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November 2004
VITA
ANN HIBNER KOBLITZ
Women's
Studies Program
Tempe, AZ 85287-3404 USA
480-965-8483 (ASU office)
480-965-2357 (fax)
koblitz@asu.edu
EDUCATION:
A.B.
in History of Science,
Ph.D.
in History,
RESEARCH INTERESTS: The Role
of Women in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine; Professional Women in Asia, Africa and
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
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Lecturer in Undergraduate Studies in the
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Assistant Professor (Visiting), Dept. of
History, Wellesley College, 1986-1987
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Assistant Professor (Visiting), Dept. of
History,
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Assistant Professor (Visiting),
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Associate Professor, Dept. of History,
Hartwick College, 1989-1996; Professor, 1996-1998
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Associate Professor of Women's Studies,
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:
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Director of Women’s Studies
Program, Hartwick College, 1997-1998
AWARDS AND HONORS:
International:
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"Internationally Distinguished
Professional," awarded by the Federation of Nicaraguan Professional
Associations (CONAPRO),
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Recipient of the "Women's
Emancipation" Medal of the Vietnam Women's
National:
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Member,
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1990 History of Women in Science Prize
(awarded by the History of Science Society for the best article published on
the subject from 1986 through 1989)
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Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods
College, May 1995 (also gave a commencement address)
Institutional:
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Dewar Professor of History, Hartwick
College, 1995-1998
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Faculty Fellow, Arizona State University,
2000-2001
GRANTS AND
FELLOWSHIPS
National:
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Fulbright-Hays Department of Education
Training Grant for dissertation research in the Soviet Union and
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International Research and Exchanges
Board (IREX) Grant for research in
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Member,
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IREX Grant for research in
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National Science Foundation Grant, July
1985- June 1986
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IREX Short-Term Research Fellowship, June
1986
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History of Science Society Travel Grant,
October 1987
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History of Science Society Grant for
Independent Scholars' Speaker Series, 1988 - 1989
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National Research Council Travel Grant,
August 1989, for travel to the International Congress of the History of Science
in
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Social Science Research Council
Fellowship (ACLS/SSRC Joint Committee Area Studies Grant), 1992-1994
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American Council of Learned Societies
Fellowship, 1992 -1993 (declined because it could not be held concurrently with
the SSRC grant)
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Joint Committee Travel Grant, July1993,
for travel to the International Congress of the History of Science,
Institutional:
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Arizona State University Women’s
Studies Program Summer Research Grants, 2000, 2002
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
SINGLE-AUTHORED
VOLUMES
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A Convergence of
Lives. Sofia Kovalevskaia: Scientist,
Writer, Revolutionary, (Boston and Basel: Birkhauser,
1983); second, updated edition with new
introduction and bibliographical essay (New Brunswick: Rutgers University
Press, 1993).
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Science, Women, and
Revolution in
EDITED VOLUMES
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Memoria de Labores de
la Conferencia Centroamericana de la Mujer en la Ciencia, la Tecnologia y la
Medicina/ Proceedings of the Central American Conference on Women in Science,
Technology and Medicine (Seattle: Kovalevskaia Fund, 1988),
editor and translator.
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Memoria de Labores
TRANSLATION
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Iu. I. Manin, Mathematics and Physics (Boston and Basel: Birkhauser,
1981), translated (from Russian) jointly with Neal Koblitz.
ARTICLES
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
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“Science, Women, and Revolution in
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“Sofia Kovalevskaia and the Mathematical
Community,” The Mathematical
Intelligencer, 6, No. 1
(1984), pp. 20-29.
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“Career and Home Life in the 1880s:
A Mathematician's Choices,” Uneasy
Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, ed. by Pnina Abir-Am
and Dorinda Outram (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987), pp.
172-190.
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Articles on Sofia Kovalevskaia and
Elizaveta Litvinova, Women of Mathematics: A
Biobibliographic Sourcebook, ed. by Paul J. Campbell and Louise
Grinstein, (New York: Greenwood Press, 1987), pp. 103-113; 129-134.
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“Changing Views of Sofia
Kovalevskaia” and “Sofia Kovalevskaia - A Biographical
Sketch,” The Legacy of Sonya Kovalevskaya (Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 64), ed. by
Linda Keen (Providence: American Mathematical Society, 1987), pp. 53-76; 3-16.
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“A Historian Looks at Gender and
Science,” International Journal of
Science Education, 9, No. 3 (1987), pp. 399-407. (An extended abstract of this paper is
published in the Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, 16, No. 4 (July/August 1986), p. 10).
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“Science, Women and the Russian
Intelligentsia - The Generation of the 1860s,”
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“Novye materialy o S. V.
Kovalevskoi” (New materials on S. V. Kovalevskaia), Istoriko-matematicheskie
issledovaniia, XXXII-XXXIII (Moscow: Nauka, 1990), pp. 408-417.
