•   University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC)
                PhD History, August 1998
                Fields:  Modern U.S. history, Women's history, U.S. Foreign Relations, Latin America
•   University of Richmond (Richmond, VA)
                MA History, August 1992
•   University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
                BA History, May 1988


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Teaching Experience

• Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH

                    Associate Professor of History (August 2005 - present)

                    Assistant Professor of History (August 1999 - present)

• University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
           Charles Coolidge Post-Doctoral Appointment (1998-1999)
                Graduate Instructor (1996-1998)
           Graduate Teaching Assistant (1993-1995)
• University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
                 Instructor (1995)

"Diplomatic Wives: The Politics of Domesticity and 'the Social Game' in the U.S. Foreign Service, 1905-1941," Journal of Women's History 17:2 (June 2005).

“A Diplomat’s Wife in Mexico: Creating Professional, Political and National Identities in the Early Twentieth Century,”  Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies 25/3 (January 2005)

“American Women on the Homefront During World War I,” in Perspectives, vol I. Timothy Dowling, ed. vol I. (NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004).

“American Diplomats in Occupied Europe During the Second World War,” in Perspectives, vol II. Timothy Dowling, ed. (NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004).

"Mapping a National Campaign Strategy: Partisan Women in the Presidential Election of 1916."  In We Have Come To Stay: American Women and Political Parties, 1880-1960, eds. Kristie Miller, Melanie Gustafson and Elisabeth Israels Perry.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.

"'A Courageous Little Band of Campaigners':  Women for Hughes in 1916."  Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association. (1995).

American Historical Association Annual Meeting.  Seattle, WA.  January 6-9, 2005.  "Representative of Our Way of Life: American Foreign Service Wives at Work Overseas."

Negotiating Identities in Latin American Cultures.  University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada)  January 30-31, 2004.  “Introducing Mexican Women to the U.S. Public: Travel Writing, Social History and Gender, 1839-1914.”

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Annual Meeting.  Washington, D.C., June 16-18, 2001.  "I Consider I had a Career in the Foreign Service."

Ohio Academy of History, Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH.  April 7, 2001.  "Integrating Women into the Historical Mainstream: A Roundtable Discussion."

Organization of American Historians, Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO.  March 30, 2000.  "Unofficially Official: American Foreign Service Wives Between the Wars."

South Carolina Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Columbia, SC.  March 6, 1999.  Roundtable Discussion on Teaching Methods and Materials.  "Use of Fiction in History Classes."

University of South Carolina Women's Studies Conference, Columbia, SC.  February 26, 1998.  "History, Gender and the Applications of Biography."

Snapshots From Abroad: A Conference on American and British Travel Writers and Writing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.  November 14-16, 1997.  "Becoming an Authority on Mexico:  Two Diplomat's Wives Tell Their Stories."

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Annual Meeting, Boulder, CO.  June 22, 1996.  "Internationalism and the Individual: One Woman's Struggle with Political Activism."
 

Current Research/Projects/Interests/Travel

Freeman Foundation Travel Grant to Vietnam.  July 2004.  (I will be developing a new course: Vietnam and the American War" for the history department.)

Book Manuscript in progress.  "American Women, Gender, and the Politics of Informal Diplomacy in the U.S. Foreign Service, 1900-1940."

Sabbatical planned for the academic year 2005-2006.

Wittenberg University
P.O. Box 720
Springfield, OH  45501