ANNA K. DANZIGER HALPERIN, PH.D.
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​Book Manuscript
  • Whose Children? Debating Public vs. Personal Responsibility for Child Care (in progress).

Dissertation
  • Education or Welfare? American and British Child Care Policy, 1965-2004 (defended April 2018, Columbia University; abstract).

Academic Journal Publications
  • Contributing Editor, special issue of American Historical Review focusing on public history (in progress, publication expected in 2023).
  • “An Unrequited Labor of Love: Child Care and Feminism,” Signs, Special Issue, “Public Feminisms,” 45(4), Summer 2020, (link here).
  • “‘Cinderella of the Education System:’ Margaret Thatcher’s Plan for Nursery Expansion in 1970s Britain.” Twentieth Century British History, 29(2) June 2018: 284-308, (link here).
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Public History 
Media and blog writing:
  • “Biden Has Chance to Reverse 50 Years of Failure on Child-Care Policy,” Made by History, Washington Post, July 16, 2021. (link here).
  • “Richard Nixon Bears Responsibility for the Pandemic’s Child Care Crisis,” Made by History, Washington Post, August 6, 2020, (link here).
  • “How Do We Remember Margaret Thatcher? ‘The Crown,’ Nursery Education, and the Iron Lady,” Tropics of Meta, December 2020 ​(link here).

Media Appearances:
  • Madeline Marshall, “Why the US Doesn’t Have Child Care (Anymore),” Vox (February, 2022).
  • Olivia Waxman, “The U.S. Almost Had Universal Childcare 50 Years Ago. The Same Attacks Might Kill It Today,” Time (December, 2021).
  • Julie Kohler, “When ‘Career Feminism’ Won,” White Picket Fence podcast (December, 2021).
  • PBS Newshour, “Raising the Future: The Child Care Crisis,” PBS NewsHour (October, 2021).
  • William Gee, “The New-York Historical Society’s ‘Notorious RBG’ exhibition salutes the life and legacy of the iconic Columbia alumna,” Columbia Spectator (October, 2021).
  • Roger Clark, “From Brooklyn to the Supreme Court: The Notorious RBG” NY1 (Online and Live versions, October, 2021).
  • Julianne McShane, “‘Brooklyn Drove Her Her Entire Life: New Exhibit Spotlights Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Early Years in Brooklyn,” Brooklyn Paper (October, 2021).
  • Columbia Law News, “‘Notorious RBG’ Exhibition Opens at New-York Historical Society,” Columbia Law News (October, 2021)
  • Anne Helen Petersen, “One Weird Trick to Fix Our Broken Child Care System,” Vox (April, 2021).
  • Lizzie Presser, “The Child Care Industry Was Collapsing,” Propublica (May, 2021).
  • Amy Aronoff, “Teaching Museum Studies During a Global Pandemic,” New York Foundation for the Arts (October, 2020).
  • CBS2 News, “Pop Music Sensation, Feminist Icon Helen Reddy Dies,” CBS2 News (October, 2020).

Curator for major gallery exhibitions and special installations at the New-York Historical Society include:
  • Title IX: Activism On and Off the Field (2022)
  • Women March [2020]
  • Milk: Life, Death, and Women's Work [2021]
  • Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg [2021]

Editor-in-chief and contributor for New-York Historical Society blog, Women at the Center. Posts include:
  • “‘The Gilded Age:’ Our Historians' Take on Episodes 3 and 4”
  • “‘The Gilded Age:’ Our Historians' Take on Episodes 1 and 2”
  • “RBG’s Long History Expanding and Protecting Reproductive Rights”
  • “2021 in Review: Highlights of Women at the Center”
  • “The Notorious RBG in NYC: A Traveling Exhibition in Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Hometown”
  • “Milk: Life, Death, and Women’s Work”
  • “Milestones in the History of Women Governors“
  • "She Said, and the World Listened: Breaking News in the #MeToo Era”
  • “Celebrating Women’s History Month: ‘Breaking News, Breaking Barriers’”
  • “Black Women’s Activism and ‘Women March’”
  • “Wonder Woman: Feminist Icon?”
  • “A Brief History of Women Running for Political Office”
  • “‘We Do Everything that the Brothers Do:’ Women of the Young Lords”
  • “Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Notes from her 2014 Public Program”
  • “Intergenerational and Collective Curation: Teen Leaders and Women March”
  • “Obstacles to Suffrage after 1920”
  • "Commemorating an Incomplete Victory: The 19th Amendment at 100"
  • “Isabel González and Puerto Rican Citizenship: A Q&A with Historian Sam Erman”
  • ““Mrs. America” Roundtable: Historians Respond”
  • “Why Don’t We Have a National Child Care Strategy?”
  • “‘Mrs. America’ Primer: Bella Abzug and her Serious Career”
  • “‘Women March’ Preview: The Curators Pick Their Favorite Objects From the New Exhibition”
  • “Happy Birthday, Eleanor Roosevelt! Listen to a Conversation She Had with John F. Kennedy About Gender Equity”

​Book Reviews​
  • Review of Paul Renfro, Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State, for Annals of Iowa, 80(2) Spring 2021.
  • Review of Kyle Ciani, Choosing to Care: A Century of Childcare and Social Reform in San Diego, 1850-1950, for Western History Quarterly, Summer 2020, (link here).
  • Review of Louise Toupin and Kathe Roth, Wages for Housework: A History of an International Feminist Movement, 1972-77, and Silvia Federici, Wages for Housework: The New York Committee, 1972-1977: History, Theory, Documents, for Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000, 24(1), March 2020.
  • Review of Josh Levin, The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth, for Nursing Clio, June 2019, (link here).
 
Research Publications from employment prior to graduate school with the Urban Institute 
  • Adams, Gina, Monica Rohacek, and Anna Danziger, Child Care Instability: Definitions, Context, and Policy Implications, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, 2010, (link here). 
  • Chaudry, Ajay, Juan Pedroza, Heather Sandstrom, Anna Danziger, Michel Grosz, Molly Scott, and Sarah Ting, Child Care Choices of Low-Income Working Families,. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, 2011, (link here). 
  • Rohacek, Monica, Gina Adams, Ellen Kisker, Anna Danziger, Teresa Derrick-Mills, and Heidi Johnson, Understanding Quality in Context: Child Care Centers Communities, Markets, and Public Policy, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, 2010, (link here),
  • Waters Boots, Shelley, Jennifer Macomber, and Anna Danziger, Family Security: Supporting Parents’ Employment and Children’s Development, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, 2008, (link here). 
  • Waters Boots, Shelley, Karin Martinson and Anna Danziger, Employers’ Perspectives on San Francisco’s Paid Sick Leave Policy, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, 2009, (link here). 
  • Waters Boots, Shelley, and Anna Danziger, Series of public policy briefs on workplace flexibility, Washington, DC: "Workplace Flexibility 2010" Project, Georgetown University Law Center, 2009 (link here).
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