American historian
Beth Bailey
is an American historian who writes about
U.S. military history
and the history of gender and
sexuality
.
Bailey is currently a Foundation Distinguished Professor at the
University of Kansas
, where she teaches in the department of history and directs the Center for Military, War, and Society Studies, which she founded
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in 2015.
Biography
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Bailey was born in
Atlanta
on December 29, 1957, and raised in
Smyrna, Georgia
. In high school, she was first clarinetist in the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra and a member of the Emory Wind Ensemble. She attended
Northwestern University
, graduating in 1979 with a B.A. in the American Culture Program. Bailey received her M.A. (1982) and PhD (1986) in U.S. history from the
University of Chicago
.
Following visiting positions at the
University of Hawaii
and the University of Kansas, she taught at
Barnard College
, Columbia University (1989-1997); the
University of New Mexico
(1997-2004);
Temple University
(2004-2015), and the University of Kansas (2015?present).
Bailey is married to historian
David Farber
, with whom she often collaborates. They have one son.
Awards
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Bailey’s research has been supported by the
National Endowment for the Humanities
, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the
American Council of Learned Societies
, and she has twice received the
Army Historical Foundation
Distinguished Writing Award.
Bailey was elected to the
Society of American Historians
in 2017, and
has given talks or been a visiting scholar in Australia, China, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Lebanon, the Netherlands, Russia, Saudi Arabia
, and the UK.
Publications
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Selected works
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Edited works
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- Beth Bailey; Kara Vuic; Alesha Doan; Shannon Portillo, eds. (2022).
Managing Sex in the U.S. Military
. University of Nebraska Press.
- Beth Bailey; David Farber, eds. (2019).
Beyond Pearl Harbor: A Pacific History
. University Press of Kansas.
- Beth Bailey;
Richard H. Immerman
, eds. (2015).
Understanding the U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
. NYU Press.
ISBN
9781479871438
.
OCLC
904861997
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- Beth Bailey; David R. Farber (2004).
America in the Seventies
. University Press of Kansas.
ISBN
0700613269
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OCLC
54372427
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Syntheses, texts, and readers
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- Beth Bailey; Mary Beth Norton; et al., eds. (December 2017).
A People and a Nation
(11 ed.). Cengage.
- Beth Bailey; William Chafe; Harvard Sitkoff, eds. (2011).
A History of Our Time
(8 ed.). Oxford University Press.
- Beth Bailey; David Farber (January 2006).
The Fifties Chronicle
. Chicago: Publications International.
- Beth Bailey; David Farber, eds. (2003).
The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s
. Columbia University Press.
Series editor
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Bailey is the co-editor of the
Military, War, and Society in Modern U.S. History
series with
Andrew Preston
, at the
University of Cambridge
, Cambridge University Press, founded in 2017.
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