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Mari Jo Buhle

b. 1943

American historian

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Born 1943. Mari Jo Buhle is an American historian.

Mari Jo Buhle (born 1943) is an American historian and William J. Kenan Jr. University Professor Emerita at Brown University.

Early life and education Buhle was born in 1943 as Mari Jo Kupski. She graduated from North Chicago Community High School in 1961.

Listed as Mari Jo Kupski Buhle in 1968, she received her Master of Arts degree in history from the University of Connecticut. She earned a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1974.

Career She served on the faculty of Brown University from 1972 until her retirement in 2009, where she was the first member of the faculty to hold a position dedicated to women's studies. She taught mainly on the history of American women, training students at the undergraduate and graduate levels in both the American Civilization and History departments. Buhle's own research began with a specialty in the history of American radicalism and expanded to include the history of the behavior sciences in the United States. Buhle has received fellowships from the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College; the Bunting Institute (now the Radcliffe Institute) at Harvard University; and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (1991–1996).

Since the 1980s, Buhle, her husband Paul, and Dan Georgakas have been co-writing and publishing Encyclopedia of the American Left, first published in 1990.

In 1991, Buhle was named a MacArthur Fellow. Personal life

On December 30, 1963, she married Paul Buhle.

Works It Started in Wisconsin: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest, (Verso, 2012, The concise history of woman suffrage, eds. Mari Jo Buhle and Paul Buhle (University of Illinois Press, 2005), Out of Many, Volume 1: A History of the American People, John Mack Faragher, Mari Jo Buhle, Susan Armitage, Daniel Czitrom (Prentice Hall, 2005), Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis (Harvard University Press, 2000), The American radical, eds. Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, Harvey J. Kaye (Routledge, 1994), Encyclopedia of the American Left, Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, Dan Georgakas (Garland Pub., 1990), Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920 (University of Illinois Press, 1983),

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Born
1943, United States
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Education
University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Connecticut
Employers
Brown University
Awards
MacArthur Fellows Program

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Spouse
Paul Buhle

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American historian

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· Wikipedia: Mari Jo Buhle

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