Carol Groneman

Background

Carol Groneman was born on the 20th of January, 1943 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. She is the daughter of William, a salesman, and Eileen Crowe Groneman, a homemaker.

Education

Carol Groneman attended the University of Cincinnati, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961. Also, she studied at the University of Rochester, where she earned a Master of Arts degree and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1973.

Career

Carol Groneman began her academic career as an assistant professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York in New York City in 1973-1976. She was promoted to an associate professor in 1981 and to a full professor in 1987. Presently, she is an Emeritus Professor of History.

Carol held the post of a research associate at New York Council for the Humanities in New York City in 1976-1978. Besides, she was its executive director from 1978 to 1981.

From 1982 to 1988, Groneman was an adjunct associate professor at New York University. In 1984, she accepted the post of co-chair of Berkshire Conference on the History of Woman at Smith College. From 1986 to 1989, Groneman was chair of the board of directors at the Institute for Research in History. She also was chair of the board of directors for the American Social History Project.

As the author, Carol wrote Corporate Ph.D.: The Humanities and Business in 1987 with Robert N. Lear. She also was an editor with Mary Beth Norton of To Toil the Livelong Day: America's Women Workers 1780-1980 in 1987 and associate editor of the Encyclopedia of New York City that came out in 1995. Her Nymphomania: A History came out in 2000. Moreover, she is the author of numerous journal articles.

Achievements

• Carol Groneman is an outstanding former educator and well-known author of books and journal articles. During her career, she received a Research Grant from the Exxon Education Foundation in 1982-1984. In 1990, 1993 and 1995, she was awarded the Professional Staff Congress - City University of New York Faculty Research Awards. In 1995-1996, she got a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.

Works

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  • Corporate Ph.D.: The Humanities and Business

    (This work explains why PhDs in liberal arts are leaving t...)

    1985
  • To Toil the Livelong Day: America's Women at Work, 1780-1980

    (These essays discuss housewives, shoemakers, labor moveme...)

    1987
  • Nymphomania: A History

    (Nymphomania is an organic disease, psychological disorder...)

    2000

Membership

Carol Groneman is a member of Keen's women's sexuality study group, Columbia University Seminar on Women and Society, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Organization of American Historians, and Phi Beta Kappa.

Interests

• reading

• Sport & Clubs

  bicycling, swimming

Connections

Carol Groneman's first marriage was to Nunzio Pernicone but they divorced in 1978. Her second husband is Steve Curry. She has a stepdaughter, Joanna Curry.

Father:

William Groneman

Mother:

Eileen Crowe Groneman

Ex-husband:

Nunzio Pernicone

husband:

Steve Curry

Steve Curry has been dean of New York University.

stepdaughter:

Joanna Curry