Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to all researchers

Use Restrictions

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred Citation

Judith Ewell Papers, Accession #UA 6.076, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information

Acc. 2008.159 was received prior to 2007.

Processing Information

Acc. 2008.159 was accessioned from the backlog and minimally processed by Amy C. Schindler on 12/12/2008. Arrangement and finding aid completed by Wendy Korwin in July 2011.

Biographical Information

Judith Ewell joined the Department of History at the College of William and Mary in 1971 and received her Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico in 1972. She served as Assistant Professor from 1971-1977; Associate Professor from 1977-1984; Professor from 1984-1988; and as the first Newton Family Professor from 1988 until her retirement in 2004. She was Graduate Director, and then Chair of the History Department from 1991-1998.

Ewell taught Latin American History at William and Mary and spent two years as a Fulbright Lecturer in Venezuela (1979-1980) and Ecuador (1994-1995). She was awarded the Thomas Jefferson Award in 1988 and the Commonwealth of Virginia's Outstanding Faculty Award in 1989.

In addition to her monographs (The Indictment of a Dictator, 1981; Venezuela: A Century of Change, 1984; Venezuela and the United States, 1996), Ewell published several textbooks and document readers, and served as editor for the journal The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History. She also served as president of the Conference on Latin American History, and has been acknowledged for her dedicated professional service.

Scope and Content

This collection consists of two boxes of material created and collected by Judith Ewell, a professor of History at the College of William and Mary between 1971 and 2004. It includes papers Ewell wrote in college and graduate school; conference papers and programs; teaching materials from her year as a Fulbright Lecturer in Venezuela; correspondence about her publications; and contracts and other administrative material regarding her appointments at William and Mary.

Arrangement

Organized into three series: Series 1: Education, Series 2: Professional Activities, Series 3: William and Mary Career

Index Terms

Genre/Form of Material:

• Correspondence
• Typescripts

Topical Terms:

• College of William and Mary--Faculty and Staff
• College of William and Mary. Dept. of History
• College of William and Mary. Project Plus
• State Council of Higher Education for Virginia
• Women teachers
• Women--Education--Virginia.