Barbara Welke

612-624-7017

Department of History 1039 HellerH

Curriculum Vitae

Department Affiliations

"When All the Women Were White, and All the Blacks Were Men: Gender, Class, Race, and the Road to Plessy, 1855-1914,". Welke, Barbara Young, Law and History Review 13 261-316., Author, Fall 1995.
Unreasonable Women: Gender and the Law of Accidental Injury, 1870-1920. Welke, Barbara Young, 1994.
Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920. Welke, Barbara Young, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Beyond Plessy: Space, Status, and Race in the Era of Jim Crow. Welke, Barbara Young, 2000.
When All the Women Were White, and All the Blacks Were Men: Gender, Class, Race, and the Road to Plessy, 1855-1914.. Welke, Barbara Young, 1995.
"Unreasonable Women: Gender and the Law of Accidental Injury, 1870-1920,". Welke, Barbara Young, Law & Social Inquiry 19 369-403., Author, Spring 1994.
"Law, Personhood and Citizenship in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Borders of Belonging" in Cambridge History of Law in America. Welke, Barbara Young, eds. Michael Grossberg and Christopher Tomlins, Cambridge University Press, Author, forthcoming 2007.

No One Thought Children Might Die: Owning Hazard in the Twentieth Century U. S. Consumer Economy (book)
A Consuming Passion: Product Liability and the Rights Revolution in 20th Century America (book)
Law, Citizenship, and Personhood in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Borders of Belonging (book)

Chair, Program Committee, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA,: 2007 - 2007
Prize Committee, The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, for excellence in scholarship in legal history by a junior scholar: 2004 - 2006
Prize Committee, Law & Society Dissertation Prize: 2003 - 2004
Editorial Board, American Society for Legal History: 2002 - 2005
Editorial Board, Law & Social Inquiry: 2004 - 2006
Editorial Board, Law and History Review: 1995 - Present
Prize Committee, AHA Littleton-Griswold Prize: (Chair, 2004) , 2003 - 2004

Jordan Park School - 5th Grade Outreach Project: Partnership between University of Minnesota/Minneapolis Public Schools, 2000 - 2001
Osher Life-Long Learning Institute: "U. S. History Since 1865" Video & Course Teacher and Consultant, 2004 - 2005
"Bridge for American History": Teaching American History Federal Grant in partnership with the MHS and the Minneapolis/St. Paul Public Schools, Political History Instructor, 2001 - 2004

Erwin C. Surrency Prize, American Society for Legal History, 1996
OAH Lerner-Scott Dissertation Prize, 1996
Divisional Dissertation Prize, University of Chicago, 1996
AHA Littleton-Griswold Prize, 2002
McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, University of Minnesota, 2001 - 2003
William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Grant, 2005
Member, Academy of Distinguished Teachers, University of Minnesota, 2006
Horace T. Morse University of Minnesota Alumni Association Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching, advising, academic program development and educational leadership, 2006

Gary Cohen Awarded Austrian Medal of Honor

Gary Cohen has been awarded the Austrian Medal of Honor (Verdienstkreuz) for Science and Arts, First Class. The ceremony was held at the Austrian Embassy in Washington. He was presented the award by Dr. Christian Prosl, the Austrian Ambassador to the United States.
Congratulations to Gary! This is a much-deserved recognition of Gary's scholarship on the Habsburg Empire and his leadership of the Center for Austrian Studies.
November 17th, 2009
Regina Kunzel, Lambda Literary Award Recipient

Regina Kunzel has been awarded the Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBT Studies for her book Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. Congratulations Regina.
June 5th, 2009
Donna Gabaccia, Fesler-Lampert Chair

Tthe Graduate School has appointed Donna Gabaccia to the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Public Humanities for 2009-2010.
June 5th, 2009