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HARRY BROD
319-273-2693
harry.brod@uni.edu
http://www.harrybrod.com
Professor of Sociology and Humanities
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0513
Areas of Specialization:
Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Humanities and Philosophy
Gender Studies and Feminist Theory
Social and Political Theory
Modern European Thought
Applied Ethics
History of Philosophy
Areas of Competence:
Philosophy of Social Science
Modern Jewish Thought and Culture
Critical Thinking
Courses Taught:
Introduction to Philosophy
Philosophy of Religion
History of Western Philosophy
Theories of Liberation
History of Political Philosophy
Studies in Philosophy
Modern Political Theory
Argument and Evidence
Ethical and Political Values
Introduction to Logic
Biblical and Classical Cultures
Men and Masculinities
Integrated Program in Humane Studies
Philosophies of Life
Contemporary Moral and Social Issues
Jewish Philosophy
Humanities
Feminist Theory
Just Sex: The Ethics of Intimacy
Ethics for College Students
Money, Sex and Power: Theories of Race, Class and Gender
Employment:
1999 –
University of Northern Iowa
Professor of Sociology and Humanities, 2013 –
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology
Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, 1999 – 2013
Department of Philosophy and World Religions
(Associate Professor, 1999 – 2002)
Director, University Honors Program, 2001 – 2003
Director, Humanities Major, 2000 – 2001, 2012 – 2013
Coordinator, Humanities Core, 2000 – 2002
Spring 2005
Saint John’s University, Minnesota
Scholar-in-Residence, Center for Men’s Leadership and Service
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1998-99
Temple University
Assistant Professor, Intellectual Heritage Program
Affiliated Professor, Women's Studies Program
University of Pennsylvania
Instructor, Women's Studies Program
1994-98
University of Delaware
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy
1992-94
Mount Saint Mary's College, Los Angeles
Lecturer, Philosophy Department
University of Southern California
Visiting Senior Lecturer, Program for the Study of Women and
Men in Society
Affiliated Scholar, Center for Feminist Research
University of California at Los Angeles
Lecturer, Council on Educational Development and
Honors Program
Antioch University at Los Angeles
Adjunct Faculty, Liberal Studies
Los Angeles and Pasadena School Districts,
Instructor/Educator, Philosophy for Children
1988-1992
Kenyon College
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Director, Women's and Gender Studies Program
1987-1988
Harvard Law School
Fellow in Law and Philosophy
1982-1987
University of Southern California
Department of Philosophy, and
Program for the Study of Women and Men in Society
1984-1987 Assistant Professor
1983-1984 Senior Lecturer
1982-1983 Lecturer
1981-1982
California State College, San Bernardino
Lecturer, Department of Philosophy
1978-1980
Palomar College, San Marcos, California
Instructor, Department of Philosophy
1973-1978
University of California, San Diego
Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy
and Interdisciplinary Humanities Program
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Education:
1973-1981
University of California, San Diego
Ph.D. in Philosophy – 1981
Dissertation: Hegel's Philosophy of Politics
Advisor: Robert B. Pippin
M.A. in Philosophy – 1975
1976-1977
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
DAAD-Fulbright Grant for study at Hegel Archives
1968-1972
New York University
B.A. in Humanities/Interdisciplinary Studies
Awards and Honors:
2015 Diversity Matters Award, University of Northern Iowa
Lifetime Achievement Award, University of Northern Iowa Center for Violence
Prevention, presented at “Y Factor: Men Leading by Example” Summit, 2013.
2010 Regents Award for Faculty Excellence, Board of Regents, State of Iowa
2009 James F. Lubker Faculty Research Award, University of Northern Iowa
Leadership and Service Award, Saint John’s University Men’s Center (Minnesota), 2009
Harry Cannon Award for Exemplary and Sustained Contributions to the Field of
Men's Studies, Awarded by the American College Personnel Association
Standing Committee for Men, 2001
Harvard Law School Liberal Arts Fellowship, 1987-1988
University of Southern California Faculty Research & Innovation Fund Grant, 1986-1987
University of California Dissertation Fellowship, 1977-1978
Fulbright-Hays – DAAD Full Grant, 1976-1977
New York State Regents Scholarship, 1968-1972
Certifications:
California Community College Instructor Credential in Subject Matter Areas:
1) Philosophy and Religion, and
2) Humanities
(Valid for Life)
Instructor and Teacher Trainer, Philosophy for Children, Institute for the Advancement
of Philosophy for Children, Montclair State University, 1994
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Interviewer, Shoah Visual History Foundation, 1996
German Language Certificate, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 1976
Visiting Scholar Appointments (short-term – several days in duration):
University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Queen’s University, Canada
Simpson College
Wabash College
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
November 2011
March 2010
November 2008
March 2007
April 2006
Publications:
Books:
The Making of Masculinities: The New Men's Studies, Editor, Allen & Unwin, 1987.
Fourth Printing, Routledge, 1992.
Re-issued in “Routledge Revivals” series, 2015.
A Mensch Among Men: Explorations in Jewish Masculinity, Editor, The Crossing Press,
1988.
Hegel's Philosophy of Politics: Idealism, Identity, and Modernity, Westview Press, 1992.
A Choice Outstanding Academic Book.
Theorizing Masculinities, Co-Editor with Michael Kaufman, Sage Publications, 1994.
The Legacy of the Holocaust: Children and the Holocaust, Co-Editor with Zygmunt
Mazur, Fritz H. Konig, Arnold Krammer and Wladyslaw Witalisz,
Jagiellonian University Press, 2002.
White Men Challenging Racism: 35 Personal Stories, Co-Author with Cooper Thompson
and Emmett Schaefer, Duke University Press, 2003.
Cited as “Outstanding” (Essential Selection for Public and Secondary
School Libraries) by American Association of University Presses, 2004.
Brother Keepers: New Perspectives on Jewish Masculinity, Co-Editor with Rabbi Shawn
Israel Zevit, Men’s Studies Press, 2010.
Superman is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice and
the Jewish-American Way, Free Press (Simon & Schuster), 2012.
Audiobook read by Peter Berkrot, Tantor, 2012. Running time: 8 hrs, 30 min.
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DVD:
Asking For It: The Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent, A lecture with Dr. Harry Brod.
A Media Education Foundation Film. Directed & Edited by Sut Jhally.
Associate Producers: Scott Morris & Jason Young. Running time: 38 minutes.
