American historian
Joan Hoff
Born (1937-06-27 ) June 27, 1937 (age 86) Butte, Montana, U.S.
Other names Joan Hoff-Wilson Alma mater
University of Montana ,
Cornell University ,
University of California, Berkeley Occupation(s) Historian, academic, research professor, editor, author Known for U.S. foreign policy, U.S. political history, biographies, women's history, law history
Joan Hoff (born June 27, 1937),
[1]
[2]
[3] also known as Joan Hoff-Wilson ,
[3] is an American historian,
research professor , editor, and author.
[4]
[5] She specializes in U.S. foreign policy, U.S. political history, biographies, women's history,
[6] and law history. Hoff is the former director of the
Contemporary History Institute at
Ohio University . She has worked at
California State University, Sacramento ;
Arizona State University ;
Indiana University ; and
Montana State University .
[7]
[8] She retired in 2001 and lives between
Big Sky ,
Montana and New York City, as of 2003.
[9]
Biography
Joan Hoff was born on June 27, 1937, in Butte, Montana.
[1] She attended the
University of Montana where she received a BA degree (1957);
[1]
Cornell University where she received a MA degree (1959) and was a
Woodrow Wilson Fellow ;
[1] and
University of California, Berkeley where she received a PhD (1966).
[5]
[2]
[4] Hoff received a
Fulbright Award (1958 to 1959) for study at the
University of Strasbourg .
[1]
Hoff has taught at the following universities and colleges: the
College of San Mateo ;
[10]
California State University, Sacramento from 1967 to 1970;
[1]
Arizona State University from 1970 to 1976;
[7]
Dartmouth College ;
[10]
Indiana University from 1981 to 1998;
[8]
Ohio University from 1998 to ?;
[8] and
Montana State University .
[5]
Historian
Susan Kingsley Kent criticized Hoff's article, Gender as a postmodern category of paralysis (1994,
Women's History Review ), as it "breaks no new intellectual ground, but for anti-intellectualism, disingenuousness, and sheer incivility".
[11] In the 1990s, she has appeared as a panelist in discussions broadcast by
C-Span .
[12]
in 1981, Hoff was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of U.S. history.
[8] She has also received the Vivian Paladin Award, and fellowships to the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the
Radcliffe Institute , as well as a
National Endowment of the Humanities research grant.
[8]
Books
Hoff Wilson, Joan (1971). American Business and Foreign Policy: 1920–1933 . Vol. 10 (1st ed.). University Press of Kentucky.
ISBN
9780813112169 .
Hoff, Joan (1986). Rights of Passage: the past and future of the ERA . Organization of American Historians. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.
ISBN
9780253350138 .
Hoff, Joan (1992). Law, Gender, and Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Women . New York University Press.
ISBN
9780814734940 .
Hoff Wilson, Joan (1992). Herbert Hoover: Forgotten Progressive . Waveland Press.
ISBN
9781478631163 .
[13]
Hoff, Joan (1994). Nixon Reconsidered . Basic Books.
ISBN
978-0-465-05107-6 .
[14]
[15]
Hoff, Joan (2007).
A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush: Dreams of Perfectibility . Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
9781139468596 .
[16]
Hoff, Joan (2000). The Cooper's Wife is Missing: The Trials of Bridget Cleary . Basic Books.
ISBN
978-0-465-03087-3 .
[17]
[18]
References
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Herbert Hoover Reassessed: Essays Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Inauguration of Our Thirty-first President . U.S. Government Printing Office. 1981. p. 119.
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b Schulz, Constance B.; Turner, Elizabeth Hayes (2004).
Clio's Southern Sisters: Interviews with Leaders of the Southern Association for Women Historians . University of Missouri Press. p. 275.
ISBN
978-0-8262-6428-2 .
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"Hoff, Joan, 1937-" . LC Name Authority File (LCNAF) . The Library of Congress. Retrieved 2022-10-11 .
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b Welsh, James Michael; Whaley, Donald M. (2013). "Joan Hoff".
The Oliver Stone Encyclopedia . Rowman & Littlefield. p. 110.
ISBN
978-0-8108-8352-9 .
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"From Butte to PBS: Noted historian keeps hand in history as an MSU adjunct" . Montana State University .
^ Charlton, Linda (1981-06-21).
"Women's History Meeting Analyzes Trends" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-10-11 .
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"Hoff, Joan" . Encyclopedia.com . Retrieved 2022-10-11 .
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"Joan Hoff: University Honors and Awards" . Indiana University, University Honors & Awards .
^ Schmidt, Carol (December 2, 2003).
"From Butte to PBS: Noted historian keeps hand in history as an MSU adjunct" . Montana State University . Retrieved 2022-10-11 .
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b
CGWH Newsletter, Issue 2 . Vol. 6. Conference Group on Women's History. 1981. p. 8.
^ Kent, Susan (March 1, 1996).
"Mistrials and diatribulations: a reply to Joan Hoff" . Women's History Review . 5 (1): 9–18.
doi :
10.1080/09612029600200110 .
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"Joan Hoff | C-SPAN.org" . www.c-span.org .
^ Radosh, Ronald (1975-08-17).
"Herbert Hoover" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-10-11 .
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"Nixon Reconsidered, Joan Hoff. Basic Books, $30 (496pp) ISBN 978-0-465-05107-6" . publishersweekly.com . July 4, 1994. Retrieved 2022-10-11 .
^ Smith, Richard Norton (1994-10-30).
"The Nixon Watch Continues" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-10-11 .
^ Kafara, Rylan (October 8, 2010).
"Joan Hoff, A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush: Dreams of Perfectibility (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008)" . Past Imperfect . 16 .
doi :
10.21971/P7H88R – via journals.library.ualberta.ca.
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"The Cooper's Wife Is Missing: The Trials of Bridget Cleary, Joan Hoff. Basic Books, $26 (458pp) ISBN 978-0-465-03087-3" . publishersweekly.com . Retrieved 2022-10-11 .
^ McCullough, David Willis (2000-10-08).
"The Fairy Defense" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-10-11 .
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