Indiana University East

Joanne E. Passet

Professor of History
Middlefork Hall 254
(765) 973-8521
jpasset@indiana.edu

Education:

• Ph.D., U.S. History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1999
• Ph.D., Library & Information Science, Indiana University, 1988
• M.L.S., Library & Information Science, Indiana University, 1980
• M.A., History, Bowling Green State University, 1979
• B.A., Education, Bluffton College, 1975.

Current Research Interests: 

Twentieth-century U.S. women’s history, history of print culture

Selected Publications/Presentations

• Passet, J.E. (2008) Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeannette Howard Foster.  New York: Da Capo Press.
• Passet, J.E. (2003) Sex Radicals and the Quest for Women’s Equality.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
• Passet, J.E. (1994) Aspirations and Mentoring in an Academic Environment.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
• Passet, J.E. (1994) Cultural Crusaders: Women Librarians and the American West, 1900-17.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Selected Previous Employment Positions

• Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library & Information Science, Indiana University, 1990-94
• Graduate School of Library & Information Science, UCLA, 1988-90
• Director of Libraries, Bluffton College, 1998-2000.

Selected Offices Held in National/International Professional Organizations

• President, Indiana Association of Historians, 2004-05

Selected Academic Awards/Recognitions

• Fulbright Lecturer to Vietnam, 2009
• I.U. East Award for Excellence in Research, 2008
• Trustees Teaching Award, Indiana University, 2005
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Multicultural and Diversity Enhancement Award, 2004