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Jacqueline R. deVries
Augsburg University Department of History 2211 Riverside Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55454 (612) 330-1193 [office] / (612) 210-9598 [cell] [email protected]
EMPLOYMENT
Augsburg University, Minneapolis, MN Professor of History (August 2011 – present) Associate Professor of History (2000-2011) Assistant Professor of History (1994-2000) Carleton College, Northfield, MN Visiting Instructor, Department of History (1993-94) University of Illinois-Urbana Instructor, Department of History (Spring 1993) University of Tel Aviv, Israel Wiener Research Fellow (1991-92) University of Illinois Press Editorial Assistant to International Labor and Working-Class History (1988-1990)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Modern British, Modern European, Comparative Gender History) M.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Modern European History) B.A. Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
PUBLICATIONS
Scholarly Books
Women, Gender and Religious Cultures in Modern Britain, 1800-1940, co-edited with Sue Morgan (London: Routledge, 2010)
Books in Preparation
A Woman’s History of Religion (tentative title, forthcoming in the “Gender and History” series with London: Palgrave / Macmillan)
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Religion in Britain, 1800-1940, a 3-volume series of primary sources with substantial introductions for Routledge Historical Sources – commissioned as the primary editor
Doctoring Across Borders: Mary Scharlieb and the Creation of Women’s Healthcare in Britain and India – manuscript in progress
Special Journal Issues
Guest editor, special issue of Modern Believing (Liverpool University Press, forthcoming, 2023) • focused on early 20th century women with connections to the progressive Modern Churchmen’s Union. Contributors include Dr. Helen Loader (University of Winchester); Professor Frances Knight (University of Nottingham); Professor Mark Chapman (University of Oxford); Michael Brierly (Modern Believing); Dr Georgina Byrne; Dr Alana Harris (University of London); and Dr Joy Dixon (University of British Columbia).
Educational Resources
Instructor’s Resource Manual (chapters 12-31) for McKay, Hill, Buckler, Wiesner, Crowston, Perry, A History of Western Society, 10th edition (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2010)
Refereed Articles
“Women, Religion, Science and Technology in the Age of Empire,” commissioned essay in Women and Christianity in an Age of Empire, ed. Janet Wooton [for the 6-volume series, A Cultural History of Women in Christianity, ed. Rosemary Radford Reuther] (London: Routledge, 2021)
“Religion in Victorian Britain,” commissioned essay for Routledge Historical Resources: Nineteenth- Century British Society, edited by Martin Hewitt and Susie Steinbach (London: Routledge, forthcoming, 2020)
“’Those who came from curiosity remained from interest’: Militant Suffragettes Emmeline and Sylvia Pankhurst in Minnesota,” Minnesota History, special double issue for women’s suffrage centenary (Fall 2020)
“Minnesota’s German Community and Woman Suffrage,” Minnesota History, special double issue for women’s suffrage centenary (Fall 2020)
“A Periodical of Their Own: Feminist Writing in Religious Print Media,” Edinburgh Companion to Women's Print Media in Interwar Britain, 1918-1939, eds. Catherine Clay, Maria DiCenzo, Barbara Green, Fiona Hackney (University of Edinburgh Press, 2017)
“Religion and the Politics of the Women’s Movement in Nineteenth-Century America,” commissioned essay in Religion and Politics in the United States, ed. Barbara McGraw (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2016)
“A Moralist and Modernizer: Mary Scharlieb and the Creation of Gynaecological Knowledge, ca.1880- 2
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1914,” Social Politics 22:3 (Fall 2015)
“Sounds Taken for Wonders: Revivalism and Religious Experience in the British Women’s Movement,” in The Spirit of Things: Material Religion in Modern Britain, eds. Timothy W. Jones and Lucinda Matthews-Jones (London: Palgrave, 2015)
“Popular and Smart: Why Scholarship on the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Britain Still Matters,” History Compass (March 2013)
“More Than Paradoxes to Offer: Feminism, History and Religious Cultures,” in Women, Gender and Religious Cultures in Britain, 1800-1940, eds. Sue Morgan and Jacqueline deVries (London: Routledge, 2010)
“Women’s Religious Organizations” commissioned essay introducing a segment of the microfilm collection A Change in Attitude: Women, War and Society, 1914-1918, edited by Susan Grayzel (Woodbridge, CT: Thomson Gale, 2005)
“Women’s Charity Organizations,” commissioned essay introducing a segment of the microfilm collection A Change in Attitude: Women, War and Society, 1914-1918, edited by Susan Grayzel (Woodbridge, CT: Thomson Gale, 2005)
“Rediscovering Christianity After the Postmodern Turn,” Feminist Studies 31:1 (Spring 2005): 135-155. --republished in online journal The History Compass (Spring 2006)
