TAMMY M. PROCTOR

 


561 E. Cecil St.                                                                          History Department

Springfield, OH  45503                                                              Wittenberg University

(937) 323-9974                                                                          P.O. Box 720

FAX:  (937) 327-6340                                                                 Springfield, OH  45501

tproctor@wittenberg.edu                                                        (937) 327-7841

 

EDUCATION:

·        Rutgers University. New Brunswick, NJ

PhD History, October 1995

MA History, January 1993

Areas of specialization: Modern Europe and Britain, Women, Imperialism

 

·        University of Missouri. Columbia, MO

BJ Journalism, May 1990

BA History with honors, May 1990, Phi Beta Kappa

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

·        Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH (1998-present)

Chair, History Department (2002-present)

Associate Professor, History (2001-present)

Director, University Honors Program (2000-2002)

Co-Director, Women’s Studies Program (1999-2000)

·        Lakeland College, Sheboygan, WI (1995-1998)

Assistant Professor, History

·        Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (1994-1995)

Visiting Lecturer (Preceptor)

·        Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (1994)

Instructor, History

 

PUBLICATIONS:

Female Intelligence:  Women and Espionage in the First World War. New York: New York University Press,

2003.

 

“La Dame Blanche: Gender and Espionage in Occupied Belgium,” in Jenny Macleod and Pierre Purseigle, eds., Uncovered Fields: New Approaches in First World War Studies . Leiden: Brill, 2003.

 

On My Honour:  Guides and Scouts in Interwar Britain. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2002.

 

“Scouts, Guides and the Fashioning of Empire, 1919-1939,” in Wendy Parkins, ed., Fashioning the Body Politic:  Gender, Dress, Citizenship. Oxford: Berg, 2002.

 

“A Separate Path:  Scouting and Guiding in Interwar South Africa,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 42:3 (July 2000), 605-631.

 

“(Uni)Forming Interwar Youth:  Girl Guides and Boy Scouts in Britain, 1908-1939,” History Workshop Journal  45 (Spring 1998), 103-134.

 

PENDING PROJECTS:

A Civilian History of the First World War.  Under contract to New York University Press.

 

“Soldiers Without Uniforms: Women’s Intelligence Work in Occupied Belgium, 1916-18,” Proceedings: Une Guerre Totale. La Belgique dans la Première Guerre mondiale, forthcoming.

 

“ ‘Something for the Girls’: Girl Guides and Emerging Youth Cultures, 1908-1939” in Christina Benninghaus, M. J. Mayne, and Birgitte Søland, eds. Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills:  Placing Girls in Modern European History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming 2004.

 

Home and Away: Women, Popular Culture and Leisure,” in Deborah Simonton, ed. History of Women in Modern Europe since 1700. London: Routledge, forthcoming 2005.

 

“Dreyfus in the Twenty-First Century: A Reconsideration,” [co-edited special issue with RochelleMillen], Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historique, forthcoming.

 

REVIEWS AND OTHER WRITING:

“Perspectives on Teaching Women’s History,” Journal of Women’s History [forthcoming].

 

Review of Sonya O. Rose, Which People’s War? National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain 1939-1945, in History [forthcoming].

 

“‘Patriotism is not enough’: Women, Citizenship and the First World War,” Journal of Women’s History [forthcoming].

 

“Girl Guide Movement,” in The Reader’s Guide to British History.  London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2003.

 

Review of Gisela Bock, Women in European History; H-WOMEN, (December 2002).

 

“Urban Voices, Victorian Childhoods,” review of Pamela Horn, The Victorian Town Child; H-CHILDHOOD (January 1999).

 

Review of Nelson and Holmes, eds., Visions of Motherhood and Sexuality in Britain, 1875-1925, and Thomas, ed. Post-War Mothers: Childbirth Letters to Grantly Dick-Read, 1946-1956, in Albion 31:1 (Spring 1999), 153-155.

 

Review of Susan Pennybacker’s A Vision for London, 1889-1914:  Labour, Everyday Life and the LCC Experiment, in Albion 29:1 (Spring 1997), 140-141.

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

“Family Ties in the Making of Modern Intelligence,” Kith and Kith Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, February 2004

 

“ ‘Soldiers without Uniforms: Women’s Intelligence Work in Occupied Belgium, 1916-18,” Une Guerre Totale. La Belgique dans la Première Guerre mondiale, Brussels, Belgium, January 2003

 

“Soldiers without Uniform: Women Spy-Martyrs and the Remembrance of World War I,” American Historical Association Conference, Chicago, January 2003.

 

“Gender, Espionage and the Nation in WWI Britain,” North American Conference on British Studies, Baltimore, November 2002.

