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About Joan Jacobs Brumberg
- Joan Jacobs Brumberg (born April 29, 1944) is an American social historian and writes and lectures in the fields of women's history and medical history.
- Her first appointment at Cornell University (1979) was in Women's Studies and Human Development.
- From that point, her research, teaching and writing have been interdisciplinary and focused on gender.
- She is a Professor Emerita of Cornell University, and lectures and writes about the experiences of adolescents through history until the present day.
- In the subject area of Gender Studies, she has written about boys and violence, and girls and body image. Her 1987 book, Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as A Modern Disease won four major disciplinary awards: the Berkshire Book Prize (in women's history); the John Hope Franklin Prize ( in American Studies), the Eileen Basker Prize (in medical anthropology) and the Watson Davis Prize (in history of Science writing).
- Book Riot included it as one of the 100 best books in the history of medicine.The Body Project: A History of American Girls (1997) was based on diaries written by adolescents from the pre Civil War Era until 1980s.
- Although the author admired certain Victorian protections for girls, she also urged a new code of sexual ethics for a post virginal age.
- The book received special recognition from Voice of Youth Advocates.
- Brumberg has also worked collaboratively with photographer Lauren Greenfield on Girl Culture (2002) and Thin (2006).In light of the contemporary debates over the juvenile death penalty, she wrote Kansas Charley: The Boy Murderer (2004) which explored the case of an immigrant adolescent murderer who was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyoming in 1898.
- Brumberg research shows boys in early adolescence are not psychologically developed enough to be liable for their actions to the extent of an adult.
- Her work was used in arguments against the juvenile death penalty.Her first book, Mission for Life: The Judson Family and American Evangelical Culture (1978) won Honorable Mention from The Society of Church History.Brumberg was a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and also had awards from the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- She was twice a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and is a fellow of the Society for American Historians.
- Brumberg was named a Stephen Weiss Presidential Fellow and Professor, an award given for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
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