Joan Wallach Scott
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| Born | Joan Wallach December 18, 1941 Brooklyn, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | History |
| Institutions | Institute for Advanced Study |
| Spouse | Donald Scott |
| Children | 2 |
Joan Wallach Scott (born December 18, 1941), is an American historian of France with contributions in gender history and intellectual history. She is the Harold F. Linder Professor at the School of Social Science in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Among her publications was the article "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis", published in 1986 in the American Historical Review. This article, "undoubtedly one of the most widely read and cited articles in the journal's history", was seminal in the formation of a field of gender history within the Anglo-American historical profession.
She was born Joan Wallach in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Lottie (née Tannenbaum) and Sam Wallach, high school teachers. Her family was Jewish, and her father was born in Dolina, Poland. During the Red Scare, her father, who had been active in various left-wing causes, was fired for refusing to cooperate with an investigation into activities of the American Communist Party, an event that helped to seal his daughter's sympathy with the left. She graduated from Brandeis in 1962 and received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1969.
Before joining the Institute for Advanced Study, Scott taught in history departments at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Brown University. At Brown University she was founding director of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, and the Nancy Duke Lewis University Professor and professor of history. She serves on the editorial boards of Signs, Differences, History and Theory and, since January 2006, the Journal of Modern History. In 2010, she helped to found History of the Present: A Journal of Critical History. Scott has written that it was during her time at the Pembroke Center that she first started "to think about theory and gender".
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