Mona L. Siegel

Mona Lesley Siegel is an American scholar, author, and historian. She received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1996, and currently teaches at California State University Sacramento.[1] Her primary focus is on international feminism, peace, and democracy in Europe and around the world.

In 2004 Cambridge University Press published Siegel's book The Moral Disarmament of France: Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914-1940, which examines the role of French schoolteachers in fostering French patriotism in the interwar years.[2][3] The book was awarded the 2006 History of Education Society Outstanding Book Award.[4]

In 2019, Siegel co-wrote, along with Dorothy Sue Cobble, an article for The Washington Post discussing the state of the contemporary debate on paid parental leave and discussing the history of paid parental leave policies.[5]

In January 2020, Siegel published a second book with Columbia University Press entitled Peace On Our Terms: The Global Battle for Women's Rights after the First World War, which examines women's global activism for democracy and peace after World War I.[1]

Awards and fellowships

From 1993 to 1994, Siegel was a Peace Scholar through the United States Institute of Peace, receiving funding for her dissertation, "Lasting Lessons: War, Peace and Patriotism in French Primary Schools, 1914-1939."[6]

Siegel was awarded the Peace History Society's 2011-2012 DeBenedetti Prize in Peace History for her article “Western Feminism and Anti-Imperialism: The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's Anti-Opium Campaign."[7]

In 2016 and 2018, Siegel received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities for "archival research leading toward completion of a book on feminist activism and peace negotiations at the end of World War I."[8]

References
  1. "Mona Siegel". www.csus.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
  2. Cain, Anthony C.; Siegel, Mona L. (2008). "Review of The Moral Disarmament of France: Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914–1940, SiegelMona L". Strategic Studies Quarterly. 2 (1): 147–149. ISSN 1936-1815. JSTOR 26267535.
  3. "lemouvementsocial.net » Mona L. Siegel, The Moral Disarmament of France. Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914-1940, 2004" (in French). Retrieved 2019-03-29.
  4. "Past Winners - Outstanding Book Award | History of Education Society". History of Education. 2019-03-06. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  5. "Perspective | America once led the push for parental rights. Now it lags behind". Washington Post. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
  6. "Former Peace Scholars". United States Institute of Peace. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
  7. "Peace History Society". www.peacehistorysociety.org. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
  8. "NEH grant details: Women and the Transnational Promise of 1919". securegrants.neh.gov. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
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