Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska

Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska
Curriculum Vitae

Personal:

Rank:: Professor

Address:

University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of History (M/C 198)
913 University Hall
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7109

Phone: (312) 996-3141
Fax: (312) 996-5799
E-mail: inazb@uic.edu

Education:

Ph.D. 1990, Cambridge University, UK. Dissertation entitled, 'Industrial Relationships and Nationalization in the South Wales Coal Mining Industry', supervised by Barry Supple
B.A. hons. 1985, London University, UK, in History and Politics; Class I

Areas of Expertise:

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British History; Women’s and Gender History; History of the Body; Consumption; Party Politics; Nutrition and Public Health

Publications:

Books:

Managing the Body: Beauty, Health and Fitness in Britain, 1880s–1939 (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2010).
Women in Twentieth Century Britain: Economic, Social and Cultural Change (editor and contributor) (Pearson Education: Harlow, 2001).
Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls and Consumption, 1939-1955 (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2000), [paperback, 2002] winner of 2001 British Council Prize, North American Conference on British Studies.
The Conservatives and British Society, 1880-1990 (University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 1996) (co-editor with M. Francis); includes my contribution entitled 'Explaining the Gender Gap: The Conservative Party and the Women's Vote, 1945-1964.'
In preparation: Food and War in Twentieth Century Europe (under contract, Ashgate) (co-editor with R. Duffett and A. Drouard).

Refereed Aricles:

‘The Making of a Modern Female Body: Beauty, Health and Fitness in interwar Britain’, Women’s History Review (forthcoming 2011).
‘Raising a Nation of “Good Animals”: The New Health Society and Health Education Campaigns in Interwar Britain’, Social History of Medicine, 20:1 (2007), pp. 73-89.
‘Building a British Superman: Physical Culture in Interwar Britain’, Journal of Contemporary History 41:4 (2006), pp. 595-610.
‘“The Culture of the Abdomen”: Obesity and Reducing in Britain, c.1900-1939’, Journal of British Studies 44:2 (April 2005), pp. 239-73.
‘Rationing, Austerity and the Conservative Party Recovery after 1945’, The Historical Journal 37:1 (1994), pp. 173-97.
‘South Wales Miners' Attitudes towards Nationalization: An Essay in Oral History’, Llafur 6:3 (1994), pp. 70-84.
‘Bread Rationing in Britain, July 1946 - July 1948’, Twentieth Century British History 4:1 (1993), pp. 57-85.
‘Miners' Militancy: A Study of four South Wales Collieries during the Middle of the Twentieth Century’, Welsh History Review16:3 (1993), pp. 356-89.
‘Colliery Managers and Nationalization: The Experience in South Wales’, Business History 34:4 (1992), pp. 59-78.

Book Chapters and other Publications:

‘Saving Food, Saving Lives: Women’s War on the Kitchen Front, 1939-45’, BBC History Magazine (March 2010), pp. 60-63.
‘Slimming through the Depression: Obesity and Reducing in Interwar Britain’, in D.J. Oddy, P.J. Atkins and V. Amilien (eds.), The Rise of Obesity in Europe: A Twentieth Century Food History (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 177-91.
‘Obesity and the Modern Lifestyle’, BBC History Magazine 9:2 (February 2008), pp. 16-17.
‘Living Standards and Consumption’, in P. Addison and H. Jones (eds.), Blackwell Companion to British History: Contemporary Britain, 1939-2000 (Blackwell: Oxford, 2005), pp. 226-44.
‘Women under Austerity: Fashion in Britain during the 1940s’, in M. Donald and L. Hurcombe (eds.), Gender and Material Culture: Representations of Gender from Prehistory to the Present (Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2000), pp. 218-37.
‘Consensus and Consumption: Rationing, Austerity and Controls after the War’, in H. Jones and M. Kandiah (eds.), The Myth of Consensus: New Views on British History, 1945-64 (Macmillan: Basingstoke, 1996), pp. 79-96.
‘“How Britain was fed in Wartime”: The Administration of Food Rationing during the Second World War’, in E. Volkmar Heyen, V. Wright and G. Melis (eds.), Yearbook of European Administrative History 7: Offentliche Verwaltung und Wirtschaftskrise (Nomos: Baden-Baden, 1995), pp. 143-165.
‘Royal Rations’, History Today, 43 (December 1993), pp. 13-15.

