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Curriculum Vitae
Professional
Experience
Assistant Professor of History
College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA)
Lilly Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellow in Humanities and the Arts, 1998-2000
Instructor in Humanities and History
Christ College, Valparaiso University (Valparaiso, IN)
Education
PhD, May 1998, History, Duke University, Durham, NCDissertation:
High Culture in the Low Country: Arts, Identity and Tourism in Charleston,
South Carolina, 1920-1940
Major Fields: Twentieth-century
U.S. History
U.S. Women's History
Public and Cultural History
Southern History
M.A., History,
Duke University, Durham, NC, December, 1990
A.B., Magna Cum
Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, American Studies, Georgetown University, Washington,
DC, May, 1988
Academic
Awards
Frances Acomb Named Instructorship, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1994-95.
Certificate in
Women's Studies, Department of Women's Studies, Duke University, Durham,
NC, Fall, 1991.
Chester P. Middlesworth
Award for excellence in graduate research, William R. Perkins Library,
Duke University, Fall, 1991.
Grants
and Fellowships
Batchelor-Ford
Summer Fellowship, College of the Holy Cross, 2002.
Tuition
Grant, College of the Holy Cross to attend New Media Classroom Summer
Institute, "Culture Wars: 1920s America," (in conjunction with
the American Social History Project (CUNY) and the American Studies Association's
Crossroads Project) Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts, June
24-28, 2001.
National Endowment
for the Humanities, The Built Environment of the American Metropolis,
1900-2000: Public and Private Realms, Summer, 1999.
Lilly Foundation,
Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1998-2000.
Mellon Foundation
Dissertation Research Award, Summer, 1994.
Research Fellow,
Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina, 1993-94.
Dissertation Research
Grant, Center for the Study of Philanthropy and Voluntarism, Public Policy
Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC, Summer, 1993.
Mary Duke Biddle
Foundation and the Center for Documentary Studies, research grants for
Art of the Southern United States: Slide Collection Catalog and Bibliography
(see Publications), Duke University, Summer, 1991.
Fellowship for
Graduate Study, Department of History, Fall, 1990-Spring, 1992.
Teaching
Experience
College of the Holy Cross
- Twentieth-Century
United States I & II
- Modern American
Women
- Public History
and Memory
- Culture of
the Fifties
- Between the
World Wars
Valparaiso
University
- Memory &
Public History: Whose Past Is It Anyway (Spring 2000)
- Texts and Contexts
in the Humanities (Spring 2000)
- Forging a Nation:
American Experiences, Pre-contact to 1877
- American Experiences:
1877 to Present
- What is an
American? Race and Ethnicity in Twentieth-Century America
- American History
Through Film
Duke University
- The Vietnam
War Era: Workshop in Rhetoric
- Tell About
the South: Cultural and Intellectual History of the American South,
1865-1945
Publications
A
Golden Haze of Memory: History and the Making of Civic Identity in Charleston,
South Carolina, 1920-1940 (book manuscript under contract with the
University of North Carolina Press).
"The Legend
is Truer than the Fact: The Politics of Representation in the Career of
Elizabeth O'Neill Verner," for Perspectives on the Charleston
Renaissance, James Hutchisson and Harlan Greene, editors (accepted
for publication with University of Georgia Press, forthcoming, 2003).
"Rich and Tender Remembering: Elite White Woman and an Aesthetic
Sense of Place in Charleston,1920s and 1930s," in Where These
Memories Grow: History, Memory and Southern Identity, W. Fitzhugh
Brundage, editor (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2000).
"More than
Mere Brick and Mortar: Personal and Collective Memory, the Mediation of
History and Architectural Preservation in Charleston, South Carolina,
1920-1940," Conference Proceedings American Schools of Collegiate
Architecture (Washington University, St. Louis, October 1998).
Art of the
Southern United States: Slide Collection Catalog and Bibliography.
Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Department of Art and Art History,
1991.
Assorted Book
Reviews.
Professional
Presentations
"Please
God, Send Us the Yankees: Northern Capital, Plantation Mythology and
the Manufacture of an 'Authentic' American Experience," The Southern
Historical Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, November 2001 (panel
co-organizer).
"And the
Livin' is Easy: Race and Civic Identity in the Writings of DuBose
Heyward," Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
National Conference, Philadelphia, April 2001
(panel organizer and chair of Literature and Society panel).
"The Legend
is Truer than the Fact: Fashioning Self, Race and Place in the Public
Career of Artist Elizabeth O'Neill Verner", Southern Association of Women's
Historians Annual Conference, Richmond, June 2000.
"Primitive
songs...from the soul of an alien race: Blackface in Whiteface in
America Between the World Wars" American Historical Association, Chicago,
January, 2000 (panel organizer).
"Historical
Memory Wars: Shaping Representations of the Past in the Public Sphere,"
Christ College Honors Symposium, Valparaiso University, November 4, 1999.
"American Material
Culture and the Construction of the Racial Other,"A World With No
Outsiders, Martin Luther King., Jr. Day Conference, Valparaiso University,
January, 1999.
"More than
Mere Brick and Mortar: Personal and Collective Memory, the Mediation
of History and Architectural Preservation in Charleston, South Carolina,
1920-1940," American Schools of Collegiate Architecture Regional Conference,
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, October 3, 1998.
"A
Golden Haze of Memory and Association:
White Female Memory and the Creation of Historic Charleston", Southern
Association of Women's Historians Annual Conference, Charleston, South
Carolina, June 13, 1997.
"Il Passato Nel
Presente: La Storia, La Memoria é La Cittá di Charleston,
South Carolina," at the invitation of the Fulbright Program in Southern
History, Universitá di Genova, Italy, April 4, 1995.
"Black World,
White Filter: Women Mediating Women's Experiences in Art and Oral History,"
Fourth Annual Graduate Research Conference, Duke University, November
19, 1994.
"Cum,
Cum En Go Wid Me: The Society for the Preservation of Negro Spirituals
and the Development of Tourism in Charleston, South Carolina," Southern
Historical Association Annual Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky, November
11, 1994.
Related
Professional Experience
Special Collections Reference & Research Services Intern, Special
Collections Library, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1996-97; Summer 1998.
Executive Coordinator, Mellon Foundation-funded Sawyer seminar and conference,
"New Nationalisms, New Identities, New Perspectives," Duke University,
Durham, NC, 1996-97.
Annotator, Post-Emancipation Slave Societies Bibliography: The American
South, Leslie Rowland, section editor, University of Michigan Press, Spring
1996-Fall 1997.
Program Secretary and Conference Coordinator, American Studies Program,
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1987-88.
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