Caroline Waldron1 Curriculum Vitae
Work: History Department University of Dayton 300 College Park Dayton, OH 45469 W (937) 229-2504 H (937) 830-3094 [email protected]
Education:
Ph.D., U.S. History with secondary fields in Comparative Working Class, Immigration, and African History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dissertation: “‘The Great Spirit of Solidarity’: The Illinois Valley Mining Communities and the Formation of Interethnic Consciousness, 1889-1917,” 2000
M.A., U.S. History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1994
B.A., History; minor, Spanish Language and Literature, University of Missouri, Columbia, 1991
Academic Fellowships, Honors, and Awards:
National Endowment for the Humanities, (Co-Project Director with Carissa Krane), Humanities Connections Planning Grant, “Humanities Health Connections,” May 2018-May 2019
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute, Women’s Suffrage in the Americas, Carthage College, July 23- August 3, 2018.
The National Italian American Foundation Fellowship, Summer 2018 Liberal Arts Catalyst Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Dayton, Summer 2018
The Italian Diaspora Summer Seminar, Roma Tre University and John D. Calandra Italian- American Institute/Queens College of the City University of New York, June 11-29, 2018
Human Rights Center Faculty Associate, University of Dayton, AY 2016-2017
“Mining History,” Sustainability Course Development Grant, Hanley Sustainability Institute, University of Dayton, Spring 2016
Summer Research Fellowship and Grant in Aid, University of Dayton, Summer 2015
National Endowment for the Humanities-Office of Digital Humanities Doing Digital History Institute, George Mason University, August 4-2014-August 15, 2014
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Diversity and Social Justice Grant (co-authored with Haimanti Roy, History), Common Academic Program, University of Dayton, Spring 2014
Crossing Boundaries Grant (co-authored with Carissa Krane, Biology), Common Academic Program Course Title: Women’s History/Women’s Health, Fall 2011
Humanities Commons Grant, Common Academic Program, University of Dayton, Spring 2011
Women’s Studies Research Associate, Five Colleges, Mount Holyoke College, Spring Semester 2010
Fund For Vocational Exploration Grant, University of Dayton, Spring 2010
Fulbright, Council for International Exchange Scholars, First ALTERNATE to Italy
Newberry Library, Short Term Fellowship, Summer 2007
The Anita S. Goodstein Junior Scholar Prize for the best article published in the field of American Women’s History, University of the South, 2006
Fund for Vocational Exploration Grant, University of Dayton, 2005-2006, 2010
Faculty Seminar in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Grant, University of Dayton, 2005
Summer Research Grant for Pre-Tenure Women Faculty, Women’s Center, University of Dayton, 2004-2006
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 2003
Albert J. Beveridge Grant, American Historical Association, 2003
Research Council Seed Grant, University of Dayton, Summers 2003-2005
Fund for Educational Development Grant, University of Dayton, Winter 2003
Utica College Womyn’s Resource Center Recognition Award, Spring 2001
Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Seminar Travel Grant, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota, September 2000
Feminist Scholarship Award, Women’s Studies Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1999
Excellent Teachers List, University of Illinois, ranked by students and compared to professors (rather than to graduate assistants), 1999.
George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award, Immigration History Society, honorable mention, 1997
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Albert J. Beveridge Grant for research in the history of the western hemisphere, American Historical Association, 1997
Alice E. Smith Fellowship for women in history, Wisconsin State Historical Society, 1996
King V. Hostick Fellowship, Illinois State Historical Society, 1996
University of Illinois, Graduate College, On-campus Dissertation Research Grant, 1996
American-Italian Historical Association Award, 1995
Outstanding Staff Award for Teaching given by the University of Illinois Panhellenic Council, 1995
Humanities Council Research Grant, University of Illinois, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 1995
Quadrangle Scholarship, University of Missouri, 1988
Refereed Publications:
“Naming Rape: Historicizing Women’s Human Rights Activism and Agency in the Italo- Ethiopian War,” in Engendering Transnational Transgressions: From the Intimate to the Global, Eileen Borris, Sandra Dawson, and Barbara Molony, eds.,(New York: Routledge) under contract 2019.
“'O Mother Race': Race, Italian Colonialism and the Fight to Keep Ethiopia Independent, Zapruder World: An International Journal for the History of Social Conflict, 4 (February 2018), http://www.zapruderworld.org/
“Navigating Body, Class and Disability in the Life Agnes Burns Wieck and Making Class Disability,” Journal of Historical Biography 13 (Spring 2013): 123-163
“Domesticating the Diaspora: Memory and the Life of Sister Katie,” in Intimacy and Italian Migration: Gender and Domestic Lives in a Mobile World, Donna Gabaccia and Loretta Baldassar, ed., (New York: Fordham University Press, 2010): December 1, 2010
“Sister Katie: The Memory and Making of a 1.5 Generation Working Class Transnational,” Journal of Women’s History 21 (Winter 2009): 84-110
“‘We Were Not Ladies’: Gender, Class, and a Women’s Auxiliary’s Battle for Mining Unionism,” Journal of Women’s History 18 (June 2006): 63-94
“Making the Italian Other,” in Are Italians White? How Race is Made in America, Jennifer Guglielmo and Salvatore Salerno, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2003)
“Anarchist Motherhood: Toward the Making of a Revolutionary Proletariat in Illinois’ Coal Towns,” in Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World, Donna Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta, ed. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002)
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(with James R. Barrett) “‘We are All Brothers in the Face of Starvation’: Forging an Interethnic Working Class Consciousness in the 1894 Bituminous Coal Strike,” Mid-America, 83 (Summer 2001): 121-154
“‘Lynch Law Must Go!’: Race, Citizenship, and the Other in an American Coal Mining Town,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 20 (Fall 2000): 50-77
Research in Progress
“O Mother Race”: Gender, Class, and Anti-Colonial Responses to Italy’s Invasions of Ethiopia 1880s-1940s
Book and Film Reviews, Encyclopedia Articles
Review of Nancy Fraser, The Limits of Transnationalism, Journal of American Ethnic History (Forthcoming, 2020)
Review of Documentary, 88 Giorni: Nelle Farm AustroItaliane, Italian American Review Matteo Maffesanti (Director), Michele Grigoletti (Screenwriter), (Forthcoming 2020)
Review of Nilda Flores-González, Anna Romina Guevarra, Maura Toro-Morn, Grace Chang, ed. Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age, Labor: Working Class History of the Americas, Vol 14, No. 1 (March 2017): 110-112.
Review of Robert Fleeglar Ellis Island Nation: Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century, International Migration Review (Fall 2016):
Review of Alan M. Kraut and David A. Gerber, ed. Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream: Shaping America’s Immigration Story, Pacific Historical Review (August 2015): 374-376
Review of Documentary, Way Down in the Hole by Alex Johnston (Rifle Baby Productions, 2010), Italian American Review Vol. 5, 1 (Winter 2015): 60-62
Review of Marcella Bencivenni, Italian Immigrant Radical Culture: The Idealism of the Sovversivi in the United States, 1890-1940, The Italian American Review 22 (Summer 2012): 120-121
Review of Jennifer Guglielmo, Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1940, Labour/LeTravail 67 (Spring 2011): 244-246
Review of Jordan Stanger-Ross, Staying Italian: Urban Change and Ethnic Life in Postwar Toronto and Philadelphia, Journal of Social History 45 (Fall 2011): 276-277
Review of Rachel Ida Buff, Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship, Journal of American History, 96, 3 (December 2009): 142-143
Review of Karen Pastorello, A Power Among Them: Bessie Abromowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Labor:Working Class History of the Americas 6, 3 (Fall 2009)
Review Essay, “Sewing and Exploiting the American Dream,” Journal of Women’s History 21 5
(Fall 2009)
Review of Laurie Mercier and Jaclyn Gier, ed., Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry 1670-2005, International Review of Social History, 53 (August 2008)
Review of Najia Aarim-Heriot, Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848-1882, Left History, 12, 2(Fall/Winter 2007): 17.3-175
Review of Diane Vecchio, Merchants, Midwives and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in Urban America, Journal of American History, 93 (December 2006)
Review of Christopher Sterba, Good Americans: Italian and Jewish Immigrants During the First World War, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 37 (Fall 2006)
Review of Brian Kelly, Race, Class and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-1921, Labour/LeTravail 57 (Spring 2006)
Review of Thomas Guglielmo, White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945, Labor: Working Class History of the Americas, 2 (Spring 2005)
Review of Thomas Bender, ed., Rethinking American History in a Global Age, in Amerikastudien/American Studies, 48 (2003)
Review of Donna Gabaccia and Fraser Ottanelli, Italian Workers of the World: Labor Migration and the Formation of Multiethnic States, Labor History, 43 (August 2002)
Review of Stefano Luconi, From Paesani to White Ethnics: The Italian Experience in Philadelphia, Journal of Social History, 36 (Fall 2002)
Review of Elliott Gorn, Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America, International Labor and Working Class History, 62 (Spring 2002)
Review of Karen A. Shapiro, The New South Rebellion: The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896, Labour/Le Travail, 43 (Spring 1999): 266-268
Entries on “Birds of Passage,” “Lynching,” “United Mine Workers of America,” and, “Mining Communities,” Dictionary of American History, 3rd ed., Stanley Kutler and others, eds. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003).
