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About Jane Scimeca
Jane Scimeca teaches at Brookdale Community College where she holds the rank of Professor of History. She earned a Master Degree in History and Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies from Rutgers University. Prof. Scimeca teaches a variety of courses including Women's History, World Civilization I and II, and New Jersey History. She is the biographer of philanthropist and social reformer, Geraldine L. Thompson. Her biography titled Mrs. Thompson Saves The Day will be released in 2026. Her paper, “The Price of Liberty is Maternal Vigilance: Understanding Women’s Political Engagement Since the 2016 Election” was presented at the national conference “Since Suffrage…” At Auburn University.
Her publishing credits include the article, "Pink is the New Red, White and Blue" in the Asbury Park Press (March 2017) and several ancillary texts for Houghton-Mifflin Publishers. She is also a contributing author to the Encyclopedia of New Jersey.
Her area of academic interest is Women’s History. Prof. Scimeca developed the curriculum for Brookdale Community College first course in the Women’s History in 1995 and collaborated to develop Brookdale’s Women’s Studies Program. Over the last 25 years she has taught thousands of students about the history of women in America.
Prof. Scimeca speaks frequently on campus as well as in the community on topics in Women’s History.
NBN Episodes hosted by Jane:
March 13, 2026
Hitler and My Mother-In-Law
Hitler and My Mother-in-Law (OR Books, 2025) is a riveting memoir that explores the intersection of truth—both familial and political—through the colo…
February 11, 2026
Alias Agnes
Jane Armstrong Tucker was a Boston stenographer scrabbling to get by as a single woman in the Gilded Age, until she was offered a once-in-a-lifetime c…
January 16, 2026
Radicals and Rogues
Radicals & Rogues: The Women Who Made New York Modern (Reaktion, 2023) is the story of a group of women whose experiments in art and life set the tone…
January 2, 2026
Undaunted
Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism (Knopf, 2023) is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put i…
December 5, 2025
First Lady of Laughs
Before Hacks and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was the comedienne who started it all. First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll (…
October 21, 2025
The Making of Sylvia Plath
Since her death, Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her se…
September 16, 2025
Unlawful Advances
When the US Congress enacted Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, no one expected it to become a prominent tool for confronting sexual harass…
December 10, 2024
Dear Miss Perkins
She was the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet, the longest-serving Labor Secretary, and an architect of the New Deal. Yet beyond these ce…
November 17, 2024
Our Jackie
When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis became First Lady of the United States over sixty years ago, she stepped into the public spotlight. Although Jackie is…
October 26, 2024
Perfection
A colourful account of women's health, beauty, and cosmetic aids, from stays and corsets to today's viral trends. Victorian women ate arsenic to achi…
July 3, 2024
'Gold Fever' and Women
Throughout its history, the American West symbolized a place of hope and new beginnings, where anything was possible, especially for men. However, th…
June 29, 2024
Women and the American Experience
The third edition of Women and the American Experience: A Concise History (Routledge, 2024) is a comprehensive survey of U.S. women’s history from the…
June 22, 2024
The Rise of Corporate Feminism
From the 1960s through the 1990s, the most common job for women in the United States was clerical work. Even as college-educated women obtained greate…
April 27, 2024
The #MeToo Effect
The #MeToo movement inspired millions to testify to the widespread experience of sexual violence. More broadly, it shifted the deeply ingrained respo…
January 30, 2024
Making No Compromise
Holly A. Baggett's Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the Little Review (Northern Illinois UP, 2023) is the first book-length acc…
December 23, 2023
Denied
Women’s college basketball is big business—top teams bring in millions of dollars in revenue for their schools. Women’s NCAA games are broadcast regul…
November 6, 2023
The First Lady of World War II
Shannon McKenna Schmidt's The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt's Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back (Sourcebooks, 2023) is the fir…
October 3, 2023
Yours, for Probably Always
Before email, when long distance telephone calls were difficult and expensive, people wrote letters, often several each day. Today, those letters prov…
July 26, 2023
America's Forgotten Suffragists
After being forgotten for nearly 130 years, the “Mother of Suffrage in Missouri” and her husband are finally taking their rightful place in history. …
June 11, 2023
In Dependence
Patriarchal forces of law, finance, and social custom restricted women’s rights and agency in revolutionary America. Yet women in this period exploite…
May 21, 2023
Do Everything
Frances Willard (1839-1898) was one of the most prominent American social reformers of the late nineteenth century. As the long-time president of the …
March 23, 2023
Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women
Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right (U Georgia Press, 2022) is a statewide study of women’s part in the …
February 24, 2023
Victorine Du Pont
Victorine Elizabeth du Pont, the first child of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont and his wife Sophie, was seven years old when her family emigrated to America…
February 16, 2023
Teaching Empire
At the turn of the twentieth century, the US government viewed education as one sure way of civilizing “others” under its sway—among them American Ind…