"Transforming the Pulpit: Preaching and Prophesying in the British Women's Suffrage Movement," in Women Preachers and Prophets in Christian Traditions, ed. Beverly Kienzle and Pamela Walker (Berkeley: University of California, 1998)
"'Challenging Traditions: Denominational Feminism in Britain, 1900-1920" in Borderlines: Gender Identities in Peace and War, ed. Billie Melman (London: Routledge, 1998)
-- selected as one of twenty “classic” articles on the history of feminism included in Globalizing Feminisms before 1945, ed. Karen Offen (London: Routledge, 2009)
"Gendering Patriotism: Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and World War I," in This Working-Day World: Women in British Culture and Society, 1914-1945, ed. Sybil Oldfield (London: Taylor and Francis, 1994)
Public History Projects
Co-author, with Cheri Register, Living Faith: Stories from the First 150 Years of Westminster Presbyterian Church (Minneapolis: Westminster, 2007)
Project director and lead author / researcher, Votes for Women: Hennepin County – an inclusive digital walking tour of suffrage sites in Minneapolis, collaborative project between the Hennepin History Museum and students in HIS 331: Special Projects at Augsburg University 3
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Exhibit research coordinator, Votes for Women: Hennepin County, Hennepin History Museum, on display Fall 2019 – Spring 2020 (worked with two Augsburg students and Hennepin History staff)
Exhibit writer and co-coordinator, Innoveren Maatschappij –on innovation in the Netherlands, Augsburg gallery, on display Sept – Oct 2019 (worked with Prof. Chris Houltberg and study-abroad students)
Project Manager, From Snoose Boulevard to Little Somalia: Immigration in the Cedar-Riverside Neighborhood, digital walking tour, with Kirsten Delegard, Christy Mattingly, and Andy Wilhide (2018)
Encyclopedia Entries (editorially controlled)
“Matilda Joslyn Gage’s Woman, Church and State (1893),” in Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World: A Global History and Sourcebook, ed. Tiffany Wayne (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, ABC-CLIO, 2011) “Women’s Suffrage Movement,” in Reader’s Guide to British History, ed. David Loades (London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2003) “Women’s Movements in the 20th century” in Reader’s Guide to British History, ed. David Loades (London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2003) “Millicent Garrett Fawcett,” in Reader’s Guide to British History, ed. David Loades (London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2003)
Book Reviews
Andrew M. Eason and Roger J. Green, eds. Settled Views: The Shorter Writings of Catherine Booth (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2017) for Reading Religion (American Academy of Religion online book review, July 2019) T. A. Russell, Women Leaders in the Student Christian Movement 1880–1920 (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2017) for Modern Believing (July 2019) Joanna de Groot and Sue Morgan, eds., Sex, Gender and the Sacred: Reconfiguring Religion in Gender History (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2014) in Cultural and Social History 15:2 (Spring 2018) Timothy Whelan, Other British Voices: Women, Poetry, and Religion, 1766-1840 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) for The Wordsworth Circle 47:4 (Fall 2016) John Read, Catherine Booth: Laying the Theological Foundations of a Radical Movement (Pickwick Publications, 2015) in Victorian Studies 58: 3 (Spring 2016) Carolyn P. Collette, In the Thick of the Fight: The Writing of Emily Wilding Davison, Militant Suffragette (2013) in Women’s History Review (Winter 2015) Tim Larsen, A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), in Journal of British Studies 52:2 (April 2013) Ryland Wallace, The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Wales, 1866-1928 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), in Journal of British Studies 50:1 (January 2011) Tim Larsen, Crisis of Doubt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) in Victorian Studies 53: 1 (Autumn 2010) Carolyn Steedman, Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age (Cambridge: 4
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Cambridge University Press, 2007) in The Historian 72:2 (Summer 2010) Maria Luddy, Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History 39:4 (Spring 2009) Elizabeth Crawford, The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey (London: Routledge, 2006) in Victorian Studies 49:1 (Autumn 2006) Laura E. Nym Mayhall, The Militant Suffrage Movement (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) in Journal of British Studies 45:4 (October 2006) Sandra Peacock, The Theological and Ethical Writings of Frances Power Cobbe, 1822-1904 (Edwin Mellen Press, 2002) in Albion 35: 4 (Winter 2004) Norma Smith, Jeannette Rankin: America’s Conscience (Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society Press, 2002) in South Dakota History 33:4 (Winter 2003) Keith Jenkins, Why History? Ethics and Postmodernity (London: Routledge, 1999) and Howard Marchitello, What Happens to History: The Renewal of Ethics in Contemporary Thought (London: Routledge, 2001) in Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy 32:2 (Winter 2003) Claire Culleton, Working-Class Culture, Women, and Britain, 1914-1921 (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999) in History 65:3 (Fall 2003) Martin Pugh, The March of the Women: A Revisionist Analysis of the Campaign for Women’s Suffrage, 1866-1914 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) in Victorian Studies (Spring 2002) Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith, Frontier Children (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999) in North Dakota History 68:4 (Winter 2002) Sandra Stanley Holton, Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement (London: Routledge, 1996) in Victorian Studies 42:3 (Spring 1999/2000) Keith Jenkins, ed., The Postmodern History Reader (London: Routledge, 1997) in Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 29:1 (Fall 1999)
Articles in Popular and Non-Refereed Venues
“’The Duty of Not Keeping Silent’”: Martha Ripley and Minneapolis Maternity Hospital,” for Historyapolis blog, reprinted in Southwest Journal (April 10, 2014)
“A Detour through Nicaragua,” Augsburg Center for Global Education 25th anniversary special publication (Spring 2007)
“Celebrating Women’s History Month” in Lutheran Woman Today (March 2001)
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
I. Scholarly Presentations (selected)
Invited lectures, “The Evolution of Sex: Science, Religion, and 19th c. Debates on Gender” and “Religion and Women’s Suffrage: A Centenary Perspective,” Annual Christian Culture Lecture Series, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada, March 2020.
“After Suffrage: A Centennial Retrospective,” American Historical Association annual meeting, New York City, January 2020
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“After Suffrage: Tracing the Impact of a Movement,” Western Conference on British Studies, San Antonio, TX, September 2018.
“Women’s Suffrage and the Anglican Church,” Women’s History Network Annual Conference – 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage, Portsmouth, England, August 2018 (in absentia)
“Religion, Race, and the Creation of Modern Gynaecology,” presented to the symposium on “Histories of Religion and Sexuality,” University of Nottingham, England, 24-25 April 2017
Invited Speaker, “The Making of an Anglo-Catholic Saint: Mary Scharlieb and the Challenges of Religious Biography,” Symposium on “Gender, Protestantism, and Biography” University of Oslo, May 2016
“Women’s Agency and the Jewish Periodical Press in Interwar Britain,” Women’s History Network Conference, Canterbury, England, September 4-6, 2015
Invited Presenter, “Doctoring Across Borders: Mary Scharlieb and the Professionalization of Women’s Medicine in India and Britain, 1875-1920,” Histories of Humanitarianism Symposium, hosted by the German Historical Institute and University of Maryland, College Park, March 7-8, 2014
“Sex, Science and Religion: Mary Scharlieb and the Popularization of Gynaecological Knowledge,” North American Conference on British Studies, Portland, OR, November 8-10, 2013
“Youth and Sex: Science, Religion and Sex Education in Early Twentieth-Century Britain,” History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, October 26, 2012
“Sexual Knowledge: Educating the Nation in the Aftermath of War,” paper presented at the international conference, "Women’s Organisations and Female Activists in the Aftermath of the First World War: Moving across Borders," May 25-28, 2012, Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota
“Youth and Sex: Science, Religion and Sex Education in Early Twentieth-Century Britain,” paper presented at the Women’s History Network (UK) Conference, London, September 9-12, 2011
“Youth and Sex: The Paradox of Christian Sexual Discourse in the Early Twentieth Century,” paper presented at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Massachusetts, June 12-15, 2011.
“M.A.R. Tuker, Popular Theology and Women’s Space in Early Twentieth-Century Catholicism,” paper presented at the 16th annual Women’s History Network (UK) Conference, St. Hilda’s College, Oxford University, September 10-13, 2009
Invited Presenter, “Faith and Belief as Categories in Feminist History,” Symposium on the Future of Victorian Studies in honor of Martha Vicinus, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 18, 2008
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Panel Organizer and Presenter, “Religious Metaphor and the Public Sphere: Conflicts and Contradictions in British Women’s Suffrage Movement,” North American Conference on British Studies, Boston, November 2006
“Religious Metaphor and the Public Sphere: Re-interpreting the British Women’s Suffrage Movement,” Conference on the History of Religion, Boston College, March 2006
“New Women, New Religion: Feminism and the Victorian Crisis of Faith,” American Historical Association, Seattle, WA, January 2005.
