B.A., Emory University, 1967 (High Honors in History)
Teaching Experience:
Professor Emeritus of History, Bryant University, 2021-present.
Professor of History, Bryant University, 1987- 2021.
Associate Professor of History, Bryant University, 1981-1987
Assistant Professor of History, Bryant University, 1975-1981
Professional Experience:
Co-Chair, Comparative Home Fronts Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, January 13 -16, 2016.
Invited Lecturer, U.S. China Institute, August 7, 2015.
Invited Lecturer, South County Museum, October 6, 2014
Invited Lecturer, U.S. China Institute, July 2014.
Invited Lecturer, The Hero Symposium, Fordham University, November 11, 2013
Invited Lecturer, Norton Institute for Continuing Education, Wheaton College, May 22, 2013.
Invited Lecturer, 2013 Annual Convention of the National Farmers, Springfield, Massachusetts, March 3, 2013.
Invited Lecturer, Institute on World War II and the Human Experience, Florida State University, October 16, 2012.
Invited Lecturer, U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, June 20, 2012.
Invited Lecturer, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, August 2011.
“Meet the Author” Stauffacher Artist and Lecture Series, State Fair Community College, Sedalia, Missouri, May 9-11, 2011
Invited Lecturer, Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, December 16, 2010.
Invited Lecturer, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, June 12, 2008.
Invited Lecturer, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, April 3-4, 2008.
Invited Lecturer, Keynote Speaker, Sixth Annual Pickens-Salley Symposium on Southern Women, University of South Carolina, Aiken, March 19, 2008.
Invited Lecturer, Charles W. Johnson Lecture, University of Tennessee, March 31, 2004.
Invited Veterans Day Lecturer, The Rutgers University Libraries and Rutgers University Living History Society, November 11, 2003.
Invited Workshop Co-Director, Center For Gender Studies, European Humanities University, Women, Memory and the Great Patriotic War, March 19-20, 2004.
Invited Lecturer, Shijiazhang Univeristy of Economics, Shijiazhang, China, June 2000.
Invited Lecturer, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, June 2000.
Visiting U.S. Department of State - American Studies Professor, European Humanities University, Minsk, Belarus, May-June 1998, July 1999.
Project Consultant, Pilot Program for the Transfer of Defense Technology to Private Industry, Defense Advanced Research Project, Bryant University, 1997-1998.
Co-Director, Training Session on Financial Accountability, Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia, December 1997.
Director, Bryant University and Center for International Business and Economic Development Trade Mission to Estonia, October 17-27, 1996.
Panelist, Bryant University Community Connections Program Assessment, Minsk and Gomel, Belarus, May 21-26, 2005.
Panelist, Bryant University Community Connections Program Assessment, Minsk and Gomel, Belarus, July 9-19, 2003.
Panelist, Bryant University Community Connections Program Assessment, Minsk and Gomel, Belarus, August 12-22, 2001.
Expert Visit, Information Technologies Center, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus, for development of Center for International Collaboration, May-June 1998.
Invited Lecturer, ENVILA Women's College, Minsk, Belarus, May 1998.
Invited Lecturer, Tbilisi Business School, Tbilisi, Georgia, June 1997.
Visiting Lecturer, Kiev State University of Economics, Kiev, Ukraine, May 1997.
Invited Lecturer, Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia, March 27, 1996
Invited Lecturer, European Humanities University, Minsk, Belarus, April 8, 11, 1996.
Invited Lecturer, Museum of our National Heritage, Lexington, MA, October 15, 2000.
Invited Speaker, World War II Veterans Committee Annual Conference, Washington, DC, November 8-10, 2001,November 10-11, 2000; November 11-13, 1999; November 4-7, 1988.
Invited Lecturer, Minnesota Historical Society Press, St. Paul, Minnesota, September 21, 1997.
Invited Lecturer, Old South Meeting House, War and Remembrance Lecture, Boston Massachusetts, May 14, 1997.
Invited Lecturer, Newport Historical Society Annual Winter Lecture Series, April 30, 1996
Invited Lecturer, The Heritage Plantation, Sandwich, Massachusetts, May 4, 1995, October 3, 1995.
Invited Lecturer, Women and World War II, Rhode Island Historical Society, Annual Meeting, September 29, 1995.
Invited Lecturer, Letters From Home, 1995 Emory University Alumni Reunion Weekend, Atlanta, Georgia, September 16, 1995.
Invited Lecturer, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut, April 4, 1995.
Invited Scholar, Normandy Seminar, U.S. Naval Institute and the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation, Cantigny, Wheaton, Illinois, March 2-3, 1994.
Invited Lecturer/Banquet speaker, American Red Cross Overseas Association Annual Meeting, New York, New York, July 2, 1994.
Invited Lecturer, National Postal Museum, Washington, D.C., May 5, 1994.
