Mari Jo Buhle (born 1943) is an American historian and William J. Kenan Jr. University Professor Emerita at

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Early life and education

Buhle was born in 1943 as Mari Jo Kupski. She graduated from

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in 1961. Listed as Mari Jo Kupski Buhle in 1968, she received her Master of Arts degree in history from the

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. She earned a doctorate from the

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in 1974.

Career

She served on the faculty of Brown University from 1972 until her retirement in 2009, where she was the first member of the faculty to hold a position dedicated to women's studies. She taught mainly on the history of American women, training students at the undergraduate and graduate levels in both the American Civilization and History departments. Buhle's own research began with a specialty in the history of American radicalism and expanded to include the history of the behavior sciences in the United States. Buhle has received fellowships from the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College; the Bunting Institute (now the Radcliffe Institute) at Harvard University; and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (1991-1996). Since the 1980s, Buhle, husband

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, and

Dan Georgakas Dan Georgakas ( el, Νταν Γεωργακάς; 1938–2021) was an American anarchist poet and historian, who specialized in oral history and the American labor movement, best known for the publication ''Detroit: I do mind dying: A study in u ...

have been co-writing and publishing ''Encyclopedia of the American Left'', first published in 1990. In 1991, Buhle was named a

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Personal life

On December 30, 1963, she married

Paul Buhle Paul Merlyn Buhle (born September 27, 1944) is a (retired) Senior Lecturer at Brown University, author or editor of 35 volumes including histories of radicalism in the United States and the Caribbean, studies of popular culture, and a series ...

Legacy

Buhle's papers (1971 to 2008) are held at

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Works

*''It Started in Wisconsin: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest'', (Verso, 2012_
''The concise history of woman suffrage''
eds. Mari Jo Buhle and Paul Buhle (University of Illinois Press, 2005), *''Out of Many, Volume 1: A History of the American People'', John Mack Faragher, Mari Jo Buhle, Susan Armitage, Daniel Czitrom (Prentice Hall, 2005),
''Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis''
(Harvard University Press, 2000),
''The American radical''
eds. Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, Harvey J. Kaye (Routledge, 1994), *''Encyclopedia of the American Left'', Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, Dan Georgakas (Garland Pub., 1990),
''Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920''
(University of Illinois Press, 1983),

References

External links

Mari Jo Buhle papers
at the

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, Smith College Special Collections {{DEFAULTSORT:Buhle, Mari Jo Living people Brown University faculty University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni MacArthur Fellows 21st-century American historians 1943 births Date of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) University of Connecticut alumni American women historians 21st-century American women