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Florence Kelley Letters Project
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Living U.S. Women's History: Voices from the Field: An Oral History Project, 1960-2000
Training Workshop for Collaborators, July 7-9, 2001
Publications Related to Center Projects
Dissertation Seminar in U.S. Women's History
Competing Kingdoms Conference at Oxford, 2006
Completed Dissertations in U.S. Women's History
S.U.N.Y. Binghamton
Kathryn Kish Sklar, Chairperson
Robyn Rosen, "Federal Responsibility or Government Tyranny? -- Women's Reproductive Reform and the Growth of the Welfare State, 1917-1940" (1992). Published as Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights: Reformers and the Politics of Maternal Welfare, 1917-1940 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2003). Associate Professor of History, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York.
Kathleen R. Babbitt, "Production and Consumption in the Countryside: Rural Women and Cooperative Extension Home Economists in New York State, 1870-1940" (1995). Finalist, Lerner-Scott Prize for the Best Dissertation in U.S. Women's History, 1996. Independent Scholar, Binghamton, New York.
Kimberly Schmidt, "Transforming Tradition: Women's Work and the Effects of Religion and Economics in Two Rural Mennonite Communities" (1995). Recipient, American Association of University Women Fellowship, 1993-94. Author of "Schism: Where Women's Outside Work and Insider Dress Collided," in Kimberly D. Schmidt et al., Amish and Mennonite Women in History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). Lecturer, University of Maryland, College Park.
Amy E. Butler, "The Search for Equality: Alice Paul and Ethel Smith in the Equal Rights Amendment Debate, 1921-1923" (1997). Published as Two Paths to Equality: Alice Paul and Ethel M. Smith in the E.R.A. Debate, 1921-1929 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002). Director of Development, Rural Community Assistance Program, Washington, D.C.
Carol Faulkner, "'The Hard Heart of the Nation': Gender, Race, and Dependence in the Freedman's Aid Movement, 1862-1877" (1998). Published as Women's Radical Reconstruction: The Freedman's Aid Movement, 1862-1876 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003). Portions published as "How Did White Women Aid Former Slaves during and after the Civil War and What Obstacles Did They Face?" on "Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000." Fellow, National Historical Records and Publications Commssion, Lucretia Mott Papers, Pomona College, Claremont, California (1998-1999); Price Visiting Fellowship, Clements Library, University of Michigan (2000). Associate Professor, SUNY Geneseo.
Jan Doolittle Wilson, "'Citizens with Unselfish Aim': The Women's Joint Congressional Committee and Its Campaign for Progressive Legislation, 1920-1930," (2000). Published as "Organized Women under Attack": The Women's Joint Congressional Committee and Its Legislative Campaigns for Mothers and Children, 1920-1930 (University of Illinois Press, 2005). Recipient, Excellence in Teaching Award, SUNY Binghamton, 1999. Recipient, Henry du Pont Dissertation Fellowship in Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library, winter 2000. Recipient, General Federation of Women's Clubs Research Award, 2004. Visiting Assistant Professor, Grinnell College, 2000-2001. Assistant Professor, Ft. Hays State University, Hays, Kansas, 2001-2004; Associate Professor, Central Michigan University, 2005.
John McGuire, "A Catalyst for Reform: The Women's Joint Legislative Conference and Its Fight for Labor Legislation in New York State, 1918-1933" (2000). Author of "From the Courts to the State Legislatures: Social Justice Feminism, Labor Legislation, and the 1920s," Labor History Vol. 45, no. 2 (May 2004). Recipient, Margaret Storrs Grierson Grant, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, summer 1999; Dissertation Research Grant, Roosevelt Library, 2000. Assistant Professor, SUNY Oneonta.
Linda Shoemaker, "Charity and Justice": Gender and the Mission of Social Work -- Social Work Education in Boston, New York, and Chicago, 1898-1930" (2001). Portion of dissertation published as "The Gendered Foundations of Social Work Education in Boston, 1904-1930," in Susan Porter, ed., Women of the Commonwealth: Work, Family and Social Change in Nineteenth Century Massachusetts (University of Massachusetts Press, 1995), and "Early Conflicts in Social Work Education," Social Service Review, 72:2 (June 1998). Recipient, Newcombe Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 1997, Excellence in Research Award, SUNY Binghamton, 1998. Staff Member, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.
Connie Shemo, "The Medical Ministries of Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu, 1872-1937" (2002). Recipient, Rockefeller Archives Grant, 1997, Louise Glockner Fellowship, Archives and Special Collections on Women and Medicine, Allegheny Medical College, Philadelphia, Summer 1997; Lecturer in U.S. History, Princeton University, 2002-2004. Assistant Professor, SUNY Plattsburg.