Invited Lecturer, Smithsonian Campus on the Mall Lecture Series, Washington, D.C., May, 4, 1994.
Invited Lecturer, Middays at the Old South Meeting House, Boston, Massachusetts, October 21, 1993.
Invited Lecturer, The World War II Home Front, Middle Georgia Historical Society, Macon, Georgia, May 3, 1993
Invited Lecturer, The World War II Home Front, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia, May 2, 1993.
Invited Lecturer, Meaning and Memory: World War II in the American Experience, Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, Virginia, April 1-4, 1993.
Invited Lecturer, Women's History Month, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, March 25, 1993.
Invited Lecturer, World War II: The Home Front, A Public Symposium sponsored by the Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, February 26, 1993.
Invited Lecturer, Auburn University Symposium, World War II: A Time Remembered, War Fronts/Home Front, January 13 - 14, 1993.
Invited Lecturer, National Convention of Women Involved in Farm Economics, Little Rock, Arkansas, November 21, 1992.
Invited Lecturer, Public Lecture Series on World War II, Strong Museum, Rochester, New York, June 7, 1992.
Invited Lecturer, Women's Week '92, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, March 30, 1992.
Invited Lecturer, Bolivar County Library, Cleveland, Mississippi, December 8, 1991.
Invited Lecturer, National Archives Pearl Harbor Day Commemoration, Washington, DC, December 3, 1991.
Inaugural Lecturer, The Joyce Thompson Lectureship, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas, November 12, 1991.
Invited Lecturer, National Archives Author's Forum, Washington, DC, January 22, 1991.
Invited Lecturer, Old Campbell County Historical Society, Fairburn, GA, June 17, 1990.
Invited Scholar and seminar leader, U.S. Department of Education, University of Tennessee, and East Tennessee State Historical Society, “Teaching American History” Grant, July 13-14. 2005.
Historical consultant, “The Perilous Fight: America’s World War II in Color,” PBS Documentary, 2001-2002. Nominated for 2003 Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Research.
Historical consultant, “The Color of War,” History Channel Documentary, 1999-2000.
Historical consultant, “Dear Home,” A & E Television Networks Documentary, 1999.
Historical consultant, "American in the Forties: A Sentimental Journey," Tom Spain, Inc., PBS Documentary, 1996-1998.
Historical consultant, Pathmakers, National Memorial Day Concert Documentary, 1996, 2000.
Historical consultant, The American Story: World War II, Alexandria, Virginia, Time-Life Books, 1997
Historical consultant, Bostonian Society, "When the Boys Came Marching Home, Everyday Life In Boston, 1945-1952," 1994-1996.
Historical consultant, Imperial War Museum, Forces Sweethearts Exhibit, 1992-1993.
Historical consultant, National Postal Museum, Letter Writing Exhibit, 1992-1993.
Historical consultant, Monadnock Media, "Missing You - Letters in Wartime," video, 1992-1993.
Historical consultant, KOCH-TV Productions, Inc. D-Day documentary, 1992-1994.
Historical consultant, Durrin Films award-winning documentary film, "Daughters of Time," 1980.
Senior Honors Thesis Outside Examiner, Kenyon College, May 12-13, 1995.
Willie Lee Rose Prize Committee, Southern Association of Women’s Historians, 2003.
Southern Historical Association - Program Committee, 1993, 1999. Membership Committee, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1999.
Popular Culture Association - Area Program Committee, 1987-1988.
Scholarly reader/referee, Addison Wesley Longman, University of Georgia Press, Greenwood Press, University of Illinois Press, University of Tennessee Press, Prentice Hall, University Press of Colorado, University Press of Kentucky, Scholarly Resources, Inc., Texas A & M University Press, Northern Illinois University Press, Fordham University Press, Wadsworth Publishing, Oxford University Press, University of Illinois Press, North Carolina Historical Press, University of Missouri Press, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Journal of American Ethnic History, Journal of Women's History, The Historian, Agricultural History,Michigan Historical Review, Journal of the History of Sexuality, National Endowment for the Humanities proposals, Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine proposals, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada proposals, Selection Committee, US Department of State Contemporary Issues Fellowship Program for Ukraine.
Contributor, World War II Times.
Featured on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” segment, “American Woman Helped Save Airmen in France,” June 6, 2009.
Featured on “This I Believe,” WRNI Radio, November 28, 2007.
Featured on “The Rhode Island Women of World War II,” RI-PBS, September 23, 24, November 11, 2007.
Featured on “Amazing Women,” 630 WPRO AM Radio, 92 PRO FM, and LITE ROCK 105 FM, “Women and War,” Providence, Rhode Island. July 1, 2007.
Featured on “Not Your Classroom,” WRNI Public Radio, “Women’s Letters from World War II,” Providence, RI, January 26 and 28, 2007..
Featured on “Fordham Conversations,” WFUV Public Radio, “An American Heroine in the French Resistance,” Fordham University, August 5, 2006.
