Jane Sherron De Hart

{{Infobox academic

|name=Jane Sherron De Hart

|othernames=Jane DeHart Mathews

|workplaces=University of North Carolina at Greensboro
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of California, Santa Barbara

|alma_mater=Duke University

|occupation=Feminist historian, women's studies academic

|birth_place=Asheville, North Carolina, U.S.

|awards=Victoria Schuck Award (1991)

|birth_date={{birth year and age|1936}}

|doctoral_students=Sarah Wilkerson Freeman}}

Jane Sherron De Hart (born 1936){{Cite web|title=VIAF|url=https://viaf.org/viaf/282572771/|access-date=2021-09-21|website=Virtual International Authority File}} is an American feminist historian and women's studies academic. She is a professor emerita at University of California, Santa Barbara. De Hart has authored and edited several works on the history of women in the United States, the Federal Theatre Project, the Equal Rights Amendment, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. During the 1970s, she founded the women's studies program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Early life and education

De Hart was born in Asheville, North Carolina and raised in Bryson City, North Carolina. She graduated with a degree in history from Duke University. On a Carnegie Fellowship, De Hart earned a Ph.D. at Duke University in 1967. She married while attending graduate school and moved to Princeton, New Jersey where she continued work on her dissertation and taught at Douglass College. Her dissertation on the Federal Theatre Project became her first book.{{Cite web|date=April 18, 2019|title=Feminist Historian De Hart to Receive 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award {{!}} Duke Graduate School|url=https://gradschool.duke.edu/about/news/feminist-historian-de-hart-receive-2019-distinguished-alumni-award|access-date=2021-09-21|website=Duke The Graduate School}}

Career

In 1970, De Hart joined University of North Carolina at Greensboro for ten years, first temporarily before becoming permanent professor and founding the women's studies program. She was co-bicentennial chair of American studies at University of Helsinki from 1981 to 1982. De Hart became a professor of history and director of women's studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In 1992, De Hart joined the University of California, Santa Barbara.

In 2018, De Hart published Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life. It was the first full-length biography of Ginsburg.

Awards and honors

De Hart was a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1975 and 1998.{{Cite web|title=Jane S. De Hart – Department of History, UC Santa Barbara|url=https://www.history.ucsb.edu/emeriti/jane-s-dehart/|access-date=2021-09-21|language=en-US}} In 1991, she was awarded the Victoria Schuck Award alongside Donald G. Mathews for their book on the intersection of the Equal Rights Amendment and sex, gender, and politics.

