Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Northwestern University 1970
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Professor of the Practice of Education, Education, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2006 - 2008
  • Professor of the Practice of Women's Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1997 - 2005
  • Margaret Taylor Smith Director of the Women's Studies Program, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1997 - 2001
  • Associate Professor of the Practice, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1992 - 1997
  • Director, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1983 - 1996
  • Professor of the Practice, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1991 - 1992
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • Tunisia (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Women in Science: A Duke University Community Initiative awarded by  National Science Foundation 1992 - 1994
  • House Course for African-American Women awarded by Mary Duke Biddle Foundation 1992
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • O’Barr, J. F., and Stephanie Shields. “The Women's Studies PhD: A Report.” Nwsa Journal 15, no. 1 (March 2003): 118–31.
    • O’Barr, J. F. “Women's Studies Is Alive and Well.” National Council of Jewish Women Journal 24, no. 1 (March 2001): 22–24.
    • O’Barr, J. F. “My Master List for the Millenium: Commissioned essay.” Signs: Journal of Women in Society and Culture (Special Issue) 25, no. 4 (July 2000): 1205–8.
    • Bartlett, K., and J. O’Barr. “The Chilly Climate on College Campuses: An Expansion of the "Hate Speech" Debate.” Duke Law Journal 1990 (1990).
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    • O’Barr, J. F. “Women's Studies and the Perkins Library System: A Working Partnership.” Duke University Libraries 3, no. 1 (October 1989): 2–6.
    • O’Barr, J. F. “Feminist Issues in the Fiction of Kenya's Women authors.” African Literature Today 15 (January 1987): 55–70.
    • O’Barr, J. F. “Reflections on Forum '85 in Kenya: Voices from the International Women's Studies Community.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 11, no. 3 (March 1986): 589–609.
    • O’Barr, J. F. “The New Scholarship on Women: Stirring In or Stirring Up?” Duke University Letters, November 1983.
    • O’Barr, J. F., and Mark Tessler. “Participant Citizenship in Tunisia: Considering Gender.” Journal of Arab Affairs 2, no. 1 (January 1982): 47–84.
    • O’Barr, J. F. “Funding Adult Counseling Programs.” The Forum for Continuing Education, July 1980.
    • O’Barr, J. F. “Women in Higher Education: Agenda for the '80s.” Comment 1980 (June 1980).
    • O’Barr, J. F. “Dual Careers at Duke: Conference Programming on a Popular but-Little Understood Topic.” The Forum for Continuing Education, March 1980.
    • O’Barr, J. F. “Dual Careers for Faculty and Family: Can Both Prosper?” American Association of Higher Education Bulletin 32 (1979).
    • O’Barr, J. F. “Continuing Education and the Older Learner: A Program Development Model Based on Duke University's Institute for Learning in Retirement.” Advances in Research, no. 3 (1979): 1–12.
    • O’Barr, J. F. “Peer Teaching.” Generations: Journal of the Western Gerontological Society, no. 3 (1978): 10–11.
    • O’Barr, J. F. “Pare Women: A Case of Political Involvement.” Rural Africana 29 (1976): 121–34.
    • O’Barr, J. F. “Support for the Adult Student.” Adult Leadership 25 (1976).
    • O’barr, J. F. “Making the invisible visible: African women in politics and policy.” African Studies Review 18, no. 3 (January 1, 1975): 19–27. https://doi.org/10.2307/523718.
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    • O’Barr, J. F. “Cell Leaders in Tanzania: Implications of a New Level in Political Administration.” African Studies Review 15 (1972): 437–66.
    • O’Barr, J. F. “The Role of the Ten-House Cell Leader in Tanzania.” Geneva Africa 10 (1972): 1–16.
    • O’Barr, J. F. “Report on Changes in Tanzanian Rural Society and Their Relevance for Development Planning.” Rural Africana 13 (1971): 43–49.

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