2010. http://www.mediaed.org/cgibin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=243.
Journal Editorships:
Men and Masculinities, Associate Editor, 2014 - .
Men's Studies Review (precursor to Men and Masculinities):
Founding Editor 1983-5.
Consulting Editor 1985-6.
Text and Performance Quarterly, Guest Editor with Karen S. Mitchell and Sonja Arsham
Kuftinec, Special Issue: “Performing Citizenship”, 29:3, July 2009.
Counselling and Spirituality, Advisory Editor, Special Issue on “Men and Counselling”,
Vol. 26, No. 1, Spring 2007.
Universitas: The University of Northern Iowa Journal of Research, Scholarship and
Creative Activity, Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2006, Co-Editor with Phyllis Baker,
“Forum” on “Masculinities”, http://www.uni.edu/universitas.
American Behavioral Scientist 31:5, October 1987, Co-Editor with Walter L. Williams,
Special Issue on "New Gender Scholarship: Breaking Old Boundaries".
Changing Men: Issues in Gender, Sex, and Politics, Number 18, Summer/Fall 1987,
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Jewishness and Masculinity.
Journal of the National Association for Women Deans, Administrators, and Counselors
49:4, Summer 1986, Guest Editor, Special Issue on Men's Studies.
Selected Articles:
"Pornography and the Alienation of Male Sexuality", Social Theory and Practice 14:3,
Fall 1988, 265-284. Reprints: Sex, Self and Society: The Social Context of Sexuality, ed.
Tracey L. Steele, Wadsworth, 2005, 341-351; Sexual Lives: A Reader on the Theories
and Realities of Human Sexualities, eds. Robert Heasley and Betsy Crane, McGraw-Hill,
2003, 477-485; Feminist Jurisprudence: Taking Women Seriously: Cases and Materials,
Second Edition, Mary Becker, Cynthia Grant Bowman and Morrison Torrey, West
Group, 2001, 483-487; Third Edition, Becker et. al., 2007, 385-389 (excerpt); Gender
Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, eds. Laura O'Toole and Jessica R. Schiffman,
New York University Press, 1997, 454-466; Second Edition, 2007, 395-408; Men's Lives,
Third Edition, eds. Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A. Messner, Allyn and Bacon, 1995,
393-404; Moral Controversies: Race, Class, and Gender in Applied Ethics, ed. Steven
Jay Gold, Wadsworth, 1993, 372-383; Rethinking Masculinity: Philosophical
Explorations in Light of Feminism, eds. Larry May and Robert A. Strikwerda, Rowman &
Littlefield, 1992, 149-165; Second Edition, 1996, 237-253; Philosophy of Sex:
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Contemporary Readings, Second Edition, ed. Alan Soble, Rowman & Littlefield, 1991,
281-299; Men, Masculinities and Social Theory, eds. Jeff Hearn and David Morgan,
Unwin Hyman, 1990, 124-139; Pornography, eds. Robert Baird and Stuart Rosenbaum,
Prometheus Books, 1991, 76-83; Revised Edition, 1998, 114-121 (excerpt). Japanese
translation in U.S.-Japan Women's Journal 12, 1992, 43-58. Presented at American
Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meetings, New York, December 1987.
“It’s Personal For Me”, A Visitor’s Introduction to the Iowa Holocaust Memorial,
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/171986867/memorial%20reflections.pdf.
“Men’s Studies: A Retrospective View”, Journal of Men’s Studies 21:1, Winter 2013, 4961.
“Republicans May be Crazy Like a Fox”, Huffington Post, March 27, 2013,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-brod/republicans-may-be-crazy-_b_2963980.html.
“Passport to Citizenship”, “A Couple of Sayings with Which I Disagree”, “Speaking
Backwards”, “No Middle Range”, “A Jewish Thanksgiving in Avalon”, December 17 –
21, 2012 at “The Prosen People / Visiting Scribe”, Jewish Book Council,
http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/visitingscribe/harry-brod. Concurrently crossposted at
“Members of the Scribe”, My Jewish Learning:
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/blog/members-of-the-scribe/2012/ and “The Arty
Semite”, Jewish Daily Forward, http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/tags/harrybrod.
“Joe Kubert: The Anti-War War Artist”, Comic Book Creator #2, Summer 2013, 144-48.
(Adapted from Superman Is Jewish?). Revised excerpt published as “Joe Kubert’s ‘War
No More’ War Comics – Losing a Living Legend”, Huffington Post, August 17, 2012,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-brod/joe-kuberts-war-no-more-w_b_1797634.html.
“Superman as Supermentsh: How the Ultimate Alien Became the Iconic American”,
Jewish Currents 67:3, Spring 2013, 52-55. (Adapted from Superman Is Jewish?).
“Men for Women’s Choice”, co-author with Michael Kimmel and Michael Kaufman,
Women’s Media Center, March 12, 2012,
http://www.womensmediacenter.com/feature/entry/men-for-womens-choice.
“The Construction of the Construction of Masculinities”, Constructions of Masculinity in
British Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present, ed. Stefan Horlacher, PalgraveMacmillan, 2011, 19-32.
“Circumcision and the Erection of Patriarchy,” Men and Masculinities in Christianity and
Judaism: A Critical Reader, ed. Björn Krondorfer, SCM-Canterbury Press, 2009, 355363. Revised and expanded from “Circumcisional Circumstances: Circumspecting the
Jewish Male Body”, Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Body, eds. Elliot N. Dorff and Louis
E. Newman, Jewish Publication Society, 2008, 52-58.
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“Euthyphro, Foucault and Baseball: Teaching the Euthyphro”, Teaching Philosophy 30:3,
September 2007, 249-258.
“Democracy vs. Plutocracy”, North American Review 292:2, March-April 2007, 48.
“Redux” in “Throwback Thursday”, North American Review, posted August 13, 2015:
http://northamericanreview.org/democracy-vs-plutocracy-redux.
“The Sorry Sons of The Godfather: Intertextuality, Orality and Diminished Masculinities
in The Sopranos”, Universitas: The University of Northern Iowa Journal of Research,
Scholarship and Creative Activity, 2006,
http://www.uni.edu/universitas/fall06/pdf/art_brod.pdf.
