In 1984, she published Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women’s Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s. Horowitz’s area of specialty is American cultural history, including the architectural and social history of women’s colleges. Since retirement, she has continued active work in the historical profession and the research and writing of books in history and American studies.ĭr. Between 2000 and her retirement in 2010 she held successively the Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Chair of American Studies and the Sydenham Clark Parsons Chair in History. In 1988 she and her husband joined the faculty of Smith College as professors. She went to the University of Southern California in 1986 to head the Program for the Study of Women and Men in Society and serve as professor of history. and two years at Union College, she and her husband joined the faculty of Scripps College in Claremont, California, where she moved through the ranks to a tenured position as professor of history. They married the summer following her Wellesley graduation (1963).Īfter a year working as an assistant archivist at what is currently the Schlesinger Library, she entered graduate school at Harvard in American Civilization. During her freshman year at Wellesley she met Yale senior Daniel Horowitz. in American civilization in 19, respectively.
Horowitz continued her education at Harvard University, receiving both her M.A. “There,” she said, “I would wallow in the world of ideas.” After discovering her love for the study of history at Wellesley, Dr. in history and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, spent much of her time on campus in the Clapp Library.
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, who graduated from Wellesley in 1963 with a B.A.
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