Commentary on Behind the Scenes in a Restaurant. Reproduced in History Resource Center (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group), http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HistRC/.
Commentary on A Comparative Study of the Mental Capacity of Children of Foreign Parentage. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group), http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HistRC/
“Incorporating Gender and Ethnicity: A Critical Review of the Historiography of Coal Mining and Miners,” Thematica 2 (1995): 77-88
“Queen Sings,” (Interview with Koko Taylor), The Maneater, 9 September 1986, p.5.
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Conferences, Colloquia, and Invited Talks
Panel Chair and Commentator, “Educational Work and Workers, 44th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 24, 2019
“Stranger Things: The Disconnected Narratives of Diversity and Diaspore Italiane, Past and Present,“ Between Immigration and Historical Amnesia -- Diaspore Italiane-Italy in Movement, A Symposium on Three Continents, MUMA,Istituzione Msei Del Mare Delle Migrazione, Genoa, Italy, Italy, June 28, 2019
Panel Chair, Visualizing a Living Heritage: Italian Transcultural Practices in Australia,” Between Immigration and Historical Amnesia -- Diaspore Italiane-Italy in Movement, A Symposium on Three Continents, MUMA,Istituzione Msei Del Mare Delle Migrazione, Genoa, Italy, Italy, June 28, 2019
Comment/Chair, Internal and International Crossings of Workers Across the Globe, Labor and Working Class History Association Meeting, Duke University, May 31, 2019
Panel Chair, Forbidden Labor History: Illicit Conduct, Illegal Work, and Illegitimate Organizing, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, November 9, 2018
Discussant, The 9 to 5 Project, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association Phoenix, Arizona, November 8, 2018
Are Italians White? How Race is Made in America -A Fifteen Year Retrospective, Italian American Studies Association Annual Conference, October 19, 2018
Velia Matteotti: Feminist Politics and the Creation of a Women’s Only Antifascist Space, International Federation for Research on Women’s History Conference, Simon Fraser University, August 10, 2018
Women’s Antifascism and the Spaces of Transcultural Activism in the Italian Diaspora, Living Transcultural Spaces, Diaspore Italiane-Italy in Movement, A Symposium on Three Continents, Co.As.It. (Melbourne Australia), April 6, 2018
Panel Chair, “The Spaces of Work, Living Transcultural Spaces, Diaspore Italiane-Italy in Movement, A Symposium on Three Continents, Co.As.It. (Melbourne Australia), April 6, 2018
Invited Talk, Discretion, Gender, and Academic Labor: The Case of Service, AAUP-AFT Local 6075 and Department of History Wayne State University, Detroit, March 2018
Invited Talk, Before Spain: Antifascism and the Struggle to Keep Ethiopia Independent in the 1930s, Wayne State University History Department Colloquium , March 20, 2018
Panel Chair and Discussant, Politics, Culture, and Identity in 20th Century Italy, Society for Italian Historical Studies, American Historical Association, Washington, DC, January 4, 2018
Naming Rape: Historicizing Women’s Human Rights Activism and Agency in the Italo-Ethiopian 7
War, Social Practices of Human Rights Conference, Human Rights Center, University of Dayton, November 9, 2017
“Service Sector Faculty: Gender and Discretion in the Academic Workplace,” 42nd Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, November 3, 2017,
“Naming Rape: Gender and the Fight Against Fascist Colonialism in the Italian Ethiopian War, 1935-1944,” 42nd Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, November 4, 2017
Discussant, “Author Meets Crtic, Elizabeth Faue, Rethinking the American Labor Movement,”42nd Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, November 4, 2017
Discussant, “Defining Class and Race in the 1920s Coal Mines: Transnational Perspectives,” Labor and Working Class History Association, University of Washington, June 25, 2017.