“The Passions of the Right: The Politics of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ”,
http://www.tikkun.org (Tikkun Magazine, March 2004). Repostings:
http://www.spiritmatters.info (March 2004); http://www.ljg.nl/varnhem.html, Verbond
van Liberaal-Religieuze Joden in Nederland (April 2004). Presented at American Men’s
Studies Association Conference, Aurora University, April 2004; Jay Phillips Center for
Jewish - Christian Learning, Saint John’s University, October 2004; American Academy
of Religion Meeting, San Antonio, November 2004.
"Studying Masculinities as Superordinate Studies", Masculinity Studies and Feminist
Theory, ed. Judith Kegan Gardiner, Columbia University Press, 2002, 161-175.
"The German-Jewish Hyphen: Conjunct, Disjunct or Adjunct?", Conceptions of Postwar
German Masculinity, ed. Roy Jerome, SUNY Press, 2001, 91-103. Reprint: Transversal
1, 2001, 18-25.
"Male Pride and Antisexism," Men and Masculinities 3:4, April 2001, 405-410.
"To Be A Man Or Not To Be A Man – That is the Feminist Question", Men Doing
Feminism, ed. Thomas Digby, Routledge, 1997, 197-212.
"Jewish Education and Jewish Males: A Theoretical Reappraisal", Gender Issues in
Jewish Day Schools, eds. Janna Kaplan and Shulamit Reinharz, Brandeis University
Institute for Community and Religion, 1997, 141-149. Reprint at Jewish Orthodox
Feminist Alliance, http://www.jofa.org/pdf/uploaded/950-PMKZ4028.pdf.
"A Jewish Home Has an Open Door", Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility 27/535,
May 1997, 3-4. Reprints (abbreviated): Making Connections: Community Hebrew
Schools of Greater Philadelphia, March 1998, 5; Jewish Outreach Partnership
http://www.jopp.org.
"The Case for Superordinate Studies", Transformations 8:2, Fall 1997, 55-65.
"Baby Killing Blurs Views", The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 1, 1996, E7.
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"The Lasting Legacy of Temporary Survival", Second Thoughts: Critical Thinking from a
Multicultural Perspective, ed. Wanda Teays, Mayfield, 1996, 336-340. Reprint
(abbreviated): The Hidden Child VIII:1, Winter 1998/1999, 6-7.
"Who's Afraid of Lorena Bobbitt?", Second Thoughts: Critical Thinking from a
Multicultural Perspective, ed. Wanda Teays, Mayfield, 1996, 76-77.
"Of Mice and Supermen: Images of Jewish Masculinity", Gender and Judaism, ed. Tamar
M. Rudavsky, New York University Press, 1995, 293-307. Reprints: Men's Lives, Fourth
Edition, eds. Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A. Messner, Allyn & Bacon, 1998, 45-54;
Redeeming Men: Religion and Masculinities, eds. Stephen B. Boyd, W. Merle
Longwood, and Mark W. Muesse, Westminster John Knox Press, 1996, 145-156.
Revised excerpt as "Did You Know Superman is Jewish?", Davka 1:2, 1996, 43,
http://web.archive.org/web/20001029230207/www.tattoojew.com/supermensch.html.
"Masculinity as Masquerade", The Masculine Masquerade: Masculinity and
Representation, eds. Andrew Perchuk and Helaine Posner, MIT Press, 1995, 13-19.
"The Politics of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement", The Politics of Manhood:
Profeminist Men Respond to the Mythopoetic Men's Movement, ed. Michael S. Kimmel,
Temple University Press, 1995, 89-96.
"Some Thoughts on Some Histories of Some Masculinities", Theorizing Masculinities,
eds. Harry Brod and Michael Kaufman, Sage Publications, 1994, 82-96.
"Advocative Pedagogy and Critical Thinking: When Neutrality Isn't Neutral", APA
Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy 90:3, Fall 1991, 68-71.
"Integrating Feminist Ethics", APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 90:2, Winter
1991, 112-114.
"Men's Changing Roles in the 1990s: Emerging Issues in the Psychiatric Treatment of
Men", Hospital and Community Psychiatry 42:7, July 1991, 701-705 (co-authors Leah
Dickstein, Terry Stein, Joseph Pleck, Michael Myers, Robert Lewis, Stephen Duncan).
"The Man Question in Academia", The Sociology of Sex and Gender: Syllabi and
Teaching Materials, ed. Virginia Powell, American Sociological Association Teaching
Resources Center, 1990, 237-239. Reprint: Changing Men 22, 1991, 37-38.
"A Weaning Ceremony" (co-author Maria Papacostaki), A Ceremonies Sampler: New
Rites, Celebrations, and Observances of Jewish Women, ed. Elizabeth Levine, Women's
Institute for Continuing Jewish Education, 1991, 39-41. Excerpt reprinted in Pray Tell: A
Hadassah Guide to Jewish Prayer, Rabbi Jules Harlow, Jewish Lights, 2003, 223.
"Scholarly Studies of Men: The Field Is an Essential Complement to Women's Studies",
Chronicle of Higher Education, March 21, 1990, B2-3. Reprints: Women's Studies in the
Academy: Origins and Impact, ed. Robyn L. Rosen, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004, 533535; Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology, ed. Estelle Disch, Mayfield,
1997, 345-348; Second Edition, 2000, 355-358; Third Edition, 2003, 411-414; Against
the Tide: Pro-Feminist Men in the United States 1776-1990, A Documentary History, eds.
Michael S. Kimmel and Thomas E. Mosmiller, Beacon, 1992, 396-398.
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"A Better Class of Men", Gender & Society 4:2, June 1990, 251-253.
"Towards a Male Jewish Feminism", A Mensch Among Men: Explorations in Jewish
Masculinity, ed. Harry Brod, Crossing Press, 1988, 181-187. Reprint: Genesis 2 19:1,
1988, 24-30. Portuguese translation at www.cjb.org.br/hod/comport/masculinidade.html.
"Does Manning Men's Studies Emasculate Women's Studies?", Hypatia: A Journal of
Feminist Philosophy 2:2, Summer 1987, 153-156.
"The New Men's Studies: From Feminist Theory to Gender Scholarship", Hypatia: A
Journal of Feminist Philosophy 2:1, Winter 1987, 179-196.
"The Case for Men's Studies", The Making of Masculinities: The New Men's Studies, ed.
