ANNE M. VALK Jenness House, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267 413-597-2258 [email protected] Associate Director for Public Humanities and Lecturer in History, Williams College EDUCATION ____________________________________________________________________________ 1996 Ph.D., History, Duke University Fields: American Women’s History, U.S. since 1945, African American History, Women’s Studies 1991 M.A., History, Duke University 1986 B.A., Psychology, Mount Holyoke College PUBLICATIONS ____________________________________________________________________________ Books U.S. Women’s History: Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood, edited with Leslie Brown and Jacqueline Castledine (Rutgers University Press, 2017). Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of Segregation, co-authored with Leslie Brown (Palgrave, 2010). Winner of 2011 Oral History Association Book Prize. Radical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, DC, 1963-1980 (University of Illinois Press, 2008). Winner of Richard L. Wentworth Illinois Award in American History, University of Illinois Press. Articles, Chapters, and Encyclopedia Entries “Women’s Movements in 1968 and Beyond,” in Reframing 1968: American Politics, Protest and Identity, ed. Martin Halliwell and Nick Witham (Ediburgh University Press, 2018). “Industrial Remains: Community Narratives of Mashapaug Pond in Providence, Rhode Island,” in Telling Environmental Stories, ed. Katie Holmes and Heather Goodall (Palgrave, 2018). “Turning toward Mashapaug: Using Oral History to Teach about Place and Community in Providence, Rhode Island,” co-authored with Holly Ewald Transformations (Summer 2017). “Remembering Together: Take Back the Night and the Public Memory of Feminism,” in U.S. Women’s History: Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood (Rutgers University Press, 2017). “Bringing a Hidden Pond to Public Attention: Increasing Impact through Digital Tools,” co-authored with Holly Ewald, Oral History Review (winter/spring 2013). Reprinted for special virtual issue on oral history and public history, 2017 https://academic.oup.com/ohr/pages/public_history “Engaging Communities and Classrooms: Lessons from the Fox Point Oral History Project,” co-authored with Amy Atticks, Rachael Binning, Elizabeth Manekin, Aliza Schiff, Reina Shibata, and Meghan Townes, Oral History Review (spring 2011). “Framing Abortion as a ‘Health Right’ in Washington, DC,” in Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States, ed. Stephanie Gilmore (University of Illinois Press, 2008). “Lesbian Feminism,” in Encyclopedia of Gender and Society (Sage Publications, 2008). “Betty Friedan,” in Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History (Oxford University Press, 2007). Valk, 2 “Black Durham 'Behind the Veil': An Urban Case Study;” “Behind the Veil: Behind Brown,” and “Educational Resources for Teaching Jim Crow History on Web Sites and in Films,” (three articles) co-authored with Leslie Brown, in OAH Magazine of History (January 2004). “Virginia ‘Toni’ Carabillo,” in Notable American Women, Volume 5, ed. Susan Ware (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004). “’Our Territory’: Race, Place, Gender, Space and African American Women in the Urban South,” co- authored with Leslie Brown, in Katherine T. Corbett and Polly Kaufman, ed., Her Past around Us: Interpreting Sites for Women’s History (Krieger Publishing Company, 2003). “Living a Feminist Lifestyle: The Furies Collective,” Feminist Studies (Summer 2002). Reprinted in No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism, ed. Nancy A. Hewitt (Rutgers University Press, 2010). “Marching for Pride,” Gateway Heritage (Summer 2001). “’Mother Power’: The Movement for Welfare Rights in Washington, D.C., 1966-1972,” Journal of Women’s History (Winter 2000). Reprinted in Sharon Block, Ruth Alexander, and Mary Beth Norton, Major Problems in American Women’s History 5th Edition (NY: Wadsworth, 2014). “Women in Post World War II St. Louis,” and entries in Katharine T. Corbett, In Her Place: a History of Women in St. Louis (Missouri Historical Society Press, 1999). "The Furies," in Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. Volume I: Lesbian Histories and Cultures, ed. Bonnie Zimmerman (Garland, 1999). Work in Progress “Recalling Our Bitter Experiences: Consciousness Raising, Feminism, and the Roots of Oral History,” for Radical Pedagogies: Civic Engagement, Public History, and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism, edited by Denise Meringolo (under review, Amherst University Press). Companion to American Women’s History, edited with Nancy A. Hewitt (Wiley-Blackwell Press). Selected Reviews: Feminist: Stories from Women’s Liberation, Lesbiana, and She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, in Films