Homepage of Estelle B. Freedman

Awards & Honors

Darlene Clark Hine Award, Organization of American Historians, 2014 (Redefining Rape)
Emily Toth Award, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, 2014 (Redefining Rape)
Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize, Western Association of Women Historians, 2014 (Redefining Rape)
John Boswell Prize, Committee on LGBT History, American Historical Association, 2013 (My Desire for History)
Millicent McIntosh Award for Feminism, Barnard College, June 2009
Kahn-Van Slyke Graduate Mentoring Award, Stanford History Department, 2005
Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award, American Historical Association, 1998
Lillian and Thomas B. Rhodes Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Stanford University, 1997
Sierra Prize for Best Book 1996 (Maternal Justice), Western Association of Women Historians
Distinguished Professor Lecture, Commonwealth Club of California, August 20, 1996
Class Day Speaker, Stanford University, June, 1992
Fellow, Society of American Historians, 1990
Frederick B. Artz Memorial Lecturer, Department of History, Oberlin College, April, 1989
Distinguished Visiting Professor, California State University-Chico, March, 1988
Distinguished Scholar in Women's Studies, U.C. Davis, Spring, 1983
Sierra Prize (shared) for the finest Multiple-Author Book, Western Association of Women Historians, 1982 (Victorian Women: A Documentary Account)
Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for Outstanding Service to Undergraduate Education, Stanford University, June, 1981
Alice and Edith Hamilton Prize for best scholarly manuscript on women, University of Michigan, 1978 (Their Sisters' Keepers)
Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Stanford University, 1978

Grants

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2011-2012
Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavior Sciences, Fellow 2009-2010
American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship, 2009-2010
Stanford Humanities Center, Internal Fellow, 2004-2005
Stanford Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Associates' Faculty Research Fellowship 1996
National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for University Teachers, 1992-93
American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship, spring 1993
National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel to Collections Grant, 1990
Stanford Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Gender Research Grant, 1989
American Association of University Women, Founders Fellowship, 1985-86
Stanford Humanities Center, Faculty Fellowship, 1985-86
Radcliffe Research Support Program, Mellon Grant, 1984-85
Pew Foundation Faculty Research Grant, Stanford University, 1984-85
National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1982-83
American Council of Learned Societies, Summer Travel Grant, 1978
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies (honorary), 1974-75
Family and Community History Summer Training Institute, Newberry Library, Fellowship, 1974
Columbia University Fellowships, 1971-74

Teaching Positions

Stanford University, Department of History. Robinson Professor in U.S. History, 2002-present. Professor, 1989-2002; Associate Professor, 1983-1989; Assistant Professor, 1976-1983
Princeton University, Department of History. Instructor, 1974-76

Publications & Books

Redefining Rape: The Struggle against Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation (Harvard University Press, 2013)
Foreword, with John D'Emilio, and co-consulting editor, Documenting Intimate Matters: Primary Sources for the a History of Sexuality in America, ed. Thomas A. Foster (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
My Desire for History: Essays on Gay, Community, and Labor History by Allan Bérubé, ed. (with John D'Emilio) (University of North Carolina Press, 2011)
The Essential Feminist Reader (New York: The Modern Library, 2007)
Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics: Essays by Estelle B. Freedman (University of North Carolina Press, 2006)
No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women (New York: Ballantine Books, 2002). CHOICE magazine [American Library Association] selection for Best Academic Books of 2002. Library Journal Editor's Choice selection, Best Books for 2002.
Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). Sierra Prize, 1996.
Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (with John D'Emilio) (New York: Harper and Row, 1988; rev. eds. University of Chicago Press, 1997, 2009, 2012) (Main or alternate selection of History, Quality Paperback, Psychology Today, and Book of the Month Book Clubs; "Notable Book" of 1988, New York Times Book Review)
Their Sisters' Keepers: Women's Prison Reform in America, 1830-1930 (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1981). Hamilton Publication Prize, 1979.
The Lesbian Issue: Essays From Signs, eds. Freedman, Gelpi, Johnson and Weston (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985)
Victorian Women: A Documentary Account of Women's Lives in Nineteenth-Century England, France and the United States, eds. Hellerstein, Hume and Offen; associate eds. Freedman, Gelpi and Yalom (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1981)

Publications, Articles & Essays
Note: article links may require institutional log-in

