Reba N. Soffer (born 1934) is an American historian. She is Professor Emeritus of History at

California State University, Northridge California State University, Northridge (CSUN or Cal State Northridge), is a public university in the Northridge neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. With a total enrollment of 36,848 students (as of Fall 2024), it has the ...

Life

Soffer was born in 1934. She gained a B.A. from

Brooklyn College Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn in New York City, United States. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls nearly 14,000 students on a campus in the Midwood and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn as of fall ...

in 1955 and a M.A. from

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a Private university, private Women's colleges in the United States, historically women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henr ...

in 1957. She gained her Ph.D. from

Radcliffe College Radcliffe College was a Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1879. In 1999, it was fully incorporated into Harvard Colle ...

in 1962.

Works

* ''Ethics and Society in England: The Revolution in the Social Sciences, 1870–1914''. University of California Press, 1978. * ''Discipline and Power: The University, History, and the Making of an English Elite, 1870–1930''. Stanford University Press, 1995. * ''History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America: From the Great War to Thatcher and Reagan''. Oxford University Press, 2008.

References

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