Barbara Reeves-Ellington, "'That Our Daughters May Be As Corner Stones': American Missionaries, Bulgarian Nationalists, and the Politics of Gender, 1832-1872" (2002). Author of "Petko Slaveykov's Daughters," in Krassimira Daskalova and Raina Gavrilova, eds., Limits of Citizenship: European Women between Tradition and Modernity (in Bulgarian) (Sofia: Lik, 2001), 121-34. Fulbright Junior Fellow in Bulgaria, 1999-2000; Fellow, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, Fall 2002; Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Connecticut College, Spring 2003. Assistant and Associate Professor of History, Siena College, 2003-present.
Michelle M. Kuhl, "Modern Martyrs: African American Responses to Lynching, 1880-1940" (2004). Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowship, 2000-2001. Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh.
Daniel S. Wright, "'The First Causes to Our Sex: The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834-1848" (2004). Recipient, Best Dissertation in the Social Sciences, SUNY Binghamton, 2004. Portion published as "What Was the Appeal of Moral Reform to Antebellum Northern Women?" on Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000. Pastor, Weybridge Congregational Church, Weybridge, Vermont. Research Fellow, Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender, SUNY Binghamton, 2004-2005.
Halle Lewis, "'Cripples are not the dependents one is led to think': Work and Disability in Industrializing Cleveland, 1863-1916" (2004). Excellence in Teaching Award, SUNY Binghamton, 2000. President's Office, Case Western Reserve, 2005-Present.
Suronda Gonzalez, "'Immigrants Who Are in Our Midst': Grace Abbott and the Immigrants' Protective League, 1908-1921" (2004). Director, Languages Across the Curriculum, SUNY Binghamton, 2001-present.
Laura Murphy, "'The Worker's Right to a Decent Livelihood': Catholic Activists, Catholic Social Thought, and the U.S. Minimum Wage, 1869-1938," (2005). Dissertation Fellowship, Project on Catholic Women in the Twentieth Century, Cushwa Center, University of Notre Dame; University Dissertation Fellowship, SUNY Binghamton, 2001-2002; Excellence in Teaching Award, SUNY Binghamton, 2003. Instructor, Dutchess Community Colege, 2004-Present.
Sarah Boyle, "Creating a Union of the Union: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Development of a Politicized Female Reform Culture, 1880-1892" (2005). Hostick fellowship for the Study of Illinois History, Illinois Historical Society, 2002. Dissertation Fellowship, Department of History, SUNY Binghamton, 2003. Assistant Professor, Department of History, Johnson County Community College, 2006 to Present.
Linda Janke, "Prisoners of War: Prostitution, Sexuality, Venereal Disease, and Women's Incarceration during World War I" (2006). Recipient, Littleton-Griswold Award, American Historical Association, 2003. Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History, Anoka-Ramsey Community College, Minneapolis, MN.
Michele Materese, "The Nurse and the Community: Lillian Wald and Social Activism, 1893-1920" (2006). Assistant Professor, Department of Health Sciences & Physical Activities, Mansfield University, Manfield, PA.
Deanna Gillespie, "'They Walk, Talk, adn Act Like New People:' Black Women and the Citizenship Education Program, 1957-1970." (2008) Travel Award and Dissertation Fellowship, Department of History, SUNY Binghamton, Fall 2005. Recipient, Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences, SUNY Binghamton, 2008.
Melyssa Wrisley, "Fashioning a New Feminity: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Discourse of Women's Dress, 1875-1930." (2008) Department of History, SUNY Binghamton, Dissertation Research Grant, Spring 2005. Stella Blum Research Grant, Costume Society of America, Spring 2005. Visiting lecturer, Elmira College, 2007. Project Assistant, Teaching American History Program, SUNY Binghamton, 2007-2008.
Thomas Dublin, Chairperson
Penelope Harper, "Investigating the Working Woman: Middle-Class Americans and the Debate over Women's Work, 1820-1920" (1997). Winner of university award for the outstanding dissertation in the social sciences; finalist for Lerner-Scott Dissertation Award in U.S. Women's History. Senior Education Specialist, State University of New York, Binghamton.
Melissa Doak, "'She Will Never Get Well While Doing Anything Unnatural': Women's Sexual Deviance and Institutional Psychiatry in New York City, 1890-1920" (1999). Associate Director, Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender, State University of New York at Binghamton.
Karen Pastorello, "A Power Among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America" (2001). Assistant Professor of History, Tompkins-Cortland Community College.
Susan Lewis, "Women in the Marketplace: Female Entrepreneurship, Business Patterns, and Working Families in Mid-Nineteenth Century Albany, New York" (2002). Recipient, Outstanding Dissertation in the Social Sciences, S.U.N.Y. Binghamton, 2002. Assistant Professor of History, State University of New York at New Paltz.
Marian Horan, "Trafficking in Danger: Working-Class Women and Narratives of Sexual Danger in English and United States Anti-Prostitution Campaigns, 1875-1914" (2006).
Kazuhiro Oharazecki, "Japanese Prostitutes in the Pacific Northwest, 1887-1920” (2008).