Featured on “Vital Women,” Donna Mac Radio Program, 93.3, Providence, Rhode Island, March 30, 2004.
Featured on Cambridge Forum-National Public Radio Program, “American Women in a World at War,” March 2001.
Featured on C-Span, “Women on the Home Front,” November 11, 1998, “Women and World War II,” November 11, 2001.
Featured on Channel 6 TV evening news, three-part series, "U.S. Women and V-E Day," May 8 - 10, 1995.
Featured on CBS This Morning, "Women and D-Day," June 6, 1994.
Featured on WCBS Radio, "Women and D-Day," June 6, 1994.
Featured on Christian Science Monitor Cable Channel, "50 Years Ago Today," March 1992.
Featured on the Voice of America Radio, "The World War II Letters of American Women," December 1991, March 1992, May 1994.
Featured on CNN Early Prime, to discuss Since You Went Away, October 8, 1991.
Featured on National Public Radio 30 minute program, "Sealed with a Kiss: The Wartime Letters of American Women," December 1989, April 1991, November 1991.
Featured on WRGB-TV, Schenectady, New York, 30 minute program, "Letters From the Heart," November 26, 1990.
Featured on CNN Sonya Live, "Women's Letters from World War II," July 4, 1990.
Featured in Digital Commons Subscriber Newsletter, “Chronicle of Higher Education Features Digital Commons@Bryant, Fall 2009.
Featured in Chronicle of Higher Education, “Found in Library Basement: Letters Home from World War II, June 29, 2009.
Featured in the Providence Journal, “College of Letters,” (front page of section B], April, 28, 2009.
Featured in the Providence Journal, “Voices from the Past” (lead front page article), December 24, 2008.
Commentary, “Holiday Spam cooked in butter on R.I.’s home front,” Providence Journal, December 7, 2011.
Commentary, “On drawing, with joy, that black line for the Obama-Biden ticket,” Providence Journal, November 12, 2008.
Featured in the Providence Journal, “Letters discuss fallout from the atomic bomb,” (lead “Lifebeat” article), August 13, 2005.
Featured in Rhode Island Monthly, June 2004.
Featured in the Providence Journal, “The Real Look of the War”(lead “Lifebeat” article) February 12, 2003.
Featured in HERS magazine section, Providence Journal (cover story), March 19, 1998.
Featured in the Boston Globe, "Letters Echo a Generation," July 4, 1993.
Featured in Kansas City Star Magazine (cover story), "Words of Love," October 4, 1992, pp. 6 - 10.
Featured in Yankee Magazine, "Sealed with a Kiss: The Love Letters of Marjorie Gaunt," September 1990, pp. 67 - 71, 126 - 129.
Member, Story Board, Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, Salve Regina University, 2013- present.
Board of Directors, Stages of Freedom, 2014-present.
Board of Directors, U.S.S. Massachusetts Memorial Committee, 2008 – present
Board of Directors, Festival Ballet Providence, 2007- present.
Board of Directors, Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, 2004- 2013
Executive Board, Humanities Forum of Rhode Island, 2000-2007.
Board of Trustees, Rhode Island Historical Society, 1999- 2003.
Council Chair, Newell D. Goff Institute for Ingenuity and Enterprise at the Rhode Island Historical Society, 1999-2003.
Council Member, Newell D. Goff Institute for Ingenuity and Enterprise at the Rhode Island Historical Society, 1998-2004.
Board of Overseers, The Moses Brown School, 1984-1993.
Board of Overseers, The Lincoln School, 1982-1988.
Girl Scout Leader, Providence, Rhode Island, 1979-1988 (developed Women's History badge).
First Day School Teacher, Providence Monthly Meeting of Society of Friends, 1978-1985.
Board Member, Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, 1982-1986.
Frequently speak to university and community groups such as Hamilton House of Providence, RI; Mayflower Society of RI; Woonsocket Kiwanis Club; Woonsocket Chamber of Commerce; Woonsocket Jaycee Women; East Providence and North Providence Business and Professional Women's Clubs; Lifetime Learning of Rhode Island; Lincoln Republican Women's Club; Greenwich Bay Women's Club; Tyler Free Public Library of Foster, RI; Warwick, RI American Association of University Women Chapter; Bangor, ME Retired Teachers Association; Bangor, ME Historical Society; Bryant University Alumni Association; Bryant University Parents' Association; RI Environmental Protection Agency; Brown University; Salve Regina College; Colby College; University of ME; University of RI; Providence Public Library; Pawtucket Public Library; Cum Laude Society of Moses Brown School; Shea High School; Providence Monthly Meeting of Society of Friends; SALT Archives of ME Folklife; Old Campbell County, GA Historical Society; Carrollton, GA Kiwanis Club; RI History Day; RI Historical Society; Pawtuxet Valley Preservation and Historical Society; North Kingstown, RI Free Library; RI State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts; Ladies High Tea.