Conferences and Seminar Papers:

(2010) “‘It is to the Young that the Future Belongs”: The King George’s Jubilee Trust and Britain’s National Fitness Movement in the 1930s’, Conference on The Reign of George V, 1910-1936: Celebrating 25 Years of Britain’s Great War King, The British Postal Museum and Archive, London, 22-24 November 2010.
(2010) ‘“Keep Fit and Play the Game”: George VI, outdoor recreation and the promotion of social cohesion in interwar Britain’, invited speaker at the Modern British History Seminar, University of Cambridge, 22 November 2010.
(2010) “Managing the Body: Beauty, Health and Fitness in Britain, 1880s-1939”, invited speaker, Economic and Social History Seminar, All Souls College, Oxford, 23 November 2010; Contemporary British History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, 1 December 2010.
(2010) ‘“Not a Complete Food for Man”: The Controversy about White vs. Wholemeal Bread in Interwar Britain’, invited speaker at a Workshop on ‘The History and Politics of Nutritional Theories and Practices, 1890-1930’, Department of History, Brock University, ON, Canada, 13-14 August, 2010.
(2010) ‘“Healthier and Better Clothes for Men”: Men’s Dress Reform in Interwar Britain’, Social History Society Conference, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, 30 March – 1 April 2010.
(2009) ‘Fair Shares? The Limits of Food Policy in Britain during the Second World War’, invited speaker at the XI International Commission for Research into European Food History Symposium, University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, 8-11 September 2009.
(2009) ‘How to Keep Healthy in the City: Life Reform in Britain, 1890s-1914’, invited speaker at a Conference on the City as a Stage for Reform: Britain and Germany, 1890-1914, German Historical Institute, London, 26-28 March 2009.
(2008) ‘A Progressive Aim? The National Fitness Campaign in Britain during the 1930s’, Society for the Social History of Medicine Conference, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK, 3-5 September 2008.
(2008) ‘“Keeping Fit” in the 1930s: Women’s Health and Beauty in Interwar Britain’, Women’s History Network Conference, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK, 5-7 Sept 2008.
(2008) ‘The Making of a Modern Female Body: Beauty, Health and Racial Fitness in Britain in the early Twentieth Century’, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Minneapolis, 12-15 June 2008.
(2007) “How to Keep Healthy in the City: Life Reform and Physical Culture in Britain, c. 1900-1914”, European Association for the History of Medicine and Health Conference, London, 12-15 September 2007.
(2007) “Slimming through the Depression: Obesity and Reducing in Interwar Britain”, invited speaker at the International Commission for Research into European Food History Symposium, Oslo, Norway, 26-28 September 2007.
(2006) “Raising a Nation of ‘Good Animals’: The New Health Society, Diet and Health Education in Interwar Britain”, Conference on ‘Food and History: Health, Culture, Tourism and Identity’, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK, 29 June – 1 July 2006.
(2006) The New Health Society and Public Health Campaigns in Britain, 1920s to 1939, Fellows Lecture, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois, Chicago.
(2006) "Fighting Racial Degeneration: The New Health Society and Public Health in Britain, 1920s-1930s", American Historical Association Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 5-8 January 2006.
(2005) "Building a British Superman: Physical Culture in Britain, 1918-1939", North American Conference on British Studies Meeting, Denver, CO, 7-9 October 2005.
(2004) "'Building the Body Beautiful': Women and Physical Culture, 1890s-1930s", 50th Anniversary Midwest Conference on British Studies, East Lansing, MI, October 22-24, 2004.
(2004) "Building an A 1 Nation: Physical Culture and the Quest for National Efficiency in Britain, 1890s - 1939", Seminar on Technology, Politics, and Culture, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, 17 September 2004.
(2003) "'The Culture of the Abdomen': Obesity and Reducing in Interwar Britain", part of panel on Hunger and Obesity in Interwar Britain, Anglo-American Conference of Historians: The Body, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, London, 2-4 July 2003, also presented at North American Conference on British Studies Meeting, Portland, Ore., 24-26 October 2004.
(2003) "Citizen Housewife: Women, Consumption and Party Politics in Britain, 1945-1955", Workshop on "Cycles of Change: Reconstruction, Gender and Public Life in Western Europe after the Two World Wars", Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
(2002) "'Dare to Bare': Women, Body Images and Slimming Diets in Britain since the 1950s", Midwest Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting, 18-20 October 2002, Columbus, Ohio.
(2002) "Managing the Body: Slimming and Physical Culture in Twentieth Century Britain", Keynote Address, Mid-America Conference, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 18 September 2002.
(2002) "The Vices and Virtues of Affluence: Slimming Diets in Britain since the 1950s", Social History Society Conference, Manchester, UK, 4-6 January 2002.
(2001) "Masculinity, the Body, and Mass Consumer Culture in Britain during the 20th Century", Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 15-18 November 2001.
(2001) "'Is it a Girl? Is it a Boy? No, it's Twiggy': Fashion, Gender and Body Images during the 1960s", presented at the 15th Summer Conference of the Institute of Contemporary British History, The Permissive Society and Its Enemies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, London, UK, 10-12 July 2001; also North American Conference on British Studies, Toronto, 2-4 November 2001.
(2000) "Managing Affluence: Gender, Bodies and Mass Consumer Culture since the 1950s", presented at the 14th Summer Conference of the Institute of Contemporary British History, Aspects of Gender in Contemporary Britain, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, London, UK, 10-12 July 2000.
(1999) "The female body and consumer culture in twentieth century Britain", Economic History Society Conference, Oxford, UK, April 1999; also presented at Conference on Englishness and English Dress, London College of Fashion, London, UK, 12-13 May 2000.
(1998) "Citizen housewife: women under austerity during the 1940s", North American Conference on British Studies, Colorado Springs, Colorado, October 1998.
(1997) "The black market in Britain, 1839-1950", Canadian Economic History Conference, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, May 1997; also presented at Departments of History and Economic and Social History, Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, UK, November 1996.
(1996) "Explaining the gender gap: the Conservative party and the women's vote, 1945-1964", North American Conference on British Studies, Loyola University, Chicago, October 1996; also presented at Conference on the Conservative Party and British Society, 1880-1990, Gregynog, University of Wales, Wales, September 1995.
(1996) "The women's movement and politics: the case of equal pay, 1945-55", Conference on the Formation of the British Political Elite, 1931-1951", Department of History, University of North Wales, Bangor, Wales, April 1996.
(1995) "Gender, affluence and electoral politics, 1945-64", Conference on British History 1945-95: The State of the Art, Institute of Contemporary British History, London, UK, July 1995.
(1995) "The female consumer in Britain in the twentieth century", Social History Society Conference, York, UK, January 1995.
(1994) "Consensus and consumption: rationing, austerity and controls after the war", Conference on the Myth of Consensus, Institute of Contemporary British History, London, UK, September 1994.
(1994) "Women under austerity: fashion in Britain during the 1940s", Conference on Gender and Material Culture, Exeter University, Exeter, UK, July 1994.
(1994) "Labour and the female consumer, 1945-51", Conference on the History of the Labour Party, 1900-1970, Warwick University, Coventry, UK, April 1994.
(1994) "Popular attitudes to food rationing in Britain, 1939-1955", Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Research Seminar, Oxford, UK, February 1994.
(1993) "Communal feeding: an introduction to wartime food films", Imperial War Museum, London, UK, June 1993.
(1992) "Bread rationing in Britain, July 1946 - July 1948", Seminar in 20th Century British History, Institute of Historical Research, London, UK, October 1992.
(1991) "Rationing, austerity and the Conservative party recovery after 1945", Conference on Political Parties and Political Identities, Girton College, Cambridge, UK, September 1991.
(1991) "The coal miner as archetypal proletarian reconsidered", Social History Seminar, King's College, Cambridge, UK, 1991.
(1990) "Miners' militancy: a comparative study at colliery level during the middle of the 20th century", Economic and Social History Seminar, All Souls College, Oxford, UK, November 1990.
(1988) "Nationalization and colliery management in South Wales 1947-1957: structural change and oral history", Economic History Society Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, April 1988.
(1986) "Attitudes to nationalization and its impact on industrial relationships in South Wales coal mining", Conference on Pit Closures in Britain and the Ruhr, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, December 1986.