Selected works

{{Cite book|last=Mathews|first=Jane Sherron De Hart|title=The Federal Theatre, 1935-1939: Plays, Relief, and Politics|date=1967|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-04515-3|language=en}}Reviews of The Federal Theatre, 1935-1939:
{{Cite journal|last=Moore|first=John Rees|date=1968|title=Theater Projects and Projections|journal=The Kenyon Review|volume=30|issue=3|pages=402–412|issn=0163-075X|jstor=4334820}}
{{Cite journal|last=Dycke|first=Marjorie L.|date=1972|title="Inevitably...the Offers from Hollywood..."|journal=Educational Theatre Journal|volume=24|issue=4|pages=460–469|doi=10.2307/3205951|issn=0013-1989|jstor=3205951}}
{{Cite journal|last=Quinby|first=George H.|date=1968|title=Review|journal=The New England Quarterly|volume=41|issue=1|pages=143–145|doi=10.2307/363349|issn=0028-4866|jstor=363349}}
{{Cite journal|last=Billings|first=Alan G.|date=1968|title=Review|journal=Educational Theatre Journal|volume=20|issue=4|pages=606–607|doi=10.2307/3205010|issn=0013-1989|jstor=3205010}}
{{Cite journal|last=Ewen|first=Frederic|author-link=Frederic Ewen|date=1968|title=The Thirties, Commitment, and the Theatre|journal=Science & Society|volume=32|issue=3|pages=300–306|issn=0036-8237|jstor=40401355}}
{{Cite journal|last=Tanselle|first=G. Thomas|author-link=G. Thomas Tanselle|date=1968|title=Review|journal=The Journal of American History|volume=54|issue=4|pages=921–922|doi=10.2307/1918130|issn=0021-8723|jstor=1918130}}
{{Cite journal|last=Himelstein|first=Morgan Y.|date=1968|title=Review|journal=American Quarterly|volume=20|issue=2|pages=368|doi=10.2307/2711267|issn=0003-0678|jstor=2711267}}
{{Cite journal|last=Davis|first=Ronald L.|date=1968|title=Review|journal=The Historian|volume=30|issue=4|pages=687–688|issn=0018-2370|jstor=24440941}}
{{Cite journal|last=Warren-Findley|first=Jannelle|date=1976|title=Culture and the New Deal|journal=American Studies|volume=17|issue=1|pages=81–83|issn=0026-3079|jstor=40641187}}
{{Cite journal|last=Moe|first=Christian|date=1968|title=Review|journal=New York History|volume=49|issue=2|pages=238–239|issn=0146-437X|jstor=23162751}}
{{Cite journal|last=Schaffer|first=Alan|date=1968|title=Review|journal=The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science|volume=376|pages=184–185|issn=0002-7162|jstor=1037844}}
{{Cite journal|last=Kauffmann|first=Stanley|author-link=Stanley Kauffmann|date=1967|title=A Timely and Valuable History|journal=The American Scholar|volume=37|issue=1|pages=172–174|issn=0003-0937|jstor=41210243}}
{{Cite journal|last=Gorelik|first=Mordecai|author-link=Mordecai Gorelik|date=1968|title=Review|journal=The American Historical Review|volume=74|issue=1|pages=327–328|doi=10.2307/1857875|issn=0002-8762|jstor=1857875}}
{{Cite journal|last=Moody|first=Richard|date=1968|title=Review|journal=American Literature|volume=40|issue=2|pages=260–261|doi=10.2307/2923684|issn=0002-9831|jstor=2923684}}
{{Cite book|last1=Mathews|first1=Donald G.|title=Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA: A State and the Nation|last2=De Hart|first2=Jane Sherron|date=1990|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-503858-3|language=en}}Reviews of Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA:
{{Cite journal|last=Lynn|first=Susan|date=1991|editor-last=Buechler|editor-first=Steven M.|editor2-last=Mathews|editor2-first=Donald G.|editor3-last=De Hart|editor3-first=Jane Sherron|title=The Politics of Feminism|journal=Reviews in American History|volume=19|issue=4|pages=593–598|doi=10.2307/2703303|issn=0048-7511|jstor=2703303}}
{{Cite journal|last=Disch|first=Lisa J.|date=1991|title=Review|journal=Signs|volume=17|issue=1|pages=214–219|doi=10.1086/494723 |issn=0097-9740|jstor=3174455}}
{{Cite journal|last=Evans|first=Sara|date=1991|title=Review|journal=The American Historical Review|volume=96|issue=5|pages=1637–1638|doi=10.2307/2165469|issn=0002-8762|jstor=2165469}}
{{Cite journal|last=Kealey|first=Diana|date=1992|title=Review|journal=Sociology|volume=26|issue=1|pages=156–158|doi=10.1177/0038038592026001033 |issn=0038-0385|jstor=42854983|s2cid=220676370 }}