Comment, "Intimate Matters Roundtable," Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 35:1 (2014), 41-42
"Since Intimate Matters: Recent Developments in the History of Sexuality in the United States" (with John D'Emilio), Journal of Women's History 25:4 (Winter 2013), 88-100.
"Redefining Rape," Chronicle of Higher Education (September 16, 2013).
"Women's long battle to define rape," Washington Post (August 24, 2012).
"Women's Stake in Peace", The Human Experience, Stanford University (October 12, 2011).
"'Crimes Which Startle and Horrify . . .': Gender, Age, and the Racialization of Sexual Violence in White American Newspapers, 1870-1900," Journal of the History of Sexuality (September 2011).
"Tribute to Peggy Pascoe," [PDF] Pacific Historical Review (November 2010)
"Coming of Age at Barnard, 1968," The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture 1:2 (December 2008).
"Patriarchy Revisited: Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence," (Review Essay) Journal of Women's History 19:4 (Winter 2007).
"No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women," Frontiers of Gender Journal, (2005): 29-37 (Ochanomizu University, Japan)
Beyond the Waves: Rethinking the History of Feminisms," in Looking Forward, Looking Back: A Reader in Women's Studies, eds. Carol Berkin, Carole Appel, and Judith Pinch (Prentice Hall, 2005)
"Reflections on Graduate Mentoring," [PDF] CCWH Newsletter (Fall 2004)
"Boston Marriage, Free Love, and Fictive Kin: Historical Alternatives to Mainstream Marriage" OAH Newsletter 32 (August 2004)
"Elvira Virginia Mugarrieta," eds. Virginia Sánchez Korrol and Vicki L. Ruiz, Latinas in the United States: An Historical Encyclopedia (Indiana University Press, 2004)
"Miriam Van Waters" and "Katherine Bement Davis," Encyclopedia of American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History and Culture, ed. Marc Stein (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003)
"Miriam Van Waters," Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities, ed. Mary Bosworth (Sage Publications, 2003)
"The Trials of Miriam Van Waters," in Forgotten Heroes of America's Past, ed. Susan Ware (Free Press, 1998)
"The Burning of Letters Continues': Elusive Identities and the Historical Construction ofSexuality," Journal of Women's History (Winter 1998)
"The History of the Family and the History of Sexuality," in The New American History, ed. Eric Foner (Temple University Press, 1997)
"The Prison Lesbian: Race, Class, and the Construction of the Aggressive Female Homosexual, 1915- 1965," Feminist Studies (Summer, 1996) (reprinted in Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History, ed. Martha Hodes [N.Y.U. Press, 1998])
"The Social Construction of Homosexuality," Socialist Review (Summer, 1996)
"Sexuality," Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997)
"Miriam Van Waters," Encyclopedia of the American West (N.Y.: Macmillan, 1996)
"Separatism Revisited: Women's Institutions, Social Reform, and the Career of Miriam Van Waters," in U.S. History as Women's History: New Feminist Essays, eds. Linda Kerber, Alice Kessler-Harris, Kathryn Kish Sklar (University of North Carolina Press, 1995)
"Social Science or Social Service? Miriam Van Waters and the Dilemmas of Graduate Education for Women in the Progressive Era" in New Viewpoints in Women's History: Working Papers from the Schlesinger Library 50th Anniversary Conference, March 4-5, 1994, ed. Susan Ware (Cambridge: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, 1994)
"The Manipulation of History at the Clarence Thomas Hearings," Chronicle of Higher Education (January 8, 1992); reprinted Southern California Law Review 65:3 (March 1992)
"Small Group Pedagogy: Consciousness Raising in Conservative Times," NWSA Journal 2:4 (Autumn, 1990), reprinted in Tilting the Tower, ed. Linda Garber (N.Y.: Routledge, 1994)