“Representations of Faith and Doubt by Three Fin-De-Siècle Feminists,” International Federation for Research in Women’s History, Belfast, Northern Ireland, August 2003
“There are no ‘Men’ or ‘Women’ in Urania: Christian Sex Radicals in 1920s Britain,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Connecticut, June 2002
“’The Right to Labour, Love and Pray’: The Girls’ Friendly Society and the Shaping of Working-Class Girls’ Activism, 1875-1914,” North American Conference on British Studies, Toronto, November 2001.
“Intercessors for the Nation: Women and the National Mission for Repentance and Hope in World War I,” Northern Great Plains History Conference, October 1999, St. Cloud, MN
Keynote Address, “Recovering Women’s Lives through Oral History,” Phi Alpha Theta Annual Banquet, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, May 1997
"Insiders or Outsiders? Anglican and Catholic Women's Strategies for Social and Political Emancipation in Britain," North American Conference on British Studies, Chicago, IL, October 18-20, 1996
Invited Presenter, "Transforming the Pulpit: The Preachers and Prophets of the British Women's Suffrage Movement," colloquium on Women's Preaching and Prophecy in Christian Traditions, sponsored by the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, November 1995
"Feminism, Religion and the Politics of Identity: Explorations in Women's Suffrage Autobiographies," Annual Conference of the Women's Studies Network (UK), Stirling, Scotland, June 1995
"Mrs. Pankhurst and the War: Feminism, Nationalism, and the Struggle for Citizenship," conference on "Women in Britain, 1914-1945: A Different Cultural History?" Sussex University (UK), April 1992
"Feminism Confronts Nationalism: The Women's Social and Political Union and World War I," Program in Comparative European History, Tel Aviv University, Israel, November 1991
II. Pedagogy and Curriculum Presentations (selected)
Workshop Leader, “Civic Engagement Across the Curriculum,” Dar al-Kalima University, Bethlehem, Palestine (January 2019)
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Panelist and Chair, “Creating an Equity-Driven General Education Program,” Association of Lutheran College Faculties, Concordia University, St. Paul, September 2018.
Keynote Speaker, “The Vocation of a Faculty Member in an Age of Disruption,” and “Defining an Institutional Vocation,” Viterbo University Faculty Development Retreat, January 2018
Invited Speaker, “Curricular Legacies of the Lilly PTEV Grant” CIC NetVUE conference –session featuring Bill Sullivan’s book Liberal Learning as a Quest for Purpose, March 23-25, 2017
“Teaching Bibliographic Skills to History Students,” at “Creating Partnerships, Creating Scholarship” conference sponsored by the Minnesota Private College Foundation, Golden Valley, MN, October 2001
III. Conference Panel Participation (selected)
Commentator, “Gender, Class and Citizenship in Britain,” North American Conference on British Studies, Little Rock, AK, November 13-15, 2016.
Commentator, “Body Work and Working Bodies: Gendering Labor in Cities of the British Isles and English Colonies,” North American Conference on British Studies, Minneapolis, MN, November 7-9, 2014
Commentator, “Religion and Women’s Life Cycles in Victorian England,” North American Conference on British Studies, Baltimore, MD, November 12-14, 2010
Commentator, “Twentieth Century Women’s Movements,” Southern Conference on British Studies, New Orleans, October 10-12, 2008
Commentator, "Victorian Others: Changes at Home and Abroad," Symposium on the Victorian Home, University of St. Thomas, April 4, 2008
Commentator, “Religion, History and Other Awkward Subjects,” American Historical Association Meeting, Atlanta, GA, January 2007
Discussant, “A Comparative and Transnational Approach to Women Religious,” Comparative Women’s History Reading Group, University of Minnesota, October 2003
Commentator, “Women and Autobiography in the 19th c.,” Northern Great Plains History Conference, Minneapolis, September 2002.
