Joan Hoff
American historian
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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]
Joan Hoff | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 27, 1937 Butte, Montana, U.S. |
| Other names | Joan Hoff-Wilson |
| Alma mater | University of Montana, Cornell University, University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupations | Historian, academic, research professor, editor, author |
| Known for | U.S. foreign policy, U.S. political history, biographies, women's history, law history |
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;[9] California State University, Sacramento from 1967 to 1970;[1] Arizona State University from 1970 to 1976;[7] Dartmouth College;[9] 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".[10] In the 1990s, she has appeared as a panelist in discussions broadcast by C-Span.[11]
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]
She retired in 2001 and lives between Big Sky, Montana and New York City, as of 2003.[12]
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]