EDYTHE ANN QUINN, PH.D., Professor of History, Hartwick College, Oneonta, N.Y
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EDYTHE ANN QUINN, PH.D., Professor of History, Hartwick College, Oneonta, N.Y. [email protected] EDUCATION: • Ph.D. December 1994, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Dissertation: "Delivering Health Care to Rural America: Community Health Center Program in Southwest Virginia, 1975-1994." • M.A. June 1988, Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York, The Bronx, NY. Thesis: "The Hills in the Mid- Nineteenth Century: The History of a Rural African-American Community in Westchester County, NY." • B.S., June 1985, University of the State of New York, Regents College Degree. ACADEMIC TEACHING EXPERIENCE: • Feb. 1995-current: History Department, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY. o Effective Fall 2010: Professor of History o Effective Fall 2001: Tenured, Associate Professor of History o Spring 2004 – spring 2010, History Department Chair. ADDITIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCES • June 2011: Pine Lake Summer Institute: Women in American Health Care. • July 2006: Bassett Hospital B.S. Nursing Program with Hartwick College, Cooperstown, NY, “History of Women in American Health Care.” • August 1988 - May 1993: Graduate Teaching Associate/Assistant, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. • Fall 1991 & 1993: Adjunct, Carson-Newman College, Extension Program at Mountain Women's Exchange, Jellico, Tenn. HISTORY HONOR SOCIETY, FACULTY ADVISOR • Spring 2015 - present, Nu Theta Chapter, Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society. o Co-hosted Central New York Regional Conference, April 29, 2017, at SUNY Oneonta. o Co-hosted with SUNY-Oneonta: Phi Alpha Theta, Central New York Conference, April 19, 2017. ACADEMIC ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND AWARDS: • 2017 recipient: Teacher-Scholar Award: Teacher-Scholar Award recognizing the tradition of the teacher-scholar “who enhances teaching through scholarship, research, or creative work, integrating the perspective of seeker and teacher, and demonstrates to students and colleagues the value and excitement of scholarly inquiry.” • 2015 recipient: Margaret Brigham Bunn Award presented annually to a member of the faculty who judged by students "best exemplifies the centrality of the interaction between teacher and student." May 6, 2015, Honors Convocation. • 2009 Faculty Award, Women’s History Month, sponsored by Pluralism Program. 1 • Master’s Thesis Dedication: Meredith Pascale, ’07, “Determining a Legacy: John F. Kennedy’s Civil Rights Record,” Master of Art in History, SUNY-Buffalo, 2009. CERTIFICATIONS. • CITI certification, 3/25/2014: Completed Hartwick’s online Human Research Subjects Protection Training to work with students engaged in oral histories. • Safe Space Training Workshop in support of LGBTQ students, Hartwick College, March 20, 2014. HARTWICK COLLEGE COURSES: Race & Ethnicity in American History; Civil Rights Movement; Environmental Relations in American History; Environmental Injustice; The Sixties; Vietnam War; WWII Home Front; Women in American Health Care; SEMINARS: John F. Kennedy: The Myth and The Man; US Foreign Relations; Gender in American Foreign Relations; View from 9/11; African-Americans in the North; Dams & The Damned; Communities in Resistance (first year seminar); Breastworks: Interdisciplinary Analysis of Breast Cancer in Today’s Society; Changes in The Land: Local Environmental Land Use. Faculty-Mentored & Experiential Learning Projects, Hartwick College: • Freedman Prize: Poems to Rat by Edythe Ann Quinn: a staged reading, directed by Taylor Morin, Theatre Arts. Freedman Prize, Student Showcase performance, May 5, 2017, with four three students and author. • First Year Seminar Showcase Advising, FYS: Communities in Resistance, Dec. 5, 2015. • On-going Experiential Learning projects: Connecting Students to Their Families’ and Home Communities’ Histories, e.g., Family & Community Histories in WWII Home Front; Family & Community Histories in The Sixties. • Collaborated with student, Rebecka Flynn for her article, “Unequal Education: How the Brown v. Board of Education Decision can be Applied to Rural West Virginia,” in The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 3. • Sept. 28, 2006: “New Burlington, Ohio: The Life & Death of an American Village, THE PLAY,” produced for CIS: Dams & The Damned, 2:30 – 4:30 p.m., Laura’s Coffee House, Hartwick College; student director, musical coordinator, and student actors. • “Healing a Mastectomy Scar; Creating a Life Line,” BREASTWORKS Seminar Students’ Exhibit, Stevens-German Library, Hartwick College, October 2004, 2002, 1999. Please visit: http://users.hartwick.edu/quinne/photogallery for 1999 exhibit. Exhibit also featured at SUNY/Delhi Library, March 2000. • HONORING ANCESTORS: Shrines Created by Hartwick