Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz presents the UNM School of Architecture and Planning Annual J.B. Jackson lecture, J.B. Jackson and “West Cure,” Monday, Feb. 9 at 5:15 p.m. in the Pearl Hall auditorium. Horowitz will explore Jackson’s decisions to live in New Mexico, decisions made repeatedly over his long life.
Photo: Helen Horowitz
The American West has long loomed large in the American imagination as a special place of rejuvenation. For J. B. Jackson, who began visiting New Mexico in the 1920s, settled here permanently in the late 1940s, and established his influential magazine, Landscape, in Santa Fe in 1951, the West provided an enduring source of inspiration and renewal.
For Jackson and for many Americans of his time and place, the West held special meanings. For him, the West was an enduring source of inspiration and renewal.
Horowitz was born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana. After graduating from Wellesley College, she attended Harvard University where she received her Ph.D. in American Civilization. Her work in American history explores cultural philanthropy, higher education, the American landscape, sexuality and mental health. She has taught American studies and history and is currently the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor at Smith College. She recently received a fellowship from the NEH. Prior, she had a fellowship from the ACLS, the Radcliffe Institute, and the American Antiquarian Society.
Her 2002 Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America was the winner of the Merle Curti Award, 2003, for the best book in social and cultural history, and was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in History. In addition to Rereading Sex, she is the author of: Culture and the City, Alma Mater, Campus Life, and The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas. The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York, in collaboration with Patricia Cline Cohen and Timothy Gilfoyle, has just been published by the University of Chicago Press. She and her husband, historian Daniel Horowitz, live in Northampton and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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