History
Jill Fields
Professor and Founding Coordinator, Jewish Studies Program
Office: Social Science 123
Email: jfields@csufresno.edu
Office Phone: 559-278-5414
Education:
Ph.D - University of Southern California
Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies - University of Southern California
M.A. - University of Southern California
B.A. - University of California, Santa Cruz
Fall 2024
| Course | Days/Times |
|---|---|
| HIST 101 - Women in History | TTH 3:30 - 4:45 pm |
| JS 100W - Writing and the Jewish Experience | TTH 11:00 - 12:15 pm |
| JS 143 - Blacks and Jews in America: Identities, Activism, and Cultures | TTH 2:00 - 3:15 pm |
Spring 2025
| Course | Days/Times |
|---|---|
| HIST 101 - Women in History | TTH 3:30 - 4:45 pm |
| HIST 154 - Jewish American Pop Culture | T 6:00 - 8:50 pm |
- Modern U.S.
- U.S. Women's History
- U.S. Popular Culture
- Cultural Studies
- Jewish Studies
Books:
An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie & Sexuality (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007).
- Western Association of Women Historians Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra 2008 Book Prize.
Entering the Picture: Judy Chicago, the Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists, editor (NY: Routledge, 2012).
Book Chapters:
“Introduction,” in Jill Fields, editor, Entering the Picture: Judy Chicago, the Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists (NY: Routledge, 2012).
"Romancing the Race Card with Nurse Betty," in Laura Gray-Rosendale, editor, The {Next} Reader: Reading and Writing about Popular Culture (NY: McGraw-Hill, 2007).
"Architectures of Seduction: Intimate Apparel Trade Shows and Retail Department Design, 1920-1940," in Elspeth Brown, Catherine Gudis and Marina Moskowitz, editors, Cultures of Commerce: Representation and American Business Culture, 1877-1960 (New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006).
"Erotic Modesty: [Ad]dressing Female Sexuality and Propriety in Open and Closed Drawers, 1800-1930," in Carole Turbin and Barbara Burnham, editors, Material Strategies: Dress & Gender in Historical Perspectives (London: Blackwell, 2003).
"Fighting the Corsetless Evil: Shaping Corsets and Culture, 1900-1930," in Philip Scranton, editor, Beauty and Business (New York: Routledge, 2001).
Articles:
“‘Where My Dreidel At?’: Representing Jewish Identity in Orange Is the New Black,” Journal of Jewish Identities 13:1 (January 2020).
Review: Joyce Antler, Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement (NY: New York University Press, 2018), American Historical Review (February 2020).
“Was Peggy Guggenheim Jewish?: Art Collecting and Representations of Jewish Identity In and Out of Postwar Venice,” Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues 25 (Fall 5774/2013), 51-74.
"Frontiers in Feminist Art History," Frontiers: Special Issue on Feminist Art (Fall 2012).
"Beauty and Undergarments in the Twentieth Century," in E. Azoulay, A. Demian, D. Frioux, editors, 100,000 Years of Beauty (Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2009).
"I See London, I See France....", Los Angeles Times Op-Ed page (September 10, 2007; reprinted subsequently in a number of newspapers nationwide and internationally).
"From Black Venus to Blonde Venus: The Meanings of Black Lingerie," Women's History Review 15:4 (September 2006), 611-623.
"Today's Feminism," in Lauren Ross, curator/editor, Gloria: Another Look at Feminist Art of the 1970s (NY: White Columns exhibition catalog, 2002).
"Flora Langerman Spiegelberg," in Paula Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore, editors, Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (NY: Routledge, 1997), 1301-2. http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/spiegelberg-flora-langerman
Book reviews published in Labour/Le Travail, Enterprise & Society, Journal of Social History, Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Undergraduate:
- Recent U.S. History
- Historical Research and Writing
- History/Women's Studies
- U.S. Women's History (cross-listed)
- Fashion and History (cross-listed)
- The Holocaust in American Culture
- Jews in American Film
Graduate:
- Topics in American History -- Gender, Ethnicity, and Popular Culture
- Topics in World History -- Diaspora and Global Cultures
- Librarian's Index to the Internet
- Library of Congress American Memory Project
- Making of America (Primary Sources for 19th C. America)
- National Women's History Project
- Women Working, 1870-1930: Harvard University Library Open Collections Program
- Center for American Women in Politics
- American Women's History: A Research Guide
- Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture