Barbara Winslow, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Adolescence Social Studies
and BC Women's Studies Program
Barbara
Winslow is a historian who teaches in the School
of Education and for the Women's Studies Program. Her areas of specialization
are in social studies curriculum development, integrating computer
based multi-media technology into the urban classroom at both the
elementary and secondary school level. She also specializes in
integrating class, race and gender into the elementary and
secondary curriculum.
She attended Antioch College in the 1960's and has never forgotten the last valedictory address
of its first president, Horace Mann, "Be ashamed to die until
you have won some victory for Humanity." She received a Ph.D.
in European and US women's history from the University
of Washington .
Her research focuses on the intersection of gender, class, race
and sexuality on women in social protest movements. Her first
book, Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual
Politics and Political Activism, ( St. Martins
, NY 1996) tells the story of an important suffragette, peace
campaigner, anti-colonialist, anti-fascist, international
socialist and feminist. She is presently writing a history of the
women's liberation movement in Seattle, Washington. Winslow is also researching how class, race and gender affect
pedagogy, in particular with regard to technology. Clio in the
Classroom: Teaching US Women’s History in the Schools, a book
she co-authored and co-edited with
Carol Berkin and Margaret Crocco, published by Oxford University
Press will be out in January 2009.
Along with her research interests Barbara Winslow serves on the
Advisory Board of the North Star Fund a foundation serving
grassroots activist organizations in New York City.
She
is the founder and project Director of the Shirley Chisholm
Project of Brooklyn Women’s Activism 1945 to the Present.
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First,
There Was Shirley
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Political
pioneer and BC alum, Shirley Chisholm, preceded Hillary and
Obama with her 1972 White House bid. BC Professor Barbara
Winslow, director of the BC-based Shirley Chisholm Project,
recalls the 1972 presidential campaign. Source: Daily
News
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