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<strong>LINDA</strong> K. <strong>KERBER</strong><br />

<strong>Office</strong>: Department <strong>of</strong> History<br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong><br />

<strong>Iowa</strong> City, <strong>Iowa</strong> 52242<br />

(319) 335-2303 or 2309<br />

FAX: (319) 335-2293<br />

Home: 425 Lexington Avenue<br />

<strong>Iowa</strong> City, <strong>Iowa</strong> 52246<br />

(319) 351-8446<br />

EDUCATION<br />

A.B. Barnard <strong>College</strong>, 1960<br />

Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude, Honors in American Studies<br />

M.A. New York <strong>University</strong>, 1961<br />

Ph.D. Columbia <strong>University</strong>, 1968<br />

Major Adviser, Richard H<strong>of</strong>stadter<br />

D.H.L. Grinnell <strong>College</strong>, 1992<br />

APPOINTMENTS<br />

2006-2007 Harmsworth Visiting Pr<strong>of</strong>essor, Queen’s <strong>College</strong>, Oxford <strong>University</strong><br />

1985- May Brodbeck Pr<strong>of</strong>essor in the Liberal Arts and Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> History,<br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong><br />

1998-- Lecturer in <strong>Law</strong>, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Law</strong><br />

2003–2006 Chair, Department <strong>of</strong> History<br />

1991-92 Visiting Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> History, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Chicago<br />

1975-85 Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> History, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong><br />

1971-75 Associate Pr<strong>of</strong>essor, Department <strong>of</strong> History, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong><br />

1970-71 Visiting Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essor, Department <strong>of</strong> History, Stanford <strong>University</strong><br />

1969-70 Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essor, Department <strong>of</strong> History, San Jose State <strong>College</strong><br />

1963-68 Instructor/Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essor, Department <strong>of</strong> History, Stern <strong>College</strong>,<br />

Yeshiva <strong>University</strong>


PUBLICATIONS<br />

BOOKS<br />

Federalists in Dissent: Imagery and Ideology in Jeffersonian America (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell <strong>University</strong> Press,<br />

1970). Paperback edition, 1980.<br />

Selection from Chapter 6 published in Major Problems in American History,<br />

vol. I, ed. Elizabeth Cobbs H<strong>of</strong>fman and Jon Gjerde, (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002), pp. 178-187.<br />

Women <strong>of</strong> the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (Chapel Hill, N.C.: Institute <strong>of</strong> Early American<br />

History and Culture, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> North Carolina Press, 1980). Hardcover and paperback. Second paperback<br />

edition, W.W. Norton, 1986. Third Paperback edition, Institute <strong>of</strong> Early American History and Culture: <strong>University</strong><br />

<strong>of</strong> North Carolina Press, 1997.<br />

Women's America: Refocusing the Past - An Anthology, edited with Jane De Hart (Oxford <strong>University</strong> Press, 1982).<br />

Hardcover and paperback. 2 nd edition, 1987; 3 rd edition, 1991; 4 th edition, 1995; 5 th edition, 2000; 6 th edition,<br />

2004. Japanese edition, Domes Publishers, Inc. 2000, 2002<br />

American Literature: An Anthology, 2 vols., edited with Emory Elliott, A. Walton Litz and Terence Martin (Englewood<br />

Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1991).<br />

U.S. History as Women's History: New Feminist Essays [in honor <strong>of</strong> Gerda Lerner], edited with Alice Kessler-<br />

Harris and Kathryn Kish Sklar, (Chapel Hill, N.C. <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> North Carolina Press, 1995), hardcover and<br />

paperback. Korean translation, Il Shin Publishing, forthcoming.<br />

Toward an Intellectual History <strong>of</strong> Women: Essays by Linda K. Kerber (<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> North Carolina Press, 1997),<br />

hardcover and paperback.<br />

No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations <strong>of</strong> Citizenship, (Hill & Wang, New York, 1998;<br />

paperback edition, 1999). Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for the best book in women’s history and feminist theory<br />

(American Historical Association); Littleton-Griswold Prize for the best book on the history <strong>of</strong> American law and<br />

society (American Historical Association).<br />

ESSAYS<br />

“Toward a History <strong>of</strong> Statelessness in America,” American Quarterly LVII (2005) 727-49<br />

“Foreward” to Gerda Lerner, The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History (1979), Chapel Hill:<br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> North Carolina Press, 2005.<br />

“Subversive Moments: Challenging the Traditions <strong>of</strong> Constitutional History,” with<br />

Patricia Cain, Texas Journal <strong>of</strong> Women and the <strong>Law</strong>, XIII (2003) pp. 91-111.<br />

“Writing Our Own Rare Books,” Yale Journal <strong>of</strong> <strong>Law</strong> and Feminism XIV (2002) pp. pp. 429-51<br />

“‘I Was Appalled’: The Invisible Antecedents <strong>of</strong> Second Wave Feminism,” Journal <strong>of</strong> Women’s History vol. 14<br />

(2002) 86-97.<br />

“Sally Reed Demands Equal Treatment,” in Alan Brinkley and James McPherson, eds, Days <strong>of</strong> Destiny (New York:<br />

DK Publishers, 2001) pp. 441-51.


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“Gender and Inequality,” Newsletter, Am. Academy <strong>of</strong> Arts & Sciences LIV (2001)<br />

“On the Importance <strong>of</strong> Taking Notes (and Keeping Them),” in Eileen Boris and Nupur Chaudhuri, eds.,<br />

Voices <strong>of</strong> Women Historians: The Personal, The Political, The Pr<strong>of</strong>essional (Bloomington: Indiana<br />

<strong>University</strong> Press, 1999), pp. 44-60. An adaptation <strong>of</strong> the introduction to Toward an Intellectual History <strong>of</strong><br />

Women.<br />

“The Meanings <strong>of</strong> Citizenship” (Presidential Address, Organization <strong>of</strong> American Historians) Journal <strong>of</strong><br />

American History Vol. 84 (1997) 833-854. A shorter version <strong>of</strong> this essay appears in Dissent (Fall, 1997)<br />

pp. 33-37, in Italian translation, in Acoma (Spring, 1998), pp. 80-87, and in Roland Hagenbuchle and Josef<br />

Raab, eds. Negotiations <strong>of</strong> America’s National Identity, vol. 1 (Tubingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2000).<br />

"L'action des femmes dans la Révolution américane," (written in English, translated into French<br />

Encyclopédie politique et historique des femmes, ed. Christine Fauré, (Paris Presses Universitaires de<br />

France, 1997) pp. 119-137.<br />

"Obligation" in Richard Wightman Fox and James T. Kloppenberg, eds. A Companion to American<br />

Thought, (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995) pp. 503-507.<br />

"A Constitutional Right to be Treated Like Ladies": Women, Civic Obligation and Military Service,"<br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Chicago <strong>Law</strong> Roundtable June 1994. Portion reprinted in Barbara Babcock, et al, eds., Sex<br />

Discrimination and the <strong>Law</strong>: History, Theory, and Practice (Boston: Little, Brown 1996).<br />

"The Paradox <strong>of</strong> Women's Citizenship in the Early Republic: The Case <strong>of</strong> Martin v. Massachusetts, 1805,"<br />

American Historical Review, Vol. 97 (1992): 349-378.<br />

"Gender and Equality in American History," with Jane De Hart, in Luther Luedtke, ed.,Making America:<br />

The Society and Culture <strong>of</strong> the United States, (<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> North Carolina Press, 1992). Reprinted in<br />

Mary K. Cayton, et al, The Encyclopedia <strong>of</strong> American Social History (New York: Macmillan 1993).<br />

