Dates

• Majority of material found within 1900 - 2008

Extent

1 box Linear Feet (Professor Dorothy Cordelia Vogel (May 23, 1939-December 13, 2016) was a professor in the History Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) from 1969 to 2002. A specialist in European history, she had earned a BA from Marymount College and a MA from Fordham University before being awarded a Fulbright scholarship to Germany. In 1970, Dr. Vogel completed her PhD at New York University – her dissertation was on the Baden Revolutions of 1848-1849. In the summer of 1972, she participated in a women’s curriculum development project at Cornell University, and the following year, she began teaching women’s history courses at IUP. These were among the nation’s earliest women’s history courses, preceding the founding of the Berkshire Conference on Women Historians (Summer 1973), the first issue of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (1974), and Women’s History Week (1978). In 1975, she received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) summer grant to study the lives of women in Nazi Germany. In 1976, a second course, History of Women in America, was added to the IUP curriculum. By the early 1980s, she also taught more specialized courses including Women in Film and the History of Love, Marriage and Family. She published several articles based on oral history interviews that she conducted with female factory workers and nurses. She went on sabbatical to conduct research and interviews of working women of Indiana County, Pennsylvania, from the period of 1900-1945. Dr. Dorothy Vogel was instrumental in the development of the Women’s Studies Program (Women’s and Gender Studies, http://www.iup.edu/womens/) at IUP and improving conditions for women on campus. She was married to Professor Joseph Krupnik (May 11, 1943-August 27, 2011) who taught Victorian Literature and Film in the IUP English Department from 1969 to 2003. Dr. Dorothy Vogel retired from IUP in 2002. This collection contains correspondence, documents, and lecture notes from the career of Dr. Dorothy C. Vogel, Professor, History Department at IUP from 1969-2002. The collection is organized into two boxes that contain her lecture notes for women’s history courses, grant applications, as well as research notes and drafts for published articles. The collection also contains a copy of an oral history interview with Dr. Dorothy C. Vogel that was conducted by Dr. Theresa McDevitt on July 11, 2008 that is part of Manuscript Group 149: Oral History Interview Project of the Women at IUP (Box 1 Folder 1a). This collection was donated by her son Dr. Timothy Krupnik in 2017.)

Language of Materials

English