Commentator, “Home and Away: New Perspectives on Religion in Imperial Britain,” Middle Atlantic Conference of British Studies, New York City, April 5-6, 2002
Chair, “Telling War Stories: History, Literature, and World War I,” North American Conference on British Studies, Pasadena, CA, October 13-15, 2000
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Commentator, “Ladies, Leaders, and Politics: The Power of Gender in Women’s Political Activism in Mexico, France and the United States,” Fifth Southern Conference on Women’s History, Richmond, VA, June 15-17, 2000
Chair, “The Future of Women’s Studies: Changing Paradigms,” Women’s Lives, Voices and Solutions: Shaping a National Agenda for Women in Higher Education, University of Minnesota, March 27-29, 2000
Commentator, “Homefront and Battlefield: Collapsing the Boundaries in Women’s History,” Thirty-fourth annual meeting of the Northern Great Plains History Conference, St. Cloud, MN, October 1999
Discussant, “Planting on Hallowed Ground: Women’s Studies at Religiously Affiliated Colleges,” Nineteenth annual meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association, Oswego, NY, June 1998
Commentator, “Women and Work in Comparative Perspective,” Thirty-second annual meeting of the Northern Great Plains History Conference, Bismarck, ND, September 1997
Commentator, "Gender and Class; Violence and the Vote," Twenty-Ninth Annual Northern Great Plains History Conference, Minneapolis, October 1994
COMMUNITY LECTURES (a sample)
Invited Speaker, “Food in History: A Catalyst of Change,” presentation for the 26th Annual Interactive AP History Workshop, Eagan High School – February 2020
Invited Speaker, “Managing Interns and Hiring New Grads,” Hennepin County Local History Groups, August 2018.
Invited Comments, “Making Innovation Happen,” Augsburg University Annual May All-Hands Meeting, May 2018
Invited Workshop Presenter, SHIP program (Summer History Internship Program, a collaboration with Minnesota Historical Society), July 2017
Invited Speaker, “Shifting Paradigms: Science and Gender in the Long Nineteenth-Century,” presentation for the 23rd Annual Interactive AP History Workshop, Eagan High School – February 2017 “The First 100 Days -- Teach-Ins” (Spring 2017) February 8 -- General Strikes: History, Theory, Practice (with Lars Christiansen and Michael Lansing) February 15 – Protest! Lessons from the Suffrage Movement
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Invited Speaker, “Women March! Lessons from the Suffrage Movement,” presentation to the Bridgewater Salon, Minneapolis, January 21, 2017 (timed to correspond with the Women’s March on Washington)
Invited Presenter, “The Real Women of Downton Abbey,” Alexandria Senior College, March 20, 2016
Invited Respondent, “Curricular Responses to State Demographic Trends,” Augsburg College Annual All- Hands meeting, May 11, 2015
Keynote Speaker, “She Who Was: Recovering Nineteenth-Century Feminist Theology,” Valley Presbyterian Church annual women’s retreat, January 2014.
Keynote Speaker, “Scenes from the Edwardian Era: The Women of Downton Abbey,” Augsburg Associates annual luncheon, September 2013
“Ladies and Feminists: Women's Rights Activists Then and Now,” pre-performance talk for Theater Unbound’s production of “The Good Fight,” October 2012
Presenter, “Liberating Hearts and Minds? Teaching in Minnesota’s Prisons,” December 2007, Augsburg College, sponsored by the Humanities and Fine Arts Division
Invited Presenter, “Comedy, Tragedy, Paradox and Beauty: Historical Imagination and Civic Education,” delivered as part of “Teaching for Democracy” panel during President Pribbenow’s inaugural week, October 2006
Keynote Speaker, “Exploring Our Past: 150 Years of Westminster in the City,” Westminster Presbyterian Church Fall Women’s Retreat, October 2006
“Grief: A Historical Perspective,” Minneapolis Women’s Club, September 2003
“Women’s Music: Past and Present,” Introduction to the WomanVoice Concert, Augsburg College, March 2000.
“The Great Famine and the Shaping of Anglo-Irish Relations,” Nobel Peace Prize Forum, St. Olaf College, February 2000
“Feminism and Religion in Historical Perspective,” three-part series, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, November 1997
“Religion and the ‘New Woman’ in Britain, 1880-1920” Augsburg Faculty Lecture Series, November 1995
ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP
Director of General Education, Augsburg University, 2012-2019
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implementation, and assessment of Augsburg’s core curriculum, which encompasses the four years of a student’s college career and embeds skills development and co-curricular components. This work required wide collaboration across a complex campus, with degree programs for undergraduates, transfers, graduates, and adults. In this position, I led multiple teams, including the General Education Design Team, and served on the Academic Affairs Committee, Assessment Committee, University Committee on Student Success, University Committee on Enrollment Management, University Committee on Adult Programs, and other ongoing and ad hoc groups.
