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Nancy MacLean
20th-century America; Gender, Race, and Labor
Office: 1800 Sherman #509
Phone: 847-491-3154
E-mail: nkm050
northwestern.edu
Nancy MacLean (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1989) is Professor of History and African American Studies. She studies the workings of class, gender, race, and region in twentieth-century social movements and public policy. Her first book, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), was named a “noteworthy” book of the year by the New York Times Book Review, and received the Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, the Owsley Prize from the Southern Historical Association, and the Rosenhaupt Award from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
Her most recent book is Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (Harvard University Press, 2006). The recipient of an Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights, it also the Willard Hurst Prize for best book in sociolegal history from the Law and Society Association, the Labor History Best Book Prize from the International Association of Labor History Institutions, the Richard A. Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations, and the Lillian Smith Book Award from the Southern Regional Council.
She has recently completed two books for course use: The American Women’s Movement, 1945-2000: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009) and, with Donald T. Critchlow, Debating the American Conservative Movement: 1945 to the Present (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009).
A recipient of fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the National Humanities Center, as well as Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research and Kaplan Humanities Center, she is one of the History Department’s several Charles Deering McCormick Professors of Teaching Excellence.
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