Kate Wittenstein

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY

Gustavus Adolphus College
800 West College Avenue
St. Peter, MN 56082
Office: SSC 221; Phone: 507-933-7433; E-mail: kwitt@gac.edu

B.A. Bard College, 1974
M.A. Purdue University, 1978
Ph.D. Boston University, 1988

COURSES

FTS-100-331 RACE MATTERS? Click here for syllabus - CLASS WEB PAGE
HIS-231 HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES Click here for syllabus
HIS-232 AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
HIS-238 GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES
HIS-230 THINKING HISTORICALLY (sophomore and junior history majors only)
HIS-325 Special Topics AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S HISTORY

Click below for course-related web sites

Course-related scholarly Journals

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Kate Wittenstein, "The Feminist Uses of Psychoanalysis: Beatrice M. Hinkle and the Foreshadowing of Modern Feminism in the United States," Journal of Women's History 10, 2(Summer, 1998): 38-62.
----------, "Fola LaFollette," American National Biography, eds. John Garraty and Mark Carnes. Oxford University Press, 1999.
------------ and Benjamin Harris, "Beatrice M. Hinkle," American National Biography, eds. John Garraty and Mark Carnes. Oxford University Press, 1999.
----------, review of Chana Kai Lee, For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer. University of Illinois Press, 1999 for H-Net Reviews, 2001.
----------, review of Alison M. Parker, Purifying America: Women, Cultural Reform, and Pro-Censorship Activism, 1873-1933. University of Illinois Press, 1997 in The Michigan Historical Review 26 (Spring,2000): 165.

CURRENT RESEARCH

Article examining civil rights and feminist activist Anna Arnold Hedgeman's (1899-1990) commitment to the economic justice aspects of the African American freedom struggle, her participation in the Harlem branch of the YWCA in the 1920s and 1930s, and her association with A. Philip Randolph on the National Committee for a Permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee during the 1940
Article on Anna A. Hedgeman's involvement in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s with emphasis on her feminist critique of the leadership and organization of 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The article examines connections and cross-fertilization among her feminist, civil rights, and Pan-African perspectives.

AREAS OF INTEREST

AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S POLITICAL ACTIVISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Visit the web site of the National Association of Colored Women founded in 1896 (13 years before the NAACP): National Association of Colored Women. There is an excellent bibliography on the NACW and African-American women's political activism at: Sources for National Association of Colored Women and African-American Clubwomen, Race, and Reform

INTELLECTUAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY FEMINISM
Read a key document in the intellectual history of American feminism: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), "The Solitude of Self" stanton.solitude

HISTORY AND CULTURE OF THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA

Click to follow current events in the delta: The Bolivar Commercial Front Page and Clarksdale Press Register

Take a tour of the Delta Blues Museum: Welcome to the Delta Blues Museum

DIVERSITY EDUCATION; CREATING AN INCLUSIVE CURRICULUM

Check out primary documents generated by a diverse group of Americans: Many Pasts

ON-CAMPUS INVOLVEMENTS

Diversity Representative on Faculty Search Committees
Member, Women's Studies Committee
Advisor to individualized majors in African-American Studies
Faculty Representative on Teagle Collaboration Committee to explore diversity initiatives on four Minnesota College campuses. Work with students, faculty, staff, and administrators at Gustavus, St. Olaf College, Luther College, and Concordia College

Last Revised: 8/28/01