Claire Moses

Claire Goldberg Moses (born 1941) is an American historian and women's studies scholar who is Professor Emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park. She was a founding faculty member of the university's women's studies program in 1977 and served as Editorial Director of Feminist Studies from 1977 to 2011. Her book French Feminism in the Nineteenth Century won the Joan Kelly Prize for the Best Book in Feminist Theory and History from the American Historical Association in 1985. The Claire G. Moses Award for the Most Theoretically Innovative Article was established by Feminist Studies in her honor. She received her A.B. from Smith College, Magna cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1963. She then pursued graduate studies at Columbia University and George Washington University, earning her M.Phil. in 1972 and her Ph.D. in 1978. In recognition of her contributions to feminist scholarship, the journal established the Claire G. Moses Award for the Most Theoretically Innovative Article in her honor.

Selected publications Moses is best known for her book French Feminism in the Nineteenth Century, published by SUNY Press in 1984. This work, which examines the development of feminist thought and activism in 19th-century France, won the prestigious Joan Kelly Prize for the Best Book in Feminist Theory and History. and was reprinted in Australian Feminist Studies 11 (1996). The article was later included in two major edited collections: in French translation in Le Cinquantenaire du Deuxième Sexe, edited by Christine Delphy and Sylvie Chaperon (Paris: Éditions Syllepse, 2002), 238-245; and in English in Beyond French Feminisms: Debates on Women, Politics, and Culture in France, 1981-2001, edited by Roger Célestin, Eliane DalMolin, and Isabelle de Courtivron (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 261-284. Moses, C. G. (2009). The Politics of Feminist Publishing. Feminist studies. Ex aequo, (19), 15-21. Moses, C. G. (2012). " What's in a Name?" On Writing the History of Feminism. Feminist Studies, 38(3), 757-779. Moses, C. G. (2013). French Utopians: The Word and the Act. In Perspectives on Feminist Political Thought in European History (pp. 136-149). Routledge.

Awards and honors Joan Kelly Prize for the Best Book in Feminist Theory and History, American Historical Association (1985) University of Maryland Outstanding Woman of the Year (2003) Claire G. Moses Award for the Most Theoretically Innovative Article established by Feminist Studies in her honor