for the Feminist Classroom, http: //ffc.twu.edu/issue_8-1-and-2/rev_Valk_8-1-and-2.html (December 2018) Janet Allured, Remapping Feminism: the Long Civil Rights Movement in Louisiana, 1950-1997, reviewed for American Historical Review (January 2018) Emily Hobson, Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left, reviewed for The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture (June 2017) Mary Weaks-Baxter, et. al., We are a College at War: Women Working for Victory in World War II, reviewed for Illinois Council for Social Studies journal, http://www.thecouncilor.org (March 2011) Sharon Davies, Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America, reviewed in Journal of American Studies (2010) Catherine Fosl and Tracy E. K’Meyer, Freedom on the Border: an Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky, reviewed in Indiana Magazine of History (March 2010) Phyllis Palmer, Living as Equals: How Three White Communities Struggled to Make Interracial Connections during the Civil Rights Era, reviewed in Journal of American Studies (2010) Catherine M. Lewis and J. Richard Lewis, ed., Race, Politics, and Memory: A Documentary History of the Little Rock School Crisis, and Ralph Brodie and Marvin Schwartz, Central in Our Lives: Voices from Little Rock Central High School, 1957-1959, reviewed in Journal of Southern History (February 2009) When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (media review), reviewed in Oral History Review (Fall 2008) Valk, 3 David Cline, Creating Choice: A Community Responds to the Need for Abortion and Birth Control, 1961- 1973, reviewed in Oral History Review (Winter/Spring 2008) Valerie Yow, Recording Oral History: A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Second Edition), reviewed in Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (Fall/Winter 2006-07) Bruce Smith, The War Comes to Plum Street, reviewed in Indiana Magazine of History (Winter 2006) Alecia P. Long, The Great Southern Babylon: Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920 reviewed in H-Urban (June 2006) Timuel Black, Bridges of Memory: Chicago’s First Wave of Black Migration, reviewed in Journal of Illinois History (Winter 2005) Gail Dubrow and Jennifer Goodman, ed., Restoring Women’s History Through Historic Preservation, reviewed in The Public Historian (Fall 2004) Through the Eyes of a Child: Growing Up Black in St. Louis, 1940-1980, Missouri History Museum exhibit, reviewed in Oral History Review (Fall 2004) Heather Becker, Art for the People: The Rediscovery and Preservation of Progressive- and WPA-Era Murals in the Chicago Public Schools, 1904-1943, reviewed in Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (Spring 2004) Felix Armfield, Black Life in West Central Illinois, Betsey J. Green, Western Springs Illinois, Alice Murata, Japanese Americans in Chicago, Palatine Historical Society, Palatine, Illinois, and Rod Sellers, Chicago’s Southeast Side, reviewed in Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (Fall 2003) David Glassberg, Sense of History: The Place of the Past in American Life, reviewed in Oral History Review 29 (Winter/Spring 2002) Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen, The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life, reviewed in Oral History Review 28 (Winter/Spring 2001) Popular and Professional Writing “Beyond Miss America 1968: A Feminist History,” Process blog, December 2018, http://www.processhistory.org/valk-1968/ “Industry’s Long Good-Bye: Listening to Stories of Jobs Lost and Hopes Remembered,” Oral History Review Blog, March 2018, http://oralhistoryreview.org/category/age-of-trump/ “From the Purple Bubble to Steeple City,” Greylock Independent, July 2016, http://greylockindependent.com/2016/07/purple-bubble-steeple-city/ “Discovering the Past, Imagining the Future: Hoosic River Revival,” Greylock Independent, October 2015, http://greylockindependent.com/2015/10/discovering-the-past-imagining-the-future-hoosic- river-revival/ “Faith is Always on the Move,” program notes to accompany performance by Ronald K. Brown and Evidence Dance Company, 2015 “Spiritual Cleansing: Religion at Mashapaug Pond,” Rhode Tour site, http://rhodetour.org “Shadows and Sounds,” Center for Public Humanities blog, http://www.brown.edu/academics/public- humanities/news/2014-06/when-endings-are-also-beginnings-fare-thee-well-annie-valk “Stepping Outside the Circle,” Center for Public Humanities blog, http://www.brown.edu/academics/public-humanities/blog/2013-09/stepping-outside-circle “A Pond by Any Other Name,” Center for Public Humanities blog, http://www.brown.edu/academics/public-humanities/blog/2013-04/pond-any-other-name FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS ____________________________________________________________________________ Research and Project Grants Valk, 4