“Making Ethiopia Matter: Women and Anti-Fascism in the Era of the League of Nations,” The Berkshires Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities, Hofstra University, June 2, 2017
Discussant, “Is Service the Housework of Academia?” The Berkshires Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities, Hofstra University, June 2, 2017
Historical Intersectionality: The Role of Transnational Feminisms and Ethiopian Nationalism in the 1930s, Intersectional Inquiries and Collaborative Action Conference, Gender Studies Program, Notre Dame University, March 2, 2017
“Now They Have Gone to Bring Their Comrades: Workers Against the Italian Invasion of Ethiopia –1936,” 41st Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 19, 2016
Discussant, “Author Meets Critic Meyer, Manhood on the Line: Working Class Masculinities in the American Heartland, ”41st Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 18, 2016
“An ‘Election Phantasmagoria’: Ethiopia and International Right to Belong, 13th Annual
Conference in Citizenship Studies, “Gender, Sexuality, and Citizenship,” Center for the Study of Citizenship, Wayne State University, April 2, 2016
“The Constant Dripping of a Tiny Stream:” Transnational Feminisms and the Fight to Keep Ethiopia Independent in the 20th Century, Race, Gender and Sexuality Symposium, Wright State University, February 19, 2016
Making the First Move: Gender Transgressions in Time, Space and Place, Cleng Peerson Legacy Conference, Sponsored by the Royal Norwegian Embassy, Clifton, Texas, October 15, 2015
“Mother Race” Ethiopia, Italy, and a World of Women, 1887-1941” Transnational Feminisms 8
Summer Institute, Sponsored by Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, The Ohio State University, July 10, 2014
“Radical Scrapbooking: History, Practice, Memory,” (Poster Session) 2014 Berkshires Conference of Women’s Historians, “Histories on the Edge/Histoires sur la brèche” University of Toronto, May 24, 2014
What Are Civil Rights?: A History and a Practice of Social Justice Work Before Brown. Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle Series (made possible through a National Endowment for the Humanities, Bridging Cultures Initiative) University of Dayton, February 6, 2014
Panel Chair, “Labor Radicalism and the State,” 38th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 24, 2013
Discussant, “Who’s the Boss? Race, Gender, and the American Workplace in the Twentieth Century,” Business History Conference, Columbus, Ohio, March 22, 2013
Panel Chair, “Battered Women: Public Sector Union Bashing and Gender Discrimination,” North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, October 19, 2012
Co-Discussant, “Women, Labor, and Politics in Comparative Perspective,” Leela Fernandes, “The Challenges of Cross-Class Alliances: India, the U.S. and the Politics of Globalization, North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, October 19, 2012
“Home Bodies: Class, Gender, and Environment,” Social Science History, 37th Annual Meeting Vancouver, British Columbia, November 2, 2012
“Agnes Burns Wieck and Making Class Disability,” Society for Disability Studies Conference, 25th Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, June 23, 2012
“‘Perplexities Enough’: Agnes Burns Wieck and the Proletarian Body in the early Twentieth Century,” The Berkshires Conference on the History of Women, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 12, 2011
“Worth Remembering: Memory, Time and Place in Dayton’s History,” Humanities Workshop, University of Dayton, Mary 10, 2011
“Stalled? Women Faculty, Power, and Politics on Campus,” Colloquium for Research on Women and Gender, University of Dayton, March 31, 2011
“The Humanities and What Matters” – A Response, Eighteenth Annual Humanities Symposium, University of Dayton, February 15, 2011
Discussant, “Guantánamo’s Working Class History,” Social Science History Association, 35th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, November 18-21, 2010
“Before 'the Personal is Political:' Katie DeRorre, an Immigrant Transnational at Home in the Twentieth Century,” Five Colleges Women’s Studies Research Center, Mt. Holyoke College, February 8, 2010 9
“‘Perplexities Enough’”: The Bodies that Mattered to Coal Mining Women, Newberry Library, Seminar in Labor History, Chicago, Illinois, September 25, 2009
Invited Talk, “Remembering Katie DeRorre,” Midwest Labor and Working Class History Colloquium, Purdue University, April 3, 2009
Discussant, Radical Unionism in the Midwest by Rosemary Feurer, Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida, October 23-26, 2008
Roundtable Discussant, “The Education of Labor Intellectuals,” Social Science History Association conference, Chicago, Illinois, November 15-18, 2007
“‘You Showed Me First and Told Me Later’: The Making and Forgetting of a Working Class Radical,” Working Class Activism in the South and the Nation, Terry Sanford Institute Public Policy, Duke University, May 17-19, 2007.