"Problems Encountered in Writing the History of Sexuality: Sources, Theory and Interpretation," The Journal of Sex Research 27:4 (November, 1990) (with John D'Emilio)
"Historical Interpretation and Legal Advocacy: Rethinking the Webster Amicus Brief," The Public Historian 12:3 (Summer 1990)
"Response to DuCille," (with John D'Emilio) The Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:1 (Summer 1990)
"Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference: An Overview," in Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference, ed. Deborah L. Rhode (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990)
"Dialogue of the Sexual Revolutions: A Conversation with John D'Emilio and Estelle Freedman," in Dialogues of the Sexual Revolution Volume II, by Lawrence D. Mass (New York: The Haworth Press, 1990)
"Fear of Feminism?," Women's Review of Books (February, 1990)
"'Uncontrolled Desires': The Response to the Sexual Psychopath, 1920-1960," Journal of American History 74: 1 (June, 1987); reprinted in Passion and Power: Sexuality in History, ed. Kathy Peiss et. al. (Temple University Press, 1989), Crime and Criminal Justice in the United States, ed. Eric Monkennon (Meckler, 1990), and The United States in the Twentieth Century: America Since 1945 (St. Martins, 1995)
"Women's Networks and Women's Loyalties: Reflections on a Tenure Case," Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies VII:3 (1986)
"Sentiment and Discipline: Women's Prison Experiences in Nineteenth Century America," Prologue: Journal of the National Archives (Winter, 1984)
Introduction to "The Sexuality Debates" (with Barrie Thorne), Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (Autumn, 1984)
"Sexuality in Nineteenth?Century America: Behavior, Ideology and Politics," Reviews in American History (December, 1982)
"The Legacy of Women's Prison Reform," in Women and the Law: A Social Historical Perspective, ed. D. Kelly Weisberg (Cambridge: Schenkman, 1982)
"Resources for Lesbian History," in Lesbian Studies, ed. Margaret Cruickshank (Old Westbury, New York: The Feminist Press, 1982)
"The Adult Woman: Personal Life" (with Erna Hellerstein), in Victorian Women: A Documentary Account (1981)
"Mary Bartelme," in Notable American Women: The Modern Period. A Biographical Dictionary, eds. Barbara Sicherman and Carol Hurd Green (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1980)
"Separatism as Strategy: Female Institution Building and American Feminism, 1870-1930," Feminist Studies 5 (Fall, 1979), 512-529; reprints in U.S.-Japan Women's Journal (Summer, 1988); American Women in Struggle, eds. Heidi Hartman and Clare Moses (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995); Major Problems in American Women's History, ed. Mary Beth Norton (Lexington, Ma.: D. C. Heath, 1989); Feminism and Community (Temple University Press, 1994), eds. Penny Weiss and Marilyn Friedman
"American Correctional Association," in Social Service Organizations, ed. Peter Romanofsky (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978)
"Emily Newell Blair," and "Lena Madesin Phillips," in Dictionary of American Biography, supplement V, ed. John Garraty (New York: Charles Scribners, 1977)
"The New Woman: Changing Views of Women in the 1920s," Journal of American History (September,& 1974), 373-393 and reprinted in American Vistas, third ed., eds. Kenneth T. Jackson and Leonard Dinnerstein (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979) and in Decades of Discontent, eds. Joan Jensen and Lois Scharf (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983, 1987)
"Their Sisters' Keepers: An Historical Perspective on Female Correctional Institutions in America, 1870?1900," Feminist Studies (1974), 77-95
Book reviews in The Journal of American History, Signs, New England Quarterly, Women's Review of Books, American Historical Review, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, The Nation