Harry Brod, Allen & Unwin, 1987, 39-62. Reprints: Men and Masculinities: Critical
Concepts in Sociology, ed. Stephen Whitehead, Routledge, 2006, Volume 1, 317-330;
Gender Space Architecture: An interdisciplinary introduction, (excerpts), eds. Jane
Rendell, Barbara Penner and Iain Borden, Routledge, 2000, 88-95. Revised as "New
Perspectives on Masculinity: A Case for Men's Studies", Changing Men: New Directions
in Research on Men and Masculinity, ed. Michael S. Kimmel, Sage, 1987, 263-277.
"The 'Spirit' of Hegelian Politics: Public Opinion and Legislative Debate from Hegel to
Habermas", Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit, ed. Peter Stillman, SUNY Press, 1987, 124-144.
"Cross-Culture, Cross-Gender: Cultural Marginality and Gender Transcendence",
American Behavioral Scientist 31:5, October 1987, 5-11.
"Unlearning Racism", Changing Men 17, Winter 1986, 13.
"Philosophy Teaching as Intellectual Affirmative Action", Teaching Philosophy 9:1,
March 1986, 5-13.
"Fraternity, Equality, Liberty", Changing Men 16, Summer 1986, 2-4 & 45. Reprints:
Feminist Philosophies, eds. Janet A. Kourany, James P. Sterba, and Rosemarie Tong,
Second Edition, Prentice-Hall, 1999, 504-510; New Men, New Minds: Breaking Male
Tradition, ed. Franklin Abbott, Crossing Press, 1987, 148-153; Men's Lives: Readings in
the Sociology of Masculinity, eds. Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A. Messner,
MacMillan, 1989, 598-605; Second Edition, 1992, 554-560.
“Why is this 'Men's Studies' Different From All Other 'Men's Studies'?", Journal of the
National Association for Women Deans, Administrators, and Counselors 49:4, Summer
1986, 44-49. Presented at Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 1985.
"Fathering: New Styles and Old Problems", The Fathers' Book, eds. Carol Kort and
Ronnie Friedland, G. K. Hall & Co., 1986, 120-124. Reprint in Father Love 1:3, Summer
1986, 7-9.
"Feminism For Men: Beyond Liberalism", Brother: The Newsletter of the National
Organization for Changing Men, 3:3, June 1985, 2 & 5. Dutch translation in
Mannenstudies 2:3, Fall 1986, 6-7.
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"Eros Thanatized: Pornography and Male Sexuality", Humanities in Society 7:1&2,
Winter-Spring 1984, 47-63. Reprint in Men Confront Pornography, ed. Michael S.
Kimmel, Crown, 1990, 190-206.
"Comment" on Richard Dien Winfield's "The Theory and Practice of the History of
Freedom", History and System: Hegel's Philosophy of History, ed. Robert L. Perkins,
SUNY Press, 1984, 145-148.
"Work Clothes and Leisure Suits: The Class Basis and Bias of the Men's Movement",
Changing Men 11, Winter 1983, 10-12 & 38-40. Reprints: Men's Lives: Readings in the
Sociology of Masculinity, eds. Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A. Messner, MacMillan,
1989, 276-287; Achilles Heel 9, April 1990, 18-24; Men 3 (abbreviated), 1985, 70-72.
"Logic and Politics: An Approach to Teaching Informal Reasoning", Teaching
Philosophy 5:3, July 1982, 211-219.
Reference Work Contributions:
Consultant Editor, International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities, eds. Michael
Flood, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Bob Pease and Keith Pringle, Routledge, 2007. Author of
entries on “Philosophy” (476-479), “Circumcision” (67-69), and “Comics” (76-77).
"Jewish Men", Men and Masculinities: A Social, Cultural and Historical Encyclopedia,
eds. Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson, ABC-CLIO, 2004, 441-443.
"Masculinity/Masculinities" and "Men's Studies", Women's Studies Encyclopedia,
Revised and Expanded Edition, ed. Helen Tierney, Garland Publishers, 1999, 892-894 &
919-921.
"Masculinity" and "Men and Feminism", Reader's Guide to Women's Studies, ed. Eleanor
B. Amico, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998, 389-390 & 399-400.
"Masculinity", Feminism and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Dictionary, ed. Elizabeth
Wright, Basil Blackwell, 1992, 237-239.
"Masculinity and Sex Roles" syllabus and "Gender History of One's Family" assignment
(co-authored with Lois Banner), The Sociology of Sex and Gender: Syllabi and Teaching
Materials, ed. Barrie Thorne et. al., American Sociological Association Teaching
Resources Center, Second Edition, 1985. "Men and Masculinities" syllabus in Third
Edition, ed. Virginia Powell, 1990.
Reviews:
“The Superman Code”, http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/reviews/article.2006-0709.0335047863 (Tikkun online, July 2006). Reprint (excerpt) in Voices from the Prairie:
Humanities Iowa Newsletter, Fall 2006, 3.
“Mainstream Ignores Kong’s Racial Issues”, Cedar Falls Times, January 14, 2006, A7.
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“They’re Bi Shepherds, Not Gay Cowboys: The Misframing of Brokeback Mountain”,
The Journal of Men’s Studies 14:2, Spring 2006, 252-253.
“Star Wars, Perhaps, Is Dark Lesson For Our Time”, Waterloo – Cedar Falls Courier,
June 4, 2005, B2.
Refuge in Hell: How Berlin’s Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis, Daniel B. Silver,
Jewish Currents 58:6, November-December 2004, 53-57. Reprint: The Scene:
Humanities Iowa Quarterly Newsletter, Fall 2004, 5.
Feminism and Families, ed. Hilde Lindemann Nelson; Ethics 108:3, April 1998, 655.
The Myth of Male Power, Warren Farrell; masculinities 2:2, Summer 1994, 84-87.
"Clint Eastwood: Unforgiven", Tikkun 8:3, May/June 1993, 30.
International Legal Structures, David Kennedy; Cardozo Law Review 10:5-6, Mar./Apr.
1989, 1879-1885.
Hegel on Economics and Freedom, ed. William Maker; Owl of Minerva 20:2, Spring
1989, 242-247.
The Art of Deception: An Introduction to Critical Thinking, Rev. Ed., Nicholas Capaldi;
Teaching Philosophy 11:2, June 1988, 166-168.
Men's Studies: A Selected and Annotated Interdisciplinary Bibliography, Eugene R.
August; Changing Men 16, Summer 1986, 31-32 & 43.
