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 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 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 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 : 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.

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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)

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“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, , TX, August 5-6, 2016

Invited co-facilitator with Emilio Zamora, “Discussing the Discipline Core Statement” and invited co-facilitator with Randi Cox and Eric Dieter, “Using Creative Assignments,” American Historical Association’s Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses, Austin, TX, August 28-29, 2015

“’We have no quarrel with men’: Hermine Tobolowsky, Mother of the Texas Equal Legal Rights Amendment, 1958-1972,” on the panel Texas Women in the Public Sphere, Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, Corpus Christi, TX, March 7, 2015

Invited chair and commentator for the panel Examinations of Gender and Sexuality Activism in Dallas, 1937-1996, East Texas Historical Association Fall Meeting, Nacogdoches, Texas, October 2-4, 2014. 5

A Case for Continuity: Texas Feminism Between the Waves, 1940s-1970s, Southwestern Social Sciences Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 30, 2013

Invited participant for the roundtable discussion Reflections on the Equal Rights Amendment and the South, 1972-1982, Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Mobile, AL, November 2, 2012

Participant in roundtable discussion Southern Exceptionalism?: Second-wave Feminism in Texas, 1950s-1982, 2012 Southern Association for Women Historians Conference, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, June 8, 2012

“Texas Feminism Between the Waves: Hermine Tobolowsky, Louise Raggio and Sexual Equality Reform Efforts, 1940s-1960s,” CHSS Third Annual Research Conference, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, April 13, 2012

“’The family is the heart of our country’: Conservative Women and The Texas Right, 1972-1982,” 2012 Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, March 1, 2012

“Second Thoughts: Kentucky’s Struggle to Rescind Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, 1973-1978,” Social Science History Association Conference, Boston, MA, Nov. 17, 2011, presented in absentia

Invited chair and commentator for the panel Feminist Epistemology I, Social Science History Association Conference, Boston, MA, Nov. 17, 2011, comments presented in absentia

Chair and commentator for the panel Gender, Age, Culture and Politics in the Twentieth-century World, Seventh Annual Houston-Area Phi Alpha Theta History Consortium, University of Houston- Clear Lake, Clear Lake, TX, April 22, 2011

“Conservative Women in Texas,” for the panel Recent Texas History, Sam Houston Symposium: The State of Texas History, Sam Houston Memorial Museum, Huntsville, TX, April 2, 2011

“’No women’s libber’: Texas Feminist Hermine Tobolowsky and the Fight for Equal Rights, 1958-1982,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, March 17, 2011

“Kentucky and the Equal Rights Amendment, 1973-1978,” Kentucky Historical Society Scholarly Research Fellowship lecture, Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY, June 11, 2010

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Invited chair and commentator for the panel The ERA and the Growth of Women's Activism during the 1970s, Journal of Policy History’s Sixth Biennial Conference on Policy History, Columbus, OH, June 6, 2010

“’Unnecessary, Undesirable, and Uncertain’: Arguments against the Equal Rights Amendment in the Texas State Legislature’s Public Hearing of 1975,” CHSS First Annual Research Conference, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, April 9, 2010

“’To see if we can turn this country around’: Conservative Women and the Texas Fight over Equal Rights, 1972-1982,” Southwestern Social Sciences Association Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, April 2, 2010

“Texas Feminist Hermine Tobolowsky, Conservative Women, and the Texas Fight over Equal Rights, 1972-1982,” invited paper for the panel Social Conservatism and “Feminism in 1970s Era Texas, Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, March 5, 2010

“Anti-ERA Activist and ‘Cancer Winner’: Jaquie Davison's Fight Against Feminism and Melanoma,” First Annual Medicine and the Social Sciences and Humanities Conference, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, April 17, 2009

“Women Who Want to be Women: The ERA Battle in Texas and the Development of a State, National and Transnational Conservative Women’s Network,” and panel organizer for Movement, Countermovement, and the Law: Stories of the Second Wave, 14th Berkshire Conference for the History of Women, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, June 13, 2008, presented in absentia

“A Comparative Look at the Anti-ERA Movements in New York and Texas in the 1970s,” Researching New York Conference, SUNY Albany, NY, November 16, 2007

“The ERA Battle in Texas & the Development of A National and State Conservative Women’s Network,” Southwestern Women’s & Gender Studies Association Annual Meeting, March 15, 2007, Albuquerque, NM

“The ERA Battle in New York & the Development of a National and State Conservative Women’s Network,” Conference on New York State History, Columbia University, New York, June 2, 2006

“The ERA Battle in New York and the Rise of Conservative Women's Activism,” Researching New York Conference, SUNY Albany, November 18, 2005

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“’Contrary to nature and contrary to God’: The International Women’s Year Conference of 1977 and the Equal Rights Amendment,” Contemporary History Workshop, Harvard University, May 8, 2002

