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“Antietam,” “Harper’s Ferry,” and “Lewis Tappan.” Entries for Encyclopedia of the American Civil War. Eds. David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2000.

“Da Gama's Blundering: Trade Encounters in Asia and Africa During the European ‘Age of Discovery,’ 1450-1520." The History Teacher 31, no. 3 (May 1998). 297-318.

The Global Experience; Readings in World History. 2 vols. Edited with Stuart B. Schwartz and Linda R. Wimmer. New York: Longman, 1997-1998.

American History I: An Independent Study Correspondence Course. With Edward H. Tebbenhoff. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1995.

WORKS IN PROGRESS:

Racial Imaginings: Schooling and Society in Industrial Baltimore, 1860-1920. Book manuscript to be completed Fall 2003.

Slavery, Emancipation, and the Civil War in Maryland. A two-volume anthology of political pamphlets with a projected completion date for the manuscript of Fall 2004.

“The Problem of Race in the Age of Freedom; Slavery, Emancipation, and Segregation in Baltimore, 1860-1870.” Under revision for Civil War History.

“‘This Is a White Man’s City;’ Race, Nation, and Schooling in Baltimore, 1890-1920.” To be submitted to the Journal of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.

BOOK REVIEWS:

David H. Jackson, Jr. A Chief Lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine: Charles Banks of Mississippi (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003). In preparation for H-EDUCATION.

Heather Cox Richardson. The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001). Forthcoming in Connecticut History.

Laura Browder. Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. In History of Education Quarterly 42, no.2 (Summer 2002): 295-297.

Thomas V. O’Brien. The Politics of Race and Schooling: Public Education in Georgia, 1900-1961. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2000. In History of Education Quarterly 41, no. 4 (Winter 2001): 555-558.

Laura F. Edwards. Scarlett Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000. In Maryland Historical Magazine 96, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 253-256.

Peter Temin, ed. Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. In Connecticut History 40, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 173-177.

David A. J. Richards, Italian American: The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity (New York: New York University Press, 1999). In book review symposium, Connecticut History 40, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 94-99.

Chris Dixon. Perfecting the Family: Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-Century America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. In Connecticut History 39, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 118-121.

Walter Johnson. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. For EH-NET. June 2000.

URL: http://www.eh.net/bookreviews/library/0252.shtml

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

“Revisiting the ‘Middle Ground’ between Slavery and Freedom: African Americans and the Secession Crisis in Maryland.” Paper to be presented at the Social Science History Association Annual Meeting (Baltimore, MD.) November 2003.

“Americanization, Jim Crow, and Social Reform in Progressive Era Schooling: Baltimore, 1901-1920.” Paper presented at a joint session of the American Historical Association Annual Meeting and The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era (SHGAPE) Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL). January 2003.

“The Paradox and Promise of Educational Reform in Baltimore, 1901-1921.” Paper presented at the Social Science History Association Annual Meeting (St. Louis, MO). October 2002.

“‘This Is a White Man’s City: Race, Nation, and Schooling in Baltimore, 1890-1920.” Paper presented at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting (Boston, MA). January 2001. An earlier version was presented at the Social Science History Association Conference (Pittsburgh, PA) in October 2000.

“The Problem of Race in the Age of Freedom: Schooling and Emancipation in Baltimore, 1860-1870.” Paper presented at the History of Education Society Annual Meeting (San Antonio, TX). October 2000.

“Blackness in White America: The Perilous Voyage of the Amistad in Popular Memory.” Paper presented at Race, Ethnicity and Power in Maritime America (Mystic, CT). September 2000.

“Slavery’s End in Baltimore, 1860-1867.” Paper presented at the Social Science History Association Conference (Fort Worth, TX). November 1999.

“‘A Home for Girls of Good Character: the Samuel Ready School for Girls, 1886-1921,” paper presented at People and Places in Time: Baltimore’s Changing Landscapes (Baltimore, MD), September 1999. An earlier version was presented at the 2^nd Gender Issues in Current Scholarship conference, Central Connecticut State University (New Britain, CT) in April 1999.

“Dialogues of Race: From the Rural Chesapeake to Baltimore Town, 1619-1839.” Paper presented at the Social Science History Association Conference (Chicago, IL). November 1998.

“Da Gama's Blundering: Trade Encounters in Asia and Africa During the European ‘Age of Discovery,’ 1450-1520." Paper presented at the New England Historical Association annual meeting (Boston, MA). April 1997. An earlier version was presented in a Department of History Colloquium, University of Connecticut at Storrs in April 1996.