Equal Rights: The Male Stake, Leo Kanowitz, and Men's Rights, William and Laurie
Wishard; Changing Men 12, Spring 1984, 37-38.
Hegel and the French Revolution, Joachim Ritter; Review of Metaphysics 37:3, March
1984, 645-647.
Selected Professional Presentations:
“From ‘No Means No’ to ‘Only Yes Means Yes’: How To Teach Sexual Consent”,
International Conference on Masculinities, New York City, March 2015.
“From Crisis of Masculinity to Gender Legitimation Crisis” and “From Superman to
Spider-Man, From Masculinity to Manhood”, Northeast Modern Languages Association
Conference, Rochester, New York, March 2012.
“Comic Book Superheroes and World War II: Of Arms and the Superman”, National
Communication Studies Association Convention, New Orleans, November 2011.
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“Teaching Men’s Studies” Pre-Conference Workshop: American Men’s Studies
Association Conference, Wake Forest University, April 2008; Conference on the College
Male, Saint John’s University, February 2009.
“Educating Our Students to Educate Other Students about ‘Other’ Students” (with Karen
Mitchell), presented at “A Nation of Immigrants: American Democracy and Civics
Education”, a conference of Florida Atlantic University’s Jack Miller Forum for Civics
Education, Boca Raton, Florida, January 2009.
“The Status of Men’s Issues in Higher Education”, Teleconference of the Renaissance
Male Project, September 2008.
“Educational Affirmative Action: The Need to Teach against Dominant Frameworks”,
American Association of Philosophy Teachers panel at Eastern Division American
Philosophical Association meetings, Baltimore, December 2007.
“Social Justice Education from a Position of Power: Theories and Practices”, CUNY
Feminist Pedagogy Conference, October, 2007; Russian State Humanities University,
Moscow, May 2007.
Pre-Conference Institute Co-Facilitator: “Why Are All the Male Kids Sitting Together in
the Judicial Hearing?”, Association for Student Judicial Affairs, Tampa, February 2006.
“(En)Gendering Men on Campus: A State of the Field Discussion on College Men”,
Panelist, American Men’s Studies Association, Vanderbilt University, April 2005.
Pre-Conference Institute Co-Facilitator (with Jason Laker): “Effective Strategies for
Engaging Allies”, National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, Tampa,
March 2005.
“Turning Straight Friends into Effective Allies”, Queer Iowa Student Conference,
University of Northern Iowa, October 2005.
“The People of the Comic Book: It’s a Man! It’s a Jew! It’s Supermentsh!”, St. Norbert
College, November 2014; University of Osnabrück, June 2009; University of Paderborn,
June 2009; Freie Universität Berlin, June 2009; Humboldt University, June 2009;
German-American Institute, Nuremberg, June 2009; Augustana College, April 2009;
Ottumwa Area Arts Council, November 2008; Spiro Ark (Jewish Cultural Centre),
London, England, May 2008; Agudas Achim Congregation, Iowa City, April 2008;
Bettendorf, Iowa Public Library, November 2007; “Kabbalah Right Now” Conference,
Skidmore College, October 2007; Judaica Center, European University at St. Petersburg,
Russia, May 2007; University of California at Santa Cruz, April 2007; University of
Southern California, March 2006; Congregation Kehillat Israel, Pacific Palisades,
California, March 2006; Jewish Museum of Florida, February 2006; Reconstructionist
Rabbinical College, Philadelphia, November 2005; American Academy of Religion
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Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, November 2005; Midwest Jewish Studies Association,
University of Wisconsin, Madison, September 2005; Temple Sholom, New Milford,
Connecticut, May 2005; Center for Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, January 2005.
"Picturing Positive Fathering", Herzen State Pedagogic University, Saint Petersburg,
Russia, May 2007; Prevent Child Abuse Nebraska Conference, Omaha, April 2004;
Prevent Child Abuse Iowa Conference, Des Moines, April 2003; Family and Children's
Council, Waterloo, Iowa, October 2002.
"Brains, Brawn, Beauty: What's a (Jewish) Man To Do?", Jewish Community Center in
Manhattan, June 2002.
"Diminished Masculinity in The Sopranos: The Sorry Sons of the Godfather", Popular
Culture Association Conference, Philadelphia, April 2001.
"Men Against Sexism", Radical Philosophy Association, Loyola University, Chicago,
November 2000.
"Teaching Masculinities as Superordinate Studies", Smolny College of Liberal Arts, Saint
Petersburg, Russia, May 2007; Modern Languages Association Conference, Washington
D.C., December 2000.
"Teaching Concepts of Oppression and Privilege", Iowa Philosophical Society, Coe
College, October 2000.
"Postwar German-Jewish Masculinity", Midwest Jewish Studies Association, Chicago,
September 2000.
"Herbert Marcuse One Hundred Years Later: His Philosophical and Political Legacy",
Socialist Scholars Conference, Borough of Manhattan Community College, March 1998.
"Arguing About the Family", Center for Democratic Values Conference, Columbus,
Ohio, November 1997.
"How I Became a Feminist Philosopher", Society for Women in Philosophy and Radical
Philosophy Association, Eastern Division APA Meeting, Atlanta, December 1996.
"White Anti-Racist Identity", Center for the Study of Whiteness and White American
Culture Conference, Burlington, New Jersey, November 1996.
"Philosophies, Masculinities, and Feminisms: Toward More Progressive Unions", Men's
Studies Conference, Lewis & Clark College, July 1996.
"Masculinity and Masquerade", "Masquerade and Gendered Identity" Conference,
Venice, Italy, February 1996.
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"The Legacy of Patriarchy in Jewish Life", Jewish Women's Project, Barnard College,
September 1995; Conference on Jewish Life, Michigan State University, April 1992.
"Philosophical Perspectives on the Advocacy Debate", APA Panelist at Conference on
"The Role of Advocacy in the Classroom", Pittsburgh, June 1995.
"Undoing Domination", Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, April 1995; National
Conference on Men and Masculinity, Chicago, July 1992.
"The Gender Gap Meets the Credibility Gap: Men Doing Teaching and Research on Men
and Women", Conference on The Inclusive Curriculum, New Jersey Department of
Higher Education, William Paterson College, April 1993.
