Dissertation Topic:
"Fallen Women and Forgotten Men: Gendered Concepts of Community, Home, and Nation, 1932-1945." Dissertation Director: Nancy F. Cott. Dissertation Committee: Jean-Christophe Agnew, Michael Denning, and David Montgomery. Teaching Experience:
Assistant Professor, Middlebury College, 1997-present
Visiting Assistant Professor, Middlebury College, 1995-97 American Women Writers: The New Woman, 1892-1937 History of American Women U.S. Working-Class History Fifties America Technology and the American Imagination The Divided Self 20th-Century U.S. Social History United States History: 1492-1861 United States History: 1861-1960
Visiting Lecturer, Middlebury College, 1995 Utopian Thought in America Part-time Acting Instructor, Yale University, 1993 A History of Women's Liberation
Teaching Fellow, Yale University, 1991-1993 Formation of Modern American Culture, 1920-1980 Formation of Modern American Culture, 1876-1919 American Women's History to 1900 Labor in Twentieth-Century America
Publications:
"The Citizen-Soldier and the Citizen-Internee: Military Fraternity, Race, and American Nationhood," in Reynolds Scott-Childress, ed., Race and the Construction of Modern American Nationalism (Forthcoming, Garland Press).
"The Cartoonists Front," South Atlantic Quarterly, v. 92, no. 1 (Winter 1993): 89-117. Co-authored with Michael Denning.
"Gender, the Movement Press, and the Cultural Politics of the Knights of Labor," in William S. Solomon and Robert W. McChesney, ed., Ruthless Criticism: New Perspectives in U.S. Communication History (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993): 122-150.
Conference Papers:
"The Citizen-Soldier and the Citizen-Internee: Military Fraternity, Race, and American Nationhood, 1941-1945." Organization of American Historians Meeting, April, 1994.
"Fallen Women and Forgotten Men: Female Sexuality and Women's Waged Work in 1930s Popular Film." Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June, 1993.
"New Deal Programs and the 'Citizen Adrift': Gendered Anxieties about Community, Home, and Nation, 1933-1941." Organization of American Historians Meeting, April, 1993.
"Gender, Class, and Cultural Forms: Fraternalism and the Movement Culture of the Knights of Labor." Third Annual Labor History Conference, University of Wisconsin, April, 1992.
"The War to Save the Forgotten Man: Economic Crisis and the Reconstruction of Depression-era Masculinity." American Studies Association Meeting, November, 1991.
Honors and Awards:
Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1989-1994
John P. Enders Travel Grant, Yale University, 1994
Bass Writing Fellowship, Yale University, 1992
Research and Teaching Interests:
19th- and 20th-century United States women's culture and literature; gender studies; feminist theory; United States women's history; United States cultural history; United States social history; working-class history; and race relations and ethnicity since 1865.