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 1 My last name was Merithew from April 201-August 2019. 2 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 3 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) 4 (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