Recent Conference Participation

"Gerda Lerner and the History of Sexuality," Berkshire Conference on Women's History, Toronto, June 2014
"Transnational Activism, Race Rights, and Feminism," Chair, Berkshire Conference on Women's History, Toronto, June 2014
"Using the Women and Social Movements for the History of Sexuality," Organization of American Historians, San Francisco, CA, April 13, 2013
"'Smashing the Masher': The Response to Street Harassment in Progressive Era America," American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Oakland, CA, November 10, 2012
"Generations of Change: The United Nations International Women’s Conferences," Chair, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 10, 2011
Comment, "Estelle Freedman: Scholar, Teacher, Advocate, Friend," Western Association of Women Historians, University of Puget Sound, May 21, 2010
"Marriage on Trial: Historians and Lawyers in Same-Sex Marriage Cases," paper presented at Plenary Session of the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Diego, January 9, 2010
"What's in a Name? Historicizing Women/Gender/Feminist Studies," Chair, Western Association of Women Historians," Santa Clara University, May 2, 2008
"The History of Sexual Violence," Seminar coordinator, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., June 2008
"The Politics of Rape: Race, Gender, and Citizenship in Nineteenth Century America," Organization of American Historians, April 21, 2006
"Boston Marriage, Free Love, and Fictive Kin: Historical Alternatives to Mainstream Marriage," paper presented on "The Peculiar Institution of Marriage," Organization of American Historians, Boston, March 27, 2004
"State of the Field: History of Sexuality," Chair, Organization of American Historians, Boston, March 28, 2004
"Towards Sexual Self-Determination: Historical Perspectives on Female Sexuality," Keynote Address, Conference in honor of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, November 14, 2003.
"Feminist Dialogues: Taking Women's History from the Classroom to the Public," Luncheon speaker, Western Association of Women Historians, August 2, 2003 Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association, Honolulu
"Women's Historians and Women's Studies: The Difference It Makes: Thinking About Distinctions," Paper presented at the Western Association of Women Historians, June 8, 2003, University of California, Berkeley
"Strategies for Effective Teaching: Collaboration in the University Classroom," Chair, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 3, 2003, Chicago
"No Turning Back: The Challenge of Feminist Synthesis," Panelist, Plenary session, Berkshire Conference on The History of Women, June, 2002, Storrs, Connecticut
"Motherhood and Nationhood: Diasporic Constructions of Jewish and Asian Identities," Chair, American Historical Association, San Francisco, January, 2000
"Sex in the Heartland," Comment, Organization of American Historians, Los Angeles, April 27, 2001
"Sexuality and the State: The Scholar as Activist," chair, Organization of American Historians, Toronto, April, 1999.
"'I Shall Break Down the Walls:' The Legacy of Progressive Prison Reform," paper presented at "Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex," University of California, Berkeley, September 26, 1998
"Living Our Lives: The Personal Politics of Women Historians," Roundtable, Organiation of American Historians, Indianapolis, April, 1998
"Gay Politics in San Francisco," Chair and comment, Plenary Session, Organization of American Historians, San Francisco, April, 1997
"'The Burning of Letters Continues': Elusive Identities and the Historical Construction of Sexuality," Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of North Carolina, June, 1996
"The Personal Politics of Biography," Roundtable organizer and participant, Organization of American Historians, Chicago, March, 1996
"Identities," panelist at "(Il)legitimate Knowledge: The Challenge of Interdisciplinarity," Smith College, March, 1996
"American History as Women's History," Roundtable, Organization of American Historians, Atlanta, April 16, 1994
"Social Science or Social Service? Miriam Van Waters and the Dilemmas of Graduate Education for Women in the Progressive Era," New Viewpoints in Women's History Conference, Schlesinger Library, Cambridge, Mass., March 5, 1994
"The Prison Lesbian and the Construction of the 'Aggressive Female Homosexual,' 1913-1960," paper presented at the American Historical Association, San Francisco, January 8, 1994
"Separatism Revisited: Women's Institutions, Social Reform, and the Career of Miriam Van Waters," paper presented at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Vassar College, June, 1993
Roundtable on Working Lives, Organization of American Historians, Anaheim, California, April, 1993
"Women Reformers, Social Welfare and the State in 20th Century California," Chair and Comment, Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, Kona, Hawaii, August 15, 1991
"Lesbian Historiography," Working Conference on Lesbian and Gay Studies in Their Socio-Cultural Context, University of California, Santa Cruz, February 23, 1991
"Introductory Feminist Studies: Integrating the History of Western Feminism and International Perspectives," Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Douglass College, June, 1990
"Sexuality and American Culture in the 1960s," Conference on Culture, Gender and Social Movements of the 1960s, Stanford Humanities Center, April, 1990
"Competing Discourses on Lesbianism in Post-War America," comment, Organization of American Historians, Washington, D.C., March, 1990

