Joanne L. Goodwin Associate Professor Department of History University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 Maryland Parkway Box 455020 Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-5020 Phone: (702) 895-1026 ~ Fax: (702) 895-1782 jgoodwin@unlv.nevada.ed

EDUCATION
Ph.D. U.S. History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1991
M.A., U.S. Women’s History, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, 1983
B.F.A. Fine Arts, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1973
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1997—present.
Executive Director, Women’s Research Institute of Nevada, UNLV, 1999-- present.
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1991—1997.
Lecturer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1989-1990.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Joyce Appelby, Eileen Cheng, and Joanne Goodwin, eds. Women in American History, 1585—present. New York: M.E. Sharp Publishers, 2002.
Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform: Mothers’ Pensions in Chicago, 1911-1929. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Other Projects in Preparation:
In Her Own Words: a documentary history of women in Las Vegas (in preparation).
Untitled. A collection of edited narratives of women who have changed Las Vegas. (in preparation).
Co-editor. Nevada Online Encyclopedia. Sponsored by the Nevada Humanities.
Book Chapters/Contributions/Introductions:
“Mothers’ Pensions in Chicago, 1911-1931.” In Major Problems in the History of American Families and Children. Anya Jabour, ed. Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
“’She Works Hard for Her Money’, A Reassessment of Las Vegas Women Workers, 1940-1980.” In The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas. Mike Davis and Hal Rothman, eds. University of California Press, 2002.
“Industry, Modernity, and Diversity: a Historical Overview of the Twentieth-Century.”
Joyce Appelby, Eileen Cheng, and Joanne Goodwin, eds. Vol. 3, pp. 1-5. Women in American History, 1585—present. New York: M.E. Sharp Publishers, 2002.

“’Employable Mothers’ and ‘Suitable Work’: A Re-evaluation of Welfare and Wageearning in the Twentieth Century United States.” Journal of Social History (December 1995), 253-274. Nominated for the Berkshire Conference on the Historyof Women Article Prize. Reprinted in Mothers and Motherhood: Readings in American History, Janet Golden and Rima Apple, eds. Ohio State University Press, 1997.
Articles in Refereed Journals:
“Mojave Mirages: Gender and Performance in Post-war Las Vegas,” Women’s History Review: Special Issue: U.S. Women and the Performing Arts, 11:1 (Spring 2002):115-131.
“’Employable Mothers’ and ‘Suitable Work’: A Re-evaluation of Welfare and Wageearning in the Twentieth Century United States,” Journal of Social History (December 1995), 253-274.
“An American Experiment in Paid Motherhood: The Implementation of Mothers’ Pensions in early Twentieth-Century Chicago,” Gender & History (Autumn 1992), 323-42.
Invited Contributions:
“Social Services and Charity.” In Encyclopedia of American Urban History. Elizabeth Cohen, Maureen Flanagan, Tim Gilfoyle, Kennethy T. Jackson, et. al. eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, forthcoming 2005. 2500 word essay describing the evolution of social services in urban history.
“The Progressive Era and the 1920s.” In Poverty and Social Welfare in America: An Encyclopedia. Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O’Connor, eds. Santa Barbara, CA: ABCClio, forthcoming 2004. 3500 word essay describing the major currents in social welfare during the specified time period.
“Mothers’ Pensions,” In Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America. John M. Herrick and Paul H. Stuart, eds. Sage Publications, forthcoming 2004. 1500 word essay on the origins of publicly funded local programs for single mothers.
Three articles on “Social Services,” “Mothers’ Pensions,” and “Charity Organization
Societies.” In Encyclopedia of Chicago History. James Grossman, et.al. eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
38 individual entries. In Women in American History, 1585-present. Vol. 3 The Twentieth Century. Goodwin, et.al. eds. New York: M.E. Sharp Publishers, 2002.
“Maude Frazier.” In American National Biography. John Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
“Historical Background on Nevada.” Statewide Child Care Strategic Plan for Nevada. Nevada Institute for Children, UNLV, 1998.
