Sarah Jane Deutsch
Professor of History
My work engages issues of difference, particularly racial, gender, class, and spatial formations. My current book project is “Making a Modern U.S. West, 1898-1942.” I have written three other books, Women and the City: Gender, Space and Power in Boston, 1870-1940 (2000); From Ballots to Breadlines: American Women, 1920-1940 (1994); and No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940 (1987).
Office Hours
Wednesdays 2-4, Carr Building Rm. 326
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2004
- Professor in Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2021
Contact Information
- 326 Classroom Building, Durham, NC 27708
- Dept of History, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708
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sarah.deutsch@duke.edu
(919) 684-3014
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Yale University 1985
- M.Lit., Oxford University (United Kingdom) 1980
- B.A., Yale University 1977
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Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Associate Chair of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2020 - 2021
- Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014 - 2020
- Associate Chair in the Department of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015 - 2016
- Interim Associate Chair of the Department of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2013 - 2014
- Dean of the Social Sciences, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University 2006 - 2009
- Chair, Department of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2004 - 2006
- Recognition
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In the News
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MAR 2, 2021 -
JUN 1, 2016 “BackStory with the American History Guys”
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Awards & Honors
- Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring. Duke University Graduate School. 2015
- Most Distinguished Teacher in Lower Division Undergraduate Course. School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona. 2003
- Outstanding Teacher for 1995. Clark University senior class. 1995
- Fellowship. Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC. 1994
- Fellowship. Warren Center, Harvard University. 1993
- Oliver and Dorothy Hayden Junior Faculty Fellowship, for excellence in research and Teaching, 1992-93. Clark University. 1993
- Fellowship. Massachusetts Historical Society. 1990
- Resource Fellow, Executive Seminar, 1987; Corporation in Contemporary Society, 1990. Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. 1990
- Fellowship. Huntington Library, San Marino, California. 1989
- Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities. Council of Graduate Schools. 1989
- Fellow. National Humanities Center. 1988
- Ida and Cecil Green Career Development Chair . M.I.T.. 1987
- Dissertation Fellowship. American Association of University Women. 1983
- Women's Studies Dissertation Research Grant. Woodrow Wilson Foundation. 1983
- Rhodes Scholar. Rhodes Trust. 1977
- Rhodes Scholarship. Rhodes Foundation. 1977
- Research
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External Relationships
- James Madison University
- Oxford University Press
- University of Nebraska Press
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
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Deutsch, S. Major Problems in the History of American Families and Children. Edited by Anya Jabour. Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
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Deutsch, S. Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940. Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Deutsch, S. No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States. Edited by Nancy F. Cott. Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Academic Articles
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of Class and Gender Politics in Progressive-Era Seattle by John C. Putman.” The Journal of American History 95 (December 2008): 893–94. https://doi.org/10.2307/27694487.Full Text
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America by Zaragosa Vargas.” The American Historical Review 112 (February 2007): 213–14.
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850 by Andrés Reséndez.” The Journal of Southern History 72 (May 2006): 458–60. https://doi.org/10.2307/27649090.Full Text
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border by Elliott Young.” The Journal of Southern History 71 (November 2005): 917–18. https://doi.org/10.2307/27648948.Full Text
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970 by Matt Garcia.” Social History 28 (May 2003): 267–69.
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of Mexican Coal Mining Labor in Texas and Coahuila, 1880-1930 by Roberto R. Calderón.” The Journal of Southern History 68 (February 2002): 203–4. https://doi.org/10.2307/3069735.Full Text
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Incendiary Actions.” The Women’S Review of Books 18 (January 2001): 10–11. https://doi.org/10.2307/4023582.Full Text
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West, 1880-1920 by Clare V. McKanna.” Journal of American Ethnic History 18 (January 1999): 146–47.
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of The Common Ground of Womanhood: Class, Gender, and Working Girls’ Clubs, 1884-1928. by Priscilla Murolo.” The Journal of American History 85 (September 1998): 696–97. https://doi.org/10.2307/2567834.Full Text
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Deutsch, S. J. “Women, Difference, and the Public Terrain: Commentary on special issue, 'Gender and the City'.” Historical Geography 26 (1998).
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of Three Frontiers: Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850-1900 by Dean L. May.” Social History 20 (October 1995): 399–400.
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of Social Housekeepers: Women Shaping Public Policy in New Mexico, 1920-1940 by Sandra Schackel.” Montana: The Magazine of Western History 44 (July 1994): 86–86.
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 by Ramón A. Gutiérrez.” Journal of American Ethnic History 13 (April 1994): 97–98.
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of Doing What the Day Brought: An Oral History of Arizona Women by Logan Rothschild; Pamela Claire Hronek.” Pacific Historical Review 63 (February 1994): 100–102. https://doi.org/10.2307/3640686.Full Text
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Reconceiving the City: Women, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1910.” Gender & History 6 (1994): 202–23.