Invited Talk, The Anita S. Goodstein Junior Scholar Talk, the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, March 5, 2007
“‘She Sure Looks Fine’: Memory and the Construction of a Working Class Feminist,” The Women’s History Workshop, Ohio State University, April 27, 2007
“‘This Little Italian Rock of Gibraltar’: An Exploration of How the Personal Becomes Political, Western Association of Women Historians Conference, May 5-7, 2006, Asilomar Conference Center
“‘We Were Not Ladies’: Gender, Class, and a Women’s Auxiliary’s Battle for Mining Unionism,” Modern U.S Seminar, the Ohio State University, April 28, 2006
“‘She Sure Looks Fine’: Writing the Social History of an Italian Immigrant Activist, Katie DeRorre,” Social Science History Annual Meeting, November 3-6, 2005, Portland, Oregon
“‘Love and Solidarity’: Generation and Women’s Radicalism,” Labouring Feminism and Feminist Working Class History in North America and Beyond, University of Toronto, September 29-October 2 2005,
“‘For Bread and Freedom’: Gender, Class, and the Battle for Mining Unionism in the Women’s Auxiliary,” The Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Scripps College, Claremont, California, June 2-5, 2005
Panel Chair, “The Personal, the Political, and the Religious: Labor and Catholic Historians Talk About What We Hold in Common,” American Catholic Historical Association, Dayton, Ohio, Spring Meeting, April 23, 2005
Invited Presenter, “‘Giving All, Asking Nothing’: Katie DeRorre and the Drowning of the Personal with the Political,” Love of Country Symposium, University of Pittsburgh, April 8-9, 2005
Panel Chair, Telling the Stories of Rural Immigrant Labor in the Midwest and Northeast, 10
Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, San Jose, California, April 1, 2005
“‘We Were Not Ladies’: Gendering Coal Women, Miners, and the Union Movement in Illinois,” Pacific Coast Branch American Historical Association, San Jose, California, August 6, 2004
Roundtable Discussant, “Methods and Meaning of Social History: ‘Work, Culture, and Society’ at Thirty, Organization of American Historians, Boston, Massachusetts, March 27, 2004
“`Laughing Last’: The Making of Working Class Internationalists,” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, November 14. 2003
Roundtable Discussant, Constant Turmoil by Mary Blewett, Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, November 14, 2003
Invited Panelist, “Italian Women Fight Back: Gender and Transnational Labor Radicalism in the US,” Symposium on Italian Labor-American Unions: From Conflict to Reconciliation to Leadership, SUNY-Stonybrook, October 31-November 2, 2003
“`L’Odio di Razza’: The 1895 Spring Valley Race Riot and Identifications of the Other,” presented at the Newberry Library Labor History Seminar, sponsored by the Scholl Center for Family and Community History, Chicago, Illinois, November 15, 2002
Panel Chair and Commentator, “Employment and Earnings in the Twentieth Century,” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, 2002 Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, October 24-27, 2002
Participant, “New Directions in Comparative and Transnational History,” Bissell-Heyd Associates Chair and the Center for the Study of the United States, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, May 21, 2002
“‘Unfaithful to the Memory’: Immigrant Widows and the Transnational Policing of Sexuality,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Connecticut at Storrs, June 6-9, 2002
Invited Talk, “Rebel Widows and Anarchist Mothers: Immigrant Activism in the Illinois Valley Coalfields,” presented at Cornell University’s Kheel Center for Labor Management Documentation, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Ithaca, New York, April 18, 2002
“Anarchist Motherhood: Female Immigrant Anarchists' Activism in Illinois’ Coal Mining Communities,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 8-11, 2001
Panel Commentator, “New Approaches to Chicago Immigrant History,” Social Science History Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, November 15-18, 2001