Honors and Awards:
2018 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. Awarded by the Marquis Who’s Who Publication Board.
2007 Honorary Chairs’ Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities. Awarded by the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.
2006 Best in French Culture Award. Awarded by Cultural Services Office of Embassy of France to An American Heroine in The French Resistance.
James Madison Prize, 1994. Awarded by the Society for History in the Federal Government for article, "`To The Rescue of the Crops': The Women's Land Army during World War II," Prologue, 25(Winter 1993): 346-361 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
National Historical Publications and Records Commission endorsement of project to edit and publish The World War II Letters of American Women, February 1991.
Bryant University Research and Publication Award, 1997, 2005.
Bryant University Herstory Award, 1996.
Bryant University Summer Research Stipend, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2017.
Bryant University Alumni Distinguished Faculty Member Award, 1989.
Bryant University Faculty Federation Distinguished Faculty Member Award, 1988.
Bryant University Professional Development Leave, 1982-1983; 1986-1987;1990-91; Spring Semester 1996; Spring Semester 2004; Spring 2012, Spring 2018.
Sinology Fellow, Hanban (Office of Chinese Language Council International, Beijing, China), Summer 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015.
Bryant University and U.S. China Institute Grant for two-week research and study trip to China, June 12-25, 2010.
Bryant University Summer Research Stipend for CIEE Faculty Development Seminar in Southwest China, June 14-25, 2008.
Project Director, Higher Education Support Program Grant, Open Society Institute, Collaborative Learning at a Distance in the Social Sciences Summer School, Minsk, Belarus, July 1999.
Project Development and Administrative Team, Bryant University Community Connections Program with Belarus, U.S. Department of State Grant, 1999-2008.
Project Director, U.S. Department of State Grant to promote Curriculum/Faculty Development between European Humanities University(Minsk, Belarus), Bryant University, and Suffolk University, 1997-2000.
Assistant Project Director, United States Industry Coalition Grant to develop Cost Accounting and Financial Record Keeping System for New Independent States-Initiatives in Proliferation Prevention Project, U.S. Department of Energy, 1997-1998.
Eurasia Foundation Travel/Research Grant to Republic of Georgia, June 9-June 17, 1997.
Bryant University Summer Research/Travel Stipend to Ukraine, May 19-June 9, 1997.
Center for International Business and Economic Development and Department of Defense Travel/Research Grant to Estonia, Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, March 22-April 22, 1996; June 14-July 6, 1996; October 17-27, 1996; November 12-16, 1996.
U.S. Department of Education Title VI and Bryant University Travel/Research Grant to England and France, Summer 1995.
Phi Alpha Theta
Phi Kappa Phi
Pi Sigma Alpha
Ford Career Scholar
About
Judy Barrett Litoff, Professor of History at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island, is the author of 14 hardcover books (and eight paperback editions) and more than 100 articles, book chapters, and reviews in American women's history.
She is the author of two pioneering books on the history of American midwifery, American Midwives, 1860 to the Present (1978,1985 paperback edition) and The American Midwife Debate: A Sourcebook on its Modern Origins(1986).
Over the last two decades, Barrett Litoff has focused her research and writing on American women and the Second World War. Her research has included a nationwide search for women’s correspondence that has resulted in the assembling of an archive of 30,000 wartime letters written by American women. These 30,000 letters provide clear and unequivocal evidence of the many important ways that women actively participated in the war effort, and they vividly illustrate women's growing sense of self and their place in the world. In short, they offer perceptive insights into heretofore unexplored, but fundamental, aspects of the war.
Barrett Litoff’s innovative research on American women and World War II has been the subject of numerous newspaper and magazine articles, and she frequently appears on television and radio. She has lectured widely in the United States, as well as in England, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, the Republic of Georgia, Russia, and China. She served as an historical consultant for the highly-acclaimed and Emmy nominated PBS documentary, “The Perilous Fight: America s World War II in Color” (2002) and is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award in the Humanities. Barrett Litoff was also the Project Director of a three-year U.S. Department of State grant between Bryant University and the European Humanities University in Minsk, Belarus.
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Department: History
Academic Rank: Professor (Emeritus)
Year Retired From Bryant University: 2021
Educational Background:
Ph.D., University of Maine, 1975
M.A., Emory University, 1968
B.A., Emory University, 1967 (High Honors in History)
Teaching Experience:
Professor Emeritus of History, Bryant University, 2021-present.
Professor of History, Bryant University, 1987- 2021.
Associate Professor of History, Bryant University, 1981-1987
Assistant Professor of History, Bryant University, 1975-1981
Professional Experience:
Co-Chair, Comparative Home Fronts Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, January 13 -16, 2016.
Invited Lecturer, U.S. China Institute, August 7, 2015.
