Joan Jacobs Brumberg

Joan Brumberg is a Professor Emerita at Cornell University and lectures and writes about the experiences of adolescents through history until the present day.

  • Joan Jacobs Brumberg is a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and Professor at Cornell where she has been teaching history, human development and gender studies since 1979.
  • Best known for her books on the history of girls and their mental health.
  • Brumberg received her B.A. from the University of Rochester and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia. At Cornell, she teaches courses on the history of American women, childhood, and medicine.
  • Brumberg has been a guest on The Oprah Show, Today, and other national media outlets; she has written for The New York Times, The Nation, The LA Times and the Washington Post.

 

The Body Project   History of Fasting Girls   More Body Projects

First, Carol Gilligan identified the moment when girls in our culture lose their authentic voice and self-confidence. Next Mary Pipher explored the psychological reality of female adolescence...Now Brumberg has filled in the blank, saying that a girl's relationship to her body is 'at the heart of the crisis of confidence.'

- EG, Boston Globe