Anya jabour biography
- Personal Summary.
- Anya Jabour is an American historian and Regents Professor of History at the University of Montana.
- Anya Jabour is Regents Professor in the History Department, Director of the Public History Program, and a past co-director of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality.
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Monographs:
Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women’s Activism in Modern America (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019)
Topsy-Turvy: How the Civil War Turned the World Upside Down for Southern Children(Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2010)
Scarlett’s Sisters: Young Women in the Old South(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007; paperback, 2009)
Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998)
Edited Volumes:
Family Values in the Old South, coedited with Craig Thompson Friend (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010)
Major Problems in the History of American Families and Children (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005)
Articles and Essays:
“Separatism and Equality: Women at the University of Chicago, 1895-1925,” Chicago History, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Fall 2020), 30-44.
“’A nurse’s duty’: Mary Curry Desha Breckinridge and the Feminine Professional Ethic of Self-Sacrifice in Progressive-Era America and World War One Fr Anya Jabour's biography rediscovers this groundbreaking American figure. After earning advanced degrees in politics, economics, and law, Breckinridge established the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration, which became a feminist think tank that promoted public welfare policy and propelled women into leadership positions. In 1935, Breckinridge’s unremitting efforts to provide government aid to the dispossessed culminated in her appointment as an advisor on programs for the new Social Security Act. A longtime activist in international movements for peace and justice, Breckinridge also influenced the formation of the United Nations and advanced the idea that "women’s rights are human rights." Her lifelong commitmen American historian Anya Jabour is an American historian and Regents Professor of History at the University of Montana.[1] She is known for her works on history of family and U.S. women's history.[2][3][4] Jabour received the Helen and Winston Cox Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2000.[5]•
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Sophonisba Breckinridge's remarkable career stretched from the Civil War to the Cold War. She took part in virtually every reform campaign of the Progressive and New Deal eras and became a nationally and internationally renowned figure. Her work informed women's activism for decades and continues to shape progressive politics today.•
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