Invited Lecturer, South County Museum, October 6, 2014
Invited Lecturer, U.S. China Institute, July 2014.
Invited Lecturer, The Hero Symposium, Fordham University, November 11, 2013
Invited Lecturer, Norton Institute for Continuing Education, Wheaton College, May 22, 2013.
Invited Lecturer, 2013 Annual Convention of the National Farmers, Springfield, Massachusetts, March 3, 2013.
Invited Lecturer, Institute on World War II and the Human Experience, Florida State University, October 16, 2012.
Invited Lecturer, U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, June 20, 2012.
Invited Lecturer, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, August 2011.
“Meet the Author” Stauffacher Artist and Lecture Series, State Fair Community College, Sedalia, Missouri, May 9-11, 2011
Invited Lecturer, Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, December 16, 2010.
Invited Lecturer, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, June 12, 2008.
Invited Lecturer, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, April 3-4, 2008.
Invited Lecturer, Keynote Speaker, Sixth Annual Pickens-Salley Symposium on Southern Women, University of South Carolina, Aiken, March 19, 2008.
Invited Lecturer, Charles W. Johnson Lecture, University of Tennessee, March 31, 2004.
Invited Veterans Day Lecturer, The Rutgers University Libraries and Rutgers University Living History Society, November 11, 2003.
Invited Workshop Co-Director, Center For Gender Studies, European Humanities University, Women, Memory and the Great Patriotic War, March 19-20, 2004.
Invited Lecturer, Shijiazhang Univeristy of Economics, Shijiazhang, China, June 2000.
Invited Lecturer, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, June 2000.
Visiting U.S. Department of State - American Studies Professor, European Humanities University, Minsk, Belarus, May-June 1998, July 1999.
Project Consultant, Pilot Program for the Transfer of Defense Technology to Private Industry, Defense Advanced Research Project, Bryant University, 1997-1998.
Co-Director, Training Session on Financial Accountability, Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia, December 1997.
Director, Bryant University and Center for International Business and Economic Development Trade Mission to Estonia, October 17-27, 1996.
Panelist, Bryant University Community Connections Program Assessment, Minsk and Gomel, Belarus, May 21-26, 2005.
Panelist, Bryant University Community Connections Program Assessment, Minsk and Gomel, Belarus, July 9-19, 2003.
Panelist, Bryant University Community Connections Program Assessment, Minsk and Gomel, Belarus, August 12-22, 2001.
Expert Visit, Information Technologies Center, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus, for development of Center for International Collaboration, May-June 1998.
Invited Lecturer, ENVILA Women's College, Minsk, Belarus, May 1998.
Invited Lecturer, Tbilisi Business School, Tbilisi, Georgia, June 1997.
Visiting Lecturer, Kiev State University of Economics, Kiev, Ukraine, May 1997.
Invited Lecturer, Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia, March 27, 1996
Invited Lecturer, European Humanities University, Minsk, Belarus, April 8, 11, 1996.
Invited Lecturer, Celebrate Freedom!: Pigeon Forge Salutes America’s Veterans, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, November 9, 2000.
Invited Lecturer, Museum of our National Heritage, Lexington, MA, October 15, 2000.
Invited Speaker, World War II Veterans Committee Annual Conference, Washington, DC, November 8-10, 2001,November 10-11, 2000; November 11-13, 1999; November 4-7, 1988.
Invited Lecturer, Minnesota Historical Society Press, St. Paul, Minnesota, September 21, 1997.
Invited Lecturer, Old South Meeting House, War and Remembrance Lecture, Boston Massachusetts, May 14, 1997.
Invited Lecturer, Newport Historical Society Annual Winter Lecture Series, April 30, 1996
Invited Lecturer, The Heritage Plantation, Sandwich, Massachusetts, May 4, 1995, October 3, 1995.
Invited Lecturer, Women and World War II, Rhode Island Historical Society, Annual Meeting, September 29, 1995.
Invited Lecturer, Letters From Home, 1995 Emory University Alumni Reunion Weekend, Atlanta, Georgia, September 16, 1995.
Invited Lecturer, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut, April 4, 1995.
Invited Scholar, Normandy Seminar, U.S. Naval Institute and the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation, Cantigny, Wheaton, Illinois, March 2-3, 1994.
Invited Lecturer/Banquet speaker, American Red Cross Overseas Association Annual Meeting, New York, New York, July 2, 1994.
Invited Lecturer, National Postal Museum, Washington, D.C., May 5, 1994.
Invited Lecturer, Smithsonian Campus on the Mall Lecture Series, Washington, D.C., May, 4, 1994.
Invited Lecturer, Middays at the Old South Meeting House, Boston, Massachusetts, October 21, 1993.
Invited Lecturer, The World War II Home Front, Middle Georgia Historical Society, Macon, Georgia, May 3, 1993
Invited Lecturer, The World War II Home Front, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia, May 2, 1993.
