Sylvie Murray
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| Email: sylvie.murray[at]ufv.ca |
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Office: D3098 ( Abbotsford Campus) |
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Ph: 604-557-4042 or ext: 4042 |
| Education: B.A., University of Quebec - Montreal; M.A., University of Quebec - Montreal; Ph.D., Yale University |
| Specialty: U.S. history, 20th century social/political history, women's and gender history |
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| Guest editor (with Scott Fast) of "Ethical Citizenship and Post-Secondary Education," UFV Research Review, Volume 2, Issue 1 (June 2008). Online journal available at http://journals.ucfv.ca/rr/ |
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"How Did Suburban Development and Domesticity Shape Women’s Activism in QueensNew York19451968Women and Social Movements in the United States" (online journal) Issue 10:1 (2006). |
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| The Progressive Housewife: Community Activism in Suburban Queens, 1945-1965. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003, 264 pages. |
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| Rethinking Middle-Class Populism in the Postwar Era: Community Activism in Queens."In Burton J. Bledstein and Rober D. Johnston, eds., Middling Sorts: Explorations in the History of the Middle Class (Routledge, 2001): 267-279. |
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Volume on World War II for “Writing American History,” series of undergraduate composition/American history books, Hill and Wang (forthcoming) |
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Women, Amateurs, and Politicians: the Volunteers for Stevenson, the Citizens for Eisenhower, and Grassroots Participation in the American Presidential Campaigns of 1952 and 1956 (Research Project supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Standard Research Grants Program, 2005-2008) |
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Phillis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism (Donald T. Critchlow, Princeton University Press, 2005), American Historical Review (October 2007). |
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Citizen, Mother, Worker: Debating Public Responsibility for Child Care after the Second World War (Emilie Stoltzfus, University of North Carolina Press, 2003), American Historical Review (April 2005). |
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My Blue Heaven (Betty Nicolaides, University of Chicago, 2002), Left History, 9, 1 (Fall/Winter 2004). |
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Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened (Rosalyn Baxandall and Elizabeth Ewen, Basic Books, 2000), Journal of American History, 87, 4 (March 2001): 1577. |
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