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BARBARA WELTER Obituary

WELTER--Barbara B. of Manhattan and Essex, CT, died on December 5, 2022. Raised in White Fish Bay, WI, mother of John MacGregor Blewer. Foundational scholar in the history of women and religion in the United States. Professor of history at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She will be missed and remembered for her keen intellect, integrity, generosity, humor and wit.

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Published by New York Times on Dec. 23, 2022.

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Albert Blainesworthen Crankenwagonstein

December 6, 2024

I remember the time Barbara and I went on that spontaneous road trip to the coast. It was one of those perfect, unplanned adventures that became an instant memory we´d talk about for years. I can still hear her laugh when we got hopelessly lost driving through the winding roads, with nothing but the sound of the wind and her voice, which always had this way of calming me, even when we were in the middle of a detour that seemed to take us further away from the ocean.

Betty Einerman

October 4, 2023

So sorry to hear at this late date about Professor Barbara Welter. I was the Program Assistant at the Graduate Center for many years in History. She was always a pleasure when she would come into my office and we would have such interesting conversations. My sincerest condolences to her family.

Stuart Ewen

December 23, 2022

I got to know Barbara as a colleague at Hunter College and the Graduate Center. She was a bold defender of academic freedom in an environment where many experienced violations of faculty and student rights. She had an acerbic wit that was often applied to deserving targets. I enjoyed our conversations and her involvement on a Hunter College Senate committee investigating academic freedom issues. She was forthright and bold. I will miss her.

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