June Benowitz, Ph.D. | College of Arts & Sciences | USF Sarasota-Manatee

history, social, cultural, politica, women, franklin roosevelt, cold war, religion, days of discontent: american women and right-wing politics

June Benowitz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - History

Phone:  941-359-4344
Fax:  941-359-4489
Office:   SMC C251
Email:
benowitz@sar.usf.edu

Dr. June Melby Benowitz is an Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. 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). (more...) The latter book was chosen as an “Outstanding Textbook of 1999” by Choice magazine. Dr. Benowitz has also contributed articles to History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 1, February 2009, Women and War, ABC-CLIO (2006), Women in World History, Yorkin Publications (1999), and the New Handbook of Texas, Texas State Historical Society (1996). Book chapters on Transportation and Social Attitudes appear in the Handbook to Life in America: The Colonial and Revolutionary Era and The Age of Reform, respectively, Facts on File (2009). Recently, she completed a book manuscript tentatively titled The Challenge of Change: Right-Wing Women, Grassroots Activism, and the Baby Boom Generation. Dr. Benowitz received her B.A. and M.A. from Portland State University and her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. She moved with her husband from Oregon to Sarasota in 1995.(hide...)

Curriculum Vitae

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Teaching

Syllabi from recent semesters.  Click on Course Prefix and Number to review course syllabus.
Example HIS 3930


Courses for Spring 2012
Ref# 17366  AMH 3423   Sec: 591    Modern Florida, M 6pm-9:50pm 
Ref# 18005  HIS 4936      Sec: 591    Pro-Seminar in History, T 6pm-9:50pm 

Courses for Fall 2011
Ref# 91754  AMH 3130   Sec: 591    American Revolutionary Era, M 6pm-9:45pm
Ref# 89339  AMH 3201   Sec: 521    United States, 1877-1914,  MW 2pm-3:45pm

Courses for Summer 2011
Ref# 51891  HIS 3930 Sec: 591 ST: WWII Lit./ Film, MW 5:30pm-9:50pm
    
Class meets during Summer A:    May 16-June 24