Chair and commentator for the panel Gender and Activism, Harvard Interdisciplinary Graduate Gender Studies Conference, Harvard University, March 3, 2001

“Rescission Movements in Nebraska, New Jersey, and New York during the Equal Rights Amendment Battle, 1972-1982,” Contemporary History Workshop, Harvard University, May 12, 1999

OTHER PUBLIC RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PRESENTATIONS “Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Political Participation,” Phi Alpha Theta and CHSS Diversity and Inclusion Committee Women’s History Month Panel (one of five panelists), Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, March 8, 2021

Interviewed about my research and quoted in: Morgan O’Hanlon, “Until 1968, a Married Texas Woman Couldn’t Own Property or Start a Business Without Her Husband’s Permission. This Dallas Attorney Changed That.” Texas Monthly, 5 January 2021. Available online: https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/until-1968-married-texas- woman-couldnt-own-property-start-business-without-husbands-permission-dallas- attorney-changed-that/

“From Voting Rights to Equal Rights: Commemorating the Nineteenth Amendment and the Equal Rights Amendment Movement,” Phi Alpha Theta and CHSS Diversity and Inclusion Committee Women’s History Month Panel (one of two panelists), Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, March 2, 2020

“History of Impeachment,” Faculty Panel Discussion (one of three panelists), Bearkat History Club, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, November 13, 2019

“Changes in Historical Understanding of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault,” Guest lecture in “HONR 3375: Honors Dialogue Seminar: #MeToo,” Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, October 29, 2019

“Giving Constructive Feedback on Students’ Written Work,” Graduate and Undergraduate Instructors’ Academy, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, August 20, 2019

“Commemorating the Centennial of Woman Suffrage,” Huntsville Public Library, Huntsville, TX, August 16, 2019

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"Hermine Tobolowsky’s Cold War Feminism and the ERA in Texas,” Phi Alpha Theta Women’s History Month Lecture, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, March 20, 2019

“Giving Constructive Feedback on Student Work,” SHSU Teaching Assistant Workshop, Graduate Studies, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, October 9, 2018

“Developmental Math Faculty Orientation: A Growth Mindset,” SHSU Developmental Math Faculty Training Session, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, August 22, 2017; session offered to train developmental math faculty in Growth Mindset as part of the Re-Imagining the First Year grant-funded project

“Creating a Strategic Plan for the Semester,” Nursing Faculty Retreat Training Session, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, August 18, 2017; session offered to train faculty in creating a personal semester strategic plan for research and writing and introduce them to the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity

“Bearkat Orientation: A Growth Mindset,” SHSU Staff and Faculty Training Sessions, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, April 21 and 26, 2017; three sessions offered over two days to train staff and faculty in Growth Mindset as part of the Re- Imagining the First Year grant-funded project

Invited panel participant, “Texas Women in Politics,” Texas State Historical Association, webinar and online Q&A live chat with the public, March 23, 2017

Invited presenter, “Making Our Students Heroes: A Growth Mindset,” SHSU Staff Professional Development Conference, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, March 14, 2017

“Texas Feminism ‘Between the Waves,’” Phi Alpha Theta Women’s History Month Lecture, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, March 7, 2017

Invited co-presenter and co-facilitator with Ann Theodori, “Developmental Math and Growth Mindset,” Frontier Set Convening, San Diego, CA, February 1, 2017

“Teacher Talk: Q&A with the Experts,” invited panelist, SHSU Teaching and Learning Conference, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, August 18, 2016

“Re-Imagining the First Year: What Could It Mean for Our Students?” presentation with Dr. Tamara Cook, SHSU Teaching and Learning Conference, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, August 18, 2016

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A Professor’s Take on Feminism, blog radio interview by Cheval John, 33 minutes, posted April 22, 2014; access on-line at the following link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/vallanomedia/2014/04/22/a-professors-take-on-feminism

"Texas and the Battle for Equal Rights for Women, 1950s-1970s," invited guest speaker at Universal Woman Week, hosted by the Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc., Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, March 17, 2014

“Texas and the Battle for Equal Rights for Women,” Social Studies Conference, Region 6 Educational Service Center, Huntsville, TX, January 16, 2014

Participant, Phi Alpha Theta’s History Department Faculty Research Roundtable Discussion, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, March 27, 2012

Kentucky and the Equal Rights Amendment: An Interview with KHS Fellow Nancy Baker, by Elizabeth Van Allen, Kentucky Historical Society Chronicle, Summer 2011: 26-28. Access on-line at the following link: http://issuu.com/kyhistsoc/docs/chron_summer11issuu

“Unequaled: Rescission and the Equal Rights Amendment,” Women’s History Month Faculty Research Session, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, March 30, 2011

Participant, Phi Alpha Theta’s History Department Faculty Research Roundtable Discussion, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, March 30, 2011