Selected Accomplishments: • Led a transparent, faculty-driven review and revision of the College’s general education program to incorporate more interdisciplinary, problem-based and integrative learning (2015-19) • Led the process for developing and adopting Institutional Student Learning Outcomes (2014) • Led faculty planning and design teams for First-Year Seminar Pilots (designed around “big questions”) and Signature Work (2016, 2017) • Collaborated on the development of campus-wide interfaith initiatives, funded by a NetVUE chaplaincy grant (2015-17)
Chair, Humanities and Fine Arts Division, 2004-2008
Selected Accomplishments: • Guided the faculty in the Humanities and Fine Arts Division through the process of implementing a new core curriculum • Mentored faculty in the division undergoing third-year, tenure or promotion review and supervised the departmental review process
Chair, History Department, Augsburg College, 2000 – 2009, 2019 (interim)
Selected Accomplishments: • Expanded the undergraduate major to include an evening and weekend track for working adults • Worked with colleagues to define the department’s focus on public and community-engaged approaches and pedagogies • Led the department’s first effort to develop student learning outcomes and assessment strategies • Formed relationships with key community partners, including the Minnesota Historical Society, and launched the continuing partnership with the Minnesota History Day • Collaborated with the National AP Board and public school teachers to develop and host summer institutes for teachers of AP History
Coordinator, Associated Colleges of the Twin Cities Women’s Studies Program, 2000-2002 (joint program among Augsburg, Hamline University, University of St. Catherine, and University of St. Thomas)
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• Led ACTC campus representatives through program review • Secured increased funding from the ACTC provosts and deans during a period of campus downsizing • Led the redesign of the four-college curriculum, focusing on the senior seminar and mid-level theory course • Launched a four-college assessment plan • Developed articulation agreements with area community colleges
Coordinator, Women’s Studies Program (1997-2001) and Founding Director, Women’s Resource Center (1999-2001)
Selected Accomplishments: • Led the development and expansion of the Women’s Studies program in its early years by recruiting faculty to serve on the committee and develop courses; • Convened multiple focus groups to envision a campus Women’s Resource Center and launched the first programming for students, staff and faculty • Nurtured relationships with alumni and Augsburg’s Office of Institutional Advancement to secure a $100,000 naming grant for the new Women’s Resource Center
HOMILIES AND CHAPEL TALKS (selected)
“Leadership Lessons from the Old Testament,” invited homily, Thrivent Fellows Program, June 2018 “Making Bread Together,” invited homily, Thrivent Fellows Program, June 2017 “Occupy Augsburg, 1524: Protestant Reformation and Urban Renewal,” Reformation Week, October 2011 (Augsburg) “Losing Our Religion,” Reformation Week, October 2009 (Augsburg) “Calvin and Politics,” Reformation Week, October 2008 (Augsburg) “Was Calvin Crazy?” Reformation Week, October 2006 (Augsburg) “My Journey through Calvinism,” Reformation Week, October 2005 (Augsburg) “A Childhood Conversion,” a Lenten homily, Westminster Presbyterian Church, March 2005 “The Vision of Faith,” March 2005 (Augsburg) “Leading from the Heart: Lessons from the Life of Maude Royden,” Saturday Forum, Westminster Presbyterian Church, April 2004 “Visions of the Spirit: Maude Royden, 1876-1956,” March 1999 (Augsburg) “Spirituality and Citizenship,” March 1998 (Augsburg)
ADVANCED PLACEMENT WORKSHOPS (for High School Teachers)
For six years (2006-2011), I worked with Eden Prairie High School teacher Brian Poehler to develop and offer week-long Advanced Placement workshops on content-development for teachers of AP European and World History. Topics are listed below:
2011: “Early Modern Europe: New Sources and Perspectives” 2010: “Europe since 1945” 2009: “Remembering the Twentieth-Century” 12
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2008: “New Trends in Nineteenth-Century European History” 2007: “The New History: Social and Cultural Approaches to the Past” 2006: “Social and Economic Change in Modern Europe”
HONORS AND AWARDS
