Women on Their Own
October 24, 2012
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2334780.Women_on_Their_Own Women on Their Own: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Single by Rudolph M. Bell and Virginia Yans Despite what…
Virginia Yans
RESEARCH INTERESTS: She is currently working on a biographical study of the anthropologist Margaret Mead. He has produced and written a 90 minute documentary film MARGARET MEAD: AN OBSERVER OBSERVED which aired nationally as a PBS Television Special and continues to be broadcast worldwide. She is actively involved in a number of public history projects including the Ellis Island National Museum, the Women's History Museum and Leadership Center planned for lower Manhanttan, and the South Street Seaport Museum. Newer interests include a history of collectors and collecting and a history of "single persons." Along with Professor Rudolph Bell, she co-directed two projects at the RCHA, one on "singleness" and another on the "gendering of children" during 2003-2005. Recent dissertations she has directed include several topics related to immigration including women's citizenship, Japanese picture brides, and immigrant language usage. One of my recent advisees, Carol Williams, won the OAH Scott-Lerner prize for best women's history dissertation for her work on photography, race, and gender in the northwest territory. PUBLICATIONS: Women on Their Own: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Single, co-edited with Rudolph M. Bell (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008, paperback 2010) Ellis Island and the Peopling of America: The Official Guide (New Press, 1997, 1999) Immigration Reconsidered: History, Sociology, Politics (Oxford University Press, 1990) Family and Community: Italian Immigrants in Buffalo, 1880-1930 (Cornell University Press, 1977, 1984).
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