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Mary Beth Norton

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Mary Beth Norton

プロフィール

性別
女性
生誕
1943-03-25 （Ann Arbor, Michigan）
国籍
United States
言語
English
宗教
Methodist
居住地歴
Ann Arbor, Michigan → Greencastle, Indiana → Ithaca, New York → Cambridge / England (research period)

経歴

職業
historian, professor
活動期間
1969年〜2018年
所属
Cornell University Department of History, American Historical Association
所属団体
National Council on the Humanities, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Society of American Historians, American Antiquarian Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Mortar Board, Phi Kappa Phi, American Philosophical Society
影響を与えた人物
women historians (U.S. and international)

学歴

University of Michigan
学位: B.A.
期間: 1960–1964
卒業年: 1964
国: United States
Active in student government and civil rights–era campus politics
Harvard University
学位: M.A., Ph.D.
期間: 1964–1969
卒業年: 1969
国: United States
PhD research included work in England; dissertation won the Allan Nevins Prize
Woodrow Wilson fellowship (study in England)
期間: 1964–1965
国: England
Year of study supported by Woodrow Wilson fellowship

受賞歴

Woodrow Wilson fellowship
1964
主催: Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
結果: 受給
Allan Nevins Prize
1969
対象作品: Doctoral dissertation (later published as The British-Americans)
主催: Society of American Historians
結果: 受賞
Berkshire prize (Woman Historian)
1980
対象作品: Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750–1800
部門: 女性史
主催: Berkshire Conference
結果: 受賞
Ambassador Book Award in American Studies
対象作品: In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
主催: Ambassador Book Award (American Studies)
結果: 受賞
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship
1993
主催: Guggenheim Foundation
結果: フェロー
Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1999
主催: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
結果: 選出
Pulitzer Prize in History (finalist)
1997
対象作品: Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society
部門: 歴史
主催: Pulitzer Prize Board
結果: 最終候補（ファイナリスト）

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692

2003年 history (scholarly)

A detailed study of the social and political context of the 1692 Salem witchcraft crisis, analyzing how the trials related to local community dynamics and broader geopolitical events.

witch trialscolonial societygender and power

The British-Americans: The Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774-1789

1972年 history (scholarly)

Examines how Loyalist exiles from the American Revolution lived in England and reconstructed identity and community during exile.

Loyalistsexileimperial relations

Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750–1800

1980年 history (women's history)

A detailed account of American women's lives, roles, and experiences during the Revolutionary era, reassessing the impact of the Revolution on women.

women's historyrevolution and social changetransformations in patriarchy

Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society

1996年 history (social history / gender history)

Analyzes gender and power relations in 17th-century New England and the Chesapeake, clarifying the role of gendered authority in early American society formation.

gendersocial formationearly American history

Separated By Their Sex: Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World

2011年 history (women's history, comparative)

A collection exploring differences between women's public and private lives in the colonial Atlantic world and the historical implications of sex-based separation.

colonial Atlantic worldpublic/private dividegender comparison

全著作

  • The British-Americans: The Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774-1789 (1972)
  • Women of America: A History (ed., with Carol Berkin, 1979)
  • A People and a Nation: A History of the United States (coauthor, 1982; multiple later editions)
  • "To Toil the Livelong Day": America's Women at Work, 1780-1980 (ed., 1987)
  • Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750–1800 (1980)
  • Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society (1996)
  • In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 (2003)
  • Separated By Their Sex: Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World (2011)
  • AHA Guide to Historical Literature (general editor, 1995)

翻案

  • Documentary appearance: Discovery Channel's Unsolved History — "Salem Witch Trials" (2003)
  • Documentary appearance: History Channel's Witch Hunt (2004)
  • Appeared on PBS History Detectives, Season 6, Episode 7 (2008)
  • Appeared on TLC's Who Do You Think You Are? and similar genealogy programs

作風・主題

文体
scholarly, narrative styledetailed analysis based on primary sources
頻出モチーフ
gender and powercolonial societypublic/private boundaries for women

評価・遺産

Mary Beth Norton is a globally influential scholar in American colonial and women's history. As one of the first women in Cornell's history department and through leadership roles such as president of the American Historical Association (2018), she significantly advanced and institutionalized women's history in academia.

関連学会

  • American Historical Association
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Philosophical Society

資料所蔵先

  • Cornell University archives (possible repository for research notes and related materials)

大衆文化への影響

  • Appearances in history documentaries and genealogy TV programs (Discovery, History Channel, PBS, TLC, etc.)

引用

  • Norton's thoroughly researched evidence ... makes a valuable addition to our knowledge of the lives, thoughts and activities of women in the revolutionary era.
    出典: Gerda Lerner, review in Washington Post Book World (1981年)

豆知識

  • One of the first women appointed to the Cornell University Department of History.
  • Served as president of the American Historical Association in 2018.
  • Recipient of honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.