Thrivent Leadership Fellow, 2015-16 Augsburg President’s Innovation Grants – 2014 (3), 2015 (1) Augsburg Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Summer Research Grant, 2013 URGO Summer Research Assistant Award, Summer 2013; Summer 2015, Summer 2017 Sabbatical Leave, Fall 2002, Spring 2011, Spring 2018 URGO Summer Student-Faculty Research Award, Summer 2010 Instructional Design Award, Augsburg College, Summer 2008, Summer 2015 WorkCulture Grant, Augsburg College, Spring 2008 (for study-abroad collaboration) Lilly Award (for vocation trip to Germany and Czech Republic in May 2006) Lilly Award (to lower costs for students on Nicaragua trip in January 2006) International Travel Award, Augsburg College, Summer 1995, 2003, 2009, 2015 Faculty-Librarian Collaboration Grant ($8000), Minnesota Private Colleges Foundation, 2001 Technology Development Grant, Augsburg College, Summer 2001 Faculty-Student Research Collaboration, Augsburg College, 2000, 2004 Faculty Summer Research Award, Augsburg College, 2000, 2005, 2006 ELCA Summer Stipend, 2000 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, University of Michigan, 1996 Abigail Q. McCarthy Research Grant in Women's Studies, 1993 Dissertation Research Grant, University of Illinois, 1993 Graduate Fellow, University of Illinois, 1992 Wiener Research Fellow, Program for Comparative European History, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 1991-92 Phi Alpha Theta, 1988- National Merit Scholarship Award, Calvin College, 1983-87 National Merit Special Scholarship Award, J.P. Morgan, 1983-87 Presidential Scholar, Calvin College, 1983-87
COURSES TAUGHT (at Augsburg)
For the History Department:
HIS 102: The Shaping of the Modern World, 1350-1789 HIS 103: The Modern World, 1789 – present (including a hybrid version) HIS 170: Food: A Global History (including a hybrid version) HIS 195: History of Economic Thought (co-taught with Prof. Jeanne Boeh) HIS 280: The History Workshop HIS 282: The History of Women, 1848-present HIS 311: Project-Based Course: Creating Digital Tools for Local Suffrage History HIS 331: Topic: Gender, Race and Empire HIS 331: Topic: Women, Gender, and Medicine 13
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HIS 352: Modern Germany: From Unification to Reunification HIS 352: The Holocaust in German History (new title) HIS 354: Modern Britain and Ireland HIS 380: History of Women to 1870 HIS 381: History of Women since 1870 HIS 440: Remembering the Twentieth Century HIS 480: 1914 (senior history seminar) HIS 480: 1917 (senior history seminar) HIS 480: 1940 (senior history seminar) HIS 480: 1945 (senior history seminar) HIS 480: 1968 (senior history seminar)
For the Women’s Studies Program:
WST 315: Feminist Theory (Coordinator) WST 490: Women, Activism and Social Change (Senior seminar and Keystone)
For the Master of Arts in Leadership Program:
ML 599: Navigating Local and Global Conflict: Lessons from the Nobel Peace Prize (co-taught)
For United Hospital Nursing Program (on-site):
HIS 282: History of Women, 1848-present
For Center for Global Education and Experience / Augsburg Abroad:
HIS 195 / WST 281: Women’s Grassroots Movements in Latin America (short-term study abroad in Nicaragua) HIS 195: The Aftermath of World War II (short-term study abroad in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic) HIS 195/440: Writers, Artists, Politicians and Demagogues: Europe between the World Wars (short- term study abroad in Paris, Strasbourg, and Berlin) HIS 195: Innovation and Design in the Netherlands – Past and Present (2019)
For Shakopee Women’s Correctional Facility:
HIS 103: The Modern World
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (selected)
Grant Evaluator: National Endowment for the Humanities -Teaching Development Fellowships, November 2009 Textbook Evaluator: Bedford / St. Martin’s Press, Oxford University Press Manuscript Referee: Institute for Historical Research (London), Bloomsbury (London), Routledge (London),
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Indiana University Press, University of Toronto Press (Canada), Bedford- St. Martin’s, Palgrave- Macmillan, Pickering and Chatto (UK), Minnesota Historical Society Press, and others Manuscript Referee: Social Politics, Journal of British Studies, English Historical Review, Gender and History, Historical Journal, Victorian Literature and Culture, Journal of Women’s History, Women’s History Review, Journal of Religious History, Political Theory, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Minnesota History, Studies in Church History, and others Board Member, Women’s Historians of the Midwest (WHOM), 1996 - 2000 -Newsletter Editor, 1997 – 2000 Outsider reviewer for tenure and promotion -History department, University of Chichester, England -History department, SUNY-Brockport -History department, Carleton University, Canada -History department, St. Thomas University, St. Paul Local Planning Committee, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 2008 Local Planning Committee, North American Conference on British Studies, November 2014
