Oates, Mary

Person

Staff Only

Dates

Existence: 1935 April 18

Biography

Occupations: Professor of Economics; Catholic nun; Author.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Living U.S. Women's History Oral History Project oral histories

Collection

Identifier: SSC-MS-00423

Abstract

The collection includes fifty-one oral histories of scholars of U.S. women's history. The interviews document the emergence and development of women's history as a discipline from 1960 to 2000, as well as the interviewees' professional and personal lives, their choices, and their intellectual commitments.

Dates of Materials: 1980 - 2007

Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History

Mary J. Oates papers

Collection

Identifier: SSC-MS-00706

Abstract Since the early 1970s, Mary J. Oates's scholarship has focused on the study of women, especially Catholics, in American social and economic history. She is the author or editor of several books, including Higher Education for Catholic Women: An Historical Anthology (1987), ed., and The Catholic Philanthropic Tradition in America (1995). Oates has also published numerous articles in both scholarly journals and anthologies.The...

Dates of Materials: 1962-2010

Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History

Mary Oates interviewed by Melanie Gustafson, 2000-11-16

File

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Living U.S. Women's History Oral History Project collection consists of 17.25 linear feet of audiotapes, videotapes and transcripts. There are fifty-one individual oral histories plus group discussions conducted between 2000 and 2005. The project documents the emergence and development of U.S. women's history between 1960 and 2000 by creating an archive that explores a new group of scholars who entered the historical profession after 1960. It explores these historians' professional and...

Dates of Materials: 2000-11-16

Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History / Living U.S. Women's History Oral History Project oral histories / Oral histories