Bancroft Prize
3回登壇
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第53回（2000年 第3回開催） Winner
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第63回（2010年） Winner
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第63回（2010年 第2回開催） Winner
Linda Gordon
アイリーン・リンダ・ゴードン
Irene Linda Gordon
プロフィール
- 性別
- 女性
- 生誕
- 1940-01-19 （Chicago, Illinois, United States）
- 国籍
- United States
- 言語
- English
- 居住地歴
- Portland, Oregon (considers her hometown) → Boston, Massachusetts (worked at UMass Boston) → Madison, Wisconsin (worked at University of Wisconsin–Madison) → New York City, New York (residence)
経歴
- 職業
- historian, university professor, author
- 活動期間
- 1968年〜
- 所属
- University of Massachusetts Boston, University of Wisconsin–Madison, New York University (NYU), Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard) affiliation
- 所属団体
- American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Founding associate editor, Journal of Women's History
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swarthmore College | — | History (BA) | BA | 1957–1961 | United States |
| Yale University | — | History and Russian Studies (MA) / History (PhD) | MA, PhD | 1961–1970 | United States |
Swarthmore College
History (BA)
学位:
BA
期間:
1957–1961
卒業年:
1961
国:
United States
Yale University
History and Russian Studies (MA) / History (PhD)
学位:
MA, PhD
期間:
1961–1970
卒業年:
1970
国:
United States
Doctoral dissertation later published as Cossack Rebellions (1983)
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Bancroft Prize | The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction | — | Columbia University (Bancroft Prize) | 受賞 |
| 2010 | Bancroft Prize | Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits | — | Columbia University (Bancroft Prize) | 受賞 |
| 1988 | Joan Kelly Prize | Heroes of Their Own Lives | — | American Historical Association | 受賞 |
| 1983 | Antonovych Prize | Cossack Rebellions | — | Antonovych Foundation | 受賞 |
| 1994 | Berkshire Prize | Pitied But Not Entitled | — | Berkshire Prize | 受賞 |
| 1994 | Gustavus Myers Human Rights Award | Pitied But Not Entitled | — | Gustavus Myers Center | 受賞 |
| 2000 | Albert J. Beveridge Award | The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction | — | American Historical Association | 受賞 |
| 2010 | Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Biography) | Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits | Biography | Los Angeles Times | 受賞 |
| 2010 | WILLA Literary Award | Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits | — | WILLA Literary Awards | 受賞 |
| 2010 | National Arts Club Prize (arts writing) | Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits | — | National Arts Club | 受賞 |
Bancroft Prize
2000
対象作品:
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
主催:
Columbia University (Bancroft Prize)
結果:
受賞
Bancroft Prize
2010
対象作品:
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
主催:
Columbia University (Bancroft Prize)
結果:
受賞
Joan Kelly Prize
1988
対象作品:
Heroes of Their Own Lives
主催:
American Historical Association
結果:
受賞
Antonovych Prize
1983
対象作品:
Cossack Rebellions
主催:
Antonovych Foundation
結果:
受賞
Berkshire Prize
1994
対象作品:
Pitied But Not Entitled
主催:
Berkshire Prize
結果:
受賞
Gustavus Myers Human Rights Award
1994
対象作品:
Pitied But Not Entitled
主催:
Gustavus Myers Center
結果:
受賞
Albert J. Beveridge Award
2000
対象作品:
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
主催:
American Historical Association
結果:
受賞
Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Biography)
2010
対象作品:
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
部門:
Biography
主催:
Los Angeles Times
結果:
受賞
WILLA Literary Award
2010
対象作品:
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
主催:
WILLA Literary Awards
結果:
受賞
National Arts Club Prize (arts writing)
2010
対象作品:
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
主催:
National Arts Club
結果:
受賞
受賞・候補エディション
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第30回（2009年） Winner
作品
代表作
Woman's Body, Woman's Right: The History of Birth Control Politics in America
1976年 Non-fiction (history)A comprehensive history of birth control politics in the United States. Revised and expanded edition published in 2002 as The Moral Property of Women.
reproductive politicswomen's historysocial movements
Cossack Rebellions: Social Turmoil in the Sixteenth-Century Ukraine
1983年 Non-fiction (history)An academic study of sixteenth-century Cossack rebellions and social turmoil in Ukraine, based on her doctoral dissertation.
early modern Eastern Europecollective actionpower and rebellion
Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence
1988年 Non-fiction (social history)Examines the U.S. response to family violence, including child abuse and spousal violence, situating these issues within broader social and political contexts.
family violencechild protectionsocial policy
Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare
1994年 Non-fiction (social history)Analyzes U.S. welfare policy from 1890 to 1935 and the historical treatment of single mothers within that system.
welfare historygenderpoverty
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
1999年 Non-fiction (microhistory)A microhistorical account of a 1904 vigilante action in Arizona that exposed how racism could override concern for children's welfare.
racismchildren's welfarelocal community dynamics
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
2009年 Biography / Non-fictionA biography of photographer Dorothea Lange that includes the discovery and publication of a significant group of previously unpublished photographs.
history of photographyinternment and migrationart and politics
Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment in World War II
2006年 Edited volume (photography history)An edited volume presenting previously impounded Dorothea Lange photographs of Japanese American internment, with essays and commentary.
censorshipWorld War IIphotographic documentation
The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
2017年 Non-fiction (political history)Analyzes the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and its influence on American political traditions.
white supremacypolitical culturerace history
Seven Social Movements That Changed America
2025年 Non-fiction (social movements history)Surveys seven major social movements in American history and evaluates their roles in social change.
social movementscivil rightsgender
全著作
- Woman's Body, Woman's Right (1976)
- Cossack Rebellions (1983)
- Heroes of Their Own Lives (1988)
- Pitied But Not Entitled (1994)
- The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (1999)
- The Moral Property of Women (2002, revised)
- Impounded (2006, ed.)
- Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits (2009)
- Feminism Unfinished (2014, co-authored)
- The Second Coming of the KKK (2017)
- Inge Morath: Magnum Legacy (2018)
- Seven Social Movements That Changed America (2025)
作風・主題
- 文体
- archival, multi-layered source analysisnarrative microhistory integrating personal storiesscholarly yet accessible prose
- 頻出モチーフ
- gender and familywelfare and the staterace and citizenshipphotography and visual culture
評価・遺産
Linda Gordon is a historian who has made major contributions to 20th-century U.S. social policy, gender, and welfare history. Her interdisciplinary approach and use of microhistory have reached broad audiences; she is notably a two-time Bancroft Prize winner.
関連学会
- American Philosophical Society
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences (associated)
資料所蔵先
- Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute (related papers)
引用
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No matter what your politics or personality, I think all red diaper babies have in common this notion that people have the power to make things happen and people have a responsibility to make things happen.
出典: The Guardian (interview) (2003年)
豆知識
- Her father was a Jewish immigrant from Šumskas (then in Poland, now Lithuania); she has described herself as a 'red diaper baby.'
- She is one of only a few historians to have won the Bancroft Prize twice.
- She discovered and helped publish a set of previously impounded Dorothea Lange photographs (Impounded, 2006).