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Gender, Labor History, and Chicano/a Ethnic Identity.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 14 (January 1994): 1–22. https://doi.org/10.2307/3346622.Full Text
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of Poor Women and Their Families: Hard-Working Charity Cases, 1900-1930 by Beverly Stadum.” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 24 (January 1994): 563–65. https://doi.org/10.2307/206707.Full Text
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of On Rims & Ridges: The Los Alamos Area since 1880. by Hal K. Rothman.” The Journal of American History 80 (September 1993): 704–5. https://doi.org/10.2307/2079964.Full Text
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of A Family Venture: Men and Women on the Southern Frontier by Joan E. Cashin.” The American Historical Review 97 (December 1992): 1593–1593. https://doi.org/10.2307/2166089.Full Text
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of Protestantism in the Sangre de Cristos, 1850-1920 by Randi Jones Walker.” The Catholic Historical Review 78 (October 1992): 685–86.
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Learning to Talk More Like a Man: Boston Women’s Class-Bridging Organizations, 1870-1940.” The American Historical Review 97 (April 1992): 379–404. https://doi.org/10.2307/2165724.Full Text
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Deutsch, Sarah J. “Review of Motherhood in the Old South: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Infant Rearing by Sally G. McMillen.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 2 (January 1992): 483–84.
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of The Woman Question: Society and Literature in Britain and America, 1837-1883. by Elizabeth K. Helsinger; Robin Lauterbach Sheets; William Veeder.” History of Education Quarterly 31 (October 1991): 397–99. https://doi.org/10.2307/368377.Full Text
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of The Souls of the Skyscraper: Female Clerical Workers in Chicago, 1870-1930. by Lisa M. Fine.” The Journal of American History 78 (June 1991): 349–50. https://doi.org/10.2307/2078187.Full Text
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Coming Together, Coming Apart: Women’s History and the West.” Montana: The Magazine of Western History 41 (April 1991): 58–61.
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of Growing Up with the Country: Childhood on the Far Western Frontier by Elliott West.” The American Historical Review 96 (April 1991): 614–15. https://doi.org/10.2307/2163420.Full Text
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of The Preservation of the Village: New Mexico’s Hispanics and the New Deal by Susan Forrest.” Pacific Historical Review 59 (May 1990): 282–83. https://doi.org/10.2307/3640082.Full Text
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Vargas, Zaragosa. “Review of No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940 by Sarah Deutsch.” International Labor and Working Class History, October 1989, 99–103.
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of On Their Own: Widows and Widowhood in the American Southwest, 1848-1939 by Arlene Scardron.” The American Historical Review 94 (June 1989): 886–87. https://doi.org/10.2307/1873980.Full Text
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life by Steven Mintz; Susan Kellogg.” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 19 (April 1989): 684–86. https://doi.org/10.2307/203977.Full Text
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of Visibility and Power: Essays on Women in Society and Development. by Leela Dube; Eleanor Leacock; Shirley Ardener.” American Journal of Sociology 94 (March 1989): 1207–8.
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of Chicano Ethnicity by Susan E. Keefe; Amado M. Padilla.” The Western Historical Quarterly 19 (November 1988): 460–460. https://doi.org/10.2307/968334.Full Text
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America by John Bodnar; Political and Economic Migrants in America: Cubans and Mexicans by Silvia Pedraza-Bailey.” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 18 (October 1987): 382–85. https://doi.org/10.2307/204316.Full Text
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Women and Intercultural Relations: The Case of Hispanic New Mexico and Colorado.” Signs 12 (July 1987): 719–39.
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present by Jacqueline Jones.” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 18 (July 1987): 189–91. https://doi.org/10.2307/204764.Full Text
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of Significant Sisters: The Grassroots of Active Feminism, 1839-1939 by Margaret Forster.” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 17 (October 1986): 477–79. https://doi.org/10.2307/204799.Full Text
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West, 1865-1890 by Anne M. Butler.” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 89 (January 1986): 358–59.
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Deutsch, Sarah. “Review of Women of the Depression: Caste and Culture in San Antonio, 1929-1939 by Julia Kirk Blackwelder.” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 16 (October 1985): 361–63. https://doi.org/10.2307/204211.Full Text
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Deutsch, Sarah. “The Elusive Guineamen: Newport Slavers, 1735-1774.” The New England Quarterly 55 (June 1982): 229–53. https://doi.org/10.2307/365360.Full Text
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Book Sections
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Deutsch, S. “"Learning from Ludlow".” In Making an American Workforce: The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company’s Construction of a Workforce During the Rockefeller Years. University of Colorado Press, 2013.
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Deutsch, S. “Labor, Land, and Protest since Statehood.” In Telling New Mexico: A New History, edited by Marta Weigle, 269–84. Museum of New Mexico Press, 2009.
