Rank:

Professor of Women's Studies & History



Address:



Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

800 S. Halsted (m/c 051)

University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, IL 60607-7017

Gender and Women's Studies Program

University of Illinois at Chicago

1021 BSB, 1007 W Harrison, M/C 360

Chicago, IL 60607-7137

Phone: (312) 413-5355

Email: pegs@uic.edu



Education:



• Ph.D. History (African), UCLA, 1975
• M.A. History (African), UCLA, 1967-70
• Sociology and Hindi, Delhi University, 1966-67
• African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1965
• B.A. History, Michigan State University, 1964-67

 

Professional Employment:

• Interim Director, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum (Nov. 1999--)
• Professor of Women's Studies and History, UIC, 1979-present (Associate Professor, 1979-88)
• Director, Women's Studies Program, UIC, 1979-90 (Acting, '90-91)
• Lecturer, Women's Studies Program, San Diego State University, 1978-79
• Interim Director of Women's Studies and Lecturer in History, UCLA, 1975-78
• Instructor, History, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, 1971-72

• Books:
  
  
  • European Women and the Second British Empire (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991).
  • Three Swahili Women; Life Histories from Mombasa, Kenya, edited with Sarah Mirza. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989); available in Swahili as Wanawake Watatu wa Kiswahili (Indiana University Press, 1990).
  • Muslim Women in Mombasa, 1890-1975 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1979).
  
  
• Book in Progress:
  
  
  • "Where Feminism Was Happening: The Chicago Women's Liberation Union of the 1970s."
  
  
• Edited Collections:
  
  
  • Editorial Board, Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary. Edited by Rima Lunin Schultz and Adele Hast (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001)
  • Editorial Board/Board of Directors, CWLU Herstory Website Project, 1998-present
  • "Restoring Women to History" (four book series on women in the history of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East, co-edited with Cheryl Johnson-Odim.
  • Restoring Women to History: Women in the History of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East, coedited with Cheryl Johnson-Odim. (Bloomington, Ind.: Organization of American Historians, 1988; 2nd edition, revised, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, forthcoming); coauthor of introduction.
  • Expanding the Borders of Women's History: Essays on Women in the Third World, co-edited with Cheryl Johnson-Odim (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992); co-author of the introduction.
  • Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance, co-edited with Nuper Chaudhuri (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992); co-author of introduction.
  • Special issue of Signs, A Journal of Women in Culture and Society on African women, coedited with Bolanle Awe, Susan Geiger, Nina Mba, Marjorie Mbilinyi, and Ruth Meena, 16, no. 3 (Summer 1991); coauthor of introduction.
  • Special issue of Women's Studies International Forum on Western women and imperialism, coedited with Nupur Chaudhuri, 13, no. 4 (July 1990); coauthor of introduction.
  • Two special issues of Journal of Women's History on women in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Middle East, coedited with Cheryl Johnson-Odim, 1, no. 2 (September 1989) and 2, no. 1 (May 1990).
  
  
• Articles and Chapters in Books:
  
  
  • "The 'Don't Throw It Away!' Project at the University of Illinois at Chicago," NWSA Journal 12, No. 2 (Summer 2000), 163-69
  • "The Academy and the Activist: Collective Practice and Multicultural Focus," in The Politics of Women's Studies: Testimony from 30 Founding Mothers, edited by Florence Howe (New York: The Feminist Press, 2000), 155-79.
  • "Becoming an Historian, Being an Activist, and Thinking Archivally: Documents and Memory as Sources," Journal of Women's History 11, no. 1 (Spring 1999), 181-92.
  • "Drop by Drop the Bottle Fills," in Voices of Women Historians, edited by Eileen Boris and Nupur Chaudhuri (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999), 174-88.
  • "Gender, Race and Empire in Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century Africa and Asia," in Becoming Visible, ed. Renate Bridenthal, Susan M. Stuard, and Merry E. Weisner (3rd ed.; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998), 389-414.
  • "Organizational Learning in the Chicago Women's Liberation Union," in Feminist Organizations: Harvest of the New Women's Movement, edited by Myra Marx Ferree and Patricia Yancey Martin (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995), 145-64.
  • "Consciousness and Action: Historical Agency in the Chicago Women's Liberation Union," in Provoking Agents: Theorizing Gender and Agency, ed. Judith Kegan Gardiner (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995), 52-68.
  • "Gender, Sex, and Empire," pamphlet for the American Historical Association's series Essays on Global and Comparative History (1992), reprinted in Islamic and European Expansion and the Forging of a Global Order, Vol. I of series Essays on Global and Comparative History, ed. Michael Adas (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993), 345-75.
  • "Women in Religious and Secular Ideology," in Women in Subsaharan Africa, ed. Margaret Jean Hay and Sharon Stichter (1984, 2nd ed. New York: Longman, Inc., 1995), 101-18.
  • "Women's Liberation Unions," in The Encyclopedia of the American Left, ed. Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, and Dan Georgakas (New York: Garland Publishing, 1990), pp. 841-42.
  • "Gender and Race in the Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century British Empire," in Becoming Visible, ed. Renate Bridenthal, Claudia Koonz, and Susan M. Stuard (2nd ed.; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987; 3rd edition forthcoming), pp. 375-96.
  • "Family History in Africa," Trends in History, 3, no. 3/4 (Spring/Summer 1985), pp. 127-49, with Karen Tranberg Hansen.
  • "Slavery and Reproductive Labor in Mombasa," in Women and Slavery in Africa, ed. Claire C. Robertson and Martin A. Klein (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1983), pp. 111-29.
  • "Review Essay: African Women," Signs, A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 8, no. 1 (Autumn 1982), 109-31.
  • "Doing Oral History as an Outsider," Frontiers, A Journal of Women's Studies, 2, no. 2 (Summer 1977), 68-72.
  • "From Lelemama to Lobbying: Women's Associations in Mombasa, Kenya," in Women in Africa; Studies in Social and Economic Change, ed. Nancy J. Hafkin and Edna G. Bay (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1976), 183-211. Also published in History and Social Change in East Africa (Hadith 6) ed. Bethwell A. Ogot (Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1976), pp. 207-35.
  • And other articles in The History Teacher, Kenya Historical Review, African Studies Review, The African Review, Journal of Women's History.
  
  
• Book Reviews:
  
  
  
  • In International Journal of African Historical Studies; African Economic History; American Historical Review; Women's Studies International Forum; Contemporary Sociology; BaShiru; A Journal of the Department of African Languages and Literatures; Signs, A Journal of Women in Culture and Society; Radical History Review.

• UIC Woman of the Year, 1997
• UIC Great Cities Institute Scholar, 1995-97
• UIC Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1993-94
• Selected as one of 90 women to be honored in "Full Circle," a public art project, 1993
• Selected one of fifteen women for biennial photo exhibit, "Celebrating Chicago's Women Leaders," by Chicago Women in Philanthropy, 1992
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1989
• Project Co-director, Teaching Packets in Third World Women's History, FIPSE, 1986-89
• Co-winner, Herskovits Award, 1980, African Studies Association, for Muslim Women in Mombasa, 1890-1975