Recent Public Presentations

"Sexual Violence and Citizenship: Rape Reform in American History," Schlesinger Library, Harvard University, March 24, 2014
Interview on Living Room, KPFA Radio, October 18, 2013 (start at 7:15)
"Redefining Rape," lecture presented at the New School for Social Research (9/11/13); Barnard College (9/12/13); Stanford University (10/17/13); Commonwealth Club of California (10/30/13); UCLA (1/31/14); SUNY Geneseo (3/27/14).
"Redefining Rape: Race, Ethnicity, and Sexual Violence in Progressive-Era America," Peggy Pascoe Memorial Lecture, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon, January 25, 2013
"No Race-Baiting, Red-Baiting or Queer-Baiting!"Allan Bérubé's History of the Marine Cooks & Stewards Union," Labor Archives and Research Center Anniversary Speaker, San Francisco, February 24, 2012; S.F. LaborFest, July 22, 2012
"Ms. at 40," organizing committee and panel chair, Stanford University, January 2012
"When the World Changed: The Impact of WWII on Women at Stanford," Chair and facilitator, Stanford Alumni Association and Stanford Historical Society, May 17, 2011. Download video podcast through iTunes University (requires free iTunes software to play)
"'Smashing the Masher': The Response to Street Harassment in Progressive Era America," Clayman Institute for Gender Research 2011, Stanford University; Oberlin College, 2011; University of Michigan, 2012
Chair and "Teaching Feminist Studies," Beyond the Stalled Revolution, Clayman Institute for Research on Gender, Stanford University, Nov 4, 2010. Download video podcast through iTunes University (requires free iTunes software to play)
"Lunch Special," guest DJ for International Women's Day (playing songs of women's labor) on KZSU, Stanford University, March 9, 2009. Download mp3
"Feminist Studies/Queer Studies," Majors Night, Program in Feminist Studies, Stanford, Feb. 26, 2009
"Why Feminism? An Historical Overview," Vitality Faculty Lunch, Stanford, Feb. 24, 2009
"The Feminist Politics of Rape," Women's Studies Program, Princeton
University, Feb. 20, 2009
"Why Gay Marriage Now? Why Not?" Queer/Straight Alliance talk, Stanford, February 10, 2009
"The Intersection of Gender and Politics," Women's Community Center,
Stanford University, October 27, 2008
"Gender and Politics," Stanford in Government, Stanford University, May 27, 2008
"Coming of Age at Barnard," Center for Research on Women, Barnard College, March 26, 2008. Download video podcast through iTunes University (requires free iTunes software to play)
"In My Lifetime" panelist, Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration, Stanford University, January 23, 2008 "From Dissertation to Book," Clayman Institute Dissertation Fellows Meeting, Nov. 15, 2007
"The Politics of Rape: Race, Gender, and Social Change," Stanford/U.C. Berkeley History Department Dinner Meeting, November 7, 2007
"Equality Then and Now: Changing Feminist Legal Strategies," Equal Rights Advocates Staff and Board Retreat, Oakland, CA July 28, 2007
"Keeping It Fresh: Faculty Reflect on Their Teaching," Center for Teaching and Learning, Stanford University, June 7, 2007
"From Stonewall to City Hall: The Origins of Gay Liberation and the Freedom to Marry Movement," Stanford History Department, May 3, 2007
"Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics," History Panelist at "A Company of Authors," Associates of Stanford University Libraries, April 21, 2007
"Folk Songs of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America," Music/lecture, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, April 2, 2006
"Folk Songs of Women's Work and Protest in American History," Music/lecture, Women's Community Center, Stanford University, HERSTORY, April 2005, 2006 (and at San Francisco Free Folk Festival, June 2005, 2006, 2007)
"Towards Sexual Self-Determination: Historical Perspectives on Female Sexuality," Gender and Sexualities Program, University of San Francisco, February 14, 2005; keynote address, Lewis and Clark Gender Studies Symposium, Portland, OR, March 9, 2006
