One for the Ages: Professor Nina Gelbart
Nina Gelbart
Professor of History and Anita Johnson Wand Professor of Women’s Studies
Years at Occidental: 48
How did you wind up at Occidental? My husband [William Gelbart] and I were living in Berkeley at the time, where he was teaching, and he was basically poached by UCLA. He came in as a full professor at some absurdly young age. I had finished my Ph.D. just a couple years before, and I had just had our first child, so I thought an adjunct position of some kind would be perfect.