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“Women's Opportunities to Study the
Sciences Abroad: A Comparison of Cuba and Nicaragua,” The Role of
Women in the Development of Science and Technology in the Third World,
ed. A. M. Faruqui, M. H. A. Hassan, G. Sandri (Singapore and London: World
Scientific Publishers, 1991), pp. 721-723.
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“Sofia Kovalevskaia: una matematica
rusa,” Ciencias (
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Series editor's preface for Fay
Ajzenberg-Selove, A Matter of Choices: Memoirs of a Female Physicist (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,
1994), pp. vii-viii.
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(with M. Fellows and N. Koblitz)
“Cultural Aspects of Mathematics Education Reform,” Notices of the American Mathematical Society,
41, No. 1 (January 1994), pp. 5-9.
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“Perspectivas historicas e
interculturales sobre las mujeres en las Matematicas,” in Yamila Azize
Vargas & Evelyn Otero, eds. Mujer y Ciencia: Investigacion y Curriculo (Cayey, Puerto Rico: Promujer, 1994), pp.
23-32.
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“From
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“Women in Mathematics - An
Assessment,” in The World's Women
1995: Trends and Statistics (New York: United Nations, 1995), p. 97.
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“Feminist Perspectives on Gender
and Mathematics” (Panel), in Gender
and Mathematics Education, Barbro Grevholm and Gila Hanna, eds.
(Lund, Sweden: Lund University Press, 1995), pp. 383-385.
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“Women Under Perestroika and Doi
Moi: A Comparison of Marketization in
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“Challenges in Interpreting
Data,” in Sandra Harding and Elizabeth McGregor, eds., The Gender
Dimension of Science and Technology.
Paris: UNESCO, 1995,
pp. 27-28. (Also
published in the World Science Report,
Paris: UNESCO, 1996, pp. 327-328.)
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“Mathematics and Gender: Some
Cross-Cultural Observations,” in Gila Hanna, ed., Towards Gender Equity in Mathematics Education
(Dordrecht: Kluwer Acad. Pub., 1996), pp. 93-109.
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Essay Review of Women in Mathematics: The Addition of Difference,
Notices of the American Mathematical
Society, 45 (May 1998),
pp. 606-609.
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“Una mujer singular,” in
Patricia Saavedra, ed., Vida y obra
matematica de Sofia Kovalevskaia (Ciencia
y Matematica Contemporaneas, vol. 4). Barcelona/Mexico City: Anthropos, 2001, pp.
1-13.
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“Sofia Vasil’evna
Kovalevskaia,” in Alyssa Dinega Gillespie, ed., Russian Literature in the Age of Realism
(volume 277 of the Dictionary of Literary
Biography) (
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Essay Review of Beyond the Limit: The Dream of Sofya Kovalevskaya,
Notices of the American Mathematical Society,
51 (January 2004), pp. 35-38.
IN PRESS:
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“Divorce Arizona Style,” to
appear in Arizona Highways.
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“Gender and Science Where Science
Is On the Margins,” to appear in Bulletin
of Science, Technology & Society.
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“Male Bonding Around the Campfire: Constructing
Myths of Hohokam Militarism,” to appear in Men and Masculinities.
SELECTED OTHER
PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS
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“A Few Words on Sofia
Kovalevskaia,” Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, 13, No. 2
(March/April 1983), pp. 12-14.
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“A Visit to
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“Sofia Kovalevskaia: `Muse of the
Heavens',” New Scientist,
No. 1397 (16 February 1984), pp. 43-44.
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“The First Generation of Russian
Women Scientists,” Proceedings of the
International Conference on the Role of Women in the History of Science,
Technology and Medicine in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Budapest:
MTESZ, 1983), I, pp. 99-103. A longer version of this paper appears in
Spanish in the Union de Universidades de America Latina review Universidades, No. 98 (October-December
1984), pp. 175-183.
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Report on “The Role of Women in the
History of Science, Technology and Medicine in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
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“Mathematics and the External
World: An Interview with Prof. A. T. Fomenko,” The Mathematical Intelligencer, 8, No. 2 (1986),
pp. 8-17, 25 (with Neal Koblitz).
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“A Reply to Mr. Chowdhury,” The Mathematical Intelligencer, 8,
No. 4 (1986), pp. 71-72.
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“ `Radical Feminist Analysis' and
GASAT: Some Possible Conflicts?,” Contributions
to the Fourth GASAT Conference, ed. by Jane Zimmer Daniels and Jane
Butler Kahle (Ann Arbor: GASAT, 1987), vol. I, pp. 267-274.
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“Women in Science, Technology, and
Medicine- An Overview of Issues and Research Topics,” Proceedings of the Central American Conference on
Women in Science, Technology, and Medicine (Seattle: Kovalevskaia Fund, 1988), pp.