"Coping with Change: Diversity and Education in Baltimore, 1880-1920." Paper presented at Making Diversity Work: 200 Years of Baltimore History (Baltimore, MD). November 1996.

"Gender, Nationalism, and Schooling in the United States, 1880-1920." Paper presented at the Social Science History Association Conference (New Orleans, LA). October 1996.

"Making Americans: Nationalism and the Construction of Whiteness in Public Schooling, 1875-1910." Paper presented at the Social Science History Association Conference (Chicago, IL). November 1995.

"From Republicanism to Nationalism: Baltimore Schools from the American Civil War to the Progressive Era." Paper presented at the History of Education Society Annual Meeting (Minneapolis, MN). October 1995.

"Searching for Order: The World of Teaching and Learning, 1875-1920." Paper presented at the History of Education Society Annual Meeting (Chapel Hill, NC). November 1994.

"Republicanism and American Common Schools." Paper presented at the Colonial History Workshop, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN). October 1994.

"Schooling, Nationalism, and the Historical Profession, 1876-1920." Paper presented at the Northern Great Plains History Conference (St. Paul, MN). September 1994.

"Visible Class, Invisible Ethnicity: The White Middle-Class in Baltimore Schools, 1876-1920." Paper presented at the Social Science History Association Conference (Baltimore, MD). November 1993.

"'Homes, True Homes, with Women in Them, for Our Country!' The Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women, 1942-1945." Paper presented at A World of Our Own: Caring, Freeing, Celebrating -- A Conference of International Women Working for Peace, Hamline University and the College of St. Catherine (St. Paul, MN). March 1992.

"Gender and Propriety in Mid-Victorian England, 1866-1867." Paper presented at the Social Science History Association Conference (New Orleans, LA). October 1991.

OTHER CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION:

Chair/Discussant, “Race and Place in Urban American from the Antebellum Era to the Early 20^th-Century.” Panel to be presented at the Social Science History Association Annual Meeting (Baltimore, MD). November 2003.

Chair, “Gender and Race in the Making of Personal Politics.” Panel to be presented at the Social Science History Association Annual Meeting (Baltimore, MD). November 2003.

Chair, “Race, Rights, and Mobility.” Panel presented at the Social Science History Association Annual Meeting (St. Louis, MO). October 2002.

Book Roundtable Participant, “Evelyn Nakano Glenn’s Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship.” Panel to be presented at the Social Science History Association Annual Meeting (St. Louis, MO). October 2002.

Discussant, “Antislavery Thought: North and South, Black and White.” Panel presented at the Social Science History Association Conference (Chicago, IL). November 2001.

Chair, “Reconceiving the Role of Schools in Shaping National Consciousness.” Panel presented at the History of Education Society Annual Meeting (New Haven, CT). October 2001.

Chair, “Roundtable on Joan W. Scott: Gender and Class in Cross-Cultural Perspective.” Panel presented at the Social Science History Association Conference (Pittsburgh, PA). October 2000.

Roundtable Participant, “The Changing Meanings of Race and Ethnicity in Social Science History.” Panel presented at the Social Science History Association Conference (Pittsburgh, PA). October 2000.

Moderator, “The Unwilling and the Flamboyant: Masculinity and Femininity on ‘On Stage.’” 3^rd Annual Women’s Studies Conference: Gender Issues in Current Scholarship -- Works in Progress, Central Connecticut State University (New Britain, CT). April 2000.

Chair/Discussant, “Constructing and Elaborating Identities: Gender, Race, and Nation in the Maritime Worlds of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.” Panel presented at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting (Washington, DC). January 1999.

Faculty Discussant, History & Memory: 1998 Graduate Student Conference, Department of History, Yale University (New Haven, CT). April 1998.

HONORS AND AWARDS:

Sabbatical Leave, Central Connecticut State University (2003-2004)

Semi-Finalist, Excellence in Teaching Award, Central Connecticut State University (2001)

CSU-AAUP Research Fellowship, Central Connecticut State University (1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004)

CSU-AAUP Curriculum Development Grant, Central Connecticut State University (2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003)

CSU-AAUP Faculty Development Grant, Central Connecticut State University (1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2002-2003)

Research Reassigned Time, Central Connecticut State University (Spring 1999; Spring 2000, Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Fall 2002, Spring 2003)

Doctoral Dissertation Special Grant, University of Minnesota (Spring 1994).