Four entries. In Encyclopedia of the American West. 4 vols. Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod, eds. New York: Macmillan Reference Co., 1996.
The Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism, ed. Susan Auerbach (New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp., 1994). Thirty-eight entries on women’s history subjects.

Book Reviews:
Maureen A. Flanagan. Seeing With Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871-1933. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. In Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (forthcoming 2005).
Michael Katz, The Price of Citizenship, redefining the American welfare state. Metropolitan, 2001. In Journal of American History (June 2002): 315-316.
Elizabeth Rose, A Mother’s Job, The History of Day Care, 1890-1960. Oxford University Press, 1999. In Children and Youth Services Review 22:1 (2002): 75-76.
Suzanne Mettler, Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy.Cornell University Press, 1998. In Law & History Review 19:2 (Summer 2001): 460-461.
Review essay of Sanford M. Jacoby, Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the NewDeal. Princeton University Press, 1997; Steven A. Sass, The Promise of Private Pensions: The First Hundred Years. Harvard University Press, 1997. In American Historical Review (December 1999): 1703-1704.
“Bigger than a Ballot Box.” Review essay of Sara Hunter Graham, Woman Suffrage and the New Democracy. Yale University Press, 1996; Anne Meis Knupfer, Toward a Tenderer Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood: African-American Women's Clubs in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago. New York University, 1996; Carol Cornwall Madsen, ed. Battle for the Ballot: Essays on Woman Suffrage in Utah, 1870-1896. Utah State University Press, 1997; and Suzanne M. Marilley, Woman Suffrage and the Origins of Liberal Feminism in the United States, 1820-1920. Harvard University Press, 1996.
In Journal of Women’s History 11:1 (Spring 1999): 219-28.
Author Title. Journal of Mississippi History (1998).
Review essay of Anne Firor Scott, Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American History. University of Illinois Press, 1991; Noralee Frankel and Nancy S. Dye, eds.
Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era. University of Kentucky Press, 1991; and Ruth Hutchinson Crocker, Social Work and Social Order: The Settlement Movement in Two Industrial Cities, 1889-1930. University of Illinois Press, 1992. In SIGNS, Journal of Women in Culture and Society 20:2 (Winter 1995): 455-58.
Eileen Boris. Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States. In Journal of American History (June 1995): 277-78.
Beverly Stadum. Poor Women and their Families: Hard Working Charity Cases, 1900-1930. State University of New York Press. 1992. In History of Education Quarterly 33:4 (Winter 1993): 613-15.
Oral Histories/Interviews:
Florence McClure (2004).
Emilie Wanderer (2004).
Bernice Jaeger (2003).
Gail McQuary (2003).

Betty Francisco (2003).
Janet Kravenko (2003).
Diane Saunders (2003).
Emily Wanderer (1997).
Toni Clark (1996).
PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES (Selected)
Chair and Comment, "Not Another Song and Dance: The Women of Las Vegas." Session
sponsored by the Coalition for Western Women’s History, Western History Association, October 13, 2004, Las Vegas, NV.
Convener, “Shaking Up the West,” Western Association of Women Historians, Santa Barbara, California, May 21-23, 2004.
Invited Participant, “Interpreting Women’s History for the Public,” Southwest Institute
for Research on Women (SIROW), Tucson, Az., April 28-29, 2004.
Panel Commentator, “At the Intersection of Home and Work,” Western Association of Women Historians, Huntington Museum and Library, San Marino, CA. May 15-16, 2002.
Panel Commentator, “Negotiating Opportunity,” at the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association. Vancouver, British Columbia, August 2001.
Invited participant, New Leadership Development Network, Center for American
Women and Politics, at Rutgers University, June 2001.
Conference Panelist, “She Works Hard for Her Money: New Perspectives on Women Workers in Las Vegas,” at the Fifth Women’s West Conference, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, July 27-29, 2000,
Conference Panelist, “Work Rules and Welfare Narratives,”at the Social Science History Association, Forth Worth, Texas, November 11-14, 1999.
