Faculty Profiles
Jamie Wagman
Professor
Department Chair
Gender and Womens Studies
History
228 Spes Unica Hall
jwagman@saintmarys.edu
Education
PhD, Saint Louis University
MA, Johns Hopkins University
BJ, University of Missouri - Columbia
Areas of Expertise
- Gender and sexuality studies
- 20th century social movements
- U.S. women's history
Courses Recently Taught
- GWS 207: Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies
- GWS 350: Feminist Theory
- HIST 202W: U.S. History Since 1865
- HIST 201W: U.S. History To 1865
- HIST 324: History of Women in the U.S.
- HIST 333: The History of Sexuality in the U.S.
- HIST 341 African-American History Since Reconstruction
- HIST 372: U.S. Women’s Conferences, Conventions, and Confrontations in the 1970s
- HIST 492: Research Methods
- HIST 495: Senior Seminar
Creative and Scholarly Work
- “Women Reformers Respond during the Depression: Battling St. Louis’s Disease and Immorality.” Journal of Urban History, Vol. 35, No. 5 (July 2009): 698-717. http://journals.sagepub.com/do
i/abs/10.1177/0096144209335858 - “Crossing Boundaries: A Family Story" Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies and Gender Issues, Number 27 (Fall 2014). http://www.jstor.org/stable/10
.2979/nashim.27.120 - “A Romantic Steroid or a Great Performance?: Visual Culture and the Pill,” Reproductive Issues in Popular Media: International Perspectives. Edited by Waltraud Maierhofer and Beth Widmaier Capo. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, June 2017.
- "Constructing Sexuality and Fetishizing Women in American History: Debunking Myths in Popular Culture from Pocahontas to the Cold War," The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal, Vol, 2. with Katlynn Dee '17, Alison Tipton '18, and Adrienne Whisman '17, https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/sfd/vol2/iss1/8/
- "Social Justice Inside and Outside the Classroom." Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy 28, no. 1 (2018): 104-10. Betsy Schlabach and Jamie Wagman. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/trajincschped.28.1.0104?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
- Feminist Responses to the Neoliberalization of the University: From Surviving to Thriving. Lexington Books. April 2020. co-editor with Abigail Palko and Sonalini Sapra.
- Jamie Wagman, “Fighting Shanda: A Jewish Mother Academic’s Positionality and Practice at a Catholic Women’s College,” Feminist Responses to the Neoliberalization of the University: From Surviving to Thriving. Lexington Books. April 2020.
- Jamie Wagman, “Transgender in the Heartland: Transitioning and Seeking Community in Middle America,” Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000. Vol 24, No. 1. March 2020.
- "South Bend Bossed by a Woman?": Alice Mannering, Socialist Feminism, and the Common Good. Indiana Magazine of History. Vol. 118., No. 4, December 2022. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/
article/874573/summary - “A Cultural History of the Condom’s Symbolic Meaning in American Visual Culture, 1941-1987,” Alizés, December 2024.
Professional Memberships
- National Women’s Studies Association
- American Studies Association
- Organization of American Historians