Jean H. Baker | |
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| Born | Jean Hogarth Harvey (1933-02-09)February 9, 1933 (age 92) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Occupation | Historian |
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| Subjects | American history |
| Years active | 1967–present |
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| Children | 4 |
Jean Hogarth Harvey Baker (born February 9, 1933) is an American historian and professor emerita atGoucher College, where she was the Bennett-Hartwood Professor of History. Baker was aNational Endowment for the Humanities fellow in 1982.
Jean Hogarth Harvey Baker was born inBaltimore, Maryland on February 9, 1933, to Rose Lindsay Hopkins and insurance agent F. Barton Harvey. She received her B.A. fromGoucher College in 1961 and her M.A. from TheJohns Hopkins University in 1965[1] alongside fellow historianDavid Herbert Donald.[2] She completed her Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1971.[1]
Baker was an instructor of history atNotre Dame of Maryland University from 1967 to 1969. She began her career atGoucher College as an instructor in 1969. She worked as an assistant professor at Goucher (1969–1975) before becoming an associate professor of history (1975–1978). In 1979, she was made a full professor of history until 1982, when she became the Elizabeth Todd Professor of History. In 1979, she was an editor for theMaryland Historical Magazine, a publication of theMaryland Historical Society.[1] As of 2018, Baker is a professor emerita atGoucher College and the Bennett-Hartwood Professor of History.[3][2] She also taught courses at the Maryland Correctional Institution - Jessup (MCI-J) as part of the Goucher Prison Education Partnership. Baker was a visiting professor atHarvard College.[2]
Baker is a member of theOrganization of American Historians, theAmerican Historical Association,Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, andPhi Beta Kappa.[1]
Her books have received positive reviews.[4]
Baker played an important role in advocating for increased recognition of the role of women in society. In her experience, women were frequently excluded from historical and academic narratives. TheWomen's Movement empowered Baker to explore these deficits. She wrote stories on suffragists includingLucy Stone,Susan B. Anthony,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Alice Paul, andFrances Willard.The New York Times lauded Baker's work as "wider in scope than previous work and making use of sophisticated feminist historical and sociological scholarship." In anticipation of the hundredth anniversary of theNineteenth Amendment, Baker was featured inWYPR'sBeyond the Ballot program that features "the contributions of extraordinary Maryland women."[5]
Some of her books are:[1]
Additional books, publications, and writings:
In 1976, Baker was elected anAmerican Council of Learned Societies fellow. In 1979, she won a faculty teaching prize at Goucher College. She was aNational Endowment for the Humanities fellow in 1982 and won the Berkshire Prize in History in 1983 for her bookAffairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Baker won the Willie Lee Rose prize in Southern History in 1989. She was a 1991Newberry Library fellow.[1]
Baker lives in Baltimore.[1] On September 12, 1953, she married Ralph Robinson Baker,[1] a surgeon and professor atJohns Hopkins University.[6] They have four children,[6] Susan Dixon, Robinson Scott, Robert Walker, Jean Harvey.[1] Baker is a Democrat and an Episcopalian, and enjoys playing tennis and swimming. As a hobby, Baker reads mystery stories.[1]
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