“Thinking and Acting Globally: Immigrant Diasporas and Working Class Internationalism, 1890- 1917,” North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, Michigan, October 18-20, 2001 11
Panel Chair, “De-Centering U.S. Paradigms: Towards Transnational Approaches in Feminist Labor History – The Case of Italian Women Workers, Militants and Exiles, North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, Michigan, October 18-20, 2001
“‘The Maternal Mission’: The Construct of Motherhood in Immigrant Women’s Activism,” Women’s History Month Seminar Series, SUNY-Cortland, March 2001
“‘Lynch-law Must Go!’: Race, Citizenship and the Other in an American Coal Mining Town," Race, Ethnicity, and Migration: The United States in a Global Context, University of Minnesota, November 16-18, 2000
“‘Not Excluding Women and Invalids’: The Construction of Whiteness in Illinois’ Coal Communities,” Symposium, University of Toronto, October 13-15, 2000
“‘A Common Bereavement Has Made Them Sisters’: Immigrant Widows and the Cherry Mine Disaster, 1909-1910,” American Historical Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, January 6-9, 2000
“‘The Supreme Aim’: Leisure in the Multiethnic Upper Illinois Valley, 1890s-1920s,” Social Science History Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, November 19-21, 1998
“Anarchist Motherhood: Toward the Making of a Revolutionary Proletariat in Illinois’ Coal Towns,” North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, Michigan, October 15-17, 1998
“Using the Environment: Coal Capitalization and Identity Formation,” Midwest Labor History Conference, Iowa City, Iowa, March 6-8, 1998
“‘Luisa Michel’: French and Italian Immigrant Women’s Activism, 1890-1920,” Feminist Scholarship Series, University of Illinois, March 5, 1998
“Labor in Illinois History: Political Activism, Legislative Reform and Union Organizing in Illinois’ Coal Communities,” Illinois Labor Teach-in: Mining the Past to Meet the Future, April 26, 1997
“Immigrant Crowd Actions in the Illinois River Valley: The Case of the Bituminous Coal Strike of 1894,” Illinois History Symposium, Springfield, Illinois, December 6-8, 1996
“Inclusion/Exclusion: Cross-ethnic and Cross-gendered Spheres of Political Action in the Illinois River Valley, 1894-1902,” American-Italian Historical Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 14-16, 1996
“Jane Addams and the Production of Culture: Twenty Years at Hull House as Ethnographic Text,” Illinois History Symposium, Springfield, Illinois, December 2-3, 1994
Teaching Experience
Associate Professor of History, University of Dayton, Start Date (Tenure and Promotion Date Spring 2009).
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Academic Year, 2001-2002
Assistant Professor of U.S. History, Utica College of Syracuse University, Academic Year 2000- 2001.
Teaching Fellow, Unit-1 Living and Learning Community, The United States in the Twentieth Century, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Spring Semesters 1996-2000.
Lecturer, Chicago, the City; Illinois, the State, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Fall 1999.
Writing Consultant, Writers’ Workshop, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Fall 1998.
William Widenor Teaching-Fellowship, alternate, History in Black and White: Race Consciousness and Racism in Industrial America, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign
Teaching Assistant, Writing Intensive Sections, United States History, Colonial-1877, Fall 1994 and Summer 1995
Teaching Assistant, Writing Intensive Sections, United States History, 1877-Present, Academic Year 1993-1994 and Spring 1995
Teaching Assistant, African History, Spring 1993
Administrative Positions
School of Engineering, University of Dayton, Equity Advisor, Appointment June 2018-2020
First Year Humanities Commons Coordinator, University of Dayton, Fall 2013-May 2017
Special Advisor to the Provost on Gender, Equity, and Climate, University of Dayton, AY 2015- 2016
Interim Director, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, University of Dayton, Spring 2014
Professional Service
H-Net Executive Council, Elected for 3 year term starting Jan. 2020