"'Why Should Girls be Learn'd and Wise?’ The Unfinished Work <strong>of</strong> Alice Mary Baldwin," in Nancy<br />

Hewitt and Suzanne Lebsock, eds., Visible Women: Essays in Honor <strong>of</strong> Anne Firor Scott (<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />

Illinois Press, Nov. 1993). Revised and expanded version <strong>of</strong> "'Why Should Girls be Learn'd and Wise?’:<br />

Two Centuries <strong>of</strong> Higher Education for Women as Seen Through the Unfinished Work <strong>of</strong> Alice Mary<br />

Baldwin," in John Mack Faragher and Florence Howe, eds., Women and Higher Education in American<br />

History (New York: W. W. Norton, 1988).<br />

"Can a Woman be an Individual?: The Discourse <strong>of</strong> Self-Reliance," in Richard Curry and <strong>Law</strong>rence<br />

Goodheart, eds., American Chameleon: Individualism in Trans-National Context (Kent, Ohio: Kent State<br />

<strong>University</strong> Press, 1991): 151-66.<br />

With Martha Chamallas, "Women, Mothers, and the <strong>Law</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fright," Michigan <strong>Law</strong> Review 88 (Feb.<br />

1990): 814-64. Reprinted in Saul Levmore, ed. Foundations <strong>of</strong> Tort <strong>Law</strong> (Oxford <strong>University</strong> Press, 1993)<br />

and Robert L. Rabin, ed. Perspectives on Tort <strong>Law</strong>, 4th edition, (Little, Brown; 1995). Cited in Twyman &<br />

Twyman 855 S.W. 2d 619 (Tex. 1993) at p. 643.<br />

"'I Have Dun...Much to Carrey on the Warr': Women and the Shaping <strong>of</strong> Republican Ideology After the<br />

American Revolution" in Women and Politics in the Age <strong>of</strong> the Democratic Revolution, eds. Darline G.<br />

Levy and Harriet Applewhite, (Ann Arbor: <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Michigan Press, 1990): 227-57. Abridged<br />

version Journal <strong>of</strong> Women's History I (1990): 231-43.<br />

"The Revolutionary Generation: Ideology, Politics and Culture in the Early Republic," in Eric Foner, ed.,<br />

Remaking United States History (Philadelphia: Temple <strong>University</strong> Press, 1990): 25-50. Also issued as<br />

individual pamphlet, American Historical Association: The New American History, series, 1992, Revised<br />

edition, and (1997).


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"Diversity and the Transformation <strong>of</strong> American Studies," American Quarterly (Fall 1989): 415-31.<br />

"Beyond Roles, Beyond Spheres: Thinking About Gender in the Early Republic," Symposium, William<br />

and Mary Quarterly, (July 1989): 565-85.<br />

"Making Republicanism Useful: Response to the Work <strong>of</strong> C. Sunstein and F. Michelman," Yale <strong>Law</strong><br />

Journal 97 (July 1988): 1663-72.<br />

"History Will do It No Justice: Women and the Reinterpretation <strong>of</strong> the American Revolution," in Ronald H<strong>of</strong>fman,<br />

ed., Women in the Age <strong>of</strong> the American Revolution (<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Virginia Press, 1989): 3-42. Reprinted<br />

in Richard D. Brown, ed. Major Problems in the History <strong>of</strong> the American Revolution, 2 nd edition<br />

(Houghton Mifflin, 2000).<br />

"Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Woman's Place: The Rhetoric <strong>of</strong> Women's History," Journal <strong>of</strong><br />

American History 75 (1988): 9-39. Reprinted in Nancy Cott, ed. History <strong>of</strong> Women in U.S. (Reed<br />

Publishing Co, 1993); Rutgers <strong>University</strong> Women's Studies Program: Women, Culture, and Society: A<br />

Reader (Kendall-Hunt, 1994); Cathy N. Davidson, ed. No More Separate Spheres! (Duke <strong>University</strong><br />

Press, 2002), pp. 29-65.<br />

"May all our Citizens be Soldiers and all our Soldiers Citizens: The Ambiguities <strong>of</strong> Female Citizenship in<br />

the New Nation," in The Work <strong>of</strong> Peace, ed. Joan R. Challinor and Robert Beisner (Westport, CT:<br />

Greenwood Press, 1987): 1-22. Reprinted in Jean Bethke Elshtain and Sheila Tobias, eds., Thinking About<br />

Women, Militarism and War: Essay in History, Politics and Social Criticism (New York, Rowman and<br />

Littlefield, 1990): 89-104.<br />

"Nothing Useless, Absurd, or Fantastical: The Education <strong>of</strong> Women in the Early Republic," in Carol<br />

Lasser, ed., Educating Men and Women Together: Coeducation in a Changing World (<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />

Illinois Press, 1987).<br />

"The Republican Ideology <strong>of</strong> the Revolutionary Generation," American Quarterly XXXVII (1985): 474-<br />

95.<br />

"Ourselves and our Daughters Forever: Women and the Constitution, 1776-1876," This Constitution: A<br />

Bicentennial Chronicle (1985) No. 6, pp. 25-34, published by Project '87 <strong>of</strong> the American Historical<br />

Association and the American Political Science Association. Reprinted in Marjorie Spruill Wheeler, ed.<br />

One Woman, One Vote (Troutman, OR: New Sage Press, 1995).<br />

"Can a Woman be an Individual? The Limits <strong>of</strong> Puritan Tradition in the Early Republic," Texas Studies in<br />

Literature and Language 25 (1983): 165-78.<br />

"Laura Ingalls Wilder," Notable American Women: The Modern Period (Cambridge, MA: Harvard<br />

<strong>University</strong> Press, 1980).<br />

"Annie Nathan Meyer," Notable American Women: The Modern Period, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard<br />

<strong>University</strong> Press, 1980).<br />

"The Household: Conducted by Mrs. Nellie M. Rich," edited with Robert Burchfield, The Palimpsest 61<br />

(1980): 42-55.


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"Female Dissent in Antebellum America," in Milton Cantor and Howard Quint, Main Problems in<br />

American History (Dorsey Press, 1978) I, 204-21, 4th edition. 5th edition, I, 178-94.<br />

"The Politicks <strong>of</strong> Housework," Archives section, Signs IV (1978) 402-406.<br />

“From the Declaration <strong>of</strong> Independence to the Declaration <strong>of</strong> Sentiments, 1776-1848," Human Rights<br />

Journal (January 1978).<br />

"The Republican Mother--Women and the Enlightenment: An American Perspective," American Quarterly<br />

XXVIII (1976): 187-205. Reprinted, with commentary by Ruth Bloch, in Locating American Studies: The<br />

Evolution <strong>of</strong> a Discipline, ed. Lucy Maddox, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins <strong>University</strong> Press, 1999) pp. 143-<br />

65<br />

"Daughters <strong>of</strong> Columbia: Educating Women for the Republic," in Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick, eds.,<br />

The H<strong>of</strong>stadter Aegis: A Memorial (New York: Knopf, 1974): 36-59. Reprinted in Jean Friedman and<br />

William Shade, Our American Sisters: Women in American Life and Thought (Boston, 1976) and<br />

subsequent 2nd, 3rd, & 4th editions (1987).<br />

"The Abolitionist Perception <strong>of</strong> the Indian," in The Journal <strong>of</strong> American History LXII (September 1975):<br />

271-295.<br />

"The Federalist Party," in Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., ed., A History <strong>of</strong> Political Parties, (New York, 1973), I,<br />