Invited Lecturer, Meaning and Memory: World War II in the American Experience, Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, Virginia, April 1-4, 1993.
Invited Lecturer, Women's History Month, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, March 25, 1993.
Invited Lecturer, World War II: The Home Front, A Public Symposium sponsored by the Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, February 26, 1993.
Invited Lecturer, Auburn University Symposium, World War II: A Time Remembered, War Fronts/Home Front, January 13 - 14, 1993.
Invited Lecturer, National Convention of Women Involved in Farm Economics, Little Rock, Arkansas, November 21, 1992.
Invited Lecturer, Public Lecture Series on World War II, Strong Museum, Rochester, New York, June 7, 1992.
Invited Lecturer, Women's Week '92, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, March 30, 1992.
Invited Lecturer, Bolivar County Library, Cleveland, Mississippi, December 8, 1991.
Invited Lecturer, National Archives Pearl Harbor Day Commemoration, Washington, DC, December 3, 1991.
Inaugural Lecturer, The Joyce Thompson Lectureship, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas, November 12, 1991.
Invited Lecturer, National Archives Author's Forum, Washington, DC, January 22, 1991.
Invited Lecturer, Old Campbell County Historical Society, Fairburn, GA, June 17, 1990.
Invited Scholar and seminar leader, U.S. Department of Education, University of Tennessee, and East Tennessee State Historical Society, “Teaching American History” Grant, July 13-14. 2005.
Fulbright Specialist Peer Review Member, 2011- present.
Historical Consultant, Center for American War Letters, Chapman University, 2014-present.
Advisory Board, Story on the Public Square, 2013- present.
Editorial Board, Adams Matthew Digital Ltd, “World War II: Oral Histories and Personal Accounts.”
Historical Consultant and On-Site Supervisor, Kirsten Evans, “Festival Ballet Providence: Four Decades of Dance, 1978-2018.”
Historical Consultant, East Tennessee Veterans Memorial Association, 2004-2008 .
Historical Consultant and seminar leader, U.S. Department of Education and Rhode Island
Historical Society “Teaching American History” Grant, 2003-2007.
Historical Consultant, NEH and Rhode Island Historical Society “Schools for a New Millennium” Grant, 2002-2003.
Advisory Board, World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension, Fordham University Press, 2000- present.
Advisory Board, World War II Veterans Committee, 2001-2002.
Advisory Board, “A Woman’s War Too,” EPC Documentary Film, 1999-2002.
Historical consultant, “Warrior Girls Project,” 2011-present.
Historical consultant, “The Perilous Fight: America’s World War II in Color,” PBS Documentary, 2001-2002. Nominated for 2003 Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Research.
Historical consultant, “The Color of War,” History Channel Documentary, 1999-2000.
Historical consultant, “Dear Home,” A & E Television Networks Documentary, 1999.
Historical consultant, "American in the Forties: A Sentimental Journey," Tom Spain, Inc., PBS Documentary, 1996-1998.
Historical consultant, Pathmakers, National Memorial Day Concert Documentary, 1996, 2000.
Historical consultant, The American Story: World War II, Alexandria, Virginia, Time-Life Books, 1997
Historical consultant, Bostonian Society, "When the Boys Came Marching Home, Everyday Life In Boston, 1945-1952," 1994-1996.
Historical consultant, Imperial War Museum, Forces Sweethearts Exhibit, 1992-1993.
Historical consultant, National Postal Museum, Letter Writing Exhibit, 1992-1993.
Historical consultant, Monadnock Media, "Missing You - Letters in Wartime," video, 1992-1993.
Historical consultant, KOCH-TV Productions, Inc. D-Day documentary, 1992-1994.
Historical consultant, Durrin Films award-winning documentary film, "Daughters of Time," 1980.
Senior Honors Thesis Outside Examiner, Kenyon College, May 12-13, 1995.
Willie Lee Rose Prize Committee, Southern Association of Women’s Historians, 2003.
Southern Historical Association - Program Committee, 1993, 1999. Membership Committee, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1999.
Popular Culture Association - Area Program Committee, 1987-1988.
Scholarly reader/referee, Addison Wesley Longman, University of Georgia Press, Greenwood Press, University of Illinois Press, University of Tennessee Press, Prentice Hall, University Press of Colorado, University Press of Kentucky, Scholarly Resources, Inc., Texas A & M University Press, Northern Illinois University Press, Fordham University Press, Wadsworth Publishing, Oxford University Press, University of Illinois Press, North Carolina Historical Press, University of Missouri Press, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Journal of American Ethnic History, Journal of Women's History, The Historian, Agricultural History, Michigan Historical Review, Journal of the History of Sexuality, National Endowment for the Humanities proposals, Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine proposals, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada proposals, Selection Committee, US Department of State Contemporary Issues Fellowship Program for Ukraine.
Contributor, World War II Times.
