Pamela Radcliff

{{Short description|American academic and historian}}

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| awards = Fulbright Fellowship (1992)February 1, 1993, University of California San Diego, [https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb3448394p/_2.pdf Notice of Department of History awards, honors, fellowships, special projects or publication of books], Retrieved October 15, 2017, "... Pamela B. Radcliff ... received a Fulbright Fellowship ..."
Eleanor Roosevelt Award (1997)The Teaching Company, professor bio page, Pamela Radcliff, [https://www.thegreatcourses.com/professors/pamela-radcliff/ Professor Pamela Radcliff, Ph.D.], Retrieved October 15, 2017, "....In 1997, she received the Eleanor Roosevelt College Excellence in Teaching Award ... in 1999, she was awarded ... the University of California Distinguished Teaching Award...."
Keller-Sierra Prize (1998)
UC Distinguished Teaching (1999)

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Pamela Beth Radcliff (born 1956) is an American historian and professor at the University of California at San Diego and an authority on the history of modern Spain.{{sfn|Cruz|1998}}Celia Amoros, August 15, 2009, El Pais, [https://elpais.com/diario/2009/08/15/babelia/1250291829_850215.html Feminismo y legitimidad democrática (Feminism and democratic legitimacy)], Retrieved October 13, 2017, "... Radcliff considers that the style of feminist militancy clashed with that of the political culture of transition..."SD Metro Magazine, October 12, 2011,

[http://www.sandiegometro.com/2011/10/daily-business-report-%E2%80%94-oct-12-2011/ Daily Business Report — Oct. 12, 2011], Retrieved October 13, 2017, "...Pamela Radcliff, chair of the UCSD History Department and a historian of modern Spain...." Her research focuses on mass politics, gender issues, civil society and democratic transitions.UC Merced, [http://mystudyabroad.ucmerced.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=51982 Spain in the Modern World], Retrieved October 13, 2017, "...Pamela Radcliff is chair of the History Department and a historian of Modern Spain ... research has focused on mass politics, gender, civil society and democratic transitions. ... Making Democratic Citizens explores the grass-roots contribution of ordinary men and women to Spain’s much celebrated democratic transition of the 1970s, ... She has been carrying out research in Madrid for thirty years ... Radcliff ... B.A. from Scripps College and M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University...."{{sfn|Cruz|1998}}{{sfn|Seidman|1999|pp=221–223}}{{sfn|Fesefeldt|2006|pp=269–271}}{{sfn|Messenger|2012|pp=221–223}}{{sfn|González Madrid|2012|pp=325–329}}{{sfn|Miller|2000|pp=206–208}} She did a Teaching Company course entitled Interpreting the 20th century: the Struggle over Democracy.University of Toronto, Library Catalogue, [https://search.library.utoronto.ca/details?6020035 Interpreting the 20th century videorecording : the struggle over democracy], Chantilly, Virginia, 2004, Retrieved October 13, 2017The Teaching Company, [https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/interpreting-the-20th-century-the-struggle-over-democracy.html Interpreting the 20th Century: The Struggle Over Democracy], by Pamela Radcliff, U. California San Diego Her publications on modern Spanish history received numerous positive reviews.Digital Commons, [http://digitalcommons.asphs.net/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1108&context=bsphs Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies], Messenger, David A. (2012) "Review of: Pamela Beth Radcliff, Making Democratic Citizens in Spain: Civil Society and the Popular Origins of the Transition, 1960-1978," Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Vol. 37 : Iss. 1, Article 28.{{sfn|Cruz|1998}}Sasha D. Pack, SUNY Buffalo, [http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/667668?mobileUi=0&journalCode=jmh The Journal of Modern History], Volume 84, Number 4, December 1, 2012, Retrieved October 13, 2017Cambridge Core, April Smith, December 1998, [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-review-of-social-history/article/radcliff-pamela-beth-from-mobilization-to-civil-war-the-politics-of-polarization-in-the-spanish-city-of-gijon-19001937-cambridge-university-press-cambridge-etc-1996-xviii-354-pp-maps-4000-5995/2E72DCA8409081E2580FD70AC6A87F88/core-reader Review], Volume 43, Issue 3, pages 488-498, Retrieved October 13, 2017González Madrid, Damián Alberto, Vínculos de Historia, number 1, 2012, Radcliff, Pamela B., Making democratic citizens in Spain. Civil Society and the Popular Origins of the Transition, 1960-78, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, [http://vinculosdehistoria.com/index.php/vinculos/article/view/28 article], {{ISSN|2254-6901}}, pp. 325-329Making Democratic Citizens in Spain: Civil Society and the Popular Origins of the Transition, 1960–78, by Pamela Beth Radcliff, Stephen Jacobson (reviewer), English Historical Review 2013 128: 509-511E Magazine, June 13, 2017, [http://emagazinepdf.com/2017/06/political-dissent-in-democratic-athens-intellectual-critics-of-popular-rule/ Political Dissent in Democratic Athens- Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule], "...Radcliff ... presentation of modern Spanish history incorporates the latest thinking on key issues of modernity, social movements, nationalism, democratization and democracy...", Retrieved October 13, 2017{{sfn|Fesefeldt|2006}} She has received numerous awards for her scholarship and teaching, such as the Keller-Sierra Prize for her monograph From Mobilization to Civil War: The politics of polarization in the Spanish city of Gijón, 1900-1937.Western Association of Women Historians, [http://www.wawh.org/awards/frances-richardson-keller-sierra-prize/ Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize], 1998, Pamela Beth Radcliff, From Mobilization to Civil War: The Politics of Polarization in the Spanish City Gijón 1900-1937, (Cambridge University Press, 1997).