Ellen Dubois
University of California, Los Angeles · History
Active 1902–2025
About
Ellen DuBois is a Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA, specializing in the history of U.S. women with a focus on political history. Her research encompasses the history of the woman suffrage movement in the United States, American feminism, and international feminism, with a particular emphasis on transnational history. She has contributed extensively to the field through publications such as 'Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents,' co-edited with Lynn Dumenil, and 'Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Feminist as Intellectual,' co-edited with Richard Candida Smith. Her work also includes articles and essays on women's suffrage, women's rights, and feminist scholarship, and she has been involved in various activities related to women's history and transnational feminism. DuBois holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and has been recognized with awards including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and a fellowship at the Royal Dutch Institute of Advanced Studies.
Research topics
- Sociology
- Political Science
- Law
- Gender studies
- Art
- Medicine
Selected publications
Le Pharmacien Clinicien · 2025-12-01
articleReview for "What's Next for Woman Suffrage? An Overview of the State of the Field"
2024-01-15
peer-review1st authorCorrespondingWoman Suffrage in Times of Distress
V&R unipress eBooks · 2021-07-11
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingWoman Suffrage in Times of Distress
L' Homme · 2021-07-11
article1st authorCorrespondingThe American Historical Review · 2021-06-01
article1st authorCorrespondingEven in the wake of the centennial, we know so much more about the suffrage movement than we do about the impact of the Nineteenth Amendment over the subsequent century. Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder, political scientists and authors of A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections since Suffrage, offer their elegant analyses as alternatives to unsatisfactory explanations of women’s voting choice still being offered on the basis of long-standing and ahistorical claims about women’s political inclinations—their motherhood, their lack of interest in politics, their tendency to follow the lead of their husbands. Instead they marshal extensive evidence of women’s actual political behavior over ten decades to make major contributions both to political history and women’s history. They demonstrate clearly that women’s votes occur not with respect to long-standing, abstract gender differences but “within a specific moment, characterized by events, issues, conditions, and candidates” (5–6). Until recently,...
New York University Press eBooks · 2020-12-31
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingWoman Suffrage and Women’s Rights
New York University Press eBooks · 2020 · 35 citations
1st authorCorresponding- Political Science
- Sociology
- Political Science
An essential examination of the woman suffrage movement In recent decades, the woman suffrage movement has taken on new significance for women's history. Ellen Carol DuBois has been a central figure in spurring renewed interest in woman suffrage and in realigning the debates which surround it. This volume gathers DuBois' most influential articles on woman suffrage and includes two new essays. The collection traces the trajectory of the suffrage story against the backdrop of changing attitudes to politics, citizenship and gender, and the resultant tensions over such issues as slavery and abolitionism, sexuality and religion, and class and politics. Connecting the essays is DuBois' belief in the continuing importance of political and reform movements as an object of historical inquiry and a force in shaping gender. The book, which includes a highly original reconceptualization of women's rights from Mary Wollstonecraft to contemporary abortion and gay rights activists and a historiographical overview of suffrage scholarship, provides an excellent overview of the movement, including international as well as U.S. suffragism, in the context of women's broader concerns for social and political justice.
5. The Nineteenth-Century Woman Suffrage Movement and the Analysis of Women’s Oppression
New York University Press eBooks · 2020-12-31 · 1 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorresponding2. The Radicalism of the Woman Suffrage Movement
New York University Press eBooks · 2020-12-31
book-chapter1st authorCorresponding12. Eleanor Flexner and the History of American Feminism
New York University Press eBooks · 2020-12-31
book-chapter1st authorCorresponding
Frequent coauthors
- 9 shared
Michael T. Byrnes
- 9 shared
Dieter Langewiesche
- 9 shared
Brian Michael Jenkins
- 9 shared
Editha Kross
École Centrale d'Électronique
- 9 shared
Francesco Cordasco
- 9 shared
P Meertens
Federal Employment Agency
- 9 shared
Simona Cerutti
École des hautes études en sciences sociales
- 9 shared
Degl Innocenti
Federal Employment Agency
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Awards & honors
- 2018 UCLA Faculty Lecture
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