3-29.<br />

"Science in the Early Republic: The Society for the Study <strong>of</strong> Natural Philosophy," William and Mary<br />

Quarterly, 3rd ser., XXIV (1972): 263-80.<br />

"Abolitionists and Amalgamators: The New York City Race Riots <strong>of</strong> 1834," New York History, XLVIII<br />

(1967): 28-39.<br />

"Oliver Wolcott, Midnight Judge," Bulletin <strong>of</strong> the Connecticut Historical Society, XXXII (1967): 25-30.<br />

"Politics and Literature: The Adams Family and the Port Folio," William and Mary Quarterly, XXIII<br />

(1966): 450-76 (with Walter John Morris).<br />

SELECTED BOOK REVIEWS<br />

“Revolution in Retrospect,” essay review, American Scholar, Spring 2000<br />

“Moving Beyond Stereotypes <strong>of</strong> Feminism,” Chronicle <strong>of</strong> Higher Education, April 23, 1999, pp. B6-B8. (essay<br />

review <strong>of</strong> four books and a video)<br />

"Choosing the Indians" Review <strong>of</strong> John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1994), New<br />

York Times Book Review, April 24, 1994, p. 19.<br />

Essay review <strong>of</strong> Michael Merrill and Sean Wilentz, eds. The Key <strong>of</strong> Liberty: The Life and Democratic Writings <strong>of</strong><br />

William Manning, A Laborer, 1747-1814 (Cambridge: Harvard <strong>University</strong> Press, 1993) in The Nation July 19,<br />

1993, pp. 108-111.<br />

Essay review <strong>of</strong> Joan Wallach Scott, Gender and the Politics <strong>of</strong> History (New York: Columbia <strong>University</strong> Press,<br />

1988), in International Labor and Working Class History 39 (Spring 1991): 91-94.


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"Working Class Democracy in America: Sean Wilentz and the Jacksonian Worker," [Essay Review <strong>of</strong> Sean<br />

Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise <strong>of</strong> the American Working Class (New York: Oxford<br />

<strong>University</strong> Press, 1984)] in International Labor and Working Class History (Spring 1987).<br />

"'Let Her Own Works Praise Her': The Lives <strong>of</strong> Seventeenth-Century Women," [Essay Review <strong>of</strong> Laurel Thatcher<br />

Ulrich, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives <strong>of</strong> Women in Northern New England (New York: A.A. Knopf,<br />

1982)], in Reviews in American History XII (1984): 182-88.<br />

Carl Degler, At Odds, in Signs VIII (1982): 138-43.<br />

Essay review <strong>of</strong> The Papers <strong>of</strong> James Madison, William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, XXXV (January 1978):<br />

147-55.<br />

Other reviews in American Historical Review, Journal <strong>of</strong> American History, William and Mary Quarterly, The<br />

History Teacher, Political Science Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly.<br />

COMMENTARY<br />

“Protecting the Nation’s Memory,” Chronicle <strong>of</strong> Higher Education May 19, 2006,<br />

p. B20.<br />

“Risking Our Dreams: Conditions <strong>of</strong> Work for Women Historians in the Twenty-First Century,” Journal <strong>of</strong><br />

Women’s History vol 18 (2006) pp. 121-132; an expanded version <strong>of</strong> “A New Agenda for the Academic<br />

Workplace,” The Chronicle <strong>of</strong> Higher Education Review, March 18, 2005.<br />

“Two Days in March: Historians and Humanities Advocacy Day,” Perspectives: Newsmagazine <strong>of</strong> the<br />

American Historical Association, vol.44 (May 2006),<br />

pp.3-6<br />

“Depending on the Contingent: The Hidden Costs for History,” Perspectives: Newsmagazine <strong>of</strong> the American<br />

Historical Association, vol.44 (April 2006), pp.3-6.<br />

“The Equitable Workplace: Not for Women Only,” Perspectives: Newsmagazine <strong>of</strong> the American Historical<br />

Association, vol.44 (February 2006), pp.3-6 and at www.historians.org/perspectives<br />

“When Things Fall Apart: Citizenship as a Countervailing Force,” Perspectives: Newsmagazine <strong>of</strong> the<br />

American Historical Association, vol.44 (January 2006)<br />

pp.3-5 and at www.historians.org/perspectives<br />

“We Are All Historians <strong>of</strong> Human Rights,” Perspectives (October, 2006)<br />

“Women <strong>of</strong> the Republic at Twenty-Five: Reflections” at a panel celebrating the publication <strong>of</strong> the book and<br />

Mary Beth Norton’s Liberty’s Daughters: Society for the History <strong>of</strong> the Early Republic Annual Meeting,<br />

Philadelphia, July 2005, with comments by Susan Klepp, Rosemarie Zagarri, Jennifer Morgan. Text <strong>of</strong> my<br />

talk published in Uncommon Sense, published by the Omohunro Institute <strong>of</strong> Early American History &<br />

Culture, Fall, 2005, pp. 20-23.<br />

Response to “Perspectives on the Writing and Teaching <strong>of</strong> History–The Work <strong>of</strong> Linda Kerber” Western<br />

Association <strong>of</strong> Women Historians,<br />

June 2003 (comments by Alice Kessler-Harris, Suzanne Lebsock, Terri Snyder, Grace Larsen)


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Brief <strong>of</strong> Women’s History Scholars: Alice Kessler-Harris, Linda Kerber et al, in Support <strong>of</strong> Respondents,<br />

Department <strong>of</strong> Human Resources <strong>of</strong> Nevada et al v. William Hibbs and the United States <strong>of</strong> America, January 2003<br />

Brief <strong>of</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>essors <strong>of</strong> History George Chauncey, Nancy Cott...Linda Kerber as Amici Curiae in support <strong>of</strong><br />

Petitioners, John Geddes <strong>Law</strong>rence and Tyron Garner v. State <strong>of</strong> Texas January, 2003.<br />

“The Asymmetrical Obligations <strong>of</strong> Citizenship”: Voices <strong>of</strong> Public Intellectuals, Radcliffe <strong>College</strong>, February, 2003.<br />

Broadcast over 3 dozen NPR stations<br />

during March, 2003; other versions given at Boston <strong>College</strong> School <strong>of</strong> <strong>Law</strong>,<br />

March, 2003 (Note: Although the title is similar, that is because this is part <strong>of</strong> extended book in progress)<br />

“Through Women’s Eyes: An American History,” MIT History Department, March. 2003<br />

“Transnational Movements, Women’s Equality and Citizenship, “ Yale <strong>Law</strong> School, May, 2003<br />

WSUI, “The Life and Work <strong>of</strong> Janusz Bardach,” October, 2003.<br />

WBEZ Chicago: Odyssey with Gretchen Helfrich, “Political History”<br />

November 7, 2002<br />

Foreward to Susan L. Glosser, Chinese Visions <strong>of</strong> Family and State, 1915-1953, (Berkeley: <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> California<br />

Press, 2002) pp.ix-xiv.<br />

Preface to Louise Noun, Annie Savery (<strong>Iowa</strong> City: <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong> Libraries, 2002)<br />

“The Asymmetries <strong>of</strong> Citizenship,” Common-Place (an internet journal devoted to<br />

early American history: www.common-place.org, vol. 2, July 2002<br />

“Portraying an ‘Unexceptional American History,” Chronicle <strong>of</strong> Higher Education,<br />

July 5, 2002<br />

“Top Court Took a Step Backward on Gender Bias,” [comment on Supreme Court decision in Nguyen v<br />

Immigration and Naturalization Service, Boston Globe, June 23, 2001.<br />

“A New Century <strong>of</strong> Feminism: Where Are We Going? Where Have We Been?” Barnard Alumnae Review,<br />

Summer, 2000.<br />

“Tales from the Stacks: Birthday Wishes to the Library <strong>of</strong> Congress,” Civilization, May 2000.<br />

“How Has Feminism Influenced the Writing <strong>of</strong> History?” Women’s Review <strong>of</strong> Books, Feb. 2000<br />

National Public Radio, “Talk <strong>of</strong> the Nation” April, 1999 (Individualism vs. Community)<br />

Radio and TV: Fall 1998 & Winter 1999: No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies:<br />

WNYC: Leonard Lopate; KQED: Michael Krasny;<br />

WILL: Quinn Celeste; C-SPAN<br />

“Teaching American History: A Forum,” American Scholar, vol. 67 (1998) pp. 99-100<br />

"How U.S. and Vietnamese Scholars Can Build a Future from a Troubled Past," Chronicle <strong>of</strong> Higher Education,<br />

March 28 1997.<br />

"Point <strong>of</strong> View: If there were no Humanities Endowment," Chronicle <strong>of</strong> Higher Education, Sept. 29, 1995.


