FACULTY & STAFF

Dr. Lisa Levenstein

Contact Information

Email: levenstein@uncg.edu
Office: 339 Curry
https://lisalevenstein.com/

Education

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2002
M.A., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1997
A.B., Brown University, 1994

Academic Positions

Director, Women's and Gender Studies Program, 2019-
Director, UNCG Humanities Network and Consortium, 2016-2019
Professor, University of North Carolina Greensboro, 2021-present 
Associate Professor, University of North Carolina Greensboro, 2010-2021 
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Greensboro, 2002-2010

Research Interests

• 20th Century U.S. Women and Gender
• Transnational Feminism
• Contemporary U.S. Feminism
• African American Women
• Postwar Social Movements

Selected Publications

• They Didn't See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties (Basic Books, 2020).
• "A Social Movement for a Global Age: US Feminists and the Beijing Women's Conference of 1995," Journal of American History 105:2 (September 2018): 336-65.
• "'Don’t Agonize, Organize!' The Displaced Homemakers Campaign and the Contested Goals of 1970s Feminism," Journal of American History 100:4 (March 2014): 144-68.
• Co-authored with Cornelia Hughes Dayton, "The Big Tent of U.S. Women’s and Gender History: A State of the Field," Journal of American History, 99:3 (December 2012): 793-817.
• A Movement Without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia (UNC Press, 2009). Co-winner, Kenneth Jackson Book Award, Urban History Association; Honorable Mention, Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians.

Selected Research Awards and Fellowships

• 2017-2018: American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
• 2016-17 and 2010-11: Linda Carlisle Research Award, UNCG Department of Women's and Gender Studies
• 2014-2015: National Humanities Center Fellowship
• 2014: Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society
• 2012: Anne Firor Scott Mid-Career Fellowship, Southern Association for Women's Historians

Ph.D. Dissertations Directed

• Robbins Marritt, Angela (BS, UNC Greensboro; MA, UNC Greensboro) "Bridging the Old South and the New: Women in the Economic Transformation of the North Carolina Piedmont, 1865-1920"
• Thomas, Susan (BA, Greensboro College; MA, UNC Greensboro) "Chain Gangs, Roads, and Reform in North Carolina, 1900-1935." Received UNCG Outstanding Dissertation Award.
• Dudley-Shotwell, Hannah G. (BA, College of William and Mary; MA, UNC Greensboro) "Feminist Self-Help in the Women's Health Movement, 1970s-1990s." Received UNCG Outstanding Dissertation Award.
• Strohmer, Therese (BS, Southern Oregon University; MA, UNC Greensboro) "Soldiers, Not WACS: How Women's Integration Transformed the Army, 1964-1994"
• Licata, Justina (BA, Wagner College; MA, UNC Greensboro) "The Life and Death of Norplant: How Feminists and Class Action Lawyers Brought Down the Most Promising Birth Control Device in Decades"

External Links

https://lisalevenstein.com/