JOAN WAUGH
PROFESSOR
Office: 9351 BUNCHE
Phone: 310-825-1865
Fax:
310-206-9630
E-mail:
jwaugh@history.ucla.edu
Mailing Address:
6265 Bunche Hall
Box 951473
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1473
Field
United States
Research Interests
My research interests are in the U.S. nineteenth-century, and I specialize in Civil War and Reconstruction, and the Gilded Age; the social history of soldiers; politics and political culture; and the memorialization of the Civil War. My first book, Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell (Harvard University Press, 1998) analyzes the life of a major, and controversial, figure in charity reform through the lens of gender, class, and ideology. My second and third books (co-edited with Alice Fahs and Gary W. Gallagher, respectively)are entitled The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture (2004) and Wars within a war: Controversy and Conflict over the American Civil War (2009). A fourth, U.S. Grant, American Hero, American Myth is due out in fall of 2009.
TEACHING INTERESTS
I began teaching full-time for the UCLA history department in 1993. For several years now I have taught two upper division courses covering the period from 1850 -1900. I have developed a multi-media approach to the teaching of history, and I use visuals, music, short films, and handouts. Teaching the large and impersonal lecture courses that are the fate of UCLA professors has been both a challenge and a great experience. Every quarter I learn something valuable from my students about how to communicate historical materials to large groups. I anticipate many years of engagement with pedagogical issues. I have developed two seminars for my UCLA students. This first is entitled: "The Soldier's History of the Civil War." This class, limited to 15-20 students, explores the inner tensions of northern and southern soldiers through the writing of a research paper on one carefully selected regiment. The point is to try to answer the questions: why did they enlist? why did they fight?; why did they stay?. In the second seminar, students study how the civil war is commemorated in both popular and high culture.
UCLA AT GETTYSBURG
In four summers (1999, 2000, 2002, 2004) I offered a travel/study course that gave students an opportunity to study intensively the political, social, economic, cultural, and military history of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania first through lectures, discussion, and research on the UCLA campus, and then on a field trip to Gettysburg where students visited the town, the college, and the battlefield in depth. We also visited other civil war sites, including Harpers Ferry, West Virginia; Antietam National Military Park in Maryland; Richmond, Virginia, and Washington D.C.
UCLA At Gettysburg students walking through the famous “wheat field” at Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 2000.
Selected Publications
PUBLICATIONS
I. Books
Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1998).
U.S. Grant, American Hero, American Myth, University of North Carolina Press,
2009.
History Book Club Main Selection, November, 2009
Military Book Club, Alternative Selection, November, 2009
Book of the Month Club, Alternative Selection, November, 2009
Book of the Month Club 2, Online Selection, November, 2009
II. Edited Books
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009). (Co-edited with Gary W.
Gallagher, and contributed introduction and one essay titled, "The Nation's
Greatest Hero Should Rest in the Nation's Greatest City").
The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture (Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 2004). (Co-edited with Alice Fahs, and contributed
introduction and one essay titled, “U.S. Grant, Historian.”)
Winner of the 2004 New York Military Affairs Symposium Civil
War Book Award
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1856 to 1869. (New York: Facts on File, 2003).
Volume 5, of Gary B. Nash, general editor, Encyclopedia of U.S. History; Second
edition forthcoming, 2008.
Winner of four awards
III. Refereed Articles and Book Chapters
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: A History of the Union Cause,” in James
Marten and A. Kristen Foster, eds., More Than A Contest Between Armies (Kent,
Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 2008).
“New England Cavalier: Charles Russell Lowell in the 1864 Shenandoah Valley
Campaign,” in Gary W. Gallagher, ed., The 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006).
“Pageantry of Woe: The Funeral of U.S. Grant,” Civil War History (June, 2005).
“The Funeral of U.S. Grant: A Meditation on Gilded Age Religion and Reunion,”
Edward J. Blum and W. Scott Poole, eds. Vale of Tears: New Essays on Religion
and Reconstruction (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2005). (Revised
and expanded version of “Pageantry of Woe,” in Civil War History (June, 2005).
“Give This Man Work: The Charity Organization City of the City of New York
and the Depression of 1893” Social Science History Journal (Summer 2001).
“A Sacrifice We Owed: The Shaw Family and the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts,”
in Martin H. Blatt, Thomas J. Brown, Donald Yacovone, eds., Hope and Glory:
Essays on the Legacy of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment (Amherst:
University of Massachusetts Press, 2001).
IV. Published Lecture
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: A History of the Union Cause. Twelfth Annual
Frank L. Klement Lecture (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2003).
V. Scholarly Introductions
John J. Pullen, The Twentieth Maine: A Volunteer Regiment in the Civil War
(Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2008),
The Letters of Charles Russell Lowell, by Edward Waldo Emerson (University
of South Carolina Press, 2005), pp. xiii-xlii.
The Philanthropic Work of Josephine Shaw Lowell, by William Rhindlander Stewart
(Cambridge, MA: Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University,
Philanthropy Classics Access Project, 2006).
VI. Encyclopedia Entries
Author of 40 entries in Civil War and Reconstruction, 1856 to 1869 (New York:
Facts on File, 2003), Volume 5, of Gary B. Nash, general editor, Encyclopedia
of U.S. History. Second edition forthcoming.
“Charity Organization Societies” and “Josephine Shaw Lowell,” entries for
Encyclopedia of Social Welfare, Sage Publications, 2005.
“Charity Organization Movement,” entry for the Oxford Companion to United
States History, Fall 2000.
Awards
HONORS AND AWARDS
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow of the Huntington Library, 2005-2006
Travel and Research Grant, UCLA, 1996-2008
UCLA History Department Research and Travel Grant, 2002-2003.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the Henry E. Huntington Library, 2001-2002.
Gilder Lehrman Fellowship, New York Historical Society, 1999-2000.
Huntington Library Fellowship, San Marino, California, 1997-98.
Finalist, Nevins Prize, The Society of American Historians, 1993.
Mary Wollstonecraft Dss. Prize, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, 1992.
Woodrow Wilson Research Grant in Women’s Studies, 1991.
TEACHING PRIZES AND DISTINCTIONS
“Outstanding Professor in the History Department,” Phi Alpha Theta Annual Student Faculty Dinner, May 28, 2008.
Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lectureship Program, 2004-2010
UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, 2004
UCLA Brian Copenhaver Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology, 2003
Chair’s Outstanding Teacher/Mentor Award, UCLA History Department, 2000-2001.
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