Jennifer Mittelstadt

Jennifer Mittelstadt is Professor of History at Rutgers University. In 2022, she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in U.S. History. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Career

Mittelstadt is professor of history at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. In 2017–2018, she served as the Harold K. Johnson Chair in Military History at United States Army War College.

Selected works

The Military and the Market: New Histories of War, Capitalism, and Empire, edited with Mark R. Wilson The Rise of the Military Welfare State Welfare in the United States: A History with Documents, co-authored and edited with Premilla Nadasen and Marisa Chappell

''From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945-1964''

Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship Award
Fellow, Dorothy and Lewis Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, 2020-2021
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2008-2009