Barbara Steinson

Barbara Steinson,  University Professor (2003-2007) and Professor of History, received  her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1977 and has been  teaching  U.S. history and U.S. women's history at DePauw since 1978.   Her  courses in women's history over the  years include: “American Experience: Women  and Families,”  “U.S. Women's Legal History,” “Women and War,” “Women's Social and  Political Movements,” “U.S. Women 1700-1900,” and ‘U.S. Women 1890-present.”  She has chaired the Women's Studies committee and the History department. Her research interests, publications, and conference presentations include American Women’s Activism in World War I (1982), a second edition of which is under contract with the University  of Illinois  Press, and journal, anthology, and encyclopedia articles on women's  peace,  preparedness, and suffrage activism.    

Although she has maintained her interest in  women's pacifism, much of her recent scholarship has focused  on rural women and  rural  life in Indiana. Her sabbatical awards include a  Lilly Endowment Faculty Open  Fellowship, which enabled her to spend a year at the Duke  University School of Law; a  CLIO Award from the Indiana Historical Society to fund her  current book project on  rural life in Indiana, and the GLCA Scotland  Fellowship,  which helped support a  semester as a visiting professor of U.S.  history at the University of Aberdeen. Steinson  has received several faculty  development awards from DePauw University including a  Faculty Fellowship  (2000-2003) and the Fisher Fellowship (Fall 2003). She is co-chair  of the Rural Women's Studies Association, which DePauw  currently hosts, has been  President and Vice-President of the Indiana  Association of  Historians, serves on the  Board of Editors of Peace and Change and the  Indiana Magazine of History, and reads manuscripts for other periodicals and  university presses.

steinson@depauw.edu