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"Judge Ginsberg's Gift," Washington Post August 1, 1993.<br />

"In Memoriam: John A. Kouwenhoven, 1909-1990," American Quarterly, Sept. 1992.<br />

"Opinionative Assurance:' The Challenge <strong>of</strong> Women's History," in OAH Magazine <strong>of</strong> History VI (1991): 30-34.<br />

"Consensus History, with Complications," Radical History Review 42 (1988): 18-23.<br />

"Richard H<strong>of</strong>stadter," Dictionary <strong>of</strong> Historians, (Oxford: Blackwell, 1988).<br />

"A Study <strong>of</strong> Freedom is Bound by Omissions," Review <strong>of</strong> Oscar & Lilian Handlin, Liberty and Power in<br />

Philadelphia Inquirer, January 18, 1987.<br />

"Some Cautionary Words for Historians," in symposium on the work <strong>of</strong> Carol Gilligan, Signs, XII (1986) 304-310.<br />

Reprinted in Mary Jeanne Larrabee, ed., An Ethic <strong>of</strong> Care (New York: Routledge, 1993).<br />

"I Wish I'd Been There," American Heritage, (December 1984).<br />

"Another Chapter in Women's Fight for Rights," Des Moines Register, July 5, 1984.<br />

"In Memoriam: Annette Baxter," American Quarterly 35 (1983): 455-57.<br />

"Coming <strong>of</strong> Age at 66," Moment Magazine (May 1982): 47-49.<br />

"The Politics <strong>of</strong> Shared Hatreds," essay review <strong>of</strong> Robert Kelley, The Cultural Pattern in American Politics, in<br />

Books and Arts, June 25, 1979, p.8.<br />

"Point <strong>of</strong> View: It Must be Womanly as Well as Manly to Earn Your Own Living," Chronicle <strong>of</strong> Higher Education,<br />

September 6, 1977.<br />

"Needed: Feminist Sons," Des Moines Register, July 3, 1977.<br />

"Emerging, Groggy, From 81 Books. . . ," Washington Post, May 2, 1976.<br />

GRANTS AND AWARDS<br />

Barnard <strong>College</strong>, Alumnae Fellow, 1964-65.<br />

Kent Fellow, Danforth Foundation, 1966-68.<br />

Grant-in-aid, Penrose Fund, American Philosophical Society, 1971.<br />

Grant-in-aid, American Bar Foundation, 1975.<br />

Grant-in-aid, American Council <strong>of</strong> Learned Societies, 1975.<br />

Faculty Research Fellowship, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong>, Spring 1982, Spring 1987.<br />

Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1976, 1983-84, 1994.<br />

Senior Scholar in Residence, Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, <strong>University</strong><br />

<strong>of</strong> Pennsylvania, fall 1987.<br />

Fellow, National Humanities Center, 1990-91.<br />

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1990-91.<br />

Residency, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Villa Serbelloni, Rockefeller<br />

Foundation, summer 1991.<br />

Regents Award for Faculty Excellence, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong>, 1993.<br />

Honors Program Faculty Award, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong>, April 1996.<br />

Radcliffe <strong>College</strong> Award for Distinguished Scholarship in the field <strong>of</strong> Women, Gender and Society, 1999.


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<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong> Graduate <strong>College</strong>, Special Recognition/Outstanding Mentor in the Humanities and Fine Arts<br />

Award, 2001<br />

Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Spring 2003<br />

BOARDS AND COMMITTEES<br />

CURRENT<br />

President, American Historical Association, 2006<br />

Commissioner, Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (a Federal Agency) 2001-2006<br />

Member, Executive Committee<br />

Member, U.S. Panel, US-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON) 2001-06<br />

(on which I serve as a member <strong>of</strong> the U.S.Friendship Commission); Keynote Address, Sendai<br />

Japan, November 2003<br />

Elected Memberships:<br />

American Philosophical Society<br />

American Academy <strong>of</strong> Arts and Sciences :<br />

Class IV Sec 2 Membership Committee 2002<br />

Selection Panel, Visiting Fellowships, 2001<br />

Society <strong>of</strong> American Historians (Executive Board, 1998- 2003)<br />

American Antiquarian Society<br />

Massachusetts Historical Society<br />

PEN/American Center<br />

Chair, Executive Board, Omohundro Institute <strong>of</strong> Early American History and Culture, 2001-2006<br />

Advisory Editor, "Gender and American Culture" Series” Univ. <strong>of</strong> North Carolina Press.<br />

Editorial Board, Signs: A Journal <strong>of</strong> Women in Culture and Society (<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Chicago Press), (1975–<br />

Visiting Committee, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard <strong>University</strong>, 2004–continuing<br />

Senior Advisory Board, National Constitution Center, 1999– continuing<br />

Scholarly Advisory Board, Jewish Women’s Archives, 2001– continuing<br />

Editorial Board, Journal <strong>of</strong> Women’s History, 2002–-<br />

Editorial Board, Modern Intellectual History, 2003---<br />

Board <strong>of</strong> Consulting Editors, International Labor and Working Class History’ 1993 - ).<br />

Editorial Advisory Committee, The Adams Papers.<br />

Editorial Advisory Board, The Papers <strong>of</strong> James Madison.<br />

BOARDS AND COMMITTEES


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President, Organization <strong>of</strong> American Historians, 1996-1997.<br />

President, American Studies Association, 1988-1989.<br />

Constance Rouke Prize Committee (for the best article in the American Quarterly), 2005 , La<br />

Pietra Prize Selection Committee, 2001-04 .<br />

Executive Board, Organization <strong>of</strong> American Historians, 1986-1989; liaison member <strong>of</strong> the Committee on<br />

Minority Historians and Minority History; Chair, OAH Program Committee, 1980; Member, Curti Prize<br />

Committee<br />

Board <strong>of</strong> Directors, American Society <strong>of</strong> Legal History, 1994-1996.<br />

Council <strong>of</strong> the Institute <strong>of</strong> Early American History and Culture, 1984-1987.<br />

Advisory Council, Princeton <strong>University</strong> History Department, 1984-1988.<br />

Advisory Board, Program in the History <strong>of</strong> the Book in American Culture, American Antiquarian Society (1983-<br />

88).<br />

American Historical Association, Committee on Women Historians, 1972-1975; Chair 1973-1974.<br />

Editorial Board, <strong>Law</strong> and History Review (1993-1997).<br />

Editorial Board, Reviews in American History, 1984-1991.<br />

Editorial Board, American Historical Review, 1987-1990.<br />

Editorial Board, Virginia Magazine <strong>of</strong> History and Biography, 1984-1988.<br />

