Joan Hoff Explained

Joan Hoff
Other Names:	Joan Hoff-Wilson
Birth Date:	27 June 1937
Birth Place:	Butte, Montana, U.S.
Alma Mater:	University of Montana, Cornell University, University of California, Berkeley
Occupation:	Historian, academic, research professor, editor, author
Known For:	U.S. foreign policy, U.S. political history, biographies, women's history, law history

Joan Hoff (born June 27, 1937),^{[1] [2]} also known as Joan Hoff-Wilson, is an American historian, research professor, editor, and author.^{[3] [4]} She specializes in U.S. foreign policy, U.S. political history, biographies, women's history,^[5] and law history. Hoff is the former director of the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University. She has worked at California State University, Sacramento; Arizona State University; Indiana University; and Montana State University.^{[6] [7]} She retired in 2001 and lives between Big Sky, Montana and New York City, as of 2003.^[8]

Biography

Joan Hoff was born on June 27, 1937, in Butte, Montana. She attended the University of Montana where she received a BA degree (1957); Cornell University where she received a MA degree (1959) and was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow; and University of California, Berkeley where she received a PhD (1966).^[9] Hoff received a Fulbright Award (1958 to 1959) for study at the University of Strasbourg.

Hoff has taught at the following universities and colleges: the College of San Mateo;^[10] California State University, Sacramento from 1967 to 1970; Arizona State University from 1970 to 1976; Dartmouth College; Indiana University from 1981 to 1998; Ohio University from 1998 to ?; and Montana State University.

Historian Susan Kingsley Kent criticized Hoff's article, Gender as a postmodern category of paralysis (1994, Women's History Review), as it "breaks no new intellectual ground, but for anti-intellectualism, disingenuousness, and sheer incivility".^[11] In the 1990s, she has appeared as a panelist in discussions broadcast by C-Span.^[12]

in 1981, Hoff was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of U.S. history. She has also received the Vivian Paladin Award, and fellowships to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Radcliffe Institute, as well as a National Endowment of the Humanities research grant.

Books

• Book: Hoff Wilson, Joan . American Business and Foreign Policy: 1920–1933 . University Press of Kentucky . 1971 . 9780813112169 . 1st . 10.
• Book: Hoff, Joan . Rights of Passage: the past and future of the ERA . Indiana University Press . Organization of American Historians . 1986 . 9780253350138 . Bloomington, Indiana.
• Book: Hoff, Joan . Law, Gender, and Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Women . New York University Press . 1992 . 9780814734940.
• Book: Hoff Wilson, Joan . Herbert Hoover: Forgotten Progressive . Waveland Press . 1992 . 9781478631163. ^[13]
• Book: Hoff, Joan . Nixon Reconsidered . Basic Books . 1994 . 978-0-465-05107-6. ^{[14] [15]}
• Book: Hoff, Joan . A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush: Dreams of Perfectibility . Cambridge University Press . 2007 . 9781139468596. ^[16]
• Book: Hoff, Joan . The Cooper's Wife is Missing: The Trials of Bridget Cleary . Basic Books . 2000 . 978-0-465-03087-3. ^{[17] [18]}

Notes and References

1. Book: Herbert Hoover Reassessed: Essays Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Inauguration of Our Thirty-first President . 1981 . U.S. Government Printing Office . 119 . en.
2. Web site: Hoff, Joan, 1937- . 2022-10-11 . LC Name Authority File (LCNAF) . The Library of Congress.
3. Book: Welsh . James Michael . The Oliver Stone Encyclopedia . Whaley . Donald M. . 2013 . Rowman & Littlefield . 978-0-8108-8352-9 . 110 . en . Joan Hoff.
4. Web site: From Butte to PBS: Noted historian keeps hand in history as an MSU adjunct. Montana State University.
5. News: Charlton . Linda . 1981-06-21 . Women's History Meeting Analyzes Trends . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-10-11 . 0362-4331.
6. Web site: Hoff, Joan . 2022-10-11 . Encyclopedia.com.
7. Web site: Joan Hoff: University Honors and Awards . Indiana University, University Honors & Awards.
8. Web site: Schmidt . Carol . December 2, 2003 . From Butte to PBS: Noted historian keeps hand in history as an MSU adjunct . 2022-10-11 . Montana State University . en-US.
9. Book: Schulz . Constance B. . Clio's Southern Sisters: Interviews with Leaders of the Southern Association for Women Historians . Turner . Elizabeth Hayes . 2004 . University of Missouri Press . 978-0-8262-6428-2 . 275 . en.
10. Book: CGWH Newsletter, Issue 2 . 1981 . Conference Group on Women's History . 6 . 8 . en.
11. Mistrials and diatribulations: a reply to Joan Hoff. Susan. Kent. March 1, 1996. Women's History Review. 5. 1. 9–18. 10.1080/09612029600200110. free.
12. Web site: Joan Hoff | C-SPAN.org. www.c-span.org.
13. News: Radosh . Ronald . 1975-08-17 . Herbert Hoover . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-10-11 . 0362-4331.
14. Web site: July 4, 1994 . Nixon Reconsidered, Joan Hoff. Basic Books, $30 (496pp) ISBN 978-0-465-05107-6 . 2022-10-11 . publishersweekly.com.
15. News: Smith . Richard Norton . 1994-10-30 . The Nixon Watch Continues . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-10-11 . 0362-4331.
16. Kafara . Rylan . October 8, 2010 . Joan Hoff, A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush: Dreams of Perfectibility (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008). . Past Imperfect . 16 . 10.21971/P7H88R . journals.library.ualberta.ca. free .
17. Web site: The Cooper's Wife Is Missing: The Trials of Bridget Cleary, Joan Hoff. Basic Books, $26 (458pp) ISBN 978-0-465-03087-3 . 2022-10-11 . publishersweekly.com.
18. News: McCullough . David Willis . 2000-10-08 . The Fairy Defense . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-10-11 . 0362-4331.