Dr. June Melby Benowitz is an Assistant Professor of History. Before coming to USF she was an adjunct instructor at Manatee Community College, Keiser College, Portland State University, and Portland Community College. 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 ”Outstanding Textbook of 1999” by Choice magazine. Dr. Benowitz has also contributed articles to Women in World History, Yorkin Publications (1999) and the New Handbook of Texas, Texas State Historical Society (1996). Most recently, she contributed an article to Women and War: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO (forthcoming). Her major areas of interest are the Age of FDR, women’s history, modern England, and U. S. social and cultural history. Current research is on John T. Flynn and Anti-Semitism and right-wing women and education in the Post-World War II years. She received her B.A. and M.A. at Portland State University and her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. She moved with her husband from Oregon to Sarasota in 1995.