“Texas and the Equal Rights Amendment Battle, 1972-1982,” poster for Women’s History Month Research Poster Session, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, March 22-26, 2010; served as the discussion facilitator at the opening reception for the entire event

“The ERA Battle in New York and the Rise of Conservative Women's Activism,” radio broadcast on Talking History, December 22, 2005; access on-line at the following link: http://www.albany.edu/talkinghistory/arch2005july-december.html

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ACADEMIC GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, FUNDING Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX Internal Research/Travel Grant from History Department Budget Committee, Spring-Summer 2019, $4,700 ACUE Fellow, Association of College and University Educators, 2018-2019; One of 28 SHSU faculty selected through a competitive process and designated ACUE Fellows for 2018-2019; involves completing a year-long intensive curriculum in best practices of teaching, with an emphasis on active learning techniques Recipient of SHSU Faculty Development Leave (a competitive, one-semester paid leave for scholarly pursuits) for 2016; deferred one year due to position as Interim Associate Vice Provost; on leave Fall 2017 Faculty Success Program, National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity, my participation funded by SHSU Online, Fall 2016 Nominee for the Texas State University System Chancellor’s Faculty Fellowship Program, Fall 2016 (one of two faculty members nominated by SHSU’s Provost) Internal Research/Travel Grant from History Department Budget Committee, Spring-Summer 2016, $4,300 to support research; deferred one year due to position as Interim Associate Vice Provost University of North Texas Special Collections Research Fellowship, Summer 2016 American Historical Association Tuning Project, participant, 2015 (participants were chosen from a national pool of applicants; $1,000 grant funding given by AHA) and facilitator at the AHA Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses (received $250 from AHA in 2015 and 2016 to partially fund my participation) Ruth P. Morgan Fellowship, The Clements Center for Southwest Studies and the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 2012 Kentucky Historical Society Scholarly Research Fellowship, Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY, 2010-2011 Formby Fellowship, Summer 2007, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, declined

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Earhart Foundation Fellowship, 2001-2002 Warren Center Summer Research Travel Grant, 1997 and 1998

The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Folger Institute Grant Recipient, Summer 1991 University Fellow, 1990-91 and 1991-92

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ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX Texas State University System Regents’ Teacher Award, nominee, 2018 (I was one of two nominees from SHSU for a university system-wide award covering seven universities) Nominee for The Southern Association of Women Historians’ A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize for Best Article in the field of Southern women's history published in 2014 for book chapter “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); nominated in Spring 2015 SHSU Excellence in Teaching Award winner, 2014-2015 (an award that can be won only once in a career; $5,000 prize) SHSU Excellence in Teaching Award, Finalist, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014 (typically, five finalists are chosen from about 300 nominees) College of Humanities and Social Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award, SHSU, 2010-2011

Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Douglass Scholar Garden State Scholar Highest Departmental Honors Margaret Judson Award, Best History Honors B.A. Thesis, 1990 Helen Miller Award for Best Graduating History Student, 1990 Stanton-Anthony Scholar, 1990 Margaret Hastings Award, Best Junior-Year History Student, 1989 Phi Alpha Theta

ACADEMIC SERVICE Sam Houston State University Editorial Board, member, “Women and the American West” monograph series, University of Oklahoma Press, 2018-present Jeanette Rankin Women’s Scholarship Fund, reviewer, 2017; national scholarship program for low-income women age 35 and older (see http://www.rankinfoundation.org/about/history ) Editorial Board, member, “Women, Gender and the West” monograph series, Texas Tech University Press, 2011- 2018 Handbook of Texas Women Executive Advisory Committee, member, Texas State Historical Association, 2017- Editorial Advisory Board, member, Register of the Kentucky Historical Society (a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal), 2013-2016 12

Peer reviewer for submitted manuscripts, Southern Spaces (a peer-reviewed, scholarly, online journal), 2013 Southern Association for Women Historians, A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize Committee, member, 2016

Texas State Historical Association, 2018 Program Committee, member, 2016-2017 Texas State Historical Association, Women in Texas History Luncheon Committee, member, 2013-2014 East Texas Historical Association, Membership Committee, member, 2016-2017 East Texas Historical Association, C.K. Chamberlain Award Committee, member, 2014-2015