Conference Panelist, “Using Legal Narratives in the History of Gender and Welfare,” at the Gender and Women’s History at the Millennium Series, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, October 14, 1999.
Conference Panelist, “Historical Continuities in Welfare Reform,” at the University of Alabama, School of Social Work, November 1998.
Conference Panelist, “Women’s Work in Las Vegas,” Louise Tilly Conference, July 10-12, 1998.
Conference Panelist, “Las Vegas Women and Cold War Culture,” UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Los Angeles, California. March 1998.
Conference Panelist, “Issues and Problems in the History of Welfare,” Las Vegas Women’s Summit ’98, Las Vegas, Nevada. March 1998.
Panel Commentator, “Challenging Ideas of Progressive Reform: Local Manifestations of Maternalist Activism”, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association. Portland, Oregon. August 7-10, 1997.
Discussant on Welfare Reform at the National Policy History Conference, Bowling Green State University. June 5-8, 1997.

Conference Panelist, “Employable Mothers, Civil Rights and the Courts,” Organization of American Historians, April 17-20, 1997.
Conference Panelist, “Work Policies and Social Welfare over the Twentieth Century,” Gender and Poverty in the United States, A Conference at Dartmouth College. April 26-28, 1996.
Conference Panelist, “Gender and Race in Chicago’s Welfare System: The Structure of Public Provision, 1900-1930,” Organization of American Historians, April 14-17, 1994.
“Redefining Political Authority: Chicago Women and Political Innovation in State Building,” Social Science History Association, November 4-7, 1993.
Conference Panelist, “Social Policy and Women’s Work: Wage-Earning for Mothers Receiving Public Aid,” North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, October 14-16, 1993.
Panel Commentator, “The Male Breadwinner Ideal and Social Policy for Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century United States,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Vassar College, June 11-13, 1993.
Conference Panelist, “Work and Welfare: Reinterpreting the Origins of Social Provision for Indigent Mothers,” Organization of American Historians, April 1993.
Conferee, Teaching U.S. Women’s History Workshop, UCLA, 1992-date.
Conferee, Southwest Women’s History Group, University of Arizona, 1992-1997.
Panel Commentator, “New Research on the Moral and Political Economy of the Welfare State,” Social Science History Association, October 1991.
Conference Panelist, “Analyses of Mothers’ Pensions and A.D.C.,” Gender and Social Policy Conference, in conjunction with the Social Science History Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 1990.
Conference Panelist, “The Differential Treatment of Motherhood: Women on Welfare, Chicago 1900-1930,” Feminism and Legal Theory Conference, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, Wisconsin, June 1990.
Conference Panelist, “Women on Welfare: The State and Single Motherhood, Chicago, 1900-1930,” Social Science History Association. St. Louis, Missouri, November 1989.
Conference Panelist, “Mothers in Poverty: A Gender Analysis of Mothers’ Pensions, 1911-1929,” Seventh Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Wellesley College, June 1987.
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
Congressonal Directed Grant. Department of Education, expansion of community education programs, $100,000, 2005.
Congressional Directed Grant. Department of Education, education of college students for civic leadership, $150,000. 2003.
New Leadership Development Network Partner, Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, Kellogg Foundation, $10,000, 2002.
“Dance and Dancers in Las Vegas,” Planning Initiative Award, $8,000, UNLV, 2001.

“The Families of Tule Springs,” Nevada State Parks Cooperative Association, $2,000, 2000.
William Morris Award for Excellence in Scholarship, UNLV, 1999.
Emilie N. Wanderer Oral History Project, $50,000, UNLV Foundation, 1999.
UNLV Foundation Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award (nominee), 1998-1999.
Oral History Project Grant, UNLV Foundation, $30,000, 1997-1999.
Berkshire Conference on the History of Women Article Prize (nominee), 1997.
“’Employable Mothers’ and ‘Suitable Work’: A Re-evaluation of Welfare and Wageearning in the Twentieth Century United States.” Originally published in Journal of Social History (December 1995), 253-274.
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships. 1995-1996.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Research Grant, 1995-1996.
Faculty Development Leave, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1995-1996.