Editorial Board, Journal <strong>of</strong> American History, 1981-1984.<br />

Editorial Board, Intellectual History Newsletter, 1981-1984.<br />

Editorial Board, American Studies, 1973-1975.<br />

CURRICULUM AND TEACHING<br />

“Subversive Moments: Challenging the Traditions <strong>of</strong> Constitutional History,” with Patricia A. Cain, “Subversive<br />

Legacies: Learning from History, Constructing the Future Conference, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Texas <strong>Law</strong> School, November,<br />

2002<br />

May, 2000 Conducted WebForum on Teaching the U.S. Constitution on HistoryMatters. Over the course <strong>of</strong> the<br />

month I responded to questions and comments about teaching the meanings <strong>of</strong> the U.S. Constitution with high<br />

school teachers and teachers <strong>of</strong> the college U.S. survey course. HistoryMatters is a project <strong>of</strong> the American Social<br />

History Project at the City <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason<br />

<strong>University</strong>.<br />

Constitutional History in the Schools: National Endowment for the Humanities-American Historical Association,<br />

1983. Lesson published in Society for History Education, Network News Exchange, vol. XI (Spring 1986): 14-31<br />

and vol. XII (Fall 1986): 14-31. Reprinted in Clair W. Keller and Denny L. Schillings, eds., Teaching about the<br />

Constitution (Washington, DC: National Council for the Social Studies, 1987).<br />

Consultant: National Center for Materials and Curriculum Development, <strong>Iowa</strong> City: Design <strong>of</strong> an American<br />

History Curriculum for Students whose native languages are Indo-Chinese (1982-83). Project translated into<br />

Spanish, 1987.<br />

The Impact <strong>of</strong> Women on American Education, Nonsexist Teacher Education Curriculum Development Project<br />

(NSTEP), Women's Education Equity Act Program, U.S. Department <strong>of</strong> Education, 1980. Published by Education<br />

Development Center, Newton, MA, 1983.<br />

With Carol Berkin, Sara Evans, and Lois Banner, eds., Her Story: Women's Place is in the History Books--A<br />

Curriculum Guide (Princeton, NJ: Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation), 1981.<br />

Consultant: Curriculum on Women in American Culture, Title IV, ESEA, Northfield Public Schools, Northfield,<br />

MN, 1981-82.


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SELECTED UNPUBLISHED PAPERS<br />

“Citizenship: Exclusion and Emergence,” Conference on Cultural Citizenship: Varieties <strong>of</strong> Belonging,” Radcliffe<br />

Institute, February, 2004.<br />

“Cherishing Our Inheritance, Naming New Harms,” Keynote Session with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Justice<br />

Sandra Day O’Connor, Resourceful Women: Researching and Interpreting American Women’s History, Library <strong>of</strong><br />

Congress, June, 2003. See http://www.loc.gov/rr/women/<br />

“Historians and the National Endowment <strong>of</strong> the Humanities,” Legislative Workshop, Annual Meeting, Organization<br />

<strong>of</strong> American Historians, April 2002.<br />

“ Hendrik Hartog’s Man & Wife in America,” Am. Soc. Legal History, Oct. 2001<br />

“The Asymmetry <strong>of</strong> Citizenship,” American Society <strong>of</strong> Legal History, October 2000<br />

Keynote Address, “Emma Harvat Day,” Civic Center, City <strong>of</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong> City, August, 2000<br />

“The Importance <strong>of</strong> Documentary Editions – not only those <strong>of</strong> the Founding Fathers – for Understanding U.S.<br />

History,” Conference on the Papers <strong>of</strong> the Founders, Pew Memorial Trust Philadelphia, June 2000.<br />

“Women and the Changing Meanings <strong>of</strong> Freedom: 225 th Anniversary <strong>of</strong> the American Revolution,” National Park Service<br />

Conference, Boston, June 2000.<br />

“The Public Obligations <strong>of</strong> Intellectuals,” UI Graduate Forum, 2000, April 2000<br />

"Women's History for the 1990s", Schlesinger Library 50th Anniversary Conference, Working Papers, 1993.<br />

(published in Working Papers volume, June 1994).<br />

"Search for a Conservative Feminism: Rose Wilder Lane in the Interwar Years," Berkshire Conference <strong>of</strong> Women<br />

Historians, Sixth Conference on Women's History, Smith <strong>College</strong>, June 1984.<br />

"Future Directions in Women's History: The Bucharest Report as a Starting Point,” American Historical Association<br />

Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., December 1980.<br />

"Perspectives in Women's History: The Cautionary Example <strong>of</strong> Mary Beard," Berkshire Conference <strong>of</strong> Women<br />

Historians, Fourth Conference on Women's History, Mount Holyoke <strong>College</strong>, August 1978.<br />

LECTURES AND SEMINARS<br />

“A Historian Reads: The Career <strong>of</strong> Barbara Sicherman,” Trinity <strong>College</strong>, Hartford, CT<br />

September, 2005<br />

Gilbert Os<strong>of</strong>sky Lecture, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Illinois-Chicago, April, 2005<br />

“Toward a History <strong>of</strong> Statelessness in America”<br />

Keynote Address, “Legal Borderlands: <strong>Law</strong> and the Construction <strong>of</strong> American Borders,<br />

Scripps <strong>College</strong>, September, 2004<br />

Keynote Address, “Talking and Doing Citizenship: A Graduate Student Conference,” Rutgers <strong>University</strong>, April,<br />

2004.<br />

“Gender and Inequality,” <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Missouri, Columbia, March, 2004


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OAH Lecture, Park <strong>University</strong>, Kansas City, MO, March, 2004<br />

“Gender and Inequality,” Richard Geiger Lecture, St. Ambrose <strong>University</strong>, November, 2002<br />

Participant in Roundtable on Women, War and Citizenship, Berkshire Conference <strong>of</strong> Women’s History, Storrs, CT,<br />

June, 2002<br />

“Gender and Inequality,” Keynote Address, Symposium on Kentucky Women and<br />

Commission on Women, Lexington KY April 2002.<br />

Politics, Kentucky<br />

Keynote Address, Women <strong>of</strong> the Vietnam War Era Conference, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Houston, March, 2002.<br />

OAH Lecture, St Louis <strong>University</strong>, March, 2002<br />

Keynote Address, Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, NE March 2002.<br />

Legal History Workshop, Ohio State <strong>University</strong>, November, 2001<br />

Robert Wilson Memorial Lecture, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> North Dakota, November, 2001<br />

O. MeredithWilson Lecture, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Utah, October, 2001<br />

“The Women’s Movement and the 1970s,” Salisbury House Lectures, Des Moines 2001<br />

Charles Edmondson Memorial Lectures, Baylor <strong>University</strong>, March, 2001<br />

“Women, Citizenship and Violence,” <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Colorado-Denver, March 2001<br />

“Paternity, Maternity and the Inheritance <strong>of</strong> Citizenship,”<br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Colorado–Colorado Springs, March 2001<br />

“Gender and Inequality, Stated Meeting Address: American Academy <strong>of</strong> Arts and Sciences, December 2000<br />

“The Obligations <strong>of</strong> Citizenship,” The J.S. Finley Lecture, George Mason <strong>University</strong>, Nov. 2000.<br />

Seminar for Smithsonian Curators on “Citizenship and the American Flag: Placing the Star Spangled Banner in<br />

Historical Context,” and Lecture for Smithsonian Curators: “Why Diamonds Really Were a Girl’s Best Friend, and<br />

