CAROL S. GRUBER
Curriculum vitae
EducationColumbia University Ph.D. (History) 1968
Columbia University M.A. (History) 1959
Brandeis University B.A. (American Civilization) 1955
Professional Employment
William Paterson College of New Jersey, Professor of History, 1982 to present; Associate Professor of History, 1977-82; Department Chair, 1987 to 1993.
Rutgers University, Assistant Professor of History, 1972-75.
Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, Assistant Professor of History, 1968-71.
Awards, Fellowships, and Honors
New Jersey Historical Society grant for conference, "Paterson in the State and the Nation: A History of 200 Years," 1992.
New Jersey Council for the Humanities grant for conference, "Paterson in the State and the Nation...," 1992.
Japan Foundation Grant (with Professor Theodore Cook), for conference, "The Pacific War & Modern Memory: War, Culture, and Society", 1991.
Fulbright-Hays Fellow, Group Study Abroad, Japan, Summer, 1990.
National Science Foundation, Summer Scholar's Award, 1986, 1985, 1982; Research Grant 1982, 1978-80.
National Endowment for the Humanities, College Teachers Fellowship, 1985-86, Summer Stipend, 1978, Younger Humanist Fellowship, 1971-72.
Charles Thomson Prize, Organization of American Historians and National Archives, 1982.
Organizational Activity
American Historical Association: Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, 1990 Annual Meeting
U.S. Department of State, Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, 1983-86 (representing AHA).
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians: Board of Trustees, 1981-85; Chair, Book Award Committee, 1979-81.
Columbia University Seminar on American Civilization: Co-chair, 1988-91.
Organization of American Historians: Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession, 1986-89, Chair, 1988-89 Membership Committee (New Jersey), 1987-89.
Publication and Professional Activity
Publications:
"The Overhead System in Government-Sponsored Academic Science: Origins and Early Development," Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, Spring, 1995.
Review of Michael C. C. Adams, The Best War Ever, Military History Review, Spring, 1995.
"An Actor in Recent History," review of James G. Hershberg, James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Atomic Bomb, Science, 13 May, 1994.
Review of Stuart W. Leslie, The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford, History of Education Quarterly, XXX (Summer, 1994).
"Jane Addams--Frauen werden Friedenmachen," Der Friedens Nobelpreis von 1901 bis heute, vol. IV (Edition Pacis, Munich), 1989.
"The Manhattan Story Retold," Review of Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Science, 22 May, 1987.
"Academic Freedom Under Pressure," Review of Ellen Schrecker, No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities, Science, 16 January, 1987.
"Contracts for A Bombs: Science, Government and Universities in World War II and the Emergent Cold War," The University Seminars: Selected Papers and Proceedings, 1985-86, (Columbia University, 1986).
"Leo Szilard," Dictionary of International Peace Leaders, Harold Johnson, ed. (Greenwood Press), 1986.
"Manhattan Project Maverick: The Case of Leo Szilard," Prologue, XV (Summer, 1983), winner of 1982 Charles Thomson Prize.
Review, The Diplomacy of Ideas: U. S. Foreign Policy and Cultural Relations, 1938-1950, by Frank A. Ninkovich, American Journal of Education, XC (February, 1982).
Review, Holding Fast the Inner Lines: Democracy, Nationalism, and the Committee on Public Information, by Stephen L. Vaughn, New York History, LXII (January, 1981).
"The Physicists: Everything You Always Wanted to Know...?," Reviews in American History, VII (September, 1979) [essay review]
"The View From Harvard Yard," History of Education Quarterly, XIX (August, 1979) [essay review]
"White House Scientist: Must the Insider Get Out?," Reviews in American History, VI (March, 1978) [essay review]
Mars and Minerva: World War I and the Uses of the Higher Learning in America (Louisiana State University Press, 1975)
The U. S. Presidential Elections 1928-1968: A Guide to the Film Collection (Kraus-Thomson Organization Limited, 1976).
"Academic Freedom at Columbia University, 1917-1918: The Case of James McKeen Cattell," American Association of University Professors Bulletin, LVIII (Fall, 1972).
Presentations:
Panel Chair, "Nuclear Test Results: A Women's Perspective," Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, April, 1995.
Commentator, "Containing the Critics: The United States Government Response to Critics of Nuclear Weapons," American Historical Association Annual Meeting, December, 1990.
Panelist, "Women's History and the Historical Profession," Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Annual Meeting 1989.
Paper, "The Atomic Bomb and the Academy," Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of the Physical Sciences, Harvard University, 1986.
Workshop, "The Military and Post-War Academic Science," Department of the History of Science, Johns Hopkins University, 1986.
Commentator, panel "After Forty Years, I: From the Fire-Bombing of Tokyo to the Atomic Bomb," American Historical Association Annual Meeting, 1985,
Panel Chair, "The Popularization of Science at Two World's Fairs," Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, 1985.
Paper, "Contracts for A Bombs," Panel on Science and National Defense, Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, 1984.
Panel Chair, "Strategies in the Teaching of History," Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Annual Meeting, 1982.
Commentator, panel on "The Terrestrial Politics of Outer Space," Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, 1982.
Paper, "Antecedents of the Corporate Contract," opening address of the Section of Science and Public Policy series, "Corporate Funding of Academic Research," New York Academy of Sciences, 1982.
Paper, "Leo Szilard: 'If I Do Not Call a Spade a Spade I Find It Difficult to Find a Suitable Name For It," panel on The Scientist and Politics, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, 1981.
Panel Chair, "The Place of History in the Undergraduate Curriculum," Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, 1981.
Commentator, panel on Foreign Influences on the Progressive Movement, Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, 1980.
Panel Chair, "Science and National Defense During world War II and the Cold War," Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, 1977.