University Research Grants and Fellowships, UNLV, 1994-1995.
Graduate College Research Award, UNLV, 1994-1995.
Nevada Humanities Committee, Public Programs Grant, 1994.
Nevada Humanities Committee, Research Award, 1992-1993.
Graduate College Research Award, UNLV, 1992-1993.
Alumni Association Faculty Recognition Award, UNLV, 1992-1993.
Marjorie Barrick Faculty Development Grant, UNLV, 1991-1993.
“Urban Poverty and the Underclass,” post-doctoral fellowship, Northwestern University, 1991-1992 (declined).
Mary Malcomson Raphael Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1990-1991.
Department of History Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1989-1990.
Albert J. Beveridge Grant for Research in the History of the Western Hemisphere, American Historical Association, 1988-1989.
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Women’s Studies Program, 1988-1989 (finalist).
RESEARCH CONTRACTS:
“College Women and Civic Engagement,” U.S. Department of Education, $150,000 to study college women’s leadership development and engagement in civic life. 2003-2005.
“Enhancing Technology Education for Women and Girls.” U.S. Department of Labor, Women’s Bureau, $5,750 [May]; contract extended $5,750 [December], to develop a statewide network of individuals working on projects to develop girls and women’s participation in the fields of technology. 2001-2002.
“The Children’s Literacy Project.” U.S. Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education in collaboration with the Nevada Institute for Children at UNLV, to provide historical content for a supplemental history text for fourth grade Nevada History. 2001-2002

Oral histories of Nanyu Tomiyasu and Vernon Bostick. Southern Nevada Water Authority, Las Vegas, Nevada. $12,000. 2000-2002.
“The Families of Tule Springs,” State of Nevada Division of Parks, $2,500, to conduct oral histories on the Nay and Gilcrease families. 2000-2002.
MEDIA PRODUCTS
Dance and Dancers in Las Vegas, five ½-hour programs discussing the historical contributions of performers to the entertainment capital of the world. In collaboration with UNLV-TV and Distance Education. (forthcoming, 2005).
Looking Back at Nevada Women, 9 mini-documentaries on women and their roles in the development of Las Vegas and Nevada. In collaboration with Clark County, Cultural Affairs. Completed and broadcast Spring 2001.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Member, Advisory Board to the Status of Women in the States, Institute for Women’sPolicy Research, Washington, D.C., 2003-date.
Member, Editorial Board, Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-2000, Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin, eds. Website [http://womhist.binghamton.edu] in partnership with the Alexander Street Press, 2003-date.
Member, City of Las Vegas Centennial Committee, Historical Working Group, 2003-date.
Consultant, Nevada Test Site Women’s Oral History Project, Nevada Test Site Museum and Foundation. 2002-date.
Member, Advisory Board, “The Nevada Quilt Odyssey.” Nevada State Museum, Carson City, January – March 2002.
Member, Board of Advisors, Status of Women and Girls in Nevada, Nevada Women’s Fund, 2001-date.
Member, Editorial Board, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 2001-date.
Member, Editorial Board, Social Science History, 1998-2000.
Member, Sierra Book Prize Committee, Western Association of Women Historians, 2000--2002.
Member, Executive Board, Western Association of Women Historians, 1997-1998.
Member, Editorial Board, Halcyon, vols. 21 – 23, 1997-1998.
Member, Organization of American Historians, Membership Committee, 1993-97.
Campus Faculty Representative, Southwest Institute for Research on Women, 1994-1997.
Panelist/Reviewer. Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education. Department of Education. Washington, D.C., 2001.
Unpublished Manuscript Reviews for:
University of North Carolina Press (2), University of New Mexico Press (1), University of Nevada Press (6), Northern Illinois University Press (1), University Press of Colorado (1), Frontiers, A Journal of Women’s Studies; Journal of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era; The Historian; Journal of Policy History(3); Journal of Women’s History; Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State, and Society; Social Science History; Social Service Review; and Women’s HistoryReview.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
University:
Fiscal Affairs Committee, Faculty Senate, 2003-present
Nevada Women’s Archives Advisory Board (chair), 1994-1999
Women’s Studies Program, Steering Committee, 1993-1995
Sabbatical Leave Committee, 1992-1994.