Other Important Facts <strong>of</strong> Women’s History,” The National Museum <strong>of</strong> American History, October 2000.<br />

OAH Lecture, Northern Illinois <strong>University</strong>, October 2000.<br />

“‘I Was Appalled’: The Invisible Antecedents <strong>of</strong> Second Wave Feminism,” Plenary Address, Conference on<br />

“Agents <strong>of</strong> Social Change,” Smith <strong>College</strong>, Sept. 2000.<br />

“Writing our Own Rare Books,” Plenary Address, Conference on “Women, Justice and Authority,” Yale <strong>Law</strong><br />

School, April 2000.<br />

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Schlesinger Library Lecture, Radcliffe <strong>College</strong>, October 1998.<br />

Newberry Library Lecture, October 1998 (Broadcast by C-Span, November 1998).<br />

Respondent, panel on No Constitutional Rights to Be Ladies, Annual Meeting, American Society for Legal History,<br />

October 1998.<br />

Respondent, panel on No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> California-Berkeley, October 1998<br />

Phi Beta Kappa National Visiting Scholar, 1998-99 (8 colleges and universities).<br />

“He Said, She Said: Stories About Work,” Chicago Humanities Festival, 1997<br />

Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Notre Dame, 1996.<br />

Merle Curti Lectures, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Wisconsin, October 1996.<br />

Milton Klein Lecture, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Tennessee, September 1996<br />

Speaker at Inaugural Symposium for President Hunter Rawlings, Cornell <strong>University</strong>, October 1995.<br />

Speaker at Retirement Ceremonies for President Mary Maples Dunn, Smith <strong>College</strong>,<br />

April 1995.<br />

California Humanities Institute, Santa Barbara, 1995.<br />

Annenberg Seminar, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Pennsylvania, 1995.<br />

Abraham Baldwin Lecture, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Georgia, 1995.<br />

OAH Lecture, Ohio State <strong>University</strong>, 1994.<br />

OAH Lecture, Case Western Reserve <strong>University</strong>, 1993.<br />

Commencement Address, Grinnell <strong>College</strong>, 1992.<br />

Brown Symposium, Southwestern <strong>University</strong>, 1992.<br />

Humanities Foundation Lecture, Boston <strong>University</strong>, 1991.<br />

Rorschach Lecture, Rice <strong>University</strong>, 1990.<br />

Jefferson Memorial Lectures, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> California-Berkeley, 1989.<br />

Scholar in Residence, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1987.<br />

Kennedy Lecture, Ohio <strong>University</strong>, 1987.<br />

OAH Lecturer, Denison <strong>College</strong>, 1987.<br />

Presidential Lecture, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong>, 1987.<br />

Charles Phelps Taft Lecture, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Cincinnati, 1986.<br />

Patten Lectures, Indiana <strong>University</strong>, 1985.<br />

OAH Lecturer, Middlebury <strong>College</strong>, 1984.<br />

Douglass Southall Freeman Lectures, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Richmond, 1984.<br />

Mellon Visiting Pr<strong>of</strong>essor in Women's History, Kenyon <strong>College</strong>, 1981.<br />

Melissa Gerhardstein Memorial Lecture, Grinnell <strong>College</strong>, 1980.<br />

Miller Committee Lecture, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Illinois, 1978.<br />

Visiting Bicentennial Scholar, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Pennsylvania, 1977.<br />

SELECTED INTERNATIONAL LECTURES AND SEMINARS


“Sustaining Civil Society: International Perspectives,” Keynote Address, CULCON XXIII: The U.S. -Japan<br />

Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange, November 2003, published by CULCON Secretariat Japan in<br />

both English and Japanese<br />

“Women’s History: The State <strong>of</strong> the Field,” Tsuda <strong>College</strong>, Tokyo, 2003<br />

“Gender and Inequality,” American Studies Center, Fudan <strong>University</strong>,<br />

Shanghai, October, 2002<br />

Visiting Senior Mellon Scholar, Cambridge <strong>University</strong>, November 2000.<br />

“Gender and Nationalism,” Doshisha <strong>University</strong> Anniversary Symposium, Kyoto, November 1998; also seminar:<br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Tokyo; public lecture: Tokyo Women’s Christian <strong>University</strong>.<br />

“He Said, She Said: Historians Tell Stories about the Past,” Plenary Address, Biennial<br />

International Conference, Italian Association for North American Studies, Pescara, October 1997.<br />

"Gender, Citizenship and American Studies," Keynote, Thirtieth Annual Meeting <strong>of</strong> the Japanese Association for<br />

American Studies, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Tokyo, June 1996.<br />

"Gender," Conference on the State <strong>of</strong> Historical Writing in North America, Università di San Marino, San Marino,<br />

June 1995.<br />

Keynote Address, "Crossing borders: International Dialogues on Gender, Citizenship, and Social Politics,"<br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Stockholm, May 1994.<br />

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"Men and Women: Boredom, Violence, and Political Power," The Japan Foundation: Center for Global Partnership<br />

Conference: "The End <strong>of</strong> the Century: The Future in the Past," Nagano, Japan, September 1993. Published in<br />

Japanese, Kokusaikoryu (Journal <strong>of</strong> The Japan Foundation) 1994 and in English the proceedings <strong>of</strong> the Conference,<br />

Kodansha Publishers 1997.<br />

"Women and the Paradoxes <strong>of</strong> Citizenship in the United States," Ernst Fraenkel Lecture, Free <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Berlin,<br />

June 1990.<br />

"New Directions in the Writing <strong>of</strong> U.S. Women's History" and other lectures, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Tokyo; Doshisha<br />

<strong>University</strong>, National Women's Education Center <strong>of</strong> Japan, Annual Meeting, Japanese American Studies Association,<br />

Kobe, March 1989.<br />

"Women and the Language <strong>of</strong> Citizenship," Fourth Biennial Symposium: The Languages <strong>of</strong> Revolution, Milan<br />

Group in Early United States History, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Milan, June 1988.<br />

"Women and the Shaping <strong>of</strong> Political Ideology After the American Revolution," Conference on Gender and<br />

Political Culture in the Age <strong>of</strong> the Democratic Revolution, Villa Serbelloni, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy,<br />

Aug. 1985.<br />

Women and American Culture," joint conference <strong>of</strong> the AHA and the Italian Historical Association, Florence, Italy,<br />

October 1983.<br />

Other lectures and seminars at <strong>University</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>of</strong> Wales, Aberystwyth (1982); <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Hamburg, Federal<br />

Republic <strong>of</strong> Germany (1983); <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> La Plata, Argentina (1987); Argentine American Studies Association,<br />

Buenos Aires (1987); American Studies Research Center, Hyderabad; Tata Institute <strong>of</strong> Social Sciences and the<br />

USIS, Bombay, India (1988), <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Hiroshima (1990).