SSHA Migration Network Representative, appointed Fall 2019
National Endowment for the Humanities, Review Panelist, Humanities Connections Implementation Grant, November 2019
Lecturer Promotion Committee Member, AY 2019-2020
Research Fellows Director, Learning Teaching Center, AY2019-2020 and Fall 2020
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Co-organizer with Lisa Borello, Director UD Women’s Center and Marcia Donohoo Administrative Assistant, Global Languages, “A Day in the Life: What We Do for the Common Good (A Beginning Conversation’ about Employees’ Work-Life and Callings), 2019
Faculty Cohort Member, The Institute for Applied Creativity and Transformation (IACT) GEMnasium Program, for the “Grand Challenge” Topic; Democarcy, AY2019-2020
Dean’s Summer Fellowship Advisor, for Chris Koester, Project Title: “The Discipleship of Difference: Marianist Opinion,Experience, Evaluation Hawaii’s Annexation, 1883- 1898,” Summer 2019
Peer Reviewer, Women’s History Review, Fall 2019
Berry Summer Thesis Student Advisor, Lindsey Bronder, “Capes and Catachesis: Using Comic Books to Catechize Catholic Youth, Summer 2018
Dean’s Summer Fellowship mentor, Lindsey Bronder, “Catholics and Comics,” Summer 2018
Invited Talk, “Serving Faculty -- Reflections on My Work and Report to the Provost During My Year as Special Advisor on Gender and Equity,” College of Arts and Sciences, Annual Women’s Faculty Dinner, November 10, 2017
Merit Review Task Force, (peer nominated and appointed by Executive Committee of the Academic Senate), Summer 2017-Spring 2018
Dean Summer Fellowship Mentor, Student, Elizabeth Randall, Project, The Making of the Kennedy Union at the University of Dayton -- A Digital History Project
State University of New York, External Reviewer, Book Ms., 2017
H-Net Executive Council Representative (Elected, National), 3 year term beginning January 2017.
"Solidarity Forever": How An Old Thing Matters for New Times, Martin Luther King Day Teach-in, January 18, 2017
Panel Facilitator, “Teaching Inclusiveness by Teaching Together,” Creating Inclusive Community Conference, University of Dayton, October 22, 2016
Discussant, Religious Studies Department Colloquy, University of Dayton, October 21, 2016
Dean Summer Fellowship Mentor, Student, Joseph Fay, Project: American Catholic Reaction to the Rise of Fascism during the Era of Pop Pius XI
Faculty Hearing Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure (Elected), 3 year term beginning AY 2015-2016
Academic Senate, Humanities Representative (Elected), University of Dayton, 3 year term beginning AY 2015-2016 14
Chair Faculty Affairs Committee, Academic Senate, University of Dayton, AY 2015-2016
Joyce Durham Essay Contest Committee/Judge, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, University of Dayton, 2006, 2011, 2016
European Search Committee, History Department, University of Dayton, AY 2015-2016
Panelist, Syrian Refugee Crisis Teach-In (Invited by Human Rights Students), University of Dayton, December 9, 2015
Debate Respondent to Karin Agnes, "Debunking the War on Women." Federalist Society (at UD Law School), October 21, 2015
Women’s and Gender Studies Committee, AY 2004-2005-present
Beauregard-King-Emeriti Lecture Committee, History Department, University of Dayton, AY 2015-2016
Radio Documentary Consultant and Commentator, We Were Not Ladies. We Were Women, Illinois Public Radio, http://www.minewar.org/?page_id=2129
Faculty Board, Arts Humanities Representative (Elected), 3 year term beginning AY 2014-15, Vice Chair (’15-’16), Chair (’16-’17)
Leadership Development Action Team, Ad Hoc Committee, AY 2014-2015
Honors Thesis Advisor for Nicole Price, “What’s So Funny: Racial and Ethnic Humor, 1840- 1930, (awarded the Palermo Founders Thesis Fund, University Honors Program), AY 2014-2015
External Reviewer for Book Ms., McFarland Publishers, Fall 2014
President, American Association of University Professors, University Chapter, Fall 2014-Fall 2015
“History, Memoir, Fiction,” Creative Writing Workshop Instructor, Dayton’s Women’s Literary Club, November 6, 2014
Chaminade Faculty Seminar, Nominated by History Department Chair, Spring-Summer 2013.
