Faculty Profile

Diana Selig, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

E-mail: diana.selig@claremontmckenna.edu
Phone: (909) 607-3396
Campus Address: 528 Mills Avenue 205

Departments:

Educational Background

B.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Teaching Interests

  • Modern America; Great Depression and World War II; women and politics; gender and society; reform movements; families; schooling

Research Interests

  • Modern United States; social science; ethnicity and race; immigration; education; cultural exchange; America in the world

Selected Research and Publications

  • Americans All: The Cultural Gifts Movement (Harvard University Press, 2008)
  • http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/SELAME.html
  • "Celebrating Cultural Diversity in the 1920s," OAH Magazine of History 21:3 (July 2007): 41-46
  • "The Whole Child: Social Science and Race at the White House Conference of 1930," in When Science Encounters the Child: Education, Parenting, and Child Welfare in 20th-Century American, ed. Barbara Beatty, Emily D.Cahan, and Julia Grant (New York: Teachers College Press, 2006), 136-156.
  • "World Friendship: Children, parents, and Peace Education in America between the Wars," in Children and War, ed. James marten (New York: New York University Press, 2002), 135-146

Selected Awards

  • Honorable Mention, Gustavus Myers Book Prize from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights, for Americans All: The Cultural Gifts Movement; National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship