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Associate Professor: European Women's History; Imperialism and Transnational History

Atrium 213 - 973/720-2146
 
Education
Ph.D. Binghamton University, 1996.
 
Selected Bibliography
Servants of the German Empire: Sponsored Female Colonization in German Southwest Africa, 1896-1933 (forthcoming)
 
"Introduction" and "Home, Nation, Empire: Domestic Germanness and Colonial Citizenship" in Krista O'Donnell, Renate Bridenthal and Nancy Reagin, editors, The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness (University of Michigan Press, Series on Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany, 2006 ).
 
"German Women's Letters from Southern Africa," in Merry Wiesner and Lisa DiCaprio, editors, Lives and Voices: Sources in European Women's History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000).
 
"Poisonous Women: Danger, Illicit Violence, and Domestic Work in German Southwest Africa, 1904-1915," The Journal of Women's History, 11.3 (Autumn 1999): 31-54.
 
Fellowships and Awards
Co-Chair, Columbia Seminar in Women and Society, 2002-2003.
 
Distinguished Dissertation in the Social Sciences Award, Binghamton University, 1996..
 
Alternate, American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship 1994.
 
Fulbright Research Fellowship, Universität Bielefeld, Germany, 1992-93.
 
D.A.A.D. (German Academic Exchange Service) Research Grant for Ph.D. Candidates and recent Ph.D.'s (declined).
 
D.A.A.D. Hochschulsommerkurs Grant, University of Mannheim (1992).
 
National Merit Scholarship (1994-8).
 
Rutgers Presidential Scholarship (Rutgers University’s highest undergraduate award).
 
Research in Progress
"Introduction" and "Home, Nation, Empire: Domestic Germanness and Colonial Citizenship" in Krista O'Donnell, Renate Bridenthal and Nancy Reagin, editors, The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness (under review by University of Michigan Press).
 
Women and Empire: Gender and Community in German Southwest Africa, 1890-1933 (monograph).
 
Courses Offered
History 101 Foundations of Western Civilization

History 102 The West and the World from the Age of Exploration to Decolonization

History 260 Historical Methods

History 316 American Women's History

History 319 Age of Global Connections (Recommended for Secondary Social Studies Certification Students)

History 340 German History from Bismarck to Hitler

History 346 Modern European Women's History

History 352 Medieval and Early Modern Women's History

History 480 Seminar in Gender, Sex, and Empire

History 480 Seminar in the Family, Sexuality and the Body

History 501 Information Technology and the Historical Profession

History 538 Seminar on Empires

History 649 Seminar in European Women's History

History 698 Thesis Seminar