Sonya Michel
Sonya Michel is an American historian. She is Professor Emerita at the Department History, University of Maryland. She has also taught at Brandeis University, Brown University, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Michel served as Director of United States Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.[1] Her research areas include care work and old-age security, child care, immigration and civil society, race and gender issues, as well as work-family balance.[2] Her appearances on C-SPAN have included topics such as "Women and Labor Rights" and "Retirement and Social Security".[3] Michel has a Ph.D. in American civilization from Brown University.[2] Her husband, Jeffrey Herf, is also an American historian and professor at the University of Maryland.[4]
Selected works[]
- Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society, founding co-editor
- Civil Society, Public Space and Gender Justice: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, co-edited with Gunilla Budde and Karen Hagemann
- Children's Interests / Mothers' Rights:The Shaping of America's Child Care Policy
- Engendering America: A Documentary History, compiled with Robyn Muncy
- The Jewish Woman in America, with Charlotte Baum and Paula Hyman
- 2014, Gender and the Long Postwar: Reconsiderations of the United States and the Two Germanys, co-edited with Karen Hagemann
- 2011, Women, Migration, and the Work of Care: The United States in Comparative Perspective
- 2002, Child Care Policy at the Crossroads: Gender and Welfare State Restructuring, co-edited
- 1993, Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States
- 1987, Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars
References[]
- ^ "Sonya Michel". history.umd.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ a b "Sonya Michel". The Globalist. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ "Sonya Michel". www.c-span.org. C-SPAN. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ "Undeclared Wars on Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left 1967-1981: An Interview with Jeffrey Herf". Fathom. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
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