College Students Working with African-American Artist Jean Lacy, Civil Rights Movement Seminar. Yager Museum, Hartwick College, April 2003 through October 2003. Please visit: http://users.hartwick.edu/quinne/photogallery FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS • 2017 Hartwick College Research Grant to Illinois State Archives to research Illinois Soldiers’ Orphans Home at Normal, IL. 2 • Hartwick College Dewar (Research) Professorship for Freedom Journey manuscript (2010-13 January Terms) • Gilder Lehrman Institute Fellowship, one of only 11 awarded to senior scholars, summer 2007, for African-American research in New-York Historical Society, NYC. • CIC/Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Seminar, Harvard University, June 21-23, 2005. • New York State Archives and Archives Partnership Trust, Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Program for 2003, for African-American research. • Hartwick College: 2005-2006, 2001-2002 & 2000-01 Trustee Grants: research on “The Hills” at the Westchester County Archives and Society of Friends Library, Swarthmore College. • 1997-98 academic year: Winifred D. Wandersee Scholar-in-Residence for research, "From Coalfields to Dairyfields: The Influence of Eastern European-Immigrant Dairy Farmers on the 1930s Milk Strikes in Central New York." • New York African-American Institute, 1989. • Lehman College, CUNY, The Bronx, NY: Hochberg Family Award and Howard Weisz Prize in History, June 1988 for Master’s Thesis on The Hills. I IN-PROGRESS BOOK MANUSCRIPTS: • "LIvES in Three Quarter Time: Performing Sexual Conformity through Cover Marriage and Family, New York City, 1920s-1950s." Estimated complete of manuscript, Fall 2018. • “The Hills Is Home”: History of a Rural, African-American Community in Westchester County, NY, 1840s-1890s. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, anticipated submission of manuscript to SUNY Press, Fall 2020. PUBLICATIONS: • Freedom Journey: Black Civil War Soldiers and The Hills Community, Westchester County, New York. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, May 2015. http://www.sunypress.edu/p- 6007-freedom-journey.aspx • “Murder in The Hills,” New York Archives, Winter 2007. • "The Kinship System in The Hills," in Mighty Change, Tall Within: Black Identity in the Hudson Valley, Myra B. Young Armstead, ed. Albany: SUNY-Press, 2003. • "A Rural Afro-American Community in Westchester County in the Mid-Nineteenth Century," Afro-Americans in New York, Life and History 14 (1990): 35-50. • The Hills in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The History of a Rural Afro-American Community in Westchester County, New York. Vahalla, NY: Westchester County Historical Society, 1988. • "Black Civil War Soldiers from The Hills," Westchester Historian 63 (1987): 9-16. Interview in four parts: Week-long discussion with Quinn re Freedom Journey and current Civil Rights issues on SUNY Press - facebook.com http://www.facebook.com/pages/SUNY- Press/112308762113504 Nov. 9, 10, 12, 13, 2015 3 REVIEWS for FREEDOM JOURNEY: • Civil War News, THE MONTHLY CURRENT EVENTS NEWSPAPER, May 2015, review by Joseph Truglio, http://www.civilwarnews.com/reviews/2015br/may/westchester-quinn- brw051502.html • Journal of Military History, Vol. 70, No. 3, July 20, 2015, pp. 836-37, review by Allen Ballard, Allen (SUNY-Albany) BOOK REVIEWS: • Luke, Bob and John David Smith. Soldiering for Freedom: How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) in Ohio Valley History, Fall 2016, Vol. 16, No. 3. pp. 93-94. • Seraile, William. Angels of Mercy: White Women and the History of New York’s Colored Orphan Asylum (New York: Fordham University Press, 2011) in New York History, fall 2012, issued summer 2013, 348-354. • Seraile, William. New York's Black Regiments During the Civil War (New York: Routledge, 2001) in New York History 83:4 (Fall, 2012): 434-36. • Litoff, Judy Barrett and Smith, David C., eds. American Women in a World at War, in Phoebe, Journal of feminist scholarship, theory and aesthetics. 13:2 (Fall, 2001): 122-23 (Women's & Gender Studies Dept. State University of New York at Oneonta). • Fitzpatrick, Ellen. Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform, in Phoebe, Journal of feminist scholarship…. SUNY/Oneonta, 1996. Peer Reviews for History Journals • “Warrenton, Georgia to Catskill, New York: A Story of the Great Migration,” for The Hudson River Valley Review, Spring 2014. RESEARCH for HISTORICAL REGISTRY STATUS: National & State Historical Registry Status for The Hills Cemetery, based on Quinn’s research; August and April 1999, respectively. 4 CONSULTANT: • Content consultant for African Americans in the Civil War, Red Line Editorial, Inc. June 2016. • Harrison Public Library Digital collection: “Harrison Remembers: The Hills” Harrison [NY] Public Library, Spring 2015. http://www.harrisonpl.org/harrison-remembers From the website: “First and foremost