Department of History Fellowship, University of Minnesota (Fall 1993 and Spring 1995).

Participant, First Annual Intervising Network (Doctoral Consortium), Social Science History Association Conference (Baltimore, MD) (November 1993).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Department of History, Central Connecticut State University (1997 - present)

HIST 100: Search in History – Amistad

HIST 122: World Civilization II

HIST 301: The Historical Imagination

HIST 262: American History Survey, 1865 to Present

HIST 395: Topics in History – The Making of American Nationalism

HIST 429: Women and Reform in American Society, 1870-1920

HIST 460: African Enslavement in the Americas

HIST 465: American Economic History

HIST 466: History of American Technology

HIST 488: American Business History

HIST 489: American Labor History

HIST 490: Senior Seminar

HIST 501: Historiography (Taught as a directed reading)

HIST 566: U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction

Women’s Studies Program, Central Connecticut State University (2000)

WS 200: Introduction to Women’s Studies

Department of History, University of Connecticut (1996 - 1997)

Latin American History

Department of History, University of Minnesota (1992-1995)

U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction

World History Survey, 1450 to 1950

World History Survey, 1950 to Present

Introduction to Historical Research

Senior Thesis

Honors Division, University of Minnesota (1994 - 1995)

The Civil War in the American Imagination

African Slavery in the Americas

Department of Independent Study, University of Minnesota (1992 - 1994)

American History Survey, Colonial Period to 1877

TEACHING FIELDS:

Surveys: United States History; World History; Latin American History.

Seminars and Topics Courses: U.S. Business and Economic History; U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction; Ethnicity and Race in the American Past; Comparative History of Slavery; History of American Technology; U.S. Labor History; The Progressive Era; Historiography.

TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

2002 University Faculty Development Grant to establish ties to public history institutions in the central Connecticut region.

2002 University Curriculum Development Grant to develop a graduate methodology course.

2001 University Curriculum Development Grant to develop an M.A. in Public History

2001 University Curriculum Development Grant to develop an undergraduate methodology course.

2000 University Curriculum Development Grant to revise the undergraduate History major program of study.

1999 University Faculty Development Grant to review first-year experience courses.

1997 - 1999 Teaching Excellence Forum, Central Connecticut State University.

1993 - 1994 Facilitator, Teaching-Assistant Training Workshops, Department of History, University of Minnesota.

DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

Central Connecticut State University

Service to the School of Arts & Sciences and the University

2000 - 2002 Committee on the Concerns of Women

(chair, sub-committee on Women’s History Month, 2000 - 2002)

2000 - 2003 Grade Appeals Committee (chair, 2001 - 2003)

1999 - 2003 Faculty Senate (alternate 1999-2000)

1999 - Women’s Studies Advisory Committee (secretary, 1999 - 2001)

1999 - 2003 University Assessment Team

1999 - 2000 School of Arts & Sciences Planning Committee

1998 - 2001 University Curriculum Committee (alternate, 1998-1999, 2000-2001)

1998 - 1999 School of Arts & Sciences Computer Committee

1998 & 2000 Panelist, First-Year Faculty Roundtable, School of Arts & Sciences

Service to the History Department

2002-2003 Search Committee for Latin American History Position

2002 Assessment & Accreditation Committee (chair, 2002)

2001 - 2002 Search Committee for Endowed Chair in Polish and Polish American Studies

2000 - 2002 Planning and Personnel Committee

1999 - 2001 Search Committee for East Asian History Position

1999 - 2000, Department Parliamentarian

2001- 2002

1998 - 2001 Co-Secretary for Department Meetings

1998 - Advisor for B.A. and B.S. History Majors

1998 - 2001 Curriculum Committee (chair, 1999-2001)

1998 -1999 Library Committee

1998 -1999 Ad-Hoc Self-Assessment Committee (chair, 1999)

University of Minnesota

1993 - 1995 Graduate Student Editorial Board, Social Science History (University of Minnesota).

1994 - 1995 Joint Search Committee of the Departments of History and Afro-American & African Studies for position in African-American History

1992 Academic Freedom and Responsibility Committee, History Department

1991 - 1992 Student Representative to History Department Faculty Meetings,

1990 - 1991 Graduate Studies Committee, History Department

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

1998 - Co-Coordinator, Race/Ethnicity Network, Social Science History Association.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

American Historical Association; Organization of American Historians; Maryland Historical Society; Social Science History Association; Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture; History of Education Society; Connecticut Historical Society; Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era; Labor and Working Class History Association.