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Jeanne Petit
Professor
of History (2000)
616.395.7588
Lubbers Hall 324
126 East 10th Street
Holland, MI 49423
petit@hope.edu
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B.A., Knox College, 1992
M.A., University of Notre Dame, 1993
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2000
Professor Jeanne Petit’s research focuses on gender and immigration in United States History, Her book, The Men and Women We Want: Gender, Race, and the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate (University of Rochester Press, 2010), explores the ways debates about immigration restriction in the early twentieth century tapped into broader concerns about American national identity.
Professor Petit regularly teaches Cultural Heritage II
and the modern half of the United States survey (1877-present). Her upper-level
courses focus on US social and cultural history. Her offerings include “U.S.
Women and Social Change,” “World War I America,” “United
States Cultural History,” “The Roaring Twenties” and “Recent
America: The United State since World War II.” Professor Petit
is also the Director of Women's Studies
and has taught “Introduction to Women’s
Studies.”
Courses Taught |
HIST 140 History Workshop
HIST 161 U.S History Since 1877
HIST 255 World War I America: A Nation in Transition
HIST 256 Recent America: The Challenges of Power
HIST 352 U.S. Women and Social Change
HIST 357 United States Cultural History: Ideas of Race, Gender and Class
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Current Research |
In her new research,
Prof. Petit investigates the ways in which Catholic laywomen sought
positions of power and
influence in the United States during the World War I era.
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Publications |
"'Up against a Stone Wall': Women, Power and the National
Catholic Community Houses" American Catholic Studies 123 (2012):
31-57.
The Men and Women We Want: Gender, Immigration
Restriction and Progressive-Era Literacy Test Debates,
University of Rochester Press (2010)
“What Challenges Did Catholic Laywomen Face
When They Took up Social Work in Post-World War I East St. Louis?” Women
and Social Movements Website, Alexander Street Press/SUNY
Binghamton (2010)
“ ‘Organized Catholic Womanhood: Suffrage, Citizenship and the National Council of Catholic Women,” U.S. Catholic Historian (Winter, 2008)
“Our Immigrant Co-Religionists: The National Catholic Welfare Conference as an Advocate for Immigrants, 1919-1929” in Immigrant Rights in the Shadow of United States Citizenship, Rachel Ida Buff, ed, New York University Press, 2008.
“Negotiating their Place: Two Perspectives on American Catholics in the Progressive Era” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, July, 2004
“Breeders, Workers and Mothers: Gender and the Congressional Literacy Test Debate, 1896-97,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, January, 2004
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