Education
Ph.D. University of Southern California, 1985
M.A. University of Southern California, 1981
B.A. Gonzaga University, 1978
Selected Publications
Book
Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Revised paperback edition with new preface, Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2008.
Winner of Wisconsin Historical Society 2001 Book of Merit Award.
Click here for a 2 minute sound film of La Follette giving a speech in 1924
Book Chapters
"Teaching 'Straight' Gay and Lesbian History," In Teaching American History: Essays Adapted from the Journal of American History, 2001-2007. Edited by Gary J. Kornbluth and Carol Lasser. Bedford/ St. Martins, 2009, pp. 247-55.
"Gendered Approaches to Environmental Justice: An Historical Sampling," In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Justice. Edited by Sylvia Washington. Rowman and Littlefield/Lexington Books, 2006, pp. 17-34.
"'When Women Condemn the Whole Race': Belle Case La Follette Attacks the Color Line." In Women in Print, edited by James P. Danky and Wayne Wiegand. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006, pp. 281-296.
"The Two Worlds of Belle Case LaFollette." In Women's Wisconsin: From Native Matriarchies to the New Millenium, edited by Genevieve McBride, Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2005, pp. 282-89. (Anthologized 1999-2000 peer-reviewed article)
With Marie Bolton. "The Case for Cautious Optimism: California Environmental Propositions in the Late Twentieth Century." In La Californie: Periphere ou Laboratoire?, edited by Annick Foucrier and Aontine Coppolani, Paris: L'Harmaltan, 2004, pp.81-102.
"Women, Sexuality, and Environmental Justice in American History." In New Perspectives on environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism, edited by Rachel Stein. Rutgers University Press, 2004, pp. 45-60.
With J. Michael Butler. "The Victims." In The Holocaust: History in Dispute, St. James Press/The Gale Group, 2003, pp. 242-51.
With Marie Bolton. "Pollution, Refineries, and People: Environmental Justice in Contra Costa County, California, 1980." In The Modern Demon: Pollution in Urban and Industrial Societies. France: University of Clermont Press, 2002, pp. 425-37.
Journal Articles
"The Role of Gender In Environmental History," Environmental Justice. I, no. 3 (September 2008): 115-120.
"Teaching 'Straight' Gay and Lesbian History." Journal of American History 93 (March 2007): 1192-99. [Electronic Journal, access the article online.]
"The We Say What We Think Club: Rural Wisconsin Women and the Development of Environmental Ethics," Wisconsin Magazine of History Vol. 90, No. 1 (Autumn, 2006): 16-27. (Cover feature) Honorable mention, 2006 Alice Hamilton Prize of the American Society for Environmental History.
Guest co-editor (with Bob Lentz), special issue of Clio's Psyche: "The Voice/Personal Experience and Psychology of Women at Work and in Modern Life." Contributions include the articles "Women in Society: Changes and Challenges" and "The Beauty Myth: Young Women and the Culture of Appearance." March 2005.
"How did Belle La Follette Resist Racial Segregation in Washington D.C.,1913-1914?" Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000. Edited by Kathryn Sklar and Thomas Dublin. New York: Alexander Street Press, 2004. [Electronic journal at http://www.alexanderstreet6.com/wasm/index.html
"'I Went to Learn,' Meanings of the European Tour of Senator Robert M. La Follette, 1923." Mid-America Vol. 84, no. 1-3, Winter/summer/fall 2002: 5-25.
"The Two Worlds of Belle La Follette." Wisconsin Magazine of History Vol. 83, no. 2, (Winter 1999-2000): 82-110. (Cover feature)
"The Burden of a Great Name: Robert M. La Follette, Jr." The Psychohistory Review Vol 23, no. 2 (Winter 1995): 167-91.
"The 'Political Suicide' of Robert M. La Follette: Public Disaster, Private Catharsis." The Psychohistory Review Vol 21, no. 2 (Winter 1993): 187-220.
Current Book Project:
Beyond "Nature's Housekeepers": American Women in Environmental History (Oxford University Press)
Courses
HIST 84 Women in American Society
HIST 101 Historical Writing
HIST 177 Gays and Lesbians in American History
HIST 181 Women in American Society Since 1900
HIST 188 Seminar: The U.S. Progressive Era
Seminars
U.S. Progressive Era
Links
Program for the Study of Women and Gender
http://www.scu.edu/pswg/
California Legacy Project
http://californialegacy.org/project_scholars/unger.html
Op-eds
"Superdelegates Diminish True Democracy"
"Passive Citizenship is Not Enough"
"It's Gay Rights, Not Gay Genes, That Matter"
"Pioneering Women in Congress Aren't Guaranteed Success"
"When Principle May Be the Best Policy"
"After Past Scandals, Real Reforms"
"How to Rise from the Political Deathbed"
"Does PBS Do History Right"
"Lessons for the Nader Camp: 'Fighting Bob' La Follette in 1924"
Articles for FightingBob.com
See http://fightingbob.com for ongoing series "What Would Fighting Bob Do?"
Editorial Positions
Book Review editor: Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Board of Editors: Environmental Justice