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Brigham Young <strong>University</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> California, Irvine<br />

Carleton <strong>College</strong> (two)<br />

Chatham <strong>College</strong>, March 2000<br />

Colonial Williamsburg<br />

Columbia <strong>University</strong> (two)<br />

Georgetown <strong>University</strong> <strong>Law</strong> Center<br />

Harvard <strong>University</strong> (three)<br />

Harvard <strong>Law</strong> School<br />

Indiana <strong>University</strong><br />

<strong>Iowa</strong> State <strong>University</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Kansas<br />

Lake Forest <strong>College</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Louisville<br />

Macalester <strong>College</strong><br />

Marquette <strong>University</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Massachusetts, Boston<br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Miami<br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Michigan (two)<br />

National Humanities Center<br />

Middlebury <strong>College</strong><br />

New York <strong>University</strong> (two)<br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> North Carolina, Chapel Hill<br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> North Carolina School <strong>of</strong> <strong>Law</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> North Carolina, Greensboro<br />

Northern Illinois <strong>University</strong><br />

Northwestern <strong>University</strong>, (two)<br />

Ohio State <strong>College</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Law</strong><br />

Princeton <strong>University</strong> (two)<br />

Purdue <strong>University</strong><br />

Reed <strong>College</strong><br />

Smith <strong>College</strong><br />

Smithsonian Institution<br />

Stern <strong>College</strong>, Yeshiva <strong>University</strong><br />

Tokyo Woman's Christian <strong>University</strong><br />

Tsuda <strong>College</strong>, Tokyo<br />

Vanderbilt <strong>University</strong><br />

Wayne State <strong>University</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Wisconsin<br />

RECENT UNIVERSITY SERVICE<br />

Provost’s Task Force on Gender Equity 2005-06<br />

Chair, Department <strong>of</strong> History 2003–06<br />

Provost Search Committee, Fall 2003<br />

Committee to Review the Provost and the <strong>Office</strong> <strong>of</strong> the Provost, 2000-2002Arts and Humanities Initiative Task<br />

Force1998-2002<br />

<strong>College</strong> <strong>of</strong> Liberal Arts and Sciences:<br />

Committee to Review the Department <strong>of</strong> English, 2001<br />

Board <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong> Press: 1995-May 2000


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PhD COMMITTEES<br />

Second Reader: Mary Kelley, History Ph.D. Awarded 1975<br />

“Private Woman: Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in America,” published by<br />

Oxford <strong>University</strong> Press, 1985, Private Woman: Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in America.<br />

Second Reader: Alan January, History Ph.D. Awarded 1977<br />

“The Negro Seamen’s Acts.”<br />

Committee Member: Mimi Frenier, History Ph.D. Awarded 1978<br />

“Women in the Chinese Communist Party, 1930-1950.”<br />

Second Reader: Susan Coultrap-McQuin, American Studies Ph.D. Awarded 1979<br />

"Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: The Cultural Context <strong>of</strong> a Nineteenth Century Pr<strong>of</strong>essional Writer," revised and<br />

published as Doing Literary Business: American Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century (<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> North<br />

Carolina Press, 1990).<br />

Second Reader: Robert Humphrey, History Ph.D. Awarded 1979<br />

“Children <strong>of</strong> Fantasy: Greenwich Village Intellectuals,” published as<br />

Children <strong>of</strong> Fantasy: Greenwich Village Intellectuals, (Wiley, 1980).<br />

First Reader: Jill Zahniser, American Studies Ph.D. Awarded 1985<br />

“Women’s Cooperative Businesses in the 1970s.”<br />

Second Reader: Marcelline Hutton, History Ph.D. Awarded 1986<br />

“Women in the Soviet Union: 1917-1941” Winner, Duane Spriestersbach Prize for the best dissertation in<br />

the Humanities at The <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong>, 1984-1986.<br />

Second Reader: Judy Temple [Lensink], American Studies Ph.D. Awarded 1987<br />

"My Only Confident": The Diary <strong>of</strong> Emily Hawley Gillespie," published as A Secret to be Buried: The<br />

Diary and Life <strong>of</strong> Emily Hawley Gillespie 1858-1888 (<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong> Press, 1989) Winner <strong>of</strong> the State<br />

Historical Society <strong>of</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong> Prize for the best book in the history <strong>of</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong>, 1990.<br />

Second Reader: John G. Kolp, History Ph.D. Awarded 1988<br />

“The Flame <strong>of</strong> Burgessing: Elections and Political Communities <strong>of</strong> Colonial Virginia 1728-1775,”<br />

published as Gentlemen and Freeholders: Electoral Politics in Colonial Virginia (Johns Hopkins <strong>University</strong> Press,<br />

1998.<br />

Committee Member: Jane Schultz, American Culture Program Ph.D. Awarded 1988<br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Michigan<br />

Women at the Front: Gender and Genre in Literature <strong>of</strong> the American Civil War<br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> North Carolina Press, 2004<br />

First Reader: JoAnn Castagna, American Studies Ph.D. Awarded 1989<br />

"Women, Sexuality and Popular Culture:<br />

Gender Identity in Sensation Novels <strong>of</strong> the 50s."<br />

First Reader: Katherine Jellison, History Ph.D. Awarded 1990<br />

Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology 1920-1965,<br />

(<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> North Carolina Press, 1993).<br />

First Reader: Kimberly Jensen, History Ph.D. Awarded 1991


"Minerva on the Field <strong>of</strong> Mars: American Women, Citizenship, and Military Service in the First World War."<br />

Manuscript under review.<br />

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First Reader: Brenda Child, History Ph.D. Awarded 1992<br />

"A Bitter Lesson: Native Americans and the Government Boarding School Experience, 1890-1940." Published as<br />

Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Nebraska Press, 1998.<br />

First Reader: Terri L. Snyder, American Studies<br />

Ph.D. Awarded<br />

1992<br />

"Rich widows are the Best Commodity this Country Affords" :<br />

Gender Relations and the Rehabilitation <strong>of</strong> Patriarchy in Virginia, 1660-1700” Published as “Brabling Women”:<br />

Gender, <strong>Law</strong>, and Culture in Seventeenth Century Virginia , Cornell <strong>University</strong> Press, 2003.<br />

Second Reader: Dennis Deslippe, History Ph.D. Awarded 1993<br />

Rights, Not Roses: Women, Industrial Unions, and the <strong>Law</strong> <strong>of</strong> Equality in the United States, 1945-1980.<br />

Published as “Rights, Not Roses”: Unions and the Rise <strong>of</strong> Working Class Feminism 1945-1980, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />

Illinois Press, 1999.<br />

Second Reader: Phyllis Steele, History Ph.D. Awarded 1993 "Hungry Hearts,<br />

Idle Wives, and New Women: The American Novel Re-Examines Nineteenth Century Domestic Ideology, 1890-<br />

1917."<br />

Committee Member: Douglas Baynton, History Ph.D. Awarded 1993<br />

Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign Against Sign Language, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Chicago Press, 1996.<br />

Committee Member: Steve Reschly, History Ph.D. Awarded 1993<br />

"Alternate Dreams and Repertoire <strong>of</strong> Community on the <strong>Iowa</strong> Prairie, 1840-1910". Published as The Amish on the<br />

<strong>Iowa</strong> Prairie, John Hopkins <strong>University</strong> Press, 2000.<br />

Committee Member: Adam Schwartz, Writers Workshop, Ph.D. Awarded 1993<br />

(short stories; most published in The New Yorker)<br />

Co-Reader: Alison Kibler, American Studies Ph.D. Awarded 1994<br />

“Female Varieties: Gender and Cultural Hierarchy on the Keith Vaudeville Circuit, 1890-1925.” Finalist, Scott-<br />

Lerner Prize, Organization <strong>of</strong> American Historians. Published as Rank Ladies: Gender and Cultural Hierarchy in<br />

American Vaudeville, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> North Carolina Press, 1999. Winner: Toth Prize, Popular Culture Association,<br />

1999.<br />

First Reader: Sharon Wood, American Studies Ph.D. Awarded 1994<br />

“Wandering Girls and Leading Women: Sexuality and Urban Public Life in Davenport, <strong>Iowa</strong><br />

1880-1910,” published as The Freedom <strong>of</strong> the Streets: Work, Citizenship and Sexuality in a<br />

Gilded Age City <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> North Carolina Press, 2005.<br />

First Reader: Sharon Halevi, History Ph.D. Awarded 1994<br />

"The Path Not Taken: Class, Race, and Gender in the South Carolina Back Country, 1750-1800".<br />

Second Reader: Barbara Welke, History, Univ. <strong>of</strong> Chicago Ph.D. Awarded 1995<br />

"Gendered Journeys: A History <strong>of</strong> Injury, Public Transport and American <strong>Law</strong>, 1865-1920." Winner, Scott-Lerner<br />

Prize, Organization <strong>of</strong> American Historians. Published as Recasting American Liberty, Cambridge <strong>University</strong> Press,<br />

2001.