"Can(n)ons of Masculinity: The Hidden History of Masculinities in the Classic Texts of
Western Political Theory", Ball State University, September 2008; CUNY Graduate
Center, October 2007; State University of New York College at Cortland, January 1999;
University of Colorado, Boulder, October 1994; Colorado State University, October
1994; Society for Women in Philosophy Pacific Division Meeting, California State
Polytechnic University, May 1994; APA Central Division Meetings, Chicago, April
1993; Flinders University, Australia, December 1993; York University, Canada,
November 1993.
"Teaching Marxism after the Fall of Communism", Kenyon College, March 1992.
"Feminist Hegelianism and Hegelian Feminism", Central States Philosophical
Association Meeting, Washington University, November 1991.
"Male and Female Gender Issues", American Culture Association, Louisville, March
1992; Independent Schools Association of the Central States, Cleveland, November 1990.
"Contemporary Applications of Hegel's Philosophy of Politics", International Conference
for the Study of Political Thought, Ohio Regional Meeting, October 1990.
"The Solution With No Name: Problems of Male Feminism", Intermountain Philosophy
Conference, Marshall University, October 1989; "The New Gender Scholarship:
Women's and Men's Studies", University of Southern California, February 1987.
"Men's Studies as Feminist Studies", Midwestern Society for Feminist Studies, Ball State
University, May 1989; Men's Studies Conference, Chatham College, June 1989.
"On Gender and Philosophy", Conference on Revisioning Philosophy, Esalen Institute,
California, March 1989.
"The Old Boys of the New Left: Socialist Feminism and the Politics of Masculinity",
Third International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Trinity College, Dublin,
Ireland, July 1987; Institute for Study in Salzburg, Austria, July 1987.
"Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the Men's Movement", Men and Masculinity Conference,
Trinity College, June 1987.
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"Dialogue on Men's Studies" and "Jewishness and Masculinity", panel convener and
presenter, National Women's Studies Association, Spelman College, June 1987.
"Revolution and History: The Hegelian View", Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century
Studies Conference, San Jose State University, April 1987.
"Issues for the Psychology of Masculinity", Western Psychological Association
Convention, California State University, Long Beach, April 1987.
"Interpreting Masculinities", Western Social Science Association, El Paso, April 1987.
"Advocating Neutrality", Conference on Critical Thinking and Educational Reform,
Sonoma State University, August 1986.
"The Feminist Study of Men", Western Association of Women Historians, Huntington
Library, San Marino, CA, May 1986.
"A Theory of Men's Studies", Society for Women in Philosophy Pacific Division, Mount
Saint Mary's College, April 1986.
"The Personal as Political and Men's Consciousness", California State University at Long
Beach Psychology Colloquium, November 1985.
"New Perspectives on Parenting", Loyola Marymount University, July 1985.
"The Politics of Male Nature and Nurture", San Diego State University Philosophy
Colloquium, May 1983.
Keynote Addresses:
“Masculinity Studies and Men’s Lives: A Historical Overview”, American Men’s Studies
Association Annual Conference, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, March 2012.
“Setting the Stage for the Western Intellectual Tradition: Plato’s Republic, Act I, Scene I,”
Midwest Undergraduate Conference in the Humanities, Wartburg College, November
2011.
“The Hand that Hurts is the Hand that Heals: Counting on Men’s Accountability to End
Violence”, Safety, Accountability and Justice in Reducing Domestic and Community
Violence Conference, Hawkeye Community College, Iowa, October 2009.
Opening Keynote Address, Conference on “Constructions of Masculinity in British
Literature”, Dresden University, Germany, June 2009.
Closing Plenary Address, Conference on “What is Masculinity?: How useful is it as a
Historical Category?”, Birkbeck College, University of London, May, 2008.
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Opening Keynote Address, “Waukee’s The Big Read: Cynthia Ozick’s The Shawl”,
sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, Waukee, Iowa, February 2008.
“Working with Men Against Violence: Strategies for Date Rape Prevention”, American
Men’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Vanderbilt University, April 2005.
“Directions for Men’s Studies”, Second Annual Conference on the College Male, Saint
John’s University, February 2005.
“Fatherhood and Male Socialization”, Roundtable Meeting for Professionals in Higher
Education, Minnesota Fathers and Families Network, Saint John’s University, February
2005.
"Men, Family and Community" Conference, Sullivan Brothers Convention Center,
Waterloo, Iowa, April 2001.
"Masculinities and Feminisms: Engendering Diversity", The New Jersey Project: On
Inclusive Scholarship, Curriculum, and Teaching, Drew University, October 1995.
"Men's Studies: New Paradigms, Perspectives, and Problems", Interdisciplinary Men's
Studies Symposium, University of Toronto, Canada, November 1993.
"Men's Issues and College Students", Southern California Counseling Services Training
Directors Conference, University of Southern California, March 1993.
"Different Voices, Shared Destinies", Conference of the Association for Humanistic
Psychology, San Diego, February 1992.
"Enhancing Men's and Women's Lives: Directions for the Profeminist Men's Movement,
with a Critique of Mythopoetic and Ultraradical Politics", Sixteenth National Conference
on Men and Masculinity, June 1991, Tucson, Arizona. Published in Working Papers on
Women and Men, Institute for the Study of Women and Men, University of Southern
California, 1993. Excerpt published as "The Mythopoetic Men's Movement: A Political
Critique", Wingspan: Inside the Men's Movement, ed. Christopher Harding, St. Martin's
Press, 1992, 232-236.
"Engendering Arts and Letters" Conference of the East Central Colleges Consortium,
Otterbein College, May 1990.
Third Annual Parenting Conference, Jewish Community Center on the Palisades, New
Jersey, February 1990.
First East Coast Jewish Men's Conference, Philadelphia, April 1989.
"The Politics of Male Violence: Feminist Perspectives", Ending Domestic Violence,
Sussex County Community College, New Jersey, April 1966; Northeast Conference on
Counseling Male Abusers, Providence, Rhode Island, November 1987; Domestic Abuse
Shelter of Knox County, Ohio, February 1989.
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"Wrestling With the Messenger: A Conference on Jewish Men's Spirituality", BrandeisBardin Institute, Los Angeles, September 1986.
Symposium on Gender and the Curriculum, St. John's University and St. Benedict's
College, October 1985.
Symposium on Women's and Men's Studies and the Liberal Arts, Emory University,
October 1985.
First Annual Northwest Conference on Men and Masculinity, University of Oregon,
January 1985.