"How I Write," Stanford Writing Center, October 29, 2003
"Feminist Conceptualizations of Violence," Feminist Theory Workshop, Stanford Humanities Center, May 8, 2003
"Women, War and Peace," Books Not Bombs Teach-In, March 5, 2003, Stanford University
"Roe v. Wade at 30" speech to Los Altos, Ca. branch of AAUW/NLWV, Jan. 22, 2003
"The Death of Feminism Revisited," Sophomore College, Stanford, September 5, 2002
"No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women," 2002 at: Distinguished Lecture Series, Avenidas (Palo Alto); Knight Journalism Fellows (Stanford); Commonwealth Club of California IN FORUM (San Francisco); Arts Festival, University of Washington (Seattle); National Women's History Project (Santa Rosa); 2003: Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley; Trinity College Dublin
"No Turning Back: The Historical Case for Feminism," October, 2002. University of Delaware; Barnard College
"Learning from Teaching," Award Winning Teachers on Teaching, Center for Teaching and Learning, Stanford, November, 1997
"Women and Reform in Modern America: Lessons from Biography," Distinguished Lecture Series, "Stanford Scholars and their Work," Senior Center of Palo Alto, March, 1997
Keynote Address, "Maternal Justice and Women's Prison Reform," Federal Bureau of Prisons Women's History Month, Federal Women's Program, FCI Dublin, CA, March, 1997
"Maternal Justice: The Female Reform Tradition in Modern America," The Morning Forum of Los Altos, January, 1997
"Becoming a Historian," Stanford Women's Center "Composing a Life" Series, November 21, 1996
"What Matters to Me and Why," Stanford University Chapel, November 13, 1996
"'The Burning of Letters Continues," Women's History Program, New York University, September, 1996; Portland State University, October, 1996
"Frontiers of Sexual Expression," Introduction, discussion, and videotape presentation of "She Even Chewed Tobacco," at "San Francisco: From Diversity to Inclusivity," Symposium presented by the San Francisco Public Library, Sept. 28, 1996
"Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition," Lyman Lecture, Stanford University, March 1996
Distinguished Professor Lecture, Commonwealth Club of California, August 20, 1996 (broadcast on C- SPAN 2, October 12, 1996)
"The History of Women's Prison Reform," Staff forum, Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham, Mass., Sept. 5, 1996
"Women's Survival in the University," Help Center lecture, Stanford University, May 29, 1996
"Affirmative Action Symposium," moderator and discussant, Stanford University, Feb. 8-9, 1996
"Affirmative Action, The University, and Beyond," organizer and panelist, Stanford University, October 12, 1995
"Women's History and Women's Institutions," Summer Executive Institute on Women and Leadership, Stanford Institute for Research on Women and Gender, August 18, 1995
"Censorship and Self-Censorship," Stanford Humanities Center, Feb., 1995
"The Historical Construction of Lesbian and Gay Identity in the United States," Stanford University, April, 1992 BGLAD Week and February, 1994, Lyman Lecture
"Women, War, and Peace," Guest lecture, Stanford Alumni College, August, 1991
"New Ways of Looking at History: Integrating the Lesbian and Gay Experience," Keynote speaker, Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week, Simmons College, Boston, October, 1990
"Academia and Activism," Annual Conference of the National Organization for Women, San Francisco, June, 1990
"Writing (Righting) Women's Lives," Stanford Law Women's Week, April, 1990
"Women's Work in Higher Education," Women's History Week, Stanford, March 1990
"Race, Gender and Sexuality in U.S. History," California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, January, 1990; University of Texas, San Antonio, March, 1991
"Sexuality and Ethics," Tikkun Conference, San Francisco, November, 1989