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Co-Reader: Barb Handy-Marcello, History Ph.D. Awarded 1996<br />

"Carrying Half: Gender and Settlement in Rural North Dakota, 1875-1930", published as Women <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Northern Plains: Gender and Settlement on the Homestead Frontier 1870-1930, Minnesota Historical Society Press,<br />

2005<br />

First Reader: Phillip Otterness, History Ph.D. Awarded 1996<br />

"The Unattained Canaan: The 1709 Palatine Migration and the Formation <strong>of</strong> German Society in Colonial<br />

America" Winner <strong>of</strong> Dixon Ryan Fox Manuscript Prize, New York State Historical Association, 2003. Published as<br />

Becoming German: The 1709 Palatine Migration to New York (Cornell <strong>University</strong> Press, 2004).<br />

First Reader: Kim Nielsen, History Ph.D. Awarded 1996<br />

"The Security <strong>of</strong> the Nation: Anti-Radicalism and Gender in the Red Scare <strong>of</strong> 1918-1928". Published as<br />

Un-Ameican Womanhood: Antiradicalism, Antifeminism, and the First Red Scare Ohio State <strong>University</strong> Press,<br />

2001.<br />

Committee Member: Russell Johnson, History Ph.D. Awarded 1996<br />

An Army for Industrialization: The Civil War and the Formation <strong>of</strong> Urban-Industrial Society in a Northern<br />

City. Fordham <strong>University</strong> Press, 2004<br />

First Reader: Catherine E. Rymph, History Ph.D. Awarded 1998<br />

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New Right, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> North Carolina Press, 2005.<br />

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Co-Reader: Leslie Taylor, American Studies Ph.D. Awarded 1998<br />

“A Veritable Hotbed: Lesbian Scandal in the United States, 1926-1936."<br />

Committee Member: Arturo Bird-Cremona, History Ph.D. Awarded 1998<br />

“Between the Insular Road and San Juan Bay: The Cigar World <strong>of</strong> Puerta de Tierra.”<br />

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"Savage Gentlemen: Filipinos and Colonial Subjectivity in the United States, 1903-1946.”<br />

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“The Forging <strong>of</strong> Catholic Political Identity in the United States: New York,<br />

1775-1835." Forthcoming, Fordham <strong>University</strong> Press<br />

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Committee Member, Mary Beth Combs, Economics PhD Awarded 2000<br />

Second Reader: Eric Fure-Slocum, History PhD Awarded 2001<br />

“The Challenge <strong>of</strong> the Working Class City: Recasting Growth Politics and Liberalism in Milwaukee, 1937-<br />

1952" [winner: Spriestersbach Prize for the best dissertation in the Arts and Humanities 1999-2001]<br />

(Manuscript under review)<br />

Committee Member, Jane Simonsen, American Studies PhD Awarded 2001<br />

"Making Home Work: Race, Gender & the Uses <strong>of</strong> American Domestic Space, 1850-1920." Published as<br />

Making Home Work: Race, Gender and the Uses <strong>of</strong> American Domestic Space, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> North Carolina Press,<br />

Spring, 2006.<br />

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“Drunken Husbands, Drunken State: The Chicago WCTU and the Remaking<br />

<strong>of</strong> Family Life”<br />

Committee Member, David M. Lewis-Colman, PhD Awarded 2001<br />

“African Americans and the Politics <strong>of</strong> Race Among Detroit’s Auto Workers,<br />

1941-1971” Forthcoming, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Illinois Press<br />

Committee Member, Michelle Rhoades PhD Awarded 2001<br />

"'No Safe Women: Prostitution, Masculinity and Disease in France<br />

During the Great War"Second Reader, Christopher Gerteis PhD Awarded 2001<br />

“Politics Too Far from Home: Japanese Women, Their Unions,<br />

and the Security Treaty Struggle, 1945-1960"<br />

Committee Member, Ann Bronwyn Paulk, Art History PhD Awarded 2002<br />

“Thomas Eakins and Antiheroic Modernism”<br />

Committee Member: Sharon Kennedy-Nolle, English PhD Awarded 2002<br />

"The Reconstruction <strong>of</strong> Postwar Literary Regionalism: Alternative Literary Visions <strong>of</strong> New Souths and<br />

New Citizens, 1865-1886"<br />

Committee Member, Yunxiang Gao PhD awarded 2005<br />

“Sports, Gender and the Nation-State During the Anti-Japanese War<br />

1931-1945"<br />

Second Reader, Bridgett Williams-Searle, PhD awarded 2005<br />

“Resolving the Revolution: Intimate Empires, Property Relations and the <strong>Law</strong> <strong>of</strong> the Early Republic”<br />

Committee Member, John Searle PhD Awarded 2005<br />

"Broken Brothers and Soldiers <strong>of</strong> Capital:<br />

Disability, Manliness, and Safety on the Rails, 1863-1908"<br />

Second Reader, Junko Kobayashi PhD awarded 2005<br />

“Bitter-Sweet Home: History <strong>of</strong> Japanese Language<br />

Japanese-American Literature 1936-1962"<br />

Co-Reader, Catherine Denial PhD Awarded 2005<br />

“‘A Proper Light before the Country’: The Shifting Politics <strong>of</strong> Gender and Kinship among theOjibwe,<br />

Dakota, and Non-Native Communities <strong>of</strong> the Upper Midwest, 1825-1845"<br />

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“Living in a Diasporic Community: Becoming Black Annapolitans, 1790 to 1860.”<br />

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Citizenship in <strong>Iowa</strong>, 1865-1898"<br />

“Imposing their Will: Testamentary Capacity<br />

and Visions <strong>of</strong> Family in Nineteenth Century Kentucky”<br />

PhD Awarded 2006<br />

“Performing Faith: Religious Practice and Identity in the Puritan Atlantic,”<br />

Second Reader: Heather Miyano Kopelson,<br />

Prospectus Approved, Fall<br />

2003<br />

Prospectus Approved, Spring 2003<br />

: Reconstructing Women’s<br />

itizenship in the Age <strong>of</strong> Slave Emancipation, St. Louis, 1861-1876<br />

Prospectus Approved, Fall, 2003<br />

One Touch <strong>of</strong> Nature Makes the Whole World Kin”<br />

, 1880-1924<br />

erican Studies<br />

Prospectus Approved, Fall 2003<br />

Opportunity<br />

in Revolutionary New Jersey, 1763-1820 “<br />

Prospectus Approved, Fall, 2004<br />

"Women's Internationalism and U.S.-Mexican Relations, 1910-1939."<br />

Prospectus Approved, Spring 2005<br />

“A Severe and Thankless Task” : Managing the Middle Class<br />

in Nineteenth Century Domestic Literature<br />

Prospectus Approved, Fall 2005<br />

The Linda Eaton Case: Gender, Labor, <strong>Law</strong> and the Local<br />

Dynamics <strong>of</strong> Social Transformation, 1975-1995<br />

Prospectus Approved, Spring,2006<br />

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