Women’s Center, Faculty Mentor, AY 2011-2012
Referee, Journal of Illinois History, July 16, 2012
Referee, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, University of Nebraska Press, Fall 2011
Interviewed and quoted “Groups Champion Dayton as ‘Land of the Funk,” Dayton Daily News, Section D, p8, October 29, 2011
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Labor Teach-in, University of Dayton (with Vincent Miller, Religious Studies, Kelly Johnson, Religious Studies, Una Cadegan, History, and Sean Cassiman, Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work), October 3, 2011
Stander Symposium, “Dayton’s Global Immigrants,” Advisor/Professor for Session (HST378: Global Immigrants in the U.S. students presented their oral history projects), April 13, 2011
Academic Senate, Humanities Representative (Elected), Academic Senate, University of Dayton, three year term begins AY 2010-11
Faculty Affairs Committee, Academic Senate, Starting AY 2010-2011 – present (including ad hoc subcommittees on Student Evaluation of Teaching and Faculty Workload Fall 2011)
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee (Elected), Fall 2011 (Filling in for Peggy DesAutels during her promotion candidacy)
Executive Committee (Elected), History Department, AY 2010-2011
Colloquium Committee, History Department, AY 2011-2012
Honors Thesis Co-Advisor (with Ellen Fleischmann) for Lindsey Cummings, (research project on Iraqi refugees in Jordan in the U.S.), AY 2010-2011
Faculty Advisor, Student Interest/Theme House, Honors: On Globalism (HOG), AY2011-2012
History Department Advisor, ongoing and current
“Incorporating a Gender Focus in First-Year Humanities Courses” (with, Peggy Desautels, John McCombe, Ernesto Velasquez, and Rebecca Whisnant), Faculty Exchange Series, September 27, 2010
First Year Read Committee, AY 2008-2009
Search Committee, Women, and Gender Studies Director, 2008
African American History Search Committee, Department of History, AY 2008-09
Interviewed for the documentary, “Remember Virden,” by Rosemary Feurer and Laura Vazquez, Northern Illinois University, July 2006
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Referee, 2006
Social Science History Association, Executive Board Member, (Elected) 2006-08
Humanities Base Committee, AY 2006-09
Colloquium Committee, History Department, AY 2006-07
Executive Committee (Elected), History Department, AY 2005-07
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Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women’s Studies, Judge, Spring 2006
Women’s Studies Committee, University of Dayton, Spring 2003-present
American Religious History Search Committee, Department of History, AY 2005-06
"Funding Support to Help Faculty and Students Explore Vocation," Faculty Exchange Series, February 17, 2006
"Making Research Personal: Using Genealogy Tools In and Out of the Classroom," Faculty Exchange Series, January 26, 2006
“Maternity and the Family Leave Policy at the University of Dayton,” Faculty Exchange Series Presenter (with Ellen Fleischmann and Clare Talwalker), February 17, 2005
“Gender and the Politics of Work,” Guest Lecture, Women’s Studies 150, March 7, 2005
“The Crisis of Capitalism,” Honors Cohort Lecture, October 26, 2005
Women’s and Gender Studies 150 Course Development Committee, Fall 2004
Curriculum Committee, University of Dayton, AY 2004-09
AFW, Co-coordinator, Critical Race and Feminist Theory Reading Group, Fall 2003- present
AFW, Leadership Team, University of Dayton, AY 2003-04
History Department Secretary, Fall 2002-04
Reviewer for Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies
H-Labor Co-editor, Spring 2003-present
Labor and Working Class History Programming Committee, AY 2002-03
Panelist, “Women on the Academic Job Market,” Sponsored by the Department of Women’s Studies/Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cornell University, November 1, 2001
Women’s History Month Planning Committee, Utica College of Syracuse University, Academic Year, 2000-01
Ethnic Heritage Studies Center Committee, Utica College of Syracuse University, Academic Year, 2000-01
Black Studies Search Committee, Utica College of Syracuse University, Academic Year, 2000-01
Radio interview, “Working Class Internationalism,” Illinois Labor Hour with Peter Miller, WEFT, Champaign, Illinois, May 2000
Radio interview, “The History of May 1,” Eastern Illinois Labor Journal with Bill Gorrell and Peter Miller, WEFT, Champaign, Illinois, May 1999 17
Asian-American Search Committee, University of Illinois, Graduate Student Representative, Academic Year 1998-99
Women’s Caucus Mentor, University of Illinois, Department of History, Academic Year, 1998- 99
Teaching Awards Committee, University of Illinois, Graduate Student Representative, Academic Year, 1996-97
Radio interview, “Illinois’ Multiethnic and Biracial Coal Communities: Life, Work and Experience,” Eastern Illinois Labor Journal with Peter Miller and Susan Smith, WEFT, Champaign, Illinois, February 1996