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Deutsch, S. “excerpt from No Separate Refuge.” In Major Problems in the History of American Families and Children, edited by Anya Jabour. Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
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Deutsch, S. “"Being American in Boley, Oklahoma".” In Beyond Black and White: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the United States South and Southwest, edited by Stephanie Cole and Alison M. Parker, 35:97–122, 2004.
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Deutsch, S. “The Politics of Race and Sex in Boston’s NAACP, 1920-1940.” In Boston’s Histories: Essays in Honor of Thomas H. O’Connor, edited by James O. Toole and David Quigley, 191–213. Northeastern University Press, 2004.
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Deutsch, S. “Connections.” In Chicana Leadership: The Frontiers Reader, 2002.
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Deutsch, S. “excerpts.” In Women’s America, 2002.
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Deutsch, S. “From Ballots to Breadlines.” In No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States, edited by Nancy F. Cott. Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Deutsch, S. “"Contemporary Peoples/Contested Places".” In The Oxford History of the American West, 638–69. Oxford University Press, 1994.
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- GSF 239D: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in U.S. History 2022
- HISTORY 374D: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in U.S. History 2022
- HISTORY 389S: Family Rights/Human Rights 2022
- PUBPOL 346S: Family Rights/Human Rights 2022
- RIGHTS 239D: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in U.S. History 2022
- RIGHTS 389S: Family Rights/Human Rights 2022
- GSF 239: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in U.S. History 2021
- HISTORY 311S: Men, Women, and Sports: Topics in US Sports History 2021
- HISTORY 374: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in U.S. History 2021
- HISTORY 389S: Family Rights/Human Rights 2021
- PUBPOL 346S: Family Rights/Human Rights 2021
- RIGHTS 389S: Family Rights/Human Rights 2021
- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Presentations & Appearances
- American Studies Association. November 1, 2013 2013
- Duke History Graduate Student Conference. February 15, 2013 2013
- American Historical Association. January 1, 2013 2013
- The Intellectual History of the intersection of Racial Formations and Gender/Women's History. November 13, 2012 2012
- New Paradigms, Old Problems. September 22, 2012 2012
- The Speculative State: Oil, the West, and Citizenship in the 1920s. May 1, 2012 2012
- Comment for "Thoughts on Gender and Internal Colonialism in the United States". April 1, 2012 2012
- Writing the Borderlands into U.S. History. January 1, 2012 2012
- Tracing Borders, Pushing Boundaries, comment. October 22, 2011 2011
- Incommensurate Narratives: the Problem of Synthesis and New Paradigms. October 16, 2011 2011
- Learning from Ludlow. April 1, 2009 2009
- Never Just Two Nations. March 20, 2009 2009
- workshop on research. October 23, 2008 2008
- Women and Politics. October 22, 2008 2008
- Race, Ethnicity and Gender in History. February 9, 2008 2008
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Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
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Service to the Profession
- Reviewer for the journal City and Community. November 26, 2013 2013
- member : NEH panel for the Division of Public Programs. November 26, 2013 2013
- member : Coalition for Western Women's History, committee on the "roundtable session" for the Western Historical Association Conference. 2013 - 2015 2013 - 2015
- member : Rawley Prize Committee, Organization of American Historians. 2013 - 2015 2013 - 2015
- Chair : External Review Committee for the History Department at Emory University. November 12, 2012 2012
- External Review, Princeton University History Department. November 23, 2011 2011
- manuscript reviews for Duke University Press, Oxford University Press, and others. November 23, 2011 2011
- member : External Review, University of California, San Diego, graduate program in History. November 23, 2011 2011
- reviews for promotion to full professor of scholars at UCLA, UC San Diego, University of Washington, University of Michigan and others. November 23, 2011 2011
- Chair : Executive Committee of Delegates, American Council of Learned Societies. 2010 - 2011 2010 - 2011
- co-chair annual program committee. Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting. Organization of American Historians. 2002 - 2004 2002 - 2004
- co-chair program committee. American Studies Association Annual Conference. American Studies Association. 1996 - 1997 1996 - 1997
- elected member. National Council. American Studies Association. 1995 - 1998 1995 - 1998
- Board Member, 1994-96, executive committee member, 1995-96. Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities (state NEH affiliate). 1994 - 1996 1994 - 1996
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Service to Duke
- Associate Chair. November 26, 2013 - July 1, 2014 2013 - 2014
- Review of Duke University Press' Steve Cohn. November 26, 2013 - July 1, 2014 2013 - 2014
- contributed text for the Nasher exhibit on The Great World Spins. November 26, 2013 - November 26, 2013 2013
- Editorial Advisory Committee, Duke University Press. November 18, 2011 2011
- Review of Law School Dean Levi. November 18, 2010 - July 1, 2011 2010 - 2011
- Ad Hoc Review Committee for the Baldwin Scholars Program. November 24, 2008 2008
- Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. Duke University. 2006 - 2009 2006 - 2009
- Chair. Department of History. 2004 - 2006 2004 - 2006
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