Invited Lectures:
“What’s a Straight White Male Doing in the Feminist, Anti-Racist and LGBTQ
Movements?", University of Michigan, January 2014; Palo Alto University, April 2013;
Webster University, April 2012; White Privilege Conference, Minneapolis, April 2011;
National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE),
Washington D.C., June 2010; Burlington, Iowa Human Rights Commission Diversity
Symposium, March 2008; Butler University, March 2007; Wartburg College, January
2007; Appalachian State University, October 2005; Conference on the College Male,
Saint John’s University, Minnesota, February 2004; Kalamazoo College, November
2001; University of Western Michigan, February 2001.
"White Men Challenging Racism", University of Southern California, March 2006;
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, June 2005; Saint Cloud State University,
April 2005, October 2005; University of North Dakota, April 2005; White Privilege
Conference, Central College, Pella, Iowa, April 2004; Hawkeye Community College,
February 2003; American Men's Studies Association Conference, Vanderbilt University,
April 2003.
“Asking For It: The Ethics and Erotics of Sexual Consent’", Syracuse University, March
2015; Bucknell University, February 2015; University of Dayton, November 2014;
University of Detroit-Marcy, January 2014; Stanford University, April 2012 and April
2013; University of Oregon, May 2012; Dickinson College, August 2012; University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, April 2010; University of Iowa, April 2010; Augustana
College, April 2009; Southern Illinois University, April 2009; University of California,
Irvine, November 2008; Iowa City Sexual Assault Response Team Conference, October
2008; Wabash College, September 2008; Ball State University, September 2008; Butler
University, September 2008; Iowa State University, April 2008; Hawkeye Community
College, October 2014, September 2008, March 2007, November 2006; Luther College
New Student Orientation, August 2006; “Violence Goes to College” Conference,
University of Colorado at Boulder, May 2006; Third Annual Conference on the College
Male, Saint John’s University, February 2006; Association for Student Judicial Affairs
Regional Circuit 8 Conference, Saint John’s University, November 2005; College of
Saint Benedict, April 2005; Edgewood College, June 2003; University of Western
Michigan, November 2001; American College Personnel Association, March 2001;
Kalamazoo College, February 2001.
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“The Holocaust From Generation to Generation: A Contemporary Legacy of Temporary
Survival”, Holocaust Remembrance Day Address, Congregation Shir Hadash, Los Gatos,
California, April 2013.
“Superman Is Jewish?”, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, April 2013.
"Who Will We Be?: The Future of Gender and Other Identities in the New Millennium",
University of Northern Iowa Millennium Lecture, September 2000. Accessible at
http://www.uni.edu/vpaa/millenniumlecture/fall/index.html#harry.
"Perspectives on Masculinities: Power, Pain, and Pride", Hawkeye Community College,
March 2000; University of Pennsylvania, September 1997; Colorado State University,
October 1994; University of Detroit, July 1992; Kalamazoo College, July 1992;
American Culture Association Conference, Louisville, March 1992; Grinnell College,
March 1991; Columbus Academy, December 1990; Haverford College, September 1990;
Albion College, April 1990; Case Western Academy, April 1990; Washington University,
February 1990; Allegheny College, January 1990; Susan B. Anthony Center, University
of Rochester, November 1988; Washington State University, February 1988.
"Modes of Masculinity in Mamet's American Buffalo", Kalamazoo College, July 1992.
"Philosophizing About Masculinities," Plenary Address, Society for Women in
Philosophy Eastern Division Meeting, Duquesne University, November 1991.
"Women's, Men's, and Gender Studies: Thoughts on the State of the Arts", University of
Pennsylvania Women's Studies Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Conference, September 1998;
Temple University, April 1997; Washington College, MD, February 1996; Great Lakes
Colleges Association Women's Studies Conference, Kalamazoo College, April 1990;
Wabash College, March 1989; University of Southern California, March 1989; Hobart
and William Smith Colleges, January 1989; Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies,
Harvard University, May 1988.
"Explorations in Jewish Masculinity", Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, April 1998;
Jewish Women's Project, Barnard College, September 1995; National Havurah Institute,
University of Connecticut, August 1995; Temple University, March 1995; National
Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, February 1995; Wilmington B'nai
B'rith, November 1994; Third Annual Northeast Jewish Men's Conference, New York,
October 1994; University of Southern California Hillel, April 1994; Pittsburgh Jewish
Community Center, April 1992; Lipinsky Institute for Judaic Studies, San Diego State
University, February 1992; Ohio Hillel Conference, February 1992; University of Iowa,
March 1991; Swarthmore College, September 1990; Conference on Alternatives in
Jewish Education, Columbus, Ohio, August 1990; Washington University, February
1990; National Conference on Men and Masculinity, Chatham College, June 1989; 92nd
St. "Y", New York City, June 1988; Southeastern Massachusetts University, May 1988.
“Emasculated Masculinities: Jews and Other Others", Canadian Political Science
Association Conference, Victoria, May 1990; "Crossing the Disciplines: Cultural Studies
in the 1990's" Conference, University of Oklahoma, October 1990; Third Annual Men's
Studies Conference, Plenary Address, June 1991, Tucson. Published in Working Papers,
Institute for the Study of Women and Men, University of Southern California, 1991.
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Third Annual Spring Breakfast (co-speaker Governor Ann Richards), Institute for the
Study of Women and Men, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, April 1990.
"The Man Question in Academia", East Carolina University, March 1992; Ohio Wesleyan
University, October 1991; "Re-Visioning Knowledge and the Curriculum" Conference,
Michigan State University, April 1990.
"The Future of Masculinities in Scholarship and Teaching", Closing Plenary Address,
"Constructing Masculinities" Conference, Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers
University, December 1989.
"From Patriarchy to Fratriarchy: Studies in the Making of Masculinities", Plenary
Address, British Sociological Association Conference on Men, Masculinity, and Social
Theory, University of Bradford, UK, September 1988.
"Feminismus und Politik der Männlichkeit" ("Feminism and the Politics of Masculinity"),
Berlin Men's Center, Germany, September 1988.
"Integrating Men's Studies into the Curriculum", Albion College, November 1990;
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, February 1988; Keynote Address, Wheaton College
Faculty Retreat on Coeducation and Curriculum, Massachusetts, November 1987.
"Men, Women and the Social Sciences", Plenary Address, Teaching Excellence in a
Multicultural Society Conference, California State University, Fullerton, November 1986.
