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Early life
Joan Netta Burstyn was born March 6, 1929 in Leicester, England. She was the second child of David E. Jacobs and Nellie Jacobs (Wachman). In 1938, the family moved to Mill Hill, London. She completed A levels and matriculated at University College, London, where she received a BA in History in 1950 and a certificate of Education in 1952. She then taught for eight years at a girls' school in Putney, and received her Academy diploma in education (equivalent to MA) in 1958. She returned to the UK to receive her Ph.D. from the University of London in 1968. A presentation of her memories of growing up in London during World War II can be viewed on YouTube.

Marriage and children
In 1958, she was married to Harold L. Burstyn of Newton, Massachusetts, and moved with him to the United States of America. The couple lived in Newton and Cambridge while Harold completed his Ph.D. at Harvard, and Joan was a teaching fellow in Education at Harvard and did research at the Bunting Institute. During this time she gave birth to three children, Judith (1959), Gail (1961), and Daniel (1964). Following Harold's graduation, the family returned to London for the academic year of 1965-6 in order for Joan to complete coursework towards her doctorate.

Academic Career
Upon their return to the US, the family lived in Pittsburgh, PA, where Joan taught first at the University of Pittsburgh, then as Assistant Professor and director of teacher education at Carnegie Mellon University. There, she had to fight for equal conditions, and was one of a number of female professors who brought suit in 1974 against the University under the Equal Opportunity Act of 1972, regarding preferential hiring and retention practices.

Following a sabbatical year in 1974-5, Burstyn took a position as chair of the education department at Douglass College, the women's college of Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, NJ. She remained a tenured faculty member there for 10 years. Following university reorganization in 1980, she became director of the Women's studies program. During this time, she was a member of the founding editorial board of Signs (journal).

In 1985, Burstyn was recruited to be the Dean of the School of Education at Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY. Although she remained dean for only three years, she remained on the faculty of Syracuse as professor of Cultural Foundations of Education until her retirement. She remained an emerita faculty member until leaving Syracuse in 2018. In 1989, Burstyn served as a visiting professor at Monash University in Australia.

In her capacity as a senior faculty member in the 1990s, she was the lead researcher on a project of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Other Interests
Burstyn has been an active member of the Jewish Community wherever she lived. During her time in Syracuse, she applied her professional knowledge to lead a task force on Lifelong Jewish Education for the Jewish Federation of Central New York. Following the events of September 11, 2001, she was among the first members of Women Transcending Boundaries, a multi faith organization in Upstate New York. She served on the council of the organization and continues to be a member of the Advisory Board. During her years of active membership in WTB, she was a contributor to Women's Voices Radio.

She has published four books of poetry. In 2007, she was awarded the Milton Dorfman prize.

Philosophical and/or political views
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Published works
Articles:

--- ‘Catharine Beecher and the Education of American Women’. The New England Quarterly, vol. 47, no. 3, 1974, pp. 386–403. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/364378.

Books: Women & Education

---. Victorian Education and the Ideal of Womanhood. Routledge, 1980, https://www.routledge.com/Victorian-Education-and-the-Ideal-of-Womanhood/Burstyn/p/book/9781138215238.

---. Preventing Violence in Schools: A Challenge To American Democracy. Routledge, 2001, https://www.routledge.com/Preventing-Violence-in-Schools-A-Challenge-To-American-Democracy/Burstyn-Bender-Casella-Gordon-Guerra/p/book/9780805837346.

Books: Editor

---, editor. Desktop Publishing in the University. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY 1991.

---, editor. Educating Tomorrow’s Valuable Citizen. sunypress.edu, https://sunypress.edu/Books/E/Educating-Tomorrow-s-Valuable-Citizen2. Accessed 22 Aug. 2022.

---, editor-in-chief. Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women. Syracuse University Press, 1997.

Books: Poetry

---. Song Cycle, Poems. Woods Hole Press, 1976

---. Waiting for the Lame Horse. Belle Mead Press, 1987.

---. Path Into the Sun: Poems from 1985 to 2006. iUniverse, 2009.

---. Treasures Stored for Winter. Illustrated edition, iUniverse, 2014.

Books: Jewish Studies

Burstyn, Joan, and Gershon Vincow. Searching for God: Study Partners Explore Contemporary Jewish Texts. iUniverse, 2011

Recognition
Honours, decorations, awards and distinctions

Recipient grant-in-aid John F. Kennedy School Government and Bunting Institute, 1964-1965; Marion Talbot fellow American Association of University Women, 1965-1966; Recipient Faculty Merit award Rutgers University, 1977, 81. Joan Netta Burstyn has been listed as a noteworthy education educator by Marquis Who's Who. Milton Dorfman prize for Poetry, 2007

References/Notes and references
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