DR. NANCY E. BAKER Department of History, SHSU Box 2239 Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 77341-2239 [email protected] / (936) 294-4467 EDUCATION Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Ph.D., History, November 2003; A.M., History, 1993 The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. M.A., History, 1993 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ B.A. magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, History, 1990 POSITIONS Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX Associate Chair, History Department, 2020- Interim Associate Vice Provost, 2016-2017 Interim Associate Chair, History Department, 2015-2016 Associate Professor in History, 2013- Assistant Professor in History, 2006-2013 National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity, Detroit, MI Faculty Success Program, Small Group Coach, 2017-2018 https://www.facultydiversity.org/ Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA Visiting Lecturer in Critical Studies, 2005-2006, Spring 2004 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Visiting Lecturer in History and Women’s Studies, 2004-2005 Tufts University, Medford, MA Visiting Lecturer in History, Spring 2004 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Teaching Fellow in History, 1996-2004 The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Teaching Assistant, 1990-1992 PUBLICATIONS Monographs Taking it Back: The Equal Rights Amendment and the Politics of Rescission (under contract with University of Georgia Press; in revision). Texas Feminism Between and Beyond the Waves (under contract with Louisiana State University Press; in progress) Articles and Book Chapters “Phyllis Schlafly and Babette Francis: The Establishment of a 1970s Transnational Anti- Feminist Movement,” in progress “’I remember it well. I lived it’: Louise Ballerstedt Raggio and The Passage of the Marital Property Act of 1967,” in Eavesdropping on Texas History, ed. Mary Lou Kelley-Scheer (University of North Texas Press, 2017) “Integrating Women into Modern Kentucky History: The Equal Rights Amendment Debate (1972–1978) as a Case Study,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society: Interpreting Twentieth-Century Kentucky History, vol. 113, no.s 2 & 3 (special issue, Spring/Summer 2015) 477-507. “Foreword,” in Women in the Central Spanish and Mexican Borderlands: Their Lives through Their Wills, 1750-1846, by Amy Porter (Texas Tech University Press, 2015) xi- xiii; winner of the 2015 Lou Halsell Rodenberger Prize in History, Culture and Literature. “Hermine Tobolowsky: A Feminist’s Fight for Equal Rights,” in Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives, ed. Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Stephanie Cole, and Rebecca Sharpless (University of Georgia Press, 2015) 434-456; winner of the 2016 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women “Focus on the Family: Twentieth-century Conservative Texas Women and the Lone Star Right,” in The Texas Right: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Conservatism, ed. David Cullen and Kyle Wilkison (Texas A&M University Press, 2014). Blog Posts, Encyclopedia Articles and Book Reviews Book review of Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight. By Julia Sweig, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, in progress. Book review of Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement. By Jennifer L. Holland, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, vol. 124, no. 4 (April 2021), 500-501. 2 Invited guest blog post, “Report on the Second Annual Texas Conference on Introductory Courses,” American Historical Association, Tuning Project blog, 2016; 1115 words; available online: https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/teaching-resources/resources-for- tuning-the-history-discipline/resources-from-the-2nd-annual-texas-conference-on- introductory-courses/report-on-the-second-annual-texas-conference-on-introductory- courses Invited guest blog post, “Approaching New Models for Texas Survey Courses: Struggles and Surprises,” American Historical Association, Tuning Project blog, 2015; 1424 words; available online: https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/tuning/tuning-resources/resources- from-the-texas-conference-on-introductory-history-courses/nancy-e-baker-texas-tuning- reflection Book review of The Life of Ruth Bryan Owen: Florida’s First Congresswoman and America’s First Woman Diplomat, by Sarah Pauline Vickers, Louisiana History (Spring 2013). “Sharecropping,” Nancy E. Baker and Mariah Jade Zimpfer, in Multicultural America, ed. Carlos Eliseo Cortes (SAGE Reference, 2013). “Harper’s Ferry Raid,” Mariah Jade Zimpfer and Nancy E. Baker, in Multicultural America, ed. Carlos Eliseo Cortes (SAGE Reference, 2013). “Concerned Women for America,” in The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, ed. Mary Zeiss Stange, Carol K. Oyster, and Jane E. Sloan (SAGE Reference, 2013). “Faye Bush,” in The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, ed. Mary Zeiss Stange, Carol K. Oyster, and Jane E. Sloan (SAGE Reference, 2013). “Voices of Conservative Women,” in The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, ed. Mary Zeiss Stange, Carol K. Oyster, and Jane E. Sloan (SAGE Reference, 2013). “Dolores Huerta,” in The Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, ed. Mary Zeiss Stange and Carol K. Oyster, (SAGE Reference, 2011). “Equal Rights Amendment,” in The Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, ed. Mary Zeiss Stange and Carol K. Oyster (SAGE Reference, 2011). Book review of The Presidency and Women: Promise, Performance & Illusion, by Janet M. Martin, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, vol. 101, no. 4 (Autumn 3 2003). CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND FELLOWSHIP LECTURES Invited commentator for the panel Moving beyond the Home: Postwar Feminism in Texas, Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, TX, March 4, 2021 Invited participant for the Texas Handbook of Women Executive Advisory Council roundtable discussion, “Handbook of Texas Women,” Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, TX, March 6, 2021 Invited co-facilitator for the faculty discussion, “Teaching HIST 1301 and HIST 1302: Course Goals and What We Do in the Classroom;” American Historical Association’s 2020 Virtual Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses, September 14-18, 2020 https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/annual-texas-conference-on- introductory-history-courses/2020-texas-conference-on-introductory-history-courses Invited speaker, “Hermine Tobolowsky: Mother of the Texas Equal Legal Rights Amendment, 1958-1972” on the panel, “Women’s Political Activism in Texas History,” for the Tarleton State University and Tarrant County College 2020 History Symposium, Women and Politics: The Nineteenth Amendment and its Legacy, Tarleton State University Fort Worth Campus, Fort Worth, TX, March 19, 2020 – canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic Invited participant for the roundtable discussion, "Collaborating within the Historical Profession: On and Off Campus," session sponsored by the Southern Association of Women Historians, Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY, November 9, 2019 Invited participant for the faculty roundtable discussion, “Course Goals and What We Do in the Classroom;” invited facilitator, “Assignment Charette;” American Historical Association’s Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses, Dallas, TX, September 20-21, 2019 Invited participant, “Alice Paul’s Legacy Soon a Reality? The Equal Rights Amendment, 1923-2019,” on the panel The Nineteenth Amendment Turns One Hundred: Its Impact and Legacy, Organization of American Historians, Philadelphia, PA, April 5, 2019 Invited speaker, "Hermine Tobolowsky’s Cold War Feminism and the ERA in Texas,” Women in Texas History luncheon address, Texas State Historical Association, Corpus Christi, TX, February 28, 2019 (this is a once-in-a-career honor) 4 “Phyllis Schlafly and Babette Francis: The Establishment of a 1970s Transnational Anti- Feminist Movement,” 1977-2017: The IWY National Women’s Conference in Retrospect, University of Houston, Houston, TX, November 6, 2017 Invited facilitator, “My Goals, Their Goals, Our Goals;” invited facilitator, “Assignment Charette;” invited speaker, “What makes a good assignment? Report-out on Charette,” American Historical Association’s Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses, Houston, TX, September 15-16, 2017 Invited speaker and small-group discussion facilitator, “Woman Suffrage in Texas,” Humanities Texas Teachers’ Institute, University of North Texas, Denton, TX June 22, 2017 Invited participant for the panel Gender and Activism in the Historical Profession: A State of the Field, Organization of American Historians, New Orleans, LA, April 7, 2017 Chair and commentator for the panel Cold War in the Heat of Texas: Women's Crusade Against Communism, Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, March 2, 2017 Invited panel participant for special event Generations: Texas Women in Politics, Texas A&M University–Commerce, Commerce, TX, October 18, 2016 “Texas Feminist Legal Reformers in the 20th Century,” UNT Fellowship Lecture Series, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, August 11, 2016 Invited facilitator, “My Goals, Their Goals, Our Goals;” invited co-facilitator with Randi Cox, “Using Creative Assignments;” invited co-facilitator with John Bezis-Selfa, “Texas History Courses;” and invited co-facilitator with Jonathan Lee, “Assignment Charette,” American Historical Association’s Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses, San Antonio, TX, August 5-6, 2016 Invited co-facilitator with Emilio Zamora, “Discussing the Discipline Core Statement” and invited co-facilitator