Paula S. Fass

Margaret Byrne Professor

Contact

Office: 2415 Dwinelle Hall
Hours: On Leave
Phone: (510) 642-2139
Email: psfass@berkeley.edu

Education

A.B., Barnard College
Ph.D., Columbia University

Selected Publications

Paula S. Fass is the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society, three volumes, Macmillan Reference, 2003; coeditor with Mary Ann Mason, Childhood in America (NYU Press, 2000); author of The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s, Oxford University Press, 1977; Outside In: Minorities and the Transformation of American Education, Oxford University Press, 1989; Kidnapped: A History of Child Abduction in the United States, Oxford University Press, 1997.

Her new book on children and gloabalization, Children of a New World has just been published by NYU Press. "In this remarkable volume, Paula S. Fass, a pioneer and pace-setter in the burgeoning field of children's history, demonstrates that a knowledge of history is essential to understanding contemporary controversies over child protection, the commercialization of childhood, multiculturalism in public schools, and the impact of globalization." -Steven Mintz, author of Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood. The Table of Contents and Introduction are available online from the press's website.

Courses

History 7: History of the United States: Settlement to Civil War (Fall 2002)