Featured on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” segment, “American Woman Helped Save Airmen in France,” June 6, 2009.
Featured on “This I Believe,” WRNI Radio, November 28, 2007.
Featured on “The Rhode Island Women of World War II,” RI-PBS, September 23, 24, November 11, 2007.
Featured on “Amazing Women,” 630 WPRO AM Radio, 92 PRO FM, and LITE ROCK 105 FM, “Women and War,” Providence, Rhode Island. July 1, 2007.
Featured on “Not Your Classroom,” WRNI Public Radio, “Women’s Letters from World War II,” Providence, RI, January 26 and 28, 2007..
Featured on “Fordham Conversations,” WFUV Public Radio, “An American Heroine in the French Resistance,” Fordham University, August 5, 2006.
Featured on “Vital Women,” Donna Mac Radio Program, 93.3, Providence, Rhode Island, March 30, 2004.
Featured on Cambridge Forum-National Public Radio Program, “American Women in a World at War,” March 2001.
Featured on C-Span, “Women on the Home Front,” November 11, 1998, “Women and World War II,” November 11, 2001.
Featured on Channel 6 TV evening news, three-part series, "U.S. Women and V-E Day," May 8 - 10, 1995.
Featured on CBS This Morning, "Women and D-Day," June 6, 1994.
Featured on WCBS Radio, "Women and D-Day," June 6, 1994.
Featured on Christian Science Monitor Cable Channel, "50 Years Ago Today," March 1992.
Featured on the Voice of America Radio, "The World War II Letters of American Women," December 1991, March 1992, May 1994.
Featured on CNN Early Prime, to discuss Since You Went Away, October 8, 1991.
Featured on National Public Radio 30 minute program, "Sealed with a Kiss: The Wartime Letters of American Women," December 1989, April 1991, November 1991.
Featured on WRGB-TV, Schenectady, New York, 30 minute program, "Letters From the Heart," November 26, 1990.
Featured on CNN Sonya Live, "Women's Letters from World War II," July 4, 1990.
Featured in Digital Commons Subscriber Newsletter, “Chronicle of Higher Education Features Digital Commons@Bryant, Fall 2009.
Featured in Chronicle of Higher Education, “Found in Library Basement: Letters Home from World War II, June 29, 2009.
Featured in the Providence Journal, “College of Letters,” (front page of section B], April, 28, 2009.
Featured in the Providence Journal, “Voices from the Past” (lead front page article), December 24, 2008.
Commentary, “Holiday Spam cooked in butter on R.I.’s home front,” Providence Journal, December 7, 2011.
Commentary, “On drawing, with joy, that black line for the Obama-Biden ticket,” Providence Journal, November 12, 2008.
Featured in the Providence Journal, “Letters discuss fallout from the atomic bomb,” (lead “Lifebeat” article), August 13, 2005.
Featured in Rhode Island Monthly, June 2004.
Featured in the Providence Journal, “The Real Look of the War”(lead “Lifebeat” article) February 12, 2003.
Featured in HERS magazine section, Providence Journal (cover story), March 19, 1998.
Featured in the Boston Globe, "Letters Echo a Generation," July 4, 1993.
Featured in Kansas City Star Magazine (cover story), "Words of Love," October 4, 1992, pp. 6 - 10.
Featured in Yankee Magazine, "Sealed with a Kiss: The Love Letters of Marjorie Gaunt," September 1990, pp. 67 - 71, 126 - 129.
Member, Story Board, Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, Salve Regina University, 2013- present.
Board of Directors, Stages of Freedom, 2014-present.
Board of Directors, U.S.S. Massachusetts Memorial Committee, 2008 – present
Board of Directors, Festival Ballet Providence, 2007- present.
Board of Directors, Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, 2004- 2013
Executive Board, Humanities Forum of Rhode Island, 2000-2007.
Board of Trustees, Rhode Island Historical Society, 1999- 2003.
Council Chair, Newell D. Goff Institute for Ingenuity and Enterprise at the Rhode Island Historical Society, 1999-2003.
Council Member, Newell D. Goff Institute for Ingenuity and Enterprise at the Rhode Island Historical Society, 1998-2004.
Board of Overseers, The Moses Brown School, 1984-1993.
Board of Overseers, The Lincoln School, 1982-1988.
Girl Scout Leader, Providence, Rhode Island, 1979-1988 (developed Women's History badge).
First Day School Teacher, Providence Monthly Meeting of Society of Friends, 1978-1985.
Board Member, Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, 1982-1986.