"The New Men's Studies", Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, November
1985; Agnes Scott College, October 1985; Center for Research on Women, Stanford
University, March 1985; International Women's Studies Institute, Mytilini, Greece,
August 1984; Conference on Structural & Intellectual Strategies in Women's Studies,
University of California, Irvine, May 1984.
Selected Professional Activities:
Editorial Boards:
Journals: Men and Masculinities
Psychology of Men and Masculinity
Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal
Men, Masculinities and Spirituality
Book Series: "Perspectives on Gender", Routledge
"Studies in Feminist Philosophy", Oxford University Press
"Men and Masculinity", University of California Press
"Research on Men and Masculinity", Sage Publications
"Perspectives: Gender Studies", CourseWise Publishing
Academic Advisory Board: Taking Sides ExpressBooks, McGraw-Hill Companies
Manuscript Reviewer:
The Owl of Minerva: Journal of the Hegel Society of America
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Teaching Philosophy
Social Philosophy Today
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Social Psychology Quarterly
Journal of Historical Sociology
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
Cultural Anthropology
Counselling and Spirituality
Gender & Society
International Journal of Men’s Health
Religion & Education
Sociological Spectrum
Women’s Studies in Communication
Women’s Studies International Forum
Allyn and Bacon Publishing Company
Ashgate Publishing
Beacon Press
Bloomsbury Publishing
Brandeis University Press
Duke University Press
Edinburgh University Press
Fernwood Publishing
Guilford Publications
Ice Cube Press
Jewish Lights Publishing
Lexington Books
MacMillan Publishing Company
McGraw-Hill Book Company
Men's Studies Press
New York University Press
Pennsylvania State University Press
Purdue University Press
Routledge
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers
Sage Publications
Stanford University Press
State University of New York Press
University of British Columbia Press
University of California Press
University of Chicago Press
University of Delaware Press
University of Illinois Press
Unwin Hyman Publishers
Wadsworth Publishing Company
Westview Press
Worth Publishers
Zed Books
Grant Reviewer:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1996.
New Jersey Governor's Fellowships in the Humanities, 1989.
Paper Submission Review Committee:
Central States Philosophical Association Annual Conference
Hegel Society of America Biennial Meeting
American Men’s Studies Association Annual Conference
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Planning Committee, International Conference on Masculinities: Engaging Men and Boys
for Gender Equality, New York City, March 2015.
Advisory Board, Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities, State University of New
York at Stony Brook, 2013 – .
Advisory Board, Center for the Study of Masculinities and Men’s Development, Western
Illinois University, 2012 – .
Humanities Iowa (State NEH Affiliated Council), Board of Directors, 2003 - 2009.
2015 .
American Men’s Studies Association, Board of Directors, 2009 - 2012.
Director, Iowa Regent Universities Men’s Gender Violence Prevention Institute, 2008 - 9.
Organizing Committee, First National Conference for Campus-Based Men’s Gender
Equality and Anti-Violence Groups, St. John’s University, Minnesota, 2009.
Advisory Committee, “For the Men” Initiative, Jewish Outreach Institute, 2009.
Iowa History Prize, Award Selection Panel, 2008.
Family and Children’s Council of Black Hawk County, Board of Directors, 2005 - 2008.
American Philosophical Association Committee on Public Philosophy, 2005 - 2007.
Fatherhood, Marriage and Family Supports Advisory Group to Iowa Legislature, 2003.
Iowa Governor's Task Force for Responsible Fatherhood, 2001 - 2002.
Men's Studies Association, Founding Chair, 1983 - 1984.
Co-Chair, 1991 - 1998.
Voices and Memories Through the Holocaust, Governing Board, 1998 - .
“Holocaust Remembrance”, annual public television lecture to 8th-12th graders throughout
Iowa over Iowa Communication Network, 2002 - 2010.
“The Body Beautiful”, Panel Respondent, National Communication Studies Association
Conference, San Diego, December 2008.
Planning Committee, “The Institute on College Males: Creating and Achieving
Successful Outcomes”, American College Personnel Association and National
Association of Student Personnel Administrators, Morehouse College, May 2007.
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“Campus Masculinities and Social Change”, Panel Convener/Facilitator, American Men’s
Studies Association Conference, University of Missouri - Kansas City, April 2007.
Chair, “Public Scholarship and Civic Engagement,” APA Central Division Meeting,
Chicago, April 2007.
Moderator and Discussant, U.S. Premiere of “Olympic Doll” (documentary film on the
Holocaust directed by Giora Gerzon), Mizel Museum of Judaica, Denver, October 2005.
Program Chair, Conference on "The Legacy of the Holocaust: Children and the
Holocaust", Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, May 2001.
Scholar-in-Residence, American College Personnel Association Conference,
Boston, March 2001; Chicago, March 1997.
Consultant, “Peaceful Posse: An Anti-Violence Program for Boys", Physicians for Social
Responsibility, 1998-99.
Research Advisory Board, Men's Studies Project, Haverford School, 1995 - 1999.
Chair, “The Limits of Self-Interest", Central APA Meeting, Pittsburgh, April, 1997.
Chair, “The Morality of Anti-Abortion Civil Disobedience", Eastern APA Meeting,
Atlanta, December 1996.
Program Chair, Fifth Annual Interdisciplinary Men's Studies Conference, University of
Pittsburgh, July 1995.
“Men's Changing Commitments to Family and Work”, Panelist, American Sociological
Association, Los Angeles, August 1994.
Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy, Discussant, APA Pacific Meeting, LA, April 1994.
“Situating Male Literary and Cultural Studies”, Discussant, Midwest Modern Language
Association, St. Louis, 1992.
"Men at Work: Visual Representation and the Construction of Masculinities", Panel
Commentator, American Studies Association Convention, November 1991, Baltimore.
"The Law as a Male Preserve in the Nineteenth Century", Panel Respondent, Law and
Society Association Conference, Berkeley, June 1990.
“The Problem of Voice", Commentator, Conference on the Theory and Practice of
Teaching Ethics, University of San Diego, February 1987.
Chair, Conference on “The New Gender Scholarship: Women's and Men's Studies",
University of Southern California, 1987.
Project Advisor, “A New World: Asian-American Brokered Marriages", directed by
Anthony Collins, funded by California Council for the Humanities, 1986 - 1987.
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I frequently serve as a consultant on gender studies for national and international print,
electronic and broadcast media.