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Jocelyn Olcott

Jocelyn Olcott

Professor of History
History
olcott@duke.edu
Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
314 Classroom Bldg, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
Office hours Monday, 3-5 p.m. or by appointment  

Awards & Honors

Ida Blom-Karen Offen Prize in Transnational Women’s and Gender History

International International Federation for Research in Women’s History. · September 2020

Honorable mention, Bryce Wood Book Award

Scholarly Society Latin American Studies Association · May 2018 Latin American Studies Association presents the Bryce Wood Book Award to an outstanding book on Latin America in the social sciences and humanities published in English. More about this award

Fellowship

Other Institut d’Études Avancées, Nantes · 2017 More about this award

Frank H. Kenan fellow

Other National Humanities Center · 2013

Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies Fellowship

National Princeton University · 2009

Fellow

Other Center for the US and the Cold War, New York University · 2007

In the News

Published March 26, 2025
Failure or Success? A Look Back at a Landmark 1975 Women’s Conference
Published March 15, 2023
How Women Drive the Care Economy
Published March 2, 2021
12 Duke-Authored Books on Women's History
Published December 16, 2020
Eleven Student Films about Women in American Politics
Published August 13, 2020
New Major Offers Global Perspective on Gender Across the World
Published May 5, 2020
Historian Jocelyn Olcott: Assessing the Value of Caregivers During a Pandemic
Published December 1, 2017
Sexual Harassment & Sexual Desire, with Jocelyn Olcott
Published November 5, 2017
Jocelyn Olcott: International Women's Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History
Published September 19, 2017
Interview with Jocelyn Olcott
Published August 25, 2017
Jocelyn Olcott International Women's Year The Greatest Consciousness-raising Event in History
Published July 21, 2017
How A Women’s Rights Conference Became Known As ‘The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event In History'
Published June 29, 2017
Interview with Jocelyn Olcott
Published June 22, 2017
International Women's Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event In History, with Jocelyn Olcott
Published March 8, 2017
The Day without a Woman
Published March 7, 2017
News Tip: Expert Available to Comment on 'Day Without a Woman'
Published June 26, 2015
Jocelyn Olcott: On 70th anniversary, U.N. must focus on migrant, refugee crisis