OTHER PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT (selected)
Co-developer, Medical Humanities Major, 2016-17 Co-leader, Digital Liberal Arts Initiative, 2016-17 Member, Nobel Peace Prize -- MAL Program Planning Team, 2014-16 Member, Peace and Global Studies Design Team, 2013-14 Member, Augsburg for Adults Redesign Team, 2013-14
Global Initiatives: o Sponsored by the Minnesota Private College Council, I traveled to China with a small team of Minnesota faculty in 2014 to support UIC, a new liberal arts university in Zhuhai. o In 2016, I leveraged academic relationships at the University of Oslo to build educational collaborations between the Oslo’s School of Theology and Augsburg’s Interfaith Scholars program and Nobel Peace Prize Forum. o In Spring 2018, I joined a team of Augsburg colleagues to explore a new educational partnership in Palestine and played a key role in orchestrating the official agreement and signing ceremony o In January 2020, I traveled to Northern Italy to explore study abroad opportunities in food studies
ADDITIONAL COLLEGE / UNIVERSITY SERVICE (selected)
University Committee on Academic Planning, 2018-present Committee on Tenure and Promotion, 2008-2010, 2019-present Search Committee, Vice President for Enrollment Management, 2017-18 Provost’s Academic Planning Team, 2016-present University Committee on Student Success, 2016-present Augsburg for Adults Planning Group, 2016-present Academic Affairs Committee, 2006-2008; 2012-present Assessment Committee, 2012-present Faculty Representative, Board of Regents Advancement Committee, 2010-12
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Search Committee, Vice President for Global Education, 2014 Search Committee, Vice President for Enrollment Management, 2013 Faculty Senate, 2010-2012 Compensation Committee, 2011-2013 Fulbright Interviewer, 2008-present Co-facilitator, Faculty Winter Retreat, February 2008 Women’s Studies Advisory Board, 2003-present Writing Skills Collaboration, 2004-2007 Master of Arts in Leadership Committee, 1999 – 2001 Educational Resource Committee, 1997 – 1999 Committee for Faculty Development, 1995 – 1998; 2003-2005 Co-organizer, Focus on Teaching Reading Group, 1995–96 Co-organizer, Critical Theory Reading Group, 1994–1997 Scholarly Writing Group, 2003-2008 Mission Interview Committee, 2006-2014
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Historical Association North American Conference on British Studies Midwest Conference on British Studies Women’s History Network (UK) Institute of Historical Research, London Germanic American Institute, St. Paul, MN
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Hennepin County History Museum, Board Member, 2018- President, 2020 - Development Committee, 2018- present Executive Director Search Committee, 2019
St. Paul Swim and Tennis Club, Board Member, 2018-2019
Westminster Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, MN Ordained Elder, 2003-present Meisel Program, Chair 2011-2015, Committee Member 2015-2017 (endowed program for career and vocational development among young adults) Director, Women’s Ministries, 2003-2006 (coordinated seven different committees) Associate Pastor Nominating Committee, 2000-2002 Co-leader, West Connection, 1996-2000 (young adult programs)
Presbytery of the Twin Cities Member, Committee on Preparation for Ministry, 2011-2014 (mentor to a number of ministerial candidates seeking ordination) 16
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FEAST (collaboration of the downtown congregations to feed the homeless), regular volunteer
Eduardo Barrera for St Paul School Board Campaign, treasurer and fundraiser, 2016-17
Twin Cities German Immersion School (TCGIS), volunteer in multiple capacities, 2013 - present
L’Etoile du Nord French Immersion School, volunteer in multiple capacities, 2003-2009
St. Paul Central High School, volunteer in multiple capacities, 2012-2016
LANGUAGE STUDY
German Germanic American Institute, St. Paul, MN Goethe Institute, Munich, Germany (Summer 2007) French Institut d’Etudes Françaises de Touraine, Tours, France (Summer 1986) Hebrew Attended Ulpan in Israel (1991-1992)
HOBBIES
Reading, traveling, cooking, bread making, gardening, running, triathlons, tennis
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