
Dissertation
Writing Seminar

Since the fall
of 2000, Professor Sklar has organized a regular dissertation writing
seminar attended regularly by A.B.D. students in U.S. Women's History,
each of whom presented a chapter to the group at some point in the semester.
That seminar continues this year. The following is a list of A.B.D students
in U.S. Women's History and the titles of their dissertations-in-progress:
Anne Derousie,
"Commercial Culture in the Families and Towns of the Signers of the
Seneca Falls 1848 'Declaration of Sentiments.'" Park Historian, Women's
Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, New York.
Deanna Gillespie,
"'Toward 'Ought to Be:' Black Women and the Citizenship Education
Program of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1954-1970."
Travel Award and Dissertation Fellowship, Department of History, SUNY
Binghamton, Fall 2005.
Mary Weikum,
"National Visions in Conflict: New England Women Missionaries and
Cherokee People in Antebellum America, 1817-1860." Travel Award
and Dissertation Fellowship, Department of History, SUNY Binghamton,
Fall 2005.
Gaylynn Welch,
"Suffrage National, Suffrage American, Suffrage Local: The United
States Woman Suffrage Movement, 1870-1890." Department of History
Research Travel Grant, Summer 2004; Department of History Dissertation
Research Grant, Fall 2004.
Melyssa Wrisley,
"Fashioning a New Femininity: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Women's
Dress, 1880-1930." Department of History Disseration Research Grant,
Spring 2005; Stella Blum Research Grant, Costume Society of America,Spring
2005.