Fellowships, Prizes and Research Grants:

2006	OVCR-AAH, University of Illinois, Chicago, Research Grant for ‘Body Management’ project
2006	Wellcome Trust Travel Award for Research in the History of Medicine for ‘Body Management’ project, Summer 2006
2005-2006	Institute of the Humanities, University of Illinois, Chicago, Faculty Research Fellowship
2005	Wellcome Trust, London, UK, Travel Award for Research in the History of Medicine, Summer 2005
2003	OVCR-AAH, University of Illinois, Chicago, Research Grant for 'Body Management' project
2002-3	Research Grant for Interdisciplinary Seminar on the Body, Humanities Laboratory, University of Illinois, Chicago [joint organizer of seminar]
2002	OVCR-AAH, University of Illinois, Chicago, Research Grant for 'Body Management' project
2001	North American Conference on British Studies, British Council Prize for Austerity
2000	History Today/ Longman Book of the Year Prize in British History, Proxime Accessit for Austerity
1996-1997	University of Wales research grant in support of austerity project
1996-1997	British Academy research grant in support of austerity project
1990	Ellen McArthur Prize (Cambridge University) for Ph.D. dissertation
1987-1989	Ellen McArthur Research Studentship (Cambridge University)
1986-1987	German Historical Institute Scholarship
1985-1986	British Council Foreign and Commonwealth Scholarship
1984	Drapers' Company (Queen Mary College) Long Vacation Term Scholarship, King's College (Cambridge University)
1983-1985	Drapers' Company Prizes (Queen Mary College)

