Ph.D., University of Rochester 1978
Modern Europe, Gender Studies, Labor, France
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Dr. Frader specializes in French social and labor history and European women's and gender history. and has written extensively on these topics. Her publications include Peasants and Protest: Agricultural Workers, Politics and Unions in the Aude, 1850-1914 (University of California Press, 1991); Gender and Class in Modern Europe (co-edited with Sonya O. Rose, Cornell University Press,1996), Race in France: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference (co-edited with Herrick Chapman, Berghahn, 2004); The Industrial Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2006); and Breadwinners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model (Duke University Press, forthcoming) as well as many articles in English and French-language journals. She has served on the editorial boards of The Journal of Modern History and French Historical Studies, and serves on the editorial board of French Politics, Culture, and Society.
Dr. Frader's current research stems from a long-standing interest in the social and cultural foundations of social inequality. A current project focuses on the production of ideas about cultural difference in France by examining how knowledge of colonial subects was produced and conveyed. A second project examines the discourses and politics of citizenship and nationality in the European Union through a history of EU gender equality policy since The Treaty of Rome (1957) and its impact on member states.
Professor Frader is a Senior Associate at the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, where she is co-chair of the Seminar on French Politics, Culture, and Society; and co-chair of the Gender, Politics, and Society Study Group. She is also a founding member of the Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies (currently based at MIT). Professor Frader has held visiting professorships at the Ecole des Hautes études en Sciences sociales in Paris, at the University de Paris VIII, and at the University of Aston, Birmingham, UK. At Northeastern she teaches undergraduate courses on Imperialism and Colonialism; Gender and Society in Modern Europe; and Nations, Nationalism and Globalization. Her graduate courses include Historical Methodology; Gender, Colonialism, and Post-Colonialism; and Gender and Society in the Modern World.