75-77.
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“Reply to Caroline Series and Maria
Losada,” Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, 19, No. 6 (November/December 1989), pp.
13-14.
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“Introduccion” and
“Perspectivas historicas e interculturales sobre el control de la
fertilidad,” both in Memoria de Labores del Pre-Congreso de la Asociacion
de Mujeres Medicos Salvadorenas sobre el Aborto: Su Impacto Medico y Social a
Nivel Centroamericano, William Boyle, Ann Hibner Koblitz, and Neal
Koblitz, eds. (Seattle: Kovalevskaia Fund, 1994), pp. 1-4 and 5-14.
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“Cross-National Comparisons of
Women in Mathematics Education,” TWOWS
International Conference: Women's Vision of Science & Technology for
Development (Trieste, Italy:
TWOWS, 1995), pp. 241-242.
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“Intervening Earlier in the
Pipeline: Future Directions for Projects
in Math & Science Education for Women,” and “Activities of the
Kovalevskaia Fund,” Proceedings of the
Third World Organization for Women in Science Conference (
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(with Neal Koblitz), “The
Kovalevskaia Fund,” The Mathematical
Intelligencer, 22, No.
2 (2000), pp. 62-65.
PUBLIC HISTORY
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“Was Neurosine Prescott’s
Prozac in the Early 20th Century?” Days Past (feature column
of the
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“Advice for Women in Two
Languages: Medical Almanacs in Early
Prescott,” Days Past (feature column of the
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“Prescott Accepted Homeopathy 100
Years Ago, Despite AMA,” Days Past (feature column of the
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“Miners, Traders, and Census
Takers: Working Women in Territorial Arizona,” Days Past (feature column
of the
BOOK REVIEWS
Over seventy-five book reviews have appeared
in American Journal of Physical
Anthropology, American Mathematical Monthly, Association for Women in
Mathematics Newsletter, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Choice,
Environmental Review, Isis, Kovalevskaia Fund Newsletter, The London Times
Higher Education Supplement, The
Mathematical Intelligencer, Notices of the American Mathematical Society,
Phoebe, Russian History, Russian Review, Science, Slavic and East European
Journal, Slavic Review.
INVITED LECTURES,
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES, SEMINARS, AND COLLOQUIA
International:
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Mathematics Society of
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Talk jointly sponsored by the Department
of Mathematics and the Women's Centenary Commission,
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Kenneth O. May Lecture on the History of
Mathematics, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and
Technology,
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Institute of the History of Science and
Technology of the
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Lecture, Institute for Mathematical
Sciences, Madras, February 1989
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Keynote speaker, “La Mujer y las
Ciencias,” Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, February
1991
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Keynote speaker, Annual Meeting of the
Canadian History of Mathematics Society, Kingston, Ontario, May 1991
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Invited Lecturer for the inauguration of
the Kovalevskaia Visiting Chair in Applied Mathematics, Kaiserslautern
University, Germany, February 1992
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Lecture, Simone de Beauvoir Institute,
Concordia University, Canada, March 1992
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Lecture, Mathematical Society of Peru,
Lima, June 1992
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Mathematics Department Lecture,
University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras; and Biology Department Lecture,
University of Puerto Rico- Cayey, May 1993
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Mathematics Department Seminar,
University of Zimbabwe, September 1993
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Women and Development Program Seminar,
University of Botswana, September 1993
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Plenary Address, Osterreiche
Mathematische Gesellschaft, Linz, Austria, September 1993
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Plenary Panelist, “Feminist
Perspectives on Math Education,” International Congress of Mathematical
Instruction forum on “Gender and Mathematics,” Hoor, Sweden,
October 1993
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Volterra Lecture in the History of
Mathematics, Brandeis University, March 1994
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Keynote Address at the Sixth Congress of
the Salvadoran Women Doctors' Association (Pre-Congreso: “El Aborto: Su
Impacto Medico y Social a Nivel Centroamericano”), June 1994
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Keynote address at the Seventh Congress
of the Salvadoran Women Doctors' Association (Pre-Congreso: “Perspectivas
Interculturales sobre la Educacion Sexual”), June 1996
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Graduate History Colloquium, University
of the Western Cape, South Africa, April 1997
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Science Faculty Talk, University of
Malawi, April 1997
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Talk jointly sponsored by Mathematical
Sciences and Women's Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada, November 1997
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Invited speaker, Mexican Mathematical
Society Meeting, Hermosillo, October
1998
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Two talks (in Spanish) at the Mathematics
Department, University of Talca, Chile, December 1998
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Plenary session panel participant,
“The Role of International Organizations,” Third World Organization
for Women in Science, Cape Town, South Africa, February 1999
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Invited speaker, Tercer Coloquio de la
Computacion y la Criptografia, Mexico City, July 1999