Ellen Carol DuBois is a professor of

history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

and

gender studies Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. The field ...

. She has taught at the

University at Buffalo The State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly called the University at Buffalo (UB) and sometimes called SUNY Buffalo, is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York. The university was founded in 1846 ...

and ended her career at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

(UCLA). DuBois retired from UCLA in 2017. She is known for her pioneering work in women's history and for her history books.

Biography

DuBois became interested in history while in her senior year of high school. She earned a B.A. from

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial g ...

in 1968 and a Ph.D. from

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

in 1975. DuBois became interested in the

women's liberation movement The women's liberation movement (WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism that emerged in the late 1960s and continued into the 1980s primarily in the industrialized nations of the Western world, which effected great ...

while she was a graduate student and started working with the

Chicago Women's Liberation Union The Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU) was an American feminist organization founded in 1969 at a conference in Palatine, Illinois. The main goal of the organization was to end gender inequality and sexism, which the CWLU defined as "the sy ...

. Her interest in the movement led to her becoming "one of the early pioneers of women's history," according to ''

People's World ''People's World'', official successor to the ''Daily Worker'', is a Marxist and American leftist national daily online news publication. Founded by activists, socialists, communists, and those active in the labor movement in the early 1900s, th ...

''. Her work focused on the importance of formal politics and women's history. After teaching at the

for 16 years, she moved to Los Angeles to continue teaching at

(UCLA). She retired from UCLA in 2017.

Awards

In 1998, she won the

Joan Kelly Joan Kelly, also known as Joan Kelly-Gadol (March 29, 1928 – August 15, 1982) was a prominent American historian who wrote on the Italian Renaissance, specifically on Leon Battista Alberti. Among her best known works is the essay "Did Wom ...

Memorial Prize of the

American Historical Association The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest professional association of historians in the United States and the largest such organization in the world. Founded in 1884, the AHA works to protect academic freedom, develop professional s ...

for her book about

Harriot Stanton Blatch Harriot Eaton Blatch ( Stanton; January 20, 1856–November 20, 1940) was an American writer and suffragist. She was the daughter of pioneering women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Biography Harriot Eaton Stanton was born, the sixth ...

, ''Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage'' (Yale University Press, 1997).

Selected publications

* "Working Women, Class Relations and Suffrage Militance:

and the New York Woman Suffrage Movement, 1894-1910", Journal of American History, June 1987 * ''Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America 1848-1869'' (1978) * ''Through Women's Eyes: An American History with Documents'' (with Lynn Dumenil)Through Women's Eyes
Macmillan Learning (2005) * ''Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote'' (2020)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dubois, Ellen 1947 births Living people Wellesley College alumni Northwestern University alumni University at Buffalo faculty University of California, Los Angeles faculty 21st-century American historians American women historians Gender studies academics 21st-century American women Historians from California