 

“‘Something for the Girls’: Organized Leisure in Europe, 1890-1930,” Book Workshop: Female Adolescence in European History, 1750-1970,” Zentrum für interdisiplinäre Forschung, Bielefeld (Germany), October 2001

 

"La Dame Blanche: Gender, Espionage and the Great War," European Conference in First World War Studies, Lyon (France), September 2001

 

"Gender and War in Late Victorian Britain," Locating the Victorians Conference, London (UK), July 2001

 

“A ‘Sense of Human Brotherhood’: Internationalism, Cultural Imperialism and the Boy Scout Jamboree, 1929-1939,” Northeast Conference on British Studies, Hartford, Connecticut, October 2-3, 1998

 

“(Uni)Forming Interwar Youth:  Girl Guides and Boy Scouts in Britain, 1908-1939,” American Historical Association Conference ; Seattle, WA, January 8-11, 1998

 

“White ‘Knights of the Empire’: Youth Migration, Gender and Degeneracy in Interwar Britain,” Midwest Conference on British Studies; Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 3-4, 1995

 

“Martyrs and Mothers:  Youth and Commemoration of the Great War, 1916-1939,” North American Conference on British Studies; Vancouver, October 14-16, 1994

 

“The Clothing of Class:  Uniformity and Difference in the British Guides and Scouts, 1908-1939,” Warren I. Susman Memorial Conference; Rutgers University, April 9, 1994

 

“Guiding the World:  Colonial Girls and the Guide Movement in South Africa, 1908-1939,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women; Vassar College, June 11-13, 1993

 

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:

·        Book Review Editor, H-WOMEN (2003-present)

 

·        Co-Organizer of Conference:  Centering Gender History, Loyola University, June 2004

 

·        Co-Organizer of Conference:  The Dreyfus Affair: Race, Religion and the Molding of National Identity; Wittenberg University, March 2003

 

·        Comment for Panel: “Motherly Sorts: Doctors, Devils and the Divine in Victorian Britain,” Midwest Conference on British Studies; Columbus, OH, October 18-20, 2002

 

·        "The Lemley Case: One Woman's Life in a Research Methods Course," Ohio Academy of History Conference; Capital University, April 7, 2001

 

·        “The World in the Classroom:  Strategies for Defining a Modern Global History,” Ohio Academy of History Conference; Otterbein College, April 29, 2000

 

·        “Girlz to Womyn:  University Women as Mentors for High-School Girls,” poster session, Urban Girls:  Entering the New Millenium; Buffalo, New York, April 14-15, 2000

 

·        "The Lens of Learning:  Reflective Teaching," Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education; Wright State University, April 7, 2000

 

·        Participant, A Shifting Target:  The Challenge of Teaching About Global Ethnicity in the Classroom, University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 2-4, 1997

 

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

·        Wittenberg University's Matthies Award (1999)

·        Wittenberg University Faculty Research Fund Board Grant (1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003)

·        Evangelical Lutheran Church of America Faculty Study Grant (1999)

·        Wittenberg University Professional Enrichment Grant (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003)

·        Lakeland College Faculty Development Grant (January 1997)

·        University of Wisconsin Scholar Access Grants (Summer 1996, Summer 1997)

·        Marion Johnson Fellow, Rutgers (1993-94)

·        Rutgers Graduate School Fellowship (1992-93)

·        Rutgers Graduate Scholar Award (1990-92)

 

GRANTS AWARDED:

·        American Association of University Women grant for Grrrlz to Womyn Program, 2002-04

·        KnowledgeWorks grant for Wittenberg’s Grrrlz to Womyn Program, 2002-03

·        Ohio Humanities Council grant for 2003 Conference and Program on The Dreyfus Affair

·        Columbus Jewish Foundation grant for 2003 Conference and Program on The Dreyfus Affair

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

·        American Historical Association (1994-present)

·        Steering Committee, Women's and Gender Historians of the Midwest (2001-)

--Vice President (2003-)

·        Ohio Academy of History  (1999-present)

--Dissertation Award Committee (2003-present)

--Teaching Award Committee (2001-2003)

--Program Committee (2000-2001)

·        North American Conference of British Studies (1999-present)

·        Midwest Conference on British Studies (2000-present)

·        Miami Valley Victorian Interdisciplinary Colloquium (2001-present)

·        American Association of University Women (1995-98, 2000-2001)

            --Communications Vice-President, Sheboygan Branch (1997-98)

            --Editor, Insight (1996-98)

·        National Women’s Political Caucus, Vice-Chair for Northeast Wisconsin (1997-98)

·        Organizing Committee for 1996 Wisconsin Youth Leadership Conference (HOBY)

 

UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

·        Co-Founder, Wittenberg Grrrlz to Womyn Mentoring Program (1999-present)

·        Faculty Personnel Board, Wittenberg University (2002-present, Chair 2003-04)

·        Hearing Board on Tenure and Academic Freedom, (2001-2002)

·        Faculty Research Fund Board, Wittenberg University (1999-2002)

·        Feminist Reading Group, Wittenberg University (1998-present)

·        Founder, Wittenberg Works in Progress Group, (2000-present)

·        Faculty Advisor for Phi Alpha Theta and History Journal, Wittenberg University (1998-2000)

·        Faculty Advisor for Circle K International, Wittenberg Chapter (1998-2000)