Oral History Interview, Janet Hyde (1030)
Abstract
In her joint 2009 interviews with Bob Lange, Janet Hyde, a long-time professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses her career at UW. Hyde talks about her research, her teaching load, her experiences as a member of the Psychology Department and the Women’s Studies Department, and her time as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Gender Equity. She also discusses the origin and growth of her interest in Women in Psychology, her memories of gender relations on the Madison campus, and her impressions of the Chancellors under whom she had worked. Hyde also recounts her childhood in Ohio and Illinois, her undergraduate studies at Oberlin College, her graduate work at the University of California-Berkeley; and her first two academic positions at Bowling Green State University and Denison University. In her separate 2015 interview, Janet Hyde speaks about her experiences as a faculty member in the Gender and Women’s Studies department. She speaks about her college education, both as an undergrad and PhD student. She speaks about a course, the Psychology of Women, that she taught at Bowling Green State, and how she was the only woman out of 35 faculty members in the psych department. She speaks about her joint appointment at UW as a GWS and Psychology faculty member and also her position as Director of the Research Center for Women’s Studies. She also touches on the integration of women of color into curriculum, second wave feminism and race, her opinions on how the GWS department is run, feminist biology, intersectionality, the governor’s task force, and more.
These interviews were conducted for inclusion into the UW-Madison Archives and Records Management Oral History Program
Subject
UW-Madison, UW-Madison Women’s Studies Program, UW-Madison Psychology Department, Gender Equity, Gender, Women, Women in Psychology
Permanent Link
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/83297Description
In these interviews, Janet Hyde talks in length about her long career as a professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at UW-Madison. She also discusses the origin and growth of her interest in Women in Psychology. To learn more about this oral history, download & review the index first (or transcript if available). It will help determine which audio file(s) to download & listen to.