Katz, Esther 1948-

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Katz, Esther 1948-

PERSONAL:

Born August 14, 1948, in Brussels, Belgium; naturalized U.S. citizen; daughter of Harry Chaim Moshe (a small business owner) and Rose (a seamstress and small business owner) Katz; married Terry Collins (a historian). Ethnicity: "Czech." Education: Hunter College of the City University of New York, B.A., 1969; New York University, M.A., 1973, Ph.D., 1980. Politics: Liberal independent. Religion: Jewish.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of History, New York University, 53 Washington Sq. S., New York, NY 10012. E-mail—esther.katz@nyu.edu.

CAREER:

Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, research assistant, "The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison," 1972-74; New York University, New York, NY, editorial assistant, "The Papers of William Livingston," 1974-75, visiting instructor, 1976, Moses Coit Taylor fellow in biographical study, 1976-77; College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY, instructor, 1981; New York University, adjunct assistant professor, 1983-93, adjunct associate professor of history, 1993—, deputy director of Institute for Research in History, 1982-87, director and editor of Margaret Sanger Papers Project, 1985—. State University of New York College at Brockport, instructor, 1976; Radcliffe College, research assistant, "Papers of the Women's Trade Union League and Its Principal Leaders," 1976-78; Union Theological Seminary, member of advisory board, Archives of Women in Theological Scholarship, 1998-99; lecturer at other institutions, including University of Massachusetts at Amherst; on-camera discussant and consultant for documentary films and television specials related to Sanger and her work; conference coordinator and participant. Exhibitions: Curator of the New York University exhibits "The Early History of the Birth Control Movement," for Tamiment Institute, 1989, and "Margaret Sanger and the Brownsville Clinic," Humanities Council, 1991.

MEMBER:

Association for Documentary Editing (president, 2003-04), National History Coalition (member of executive board, 2003-06), Organization of American Historians (chair of Committee on Research and Preservation, 2005).

AWARDS, HONORS:

Fellow, Institute for Editing Historical Documents, National Historical Publications and Records Commission, 1986; grant from American Council of Learned Societies, 1989.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with Anita Rapone, and contributor) Women's Experience in America: An Historical Anthology, Transaction Books (New Brunswick, NJ), 1980.

(Editor and author of introduction) Recent Work in Women's History, Haworth Press (New York, NY), 1986.

(With others; and coexecutive producer) Margaret Sanger: A Public Nuisance (documentary videotape), produced by Independent Television Service and Jacob and Bessye Blaufarb Fund, New York University (New York, NY), 1993.

The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 1: The Woman Rebel, 1900-1928, University of Illinois Press (Champaign, IL), 2003.

Editor, with Joan Ringelheim, of conference proceedings related to "Women Surviving: The Holocaust," published by Hayward Press, 1983. Contributor to books, including Women and the Constitution: A Bicentennial Perspective, Carter Center, Emory University (Atlanta, GA), 1990; and to reference books. Contributor to periodicals, including Public Historian. Associate editor, Trends in History: Review of Current Periodical Literature in History, 1983-85.

SIDELIGHTS:

Esther Katz told CA: "As a child of Holocaust survivors, and myself a refugee, I have focused my work on U.S. history. In light of my mother's strength, as well as my father's, I have developed my particular interest in gender relations and women's history. In effect, my research interests have been strongly informed by my own biography."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Archives of Sexual Behavior, December, 2004, Vern L. Bullough, review of The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 1: The Woman Rebel, 1900-1928, p. 611.

Social Service Review, September, 2003, Kimberley A. Reilly, review of The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, p. 487.