SHSU institutional membership liaison with National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity, 2019-2021 SHSU College of Education, Secondary Education search committee, external committee member, 2020-2021 SHSU Frontier Set, grant-writing team member, 2016, and Strategist, 2017-2021; SHSU is one of 29 universities chosen through a competitive, national selection process to receive a four-year grant of $640,000 funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; for more information see: http://postsecondary.gatesfoundation.org/frontier-set-frequently-asked- questions/ SHSU Re-Imagining the First Year (RFY) Committee, grant-writing team member, 2015, and leadership team member, 2015-2018; SHSU is one of 44 universities chosen through a competitive, national selection process to receive grant funding for a three-year change initiative led by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Strada Education Network. Grant funding for the 44 universities chosen totaled $2,828,000. For more information see: http://www.aascu.org/RFY/ SHSU Student Enrollment Management RFY Interdivisional Committee, member, 2018- ; co-chair with Brandon Cooper of subcommittee on Student Attributes, co-chair with Angie Taylor of subcommittee on Comprehensive Student Record SHSU Student Enrollment Management Initiatives Committee on Implementation of Marketable Skills Plan, member, 2018-2019 SHSU Advisory Council for the Professional and Academic Center for Excellence (PACE), CHSS representative, 2018-2021 SHSU Student Enrollment Management Initiatives Committee on Marketable Skills and Student Attributes, co-chair, 2016-2017 SHSU Student Enrollment Management Initiatives Committee on 60x30 TX Plan, member, 2016-2017

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SHSU Ignite, student organization advisor, Spring 2017 SHSU Professional and Academic Center for Excellence (PACE) Faculty Writing Circles (FWC) program; Steering Committee member, Summer 2016-2018; FWC small group facilitator, 2016-2017; Research Support Circles (formerly FWC) small group member and co-facilitator, 2019-2022 SHSU PACE Pathfinders, mentor to new faculty, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2018-2019, 2019-2020 SHSU PACE Faculty & Staff Book Club, member and occasional group discussion facilitator, 2014- 2017 SHSU Student Attributes Committee, member, 2015-2016 SHSU Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACS COC) Accreditation Fifth-year Interim Report Committee, member, 2014-2015 SHSU Faculty Senate, chair, 2014-2015, chair-elect, 2013-2014, member, 2012-2015, 2015-2016 (resigned due to administrative position) SHSU Founder’s Day committee, member, 2014-2015 SHSU Calendar Committee, member, 2013-2015 SHSU Ring Ceremony Committee, member, 2013-2014 SHSU American Studies Advisory Committee, member, 2011-2015 SHSU American Studies Minor Proposal Committee, member, 2010-2011 SHSU Teaching and Learning Conference Planning Committee, member, 2013-2015

CHSS Tenure and Promotion Advisory Committee, Spring 2018 CHSS Team, Rotary Club Trivia Night competition, member, April 20, 2017 CHSS Women’s History Month planning committee, member, 2017 CHSS Diversity Committee, member, Fall 2016 CHSS Annual Conference on Medicine, the Humanities and the Social Sciences, planning committee member, 2013-2014 CHSS Standing College Academic Review Panel, member, 2013-2014, 2016 CHSS Women’s Caucus, member, 2006-2013 CHSS Interdepartmental Working Group on Gender, member, 2012 CHSS Academic Challenge, judge, Spring 2007 and Fall 2007

History Department, Associate Chair, 2020- History Department, Mission Statement Committee, chair, 2021- History Department, Working Committee on Rights and Identities Thematic Track Reforms, chair, 2021 History Department, Faculty Evaluation System (FES) Committee, chair, 2021 History Department, Committee on Guidelines for Teaching Face-to-Face, chair, Summer 2020 History Department Assessments Committee, chair, 2018- History Department British History Search Committee, member, 2018-2019 14

History Department, Budget Committee, chair, 2018 History Department, Graduate Affairs Committee, member, 2006-2010, 2012-2013, 2018-2019; Admissions Subcommittee, member, 2018-2019; Graduate Academic Advisor, 2019-2020 History Department, Interim Associate Chair, 2015-2016 History Department American Religious History Search Committee, chair, 2015-2016 Psychology and Philosophy Department, external member of DPTAC committee, 2015-2016, Spring 2019, 2020-2021 History Department Undergraduate Affairs Committee, chair, 2013- 2015; member, 2010-2013 History Department, Teaching Mentor (to individual new faculty members), 2014-2016 History Department Military History Search Committee, chair, 2013-2014 History Department DPTAC committee, member, 2013- History Department, Co-advisor, Phi Alpha Theta (History Honors Society), 2010-2013 History Department Marketing Committee, member, 2012 History Department Committee on The Texas Center for Immigration Policy and Studies proposal, member, 2012 History Department’s Women Faculty Monthly Lunch, organizer, Spring 2012 History Department Scholarship and Awards Committee, member, 2010-2011 History Department Ben Powell Writing Awards Committee, member, 2007-2010 History Department’s National Endowment for the Humanities grant application committee, member, 2008-2009 History Department Five-Year Plan Subcommittee on Intellectual Climate, chair, 2008 History Rhetoric Group, member 2006-2008; organizer & facilitator, 2007-2008 History Department Digital History Project Planning Committee, member, 2006-2007

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