June Namias

Background

Namias, June was born on May 17, 1941 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Foster and Helen (Needle) Namias.

Education

Bachelor with honors, University of Michigan, 1962; Master of Arts in Tchg., Harvard University, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy in History, Brandeis U., 1989.

Career

High school teacher history, Newton (Massachusetts) Public Schools, 1965-1987; visiting assistant professor of history, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1988-1991; visiting assistant professor of history, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, 1991-1992; associate professor of history, U. Alaska, since 1992.

Achievements

• June Namias has been listed as a notable Historian, educator, writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • First Generation : In the Words of Twentieth-Century American Immigrants

    (Recently pulled from public school library.)

  • First Generation: In the Words of Twentieth-Century American Immigrants

    (Book is in nice shape. Pages are straight, one page has a...)

Membership

Member Organisation American Historians, American History Association, Society Ethnohistory.

Connections

Married Peter Edmund Slavin, June 1965 (divorced October 1970). 1 child, Robert Victor Slavin.

Father:

Foster Namias

Mother:

Helen (Needle) Namias

Spouse:

Peter Edmund Slavin

child:

Robert Victor Slavin Namias