Mona Lesley Siegel is an American scholar, author, and historian whose primary focus is on international feminism, peace, and democracy in Europe and around the world. She is a professor at California State University Sacramento.[1] Siegel has written for and been interviewed by numerous news media on issues ranging from paid family leave to International Women's Day to the history of global feminism.[2][3][4][5][6]
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| Education | University of Wisconsin–Madison (PhD) |
Biography
editMona Lesley Siegel received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1996.[7]
In 2004, Cambridge University Press published Siegel's book The Moral Disarmament of France: Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914-1940, which examines the role of French schoolteachers in fostering French patriotism in the interwar years.[8][9] The book was awarded the 2006 History of Education Society Outstanding Book Award.[10]
In 2019, Siegel co-wrote, along with Dorothy Sue Cobble, an article for The Washington Post discussing the state of the contemporary debate on paid parental leave and discussing the history of paid parental leave policies.[11] Siegel's articles have also appeared in The New York Times,[2] the Los Angeles Times,[3] and elsewhere.[4]
In January 2020, Siegel published a second book with Columbia University Press entitled Peace On Our Terms: The Global Battle for Women's Rights after the First World War, which examines women's global activism for democracy and peace after World War I.[1]
Awards and fellowships
editFrom 1993 to 1994, Siegel was a Peace Scholar through the United States Institute of Peace, receiving funding for her dissertation, "Lasting Lessons: War, Peace and Patriotism in French Primary Schools, 1914-1939."[12]
Siegel was awarded the Peace History Society's 2011-2012 DeBenedetti Prize in Peace History for her article “Western Feminism and Anti-Imperialism: The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's Anti-Opium Campaign."[13] The Peace History Society also awarded her the Elise M. Boulding Prize in Peace History for Peace On Our Terms: The Global Battle for Women's Rights after the First World War (2020).[14]
In 2016 and 2018, Siegel received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities for "archival research leading toward completion of a book on feminist activism and peace negotiations at the end of World War I."[15]
References
edit- ^ a b "Mona Siegel". www.csus.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
- ^ a b Siegel, Mona L. (29 November 2019). "Opinion - The Forgotten Origins of Paid Family Leave". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
- ^ a b Siegel, Mona Lesley (7 August 2020). "Op-Ed: Will Disney's 'Mulan' be liberated enough?". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
- ^ a b Siegel, Mona (4 February 2022). "Date with history: Suffragists demand a voice". Chatham House – International Affairs Think Tank. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
- ^ Arneson, Krystin (28 June 2021). "Why doesn't the US have mandated paid maternity leave?". BBC. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
- ^ KCRA staff (8 March 2022). "Sac State History professor explains the history behind International Women's Day". KCRA. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
- ^ "Mona L. Siegel". pcpls.org. Porter County Public Library System. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
- ^ Cain, Anthony C.; Siegel, Mona L. (2008). "Review of The Moral Disarmament of France: Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914–1940, SiegelMona L". Strategic Studies Quarterly. 2 (1): 147–149. ISSN 1936-1815. JSTOR 26267535.
- ^ "lemouvementsocial.net » Mona L. Siegel, The Moral Disarmament of France. Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914-1940, 2004" (in French). Retrieved 2019-03-29.
- ^ "Past Winners - Outstanding Book Award". historyofeducation.org. History of Education Society. 2019-03-06. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
- ^ "Perspective - America once led the push for parental rights. Now it lags behind". Washington Post. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
- ^ "Former Peace Scholars". United States Institute of Peace. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
- ^ "Peace History Society". www.peacehistorysociety.org. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
- ^ "Elise M. Boulding Prize in Peace History". www.peacehistorysociety.org. Peace History Society. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
- ^ "NEH grant details: Women and the Transnational Promise of 1919". securegrants.neh.gov. Retrieved 2019-03-29.