Santa Clara University

Faculty & Staff - Steven M. Gelber

History department
Steven M. Gelber

Steven M. Gelber

Professor

tel (408)646-5364
fax (408)554-2181
sgelber@scu.edu

Education

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison
M.S. University of Wisconsin - Madison
B.S. Cornell University

Selected Publications 

Horse Trading in the Era of Cars: Men in the Workplace (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2008).

Hobbies: Productive Leisure and the Culture of Work in America (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999). 

Saving the Earth: The History of a Middle-Class Millenarian Movement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), with Martin L. Cook.

Black Men and Businessmen: The Growing Awareness of a Social Responsibility (Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1974).

New Deal Art: California, co-director, art exhibit and catalog, deSaisset Museum, Santa Clara University, 1976.

"Horseless Horses: Car Dealing and the Survival of Retail Bargaining," in Peter N. Stearns, ed., American Behavioral History (New York: New York University Press, 2005).

Do-It-Yourself: Constructing, Repairing and Maintaining Domestic Masculinity," American Quarterly 49 (March 1997): 66-112.

"Free Market Metaphor: The Historical Dynamics of Stamp Collecting," Comparative Studies in Society and History 34 (October 1992): 742-769.

"A Job You Can't Lose: Work and Hobbies in the Great Depression," Journal of Social History 24 (Summer 1991): 741-766.

"Working at Playing: The Culture of the Workplace and the Rise of Baseball," Journal of Social History 16 (June 1983): 3-22.

"Their Hands are All Out Playing: Business and Amateur Baseball, 1845-1917," Journal of Sport History 11 (Spring 1984): 5-27.

"Working to Prosperity: California's New Deal Murals," California History (Summer 1979): 98-127.

Works In Progress

Rules of the Roost: A History of American Household Finance

Men's Rooms: The Library, Den, Basement, and Garage in the American Home