People
June Benowitz
Professor Emerita
benowitz@usf.edu
Dr. June Melby Benowitz was an Associate Professor of History at the University of
South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. She is the author of Days of Discontent: American Women and Right-Wing Politics, 1933-1945, Northern Illinois University Press (2002) and Encyclopedia of American Women and Religion, ABC-CLIO (1998). The latter book was chosen as an 鈥淥utstanding Textbook of 1999鈥�
by Choice magazine.
Dr. Benowitz has also contributed articles to History of Education Quarterly, Women and War, ABC-CLIO, Women in World History, Yorkin Publications, and the New Handbook of Texas, Texas State Historical Society. Book chapters on transportation and social attitudes appear in the Handbook to Life in America: The Colonial and Revolutionary Era and The Age of Reform, respectively, Facts on File . Recently, she completed a book manuscript tentatively titled The Challenge of Change: Right-Wing Women, Grassroots Activism, and the Baby Boom Generation.
Dr. Benowitz received her BA and MA from Portland State University and her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. She moved with her husband from Oregon to Sarasota in 1995.
Research
鈥淩ight-Wing Women, American Morality, and the Battle Over School Prayer.鈥� International
conference on 鈥淩eligion in American Life,鈥� King鈥檚 College, London, February 22-24,
2013.
鈥淩ight-Wing American Women and Grassroots Revolt鈥攖he 1930s and Beyond.鈥� Historians
of the Twentieth Century United States Annual Conference, Oxford, England, July 9,
2011.
Benowitz, J. (2009) 鈥淩eading, Writing and Radicalism: Right-Wing Women and Education
in the Post-War Years,鈥� History of Education Quarterly (Vol. 49, No. 1, February 2009)
Book chapter, 鈥淲omen, Gender Activism, and Public Policy,鈥� Oxford Handbook on the
New Deal (forthcoming).
Book chapter, 鈥淭ransportation,鈥� in Handbook to Life in America, Book 1, Facts on File,
Inc. (2009)
Book chapter, 鈥淪ocial Attitudes,鈥� in Handbook to Life in America, Book 5, Facts on
File, Inc. (2009)
Book review of Jonathan Daniel Wells and Sheila R. Phipps, editors, Entering the Fray:
Gender, Politics, and Culture in the New South, in The Register of the Kentucky Historical
Society, Vol. 107, No. 4, Autumn, 2009.
Book review of Aviva Weingarten鈥檚 Jewish Organizations鈥� [sic] Response to Communism
and to Senator McCarthy in American Jewish History, Vol. 94, No. 3, September 2008.
鈥淯nited States: Opposition to U.S. Entry into World War II by Right-Wing American
Women,鈥� in Bernard Cook, ed., Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO (2006).
鈥淩ight-Wing Women and Education: The Post-War Years.鈥� American Historical Association
Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 7 January 2006.
鈥淢inute Women of the U.S.A.,鈥� in Roy R. Barkeley and Mark F. Odintz, eds., The Portable
Handbook of Texas, Texas State Historical Society (2000).
鈥淐arrie Chapman Catt,鈥� 鈥淎bigail Scott Duniway,鈥� and 鈥淟ucretia Mott,鈥� in Women in World
History, Yorkin Publications (1999).
鈥淎cuff, TX鈥�; 鈥淏ayside, TX鈥�; 鈥淐opano, TX鈥�; 鈥淛ohnston, Eliza Griffin鈥�; 鈥淢inute Women
of the U.S.A.鈥� (this essay was reprinted in The Portable Handbook of Texas, 2000);
鈥淣eblett, Elizabeth Scott鈥�; and 鈥淣uestra Senoria Del Refugio Mission鈥� in New Handbook
of Texas, Texas State Historical Society (1996).
Authored booklet From Log Cabin to High Rise: The Washington County Courthouse, 1849-1988,
Washington County, Oregon (1988).