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University: Harvard University, and later Suffolk University
Years of Employment at Harvard: 1975-1980
Humanities and Modern Language professor with a specialized interest in French women's lives during the French resistance
She spent time in France researching after she received a Fullbright scholarship
she was the first fulbright lecturer in American Literature and Civilization at University of Aix-Marseilles’s
She came back to the states after her Fullnright scholarship and got her PhD in Romance Languages and Literature from Harvard in 1975, where she then taught for five years (Margaret Collins Weitz Papers (MS109), 1945-2006: A Finding Aid).
Weitz's syllabus for her "French Women in History and Literature" course, taught at Harvard in the 1970s
Imagine you're a student in the 1970s: What would you be most excited to learn about on this syllabus?
Imagine you're a professor in the 1970s: What would you be looking forward to teaching?
image: MS109 Margaret Collins Weitz Papers in the Suffolk University Archives, Box #15, Folder "Women in French Literature & History, n.d."
Curious about her research on women in the French Resistance? Check out her book!
Curious about her research on women in the French Resistance? Check out her book!
After her time at Harvard universities in the 1970s, Margaret came to Suffolk University, where she continued her research surrounding women in the French Resistance, culiminating in the publication of her book Sisters in the Resistance.
Collins Weitz, Margaret. Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France 1940-1945. New York, NY: Wiley, 1995.
Want to learn more? Listen to Margaret's oral history interview here: Oral History Interview with Margaret Collins Weitz (SOH-045)
Check out Margaret's collection in the Suffolk archives! (the colllection that inspired this project): Margaret Collins Weitz Papers, 1945-2006 (MS109)
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