Background
Soffer, Reba N. was born on December 22, 1934 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Daughter of Phillip and Ida (Finesilver) Nusbaum.
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Professor Soffer demonstrates how in England, from the late 1870s to 1914, an authentic, vital, and independent revolution occurred in the methodology and purposes of social science.
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Soffer, Reba N. was born on December 22, 1934 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Daughter of Phillip and Ida (Finesilver) Nusbaum.
Bachelor magna cum laude, Brooklyn College, 1955; Master of Arts in History with honors, Wellesley (Massachusetts) College, 1957; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1962.
Assistant professor history California State University, Northridge, 1962-1967, associate professor history, 1967-1971, professor history, since 1971. Visiting professor history University of California at Los Angeles, 1980. Christiansen visiting fellow St. Catherine's College, Oxford (England) University, 1987.
Senior panelist National Endowment of the Humanities, site visitor, 2003, advisory panel on research conferences in the humanities, science and technical, 1992. Chairman advisory screening committee in history Council for International Exchange Scholars, 1980-1983. Consultant for GRE Subject Test in History, 1992-1998.
Visiting fellow history program division of hist.studies Research School Social Science, Australian National University, 1995. Chair Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies program committee, 2005.
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Board directors environmentalist group Pacific Palisades (California) Resident's Association, since 1977, Los Angeles Theater Works, Los Angeles, since 1984. Fellow Royal History Society. Member American History Association (member international committee history scholarship, since 2002, committee international history actifities 2000-2005), Pacific Coast Conference in British Studies (president 1976-1978), North America Conference in British Studies (associate executive secretary 1978-1983, nominating committee since 1989, endowment committee since 1987, executive secretary since 1990, vice president 1992-1994, president 1993-1995), Pacific Coast American History Association (council 1980-1983, 89, chair program committee 1988-1989), California Women in Higher Education (president Northridge chapter 1986-1988, Woman of the Year award 1988), American Council, Learned Societies (member conference administrative officers 1990-1993), American Society for 18th Century Studies (member committee of inquiry into structure and operations 1993-1994).).
Married Bernard Harold Soffer, January 28, 1956. 1 child, Roger Phillip.