Women’s Studies Program, Curriculum Committee, 1991-1993
College of Liberal Arts:
Member, Advisory Council, NEW Leadership Nevada, 2002-2003.
Morris Award for Excellence in Scholarship Selection Committee, 2000-2004.
Member-at-Large, Executive Committee, 2000-2002.
Center for Advanced Research Advisory Committee, 2000-2003.
Director, Women’s Research Institute of Nevada, 1999-date
Ethics and Policy Studies, Steering Committee, 1997-1999.
University Forum Lecture Series Committee, 1994-2001
Academic Standards Committee, 1993-1995.
History Department:
Cultural-Public History Search Committee, 2003-2004.
Personnel Committee, 1999-2002.
Director, Las Vegas Women Oral History Project, 1995-date.
Public History Search Committee (chair), 1998-1999.
Legal & Constitutional History Search Committee, 1996-1997.
Travel Committee, 1995-1997.
Teaching & Awards Committee, 1991-1995, 1996-1998, 1998-2001(chair).
Graduate Committee, 1993-95; 1994-1995 (chair).
Latino/a Search Committee (chair), 1992-1993.
Political/Economic Search Committee, 1992-1993.
Curriculum Committee, 1991-1992.
Graduate College Representative, 1992.
PUBLIC SERVICE
Humanities consultant, “Women in Las Vegas History,” A Las Vegas Centennial
Program, Nevada Women’s History Project, forthcoming (March 2005)
“Writing women into Las Vegas History,” presentation to the regional meeting of the Soroptimists International, September 2004.
Consultant on video exhibits, First Ladies Conference on Women and Health, Las Vegas, November 2003.

“Women Building Community in Las Vegas,” presentation to the American Association
of University Women, Las Vegas, NV. September 2003.
“Las Vegas Women and History,” Clark County History Museum Guild, March 2003.
Selection Jurist, Nevada Women’s History Project Role of Honor, March 2003.
“Women and Social Change,” presentation for The Life of Mary Baker Eddy, West Charleston Library, March 2002.
Representative at Senator Harry Reid’s Women’s Issues Forum, May 2001.
Presentation on Women’s History, MacDonald Ranch Literary Club, May 2001.
“Helen Stewart in Las Vegas History,” Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park, May 2001.
History Workshop, Take Your Daughters to Work Day, UNLV, April 2001.
Oral History Workshop, for Soroptimists International of Greater Las Vegas, April 2001.
Presentation on Women’s History Month, Winchester Community Center, March 2001.
Testimony before Nevada State Assembly for Assembly Bill 260, March 2001.
Judge, Nevada Women’s History Project, Roll of Honor, March 2001.
“Las Vegas and Women’s History,” talk to the Soroptimists of Las Vegas, January 2001.
“Nevada Women: Emerging Into Public Life,” Mt. Charleston Writers Series, October2000.
Panel Participant, Nevada Women’s Summit 2000, March 18, 2000.
Consultant, Nevada Women’s History Project, biographical encyclopedia project, 1998-2000.
Speakers Bureau, Health Care Reform, League of Women Voters, 1998.
Women’s Biographical Encyclopedia workshop leader, Nevada Women’s History Project, September 1998--2000.
Moderator, College Democrats Forum on Women in Politics, March 1998.
Invited speaker, American Association of University Women, May 1997.
Invited speaker, Mesquite Club, May 1997.
Guest on KXNT, radio talk show with Icie Parker, May 1997.
PROFESSIONAL AND HONORARY ASSOCIATIONS
Coordinating Committee on Women in the Historical Profession, 1982-present
Organization of American Historians, 1983-present
Social Science History Association, 1986-present
American Historical Association, 1987-present
Southwest Institute for Research on Women, 1991-present
Western Association of Women Historians, 1992-present.
National Council for Research on Women, 1993-present
Institute for Women’s Policy Research, 1994-present