Frequently speak to university and community groups such as Hamilton House of Providence, RI; Mayflower Society of RI; Woonsocket Kiwanis Club; Woonsocket Chamber of Commerce; Woonsocket Jaycee Women; East Providence and North Providence Business and Professional Women's Clubs; Lifetime Learning of Rhode Island; Lincoln Republican Women's Club; Greenwich Bay Women's Club; Tyler Free Public Library of Foster, RI; Warwick, RI American Association of University Women Chapter; Bangor, ME Retired Teachers Association; Bangor, ME Historical Society; Bryant University Alumni Association; Bryant University Parents' Association; RI Environmental Protection Agency; Brown University; Salve Regina College; Colby College; University of ME; University of RI; Providence Public Library; Pawtucket Public Library; Cum Laude Society of Moses Brown School; Shea High School; Providence Monthly Meeting of Society of Friends; SALT Archives of ME Folklife; Old Campbell County, GA Historical Society; Carrollton, GA Kiwanis Club; RI History Day; RI Historical Society; Pawtuxet Valley Preservation and Historical Society; North Kingstown, RI Free Library; RI State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts; Ladies High Tea.
Honors and Awards:
2018 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. Awarded by the Marquis Who’s Who Publication Board.
2007 Honorary Chairs’ Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities. Awarded by the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.
2006 Best in French Culture Award. Awarded by Cultural Services Office of Embassy of France to An American Heroine in The French Resistance.
James Madison Prize, 1994. Awarded by the Society for History in the Federal Government for article, "`To The Rescue of the Crops': The Women's Land Army during World War II," Prologue, 25(Winter 1993): 346-361 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
National Historical Publications and Records Commission endorsement of project to edit and publish The World War II Letters of American Women, February 1991.
Bryant University Research and Publication Award, 1997, 2005.
Bryant University Herstory Award, 1996.
Bryant University Summer Research Stipend, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2017.
Bryant University Alumni Distinguished Faculty Member Award, 1989.
Bryant University Faculty Federation Distinguished Faculty Member Award, 1988.
Bryant University Professional Development Leave, 1982-1983; 1986-1987;1990-91; Spring Semester 1996; Spring Semester 2004; Spring 2012, Spring 2018.
Bryant University Merit Award, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016.
Sinology Fellow, Hanban (Office of Chinese Language Council International, Beijing, China), Summer 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015.
Bryant University and U.S. China Institute Grant for two-week research and study trip to China, June 12-25, 2010.
Bryant University Summer Research Stipend for CIEE Faculty Development Seminar in Southwest China, June 14-25, 2008.
Project Director, Higher Education Support Program Grant, Open Society Institute, Collaborative Learning at a Distance in the Social Sciences Summer School, Minsk, Belarus, July 1999.
Project Development and Administrative Team, Bryant University Community Connections Program with Belarus, U.S. Department of State Grant, 1999-2008.
Project Director, U.S. Department of State Grant to promote Curriculum/Faculty Development between European Humanities University(Minsk, Belarus), Bryant University, and Suffolk University, 1997-2000.
Assistant Project Director, United States Industry Coalition Grant to develop Cost Accounting and Financial Record Keeping System for New Independent States-Initiatives in Proliferation Prevention Project, U.S. Department of Energy, 1997-1998.
Eurasia Foundation Travel/Research Grant to Republic of Georgia, June 9-June 17, 1997.
Bryant University Summer Research/Travel Stipend to Ukraine, May 19-June 9, 1997.
Center for International Business and Economic Development and Department of Defense Travel/Research Grant to Estonia, Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, March 22-April 22, 1996; June 14-July 6, 1996; October 17-27, 1996; November 12-16, 1996.
U.S. Department of Education Title VI and Bryant University Travel/Research Grant to England and France, Summer 1995.
Phi Alpha Theta
Phi Kappa Phi
Pi Sigma Alpha
Ford Career Scholar
About
Judy Barrett Litoff, Professor of History at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island, is the author of 14 hardcover books (and eight paperback editions) and more than 100 articles, book chapters, and reviews in American women's history.
She is the author of two pioneering books on the history of American midwifery, American Midwives, 1860 to the Present (1978,1985 paperback edition) and The American Midwife Debate: A Sourcebook on its Modern Origins(1986).
Over the last two decades, Barrett Litoff has focused her research and writing on American women and the Second World War. Her research has included a nationwide search for women’s correspondence that has resulted in the assembling of an archive of 30,000 wartime letters written by American women. These 30,000 letters provide clear and unequivocal evidence of the many important ways that women actively participated in the war effort, and they vividly illustrate women's growing sense of self and their place in the world. In short, they offer perceptive insights into heretofore unexplored, but fundamental, aspects of the war.
Barrett Litoff’s innovative research on American women and World War II has been the subject of numerous newspaper and magazine articles, and she frequently appears on television and radio. She has lectured widely in the United States, as well as in England, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, the Republic of Georgia, Russia, and China. She served as an historical consultant for the highly-acclaimed and Emmy nominated PBS documentary, “The Perilous Fight: America s World War II in Color” (2002) and is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award in the Humanities. Barrett Litoff was also the Project Director of a three-year U.S. Department of State grant between Bryant University and the European Humanities University in Minsk, Belarus.