{{Cite journal|last=Taylor|first=Verta|author-link=Verta Taylor|date=1992|title=Review|journal=Contemporary Sociology|volume=21|issue=1|pages=37–38|doi=10.2307/2074713|issn=0094-3061|jstor=2074713}}
{{Cite journal|last=Hartmann|first=Susan M.|date=1991|title=Review|journal=The Journal of American History|volume=78|issue=3|pages=1157|doi=10.2307/2078954|issn=0021-8723|jstor=2078954}}
{{Cite journal|last=Boles|first=Janet K.|date=1992|title=Review|journal=The American Political Science Review|volume=86|issue=1|pages=247–248|doi=10.2307/1964067|issn=0003-0554|jstor=1964067|s2cid=148240679 }}
{{Cite journal|last=Hart|first=Vivien|author-link=Vivien Hart|date=1992|title=Review|journal=Journal of American Studies|volume=26|issue=1|pages=98–99|doi=10.1017/S0021875800030309 |issn=0021-8758|jstor=27555599}}
{{Cite journal|last=Berkeley|first=Kathleen C.|date=1991|title=Review|journal=The North Carolina Historical Review|volume=68|issue=3|pages=350–351|issn=0029-2494|jstor=23519497}}
{{Cite journal|last=Blackwelder|first=Julia Kirk|date=1992|title=Review|journal=The Journal of Southern History|volume=58|issue=3|pages=576–577|doi=10.2307/2210224|issn=0022-4642|jstor=2210224}}
{{Cite book|title=Women's America: Refocusing the Past|date=1991|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-506261-8|editor-last=Kerber|editor-first=Linda K.|editor-link=Linda K. Kerber|language=en|editor-last2=De Hart-Mathews|editor-first2=Jane Sherron}}Reviews of Women's America:
{{Cite journal|last=Mitchem|first=Stephanie Y.|date=2000|title=Review|journal=The Journal of Negro History|volume=85|issue=3|pages=133–135|doi=10.2307/2649066|issn=0022-2992|jstor=2649066}}
{{Cite journal|last=Carson|first=Mina|date=2001|title=Review|journal=The History Teacher|volume=35|issue=1|pages=104–106|doi=10.2307/3054515|issn=0018-2745|jstor=3054515}}
{{Cite journal|last=DiGirolamo|first=Vincent|date=2000|title=Review|journal=OAH Magazine of History|volume=15|issue=1|pages=79|doi=10.1093/maghis/15.1.79 |issn=0882-228X|jstor=25163410}}
{{Cite journal|last=Laville|first=Helen|date=2001|title=Review|journal=History|volume=86|issue=284|pages=552|issn=0018-2648|jstor=24425564}}
{{Cite book|last=de Hart|first=Jane Sherron|title=Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life|date=2018|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-525-52159-4|language=en}}Reviews of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life:
{{Cite news|last=Rosen|first=Jeffrey|author-link=Jeffrey Rosen (legal academic)|date=November 8, 2018|title=Review: A notorious advocate for gender equality|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/a-notorious-advocate-for-gender-equality/2018/11/08/4c97594e-dea6-11e8-b732-3c72cbf131f2_story.html|access-date=2021-09-21|issn=0190-8286}}
{{Cite news|last=Greenhouse|first=Linda|author-link=Linda Greenhouse|date=2018-10-29|title=From Top Law School Grad to Notorious R.B.G.: The Evolution of a Supreme Court Justice|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/books/review/ruth-bader-ginsburg-biography-jane-sherron-de-hart.html|access-date=2021-09-21|issn=0362-4331}}
{{Cite web|last=Lithwick|first=Dahlia|author-link=Dahlia Lithwick|date=2018-12-18|title=The Irony of Modern Feminism's Obsession With Ruth Bader Ginsburg|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/ruth-bader-ginsburg-feminist-hero/576403/|access-date=2021-09-21|website=The Atlantic|language=en}}
{{Cite web|last=Olsen|first=Michelle|date=October 18, 2018|title='Ruth Bader Ginsburg' Reminds Us Why The Justice Is A True Legal Icon|url=https://www.npr.org/2018/10/18/657864918/ruth-bader-ginsburg-reminds-us-why-the-justice-is-a-true-legal-icon|access-date=2021-09-21|website=NPR|language=en}}
{{Cite news|last=Garner|first=Bryan A.|author-link=Bryan A. Garner|date=2018-10-21|title='Ruth Bader Ginsburg' Review: An Unlikely Celebrity|language=en-US|work=Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/ruth-bader-ginsburg-review-an-unlikely-celebrity-1540146904|access-date=2021-09-21|issn=0099-9660}}