Professional Experience:

2010-	Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
2001-2010	Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
2000-2001	Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
2003	OVCR-AAH, University of Illinois, Chicago, Research Grant for 'Body Management' project
1993-2000	Lecturer in Social and Economic History, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
1990-1993	Prize Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University, UK
1989-1990	Research Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, London University, UK
1985-1989	1985-1989 Postgraduate in Modern History, Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, UK

Teaching Experience:

at UIC:

History of Western Civilization since 1648
British History since 1689
Health, Society and the State in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Britain (upper level)
The Rise of Modern Mass Consumer Society in Britain since the Middle of the Nineteenth Century (upper level)
The Making of the Modern Body in the West (upper level)
Gender in Britain since the late Eighteenth Century (upper level)
Women in Twentieth Century Britain (upper level) Gender and Modernity in Britain and USA since the 1880s (upper level)
Gender and Modernity in Britain and USA since the 1880s (upper level)
Introduction to Graduate Study in History (graduate colloquium)
The British Empire from the 17th to the 20th century (graduate colloquium)
‘Encounters’ Research Seminar on Empires (graduate seminar)
The Making of the Modern Body in the West (graduate colloquium)
Class and Gender in Britain, 1920s to 1960s (graduate colloquium)
Modern European History Research Seminar (graduate seminar)
Research Seminar in British and Irish History (graduate seminar)
Introduction to Graduate School (graduate colloquium)

at Aberystwyth:

The British economy since 1870: Relative growth and economic decline
Living standards, consumption and quality of life in Britain, 1780-1990
Gender in Britain since the mid-nineteenth century
Women in twentieth century Britain
Computing and historians
Undergraduate (3rd year) dissertations - supervisor and co-ordinator
Economic and social history in Britain since 1800 (jointly taught)
The making of modern Britain since the mid-nineteenth century (jointly taught)
Historiography (jointly taught)
British history from the middle of the eighteenth century (London University, 1989-90)
British economic history since 1870 (Oxford University, 1991-93)

Administration and Service:

2010-	Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History
2010	Member of Greek Chair Search Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
2010	Member of Tenure Committee Malgorzata Fidelis
2010	Member of 3rd Year Review Committee: Sunil Agnani
2009-	Member of Editorial Committee, International Commission for Research into European Food History
2009-	Member of Walter D. Love Prize Committee, North American Conference on British Studies (for best article published in year)
2009-	Chair of 3rd Year Review Committee: Malgorzata Fidelis
2009	Chair of ‘Encounters’ Graduate Concentration Steering Committee
2007-2010	Member of Graduate Advisory Committee
2007-2010	Member of ‘Encounters’ Graduate Concentration Steering Committee
2005-2007	Member of Editorial Board, Twentieth Century British History
2003-	Member of Editorial Board, Twentieth Century British History
2003-5	Member of Graduate Advisory Committee
2002	Chair of Tenure Committee: Mark Liechty
2002	Member of Search Committee: Headship of Baltic and Slavonic Studies
2001-3	Member of Departmental Executive Committee, History
2000-2001	Member of Web Site and Computer Committee, Goodman Teaching Award Committee

Aberystwyth

1999-2000	Member of Syllabus Committee, Coordinator: undergraduate dissertations
1998-1999	Admissions Tutor for Joint Degree Students
1997-98	Member of Admissions Committee
1996-2000	Organizer of Departmental Research Seminar
1995	Organized Conference on 'The Conservative Party and British Society, 1880-1990', at Gregynog, University of Wales (with M. Francis and S.H. Nicholas)
1995-1996	Member of Research Committee
1994-1995	Coordinator of Economic and Social History

Oxford

1991-1993	Junior Dean, Member of Academic Policy Committee, Governing Body (Nuffield College, Oxford)
1991-1993	Organizer of Workshop in Economic and Social History (All Souls College, Oxford)

Referees:

Professor Peter Mandler,
Gonville and Caius College,
Cambridge,
CB2 1TA,
Email: pm297@cam.ac.uk

Professor Miles Taylor,
Director, Institute of Historical Research,
Senate House,
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.
Email: Miles.Taylor@sas.ac.uk

Professor Pat Thane,
Centre for Contemporary British History at the Institute of Historical Research,
Senate House,
Malet Street,
London WC1E 7HU.
Email: pthane@sas.ac.uk

Professor James Sack,
Department of History,
University of Illinois, Chicago,
913 University Hall,
601 South Morgan Street,
Chicago, IL 60607-7109, USA.

Department of History