Faculty Profiles
Jamie Wagman
Associate Professor
Department Chair
Gender and Womens Studies
History
228 Spes Unica Hall
Phone
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
Professional Memberships
- National Women’s Studies Association
- American Studies Association
- Organization of American Historians