Consulting

"Gay Rights Movement," Workshop for high school teachers, Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History June 6, 2014
Co-producer and historical consultant, "Sower of Songs: Faith Petric and the Folk Process," documentary film in progress
"Feminism and the Future of Women," The Modern scholar/Recorded Books, Audio College Course, 2004
Historians' Amicus Brief, Lawrence v. Texas, 2003
"Talking History" on line forum moderator, History of Feminism, September, 2002
Social Science Research Council, Sexuality Research Fellowship Advisor, 1997-2000, 2002-2003
Interviewee and consultant, "A Century of Women," VU productions television documentary, 1994
Historical consultant, "The Celluloid Closet," documentary film, 1991-94
Historical consultant, "Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt," Academy Award-winning documentary film, 1989
Historical consultant, "Isadora Duncan: Movement From the Soul," documentary film, 1988
Expert testimony, Federation of Women Teachers of Ontario, 1986-87
Producer, "She Even Chewed Tobacco," historical documentary video, 1990
Manuscript reviews Cornell, Michigan, Yale, North Carolina, Chicago, Oxford, Cambridge, California, and Toronto university presses; Harper and Row; Routledge

Departmental Service

Prize Committee, chair, 2013-2014
U.S. Curriculum Coordinator, 2000-2003, 2014-
Departmental Graduate Admissions, 1988-1989; chair, 2002-2004, 2005-2009
Department Workshop Planning Committee, 2008-2009
Nineteenth Century U.S. Search Committee, member 2003-2004, 2006-2007
Departmental Policy Committee (elected), 1989-1990, 1993-1994, 2006-2009
Department Priorities Planning (Hiring) Committee, Fall, 1997; 2003-2004, 2008-2009
Graduate Studies Committee, 1976-1979, 1993-1998
Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1983-1984, 1992-1993
Affirmative Action Committee, 1976-1982, 1984-1985, 1987-1990 (chair), 1999-2004 (convener)
Potter Fellowship Selection, 1977-1978
Mellon Fellowship Selection, 1976-1977, 1986-1988
Comparative Women's History Workshop Co-convener, 1992-1998, 2005-2009

University Service

Faculty Fellow, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, 2014-2015
Faculty Fellow, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, 2010-2011
Stanford Humanities Center, Graduate Fellowship Selection Committee, 2008
Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Scholars Selection Committee, 2007-2008
President's Advisory Board (elected), 1999-2001
Faculty Women's Caucus Steering Committee, 1997-1998
Co-convener, Stanford Humanities Center Faculty-Graduate Student Workshop on Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Studies, 1997-1998, 1999-2000
Program in Feminist Studies, (founding co-chair, 1980-1981; chair, 1984-1985, 1994-1998, 1999-2001; program committee, 1980-1985, 1988-1990, 1993-1994, 2001-present; core faculty, 1980-present)
Faculty Seminar on Feminist Theory (coordinator, 1980-1981, 1984-1985, 1987-1988, 1994-2001)
Coordinator Selection Committee, Graduate Women's Network, 1994-1995
Faculty Advisory Board, Stanford Women's Center, 1991-1992, 2002-present
Faculty Advisory Board, Gender Studies Focus House, 1989-1990
Task Force on the Study of Women at Stanford, Spring, 1979
Institute for Research on Women and Gender (Policy Board, 1977-1979; Scholar Selection Committee Chair, 1977-1979; Faculty Affiliate, 1980-present; Search Committee for Director, 1984-1985)
Simone de Beauvoir House, Advisory Board, 1977-1978
Chair, Program Review Committee for Individually Designed Majors, 1993-1994
Stanford Workshops on Political and Social Issues/Innovative Academic Courses, faculty course sponsor, Course Selection Committee (1986-1987)
American Association of University Professors, Stanford Board member, 1986-1988
Jewish Studies Program, advisory committee, 1987-1989, 1994-1999
Advisory Board, Gay and Lesbian Alliance at Stanford, 1987-1988
Asian American Studies Search Committee, 1989-1990
Individually Designed Majors Committee, Chair, 1988-1990
American Studies Committee, 1976-1982, 2003-present
American Studies Review Committee, 1979
Professional Journalism Fellows Selection Committee, 1978-1980
Advisory Board, Stanford Center for Chicano Research, 1980-1982
Dickinson Fund Committee, 1978-1979
Modern Thought and Literature Committee, 1976-1978

Professional Affiliations & Service

American Historical Association (Program Committee, Pacific Coast Branch, 1988; Roelker Award Committee, 2004-2007; Chair, Boswell and Nestle Prizes, Committee on LGBT History, 2014)
Organization of American Historians (Nominating Committee, 1991-1993; Co-Chair, Program Committee for 1999 Annual Meeting; Ad Hoc Committee on the Annual Meeting, 2003-2004; Binkley-Stephenson Award Committee, 2005-2008)
National Women's Studies Association
Coordinating Committee on Women in History
Academic Advisory Council, Jewish Women's Archives
Advisory Board, Northern California Lesbian and Gay Historical Society
Western Association of Women Historians (Conference Coordinator, 1978-1979; Program Committee, 1980-1981)
Advisory and Editorial Boards (past): Associate Editor, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1980-1985; ed. board, 1985-1990; Feminist Studies; Gender and History; NWSA Journal; Journal of Women's History; The Journal of Sex Research; The Journal of Homosexuality; The Journal of Lesbian Studies; Journal of the History of Sexuality

Curriculum Vitae

Estelle B. Freedman
Edgar E. Robinson Professor in U.S. History
Stanford University

Curriculum Vitae

Estelle B. Freedman Edgar E. Robinson Professor in U.S. History Stanford University

Estelle B. Freedman
Edgar E. Robinson Professor in U.S. History
Stanford University