Department of History and Philosophy
College of Liberal Arts

Associate Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator
Email: janice.a.brockley@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.2504
Location: Dollye M.E. Robinson Building, Office 340

DEGREES:
Ph.D. – History, Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey (2001)
B.A. – History, Robert D. Clark Honors College – University of Oregon (1991)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Disability History
History of Childhood and Youth
American Social History
Women’s History

COURSES TAUGHT:

Undergraduate
HIST 101: History of Civilization I
HIST 102: History of Civilization II
HIST 201: United States History I
HIST 202: United States History II
HIST 321: Birth of the American Republic
HIST 322: Antebellum America
HIST 344: Historiography
HIST 385: History of African American Women I
HIST 419: Contemporary United States
HIST 460: History of Science and Society
HIST 447: Research Seminar
HIST 448: Independent Study

Graduate
HIST 513: Birth of the American Republic
HIST 514: Antebellum America
HIST 521: History of Women in America
HIST 522: Problems in American History
HIST 545: Historical Criticism and Historiography
HIST 546: Historical Research for the Thesis
HIST 547: Historical Research for the Project
HIST 551: Special Topics in World History
HIST 590: Thesis
HIST 591: Project Writing

PUBLICATIONS:

Review of Pathological Families in Journal of American History. Submitted Fall 2013.

“Simon Binet” and “People First” in Susan Burch, ed., Encyclopedia of American Disability History(Facts on File, 2009).

Review of Saving Sickly Children in Journal of American History. March 2009, Vol. 95, Issue #4.

“Rearing the Child Who Never Grew: Parents and Severely Intellectually Disabled Children in American History,” in James Trent and Steven Noll, ed., Mental Retardation in America: A Historical Anthology (New York: NYU Press, 2004). A historical survey of ideas about parents of severely disabled children.

“Martyred Mothers and Merciful Fathers: Exploring Disability and Motherhood in the Lives of Jerome Greenfield and Raymond Repouille,” in Paul Longmore and Lauri Umansky, ed., The New Disability History: American Perspectives (New York: NYU Press, 2001). An examination of the discussions of disability and motherhood in two “mercy killing” cases in 1939 New York City.

“The History of Mental Retardation: An Essay Review,” History of Psychology (January, 1999). A survey of the historiography of mental retardation, a review of recent publications in the field, and speculations on future directions for the literature.

FULL CURRICULUM VITA