969-1976) 1979 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Biographical Reference Collection, ., 1972 - 2004 University Archives, Duke University.
creatorOf Jean O'Barr Papers, 1974-2008 David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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