Education
Ph.D. 2003, U.S. History,
University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation Title: “Not By Might:
Christianity, Nonviolence, and American Radicalism, 1919-1963”
Dissertation Advisor:
Robert Abzug, University of Texas at Austin
M.A., 1997, U.S. History,
University of Texas at Austin
B.A., 1993 (cum laude),
U.S. History, University of Rochester
Teaching Experience
Assistant Professor, Northern Arizona University, fall
2003-present
Graduate seminars:
Readings on 20th-century U.S. Cultural
History
Readings on American Radicalism since 1865
Undergraduate courses:
U.S. History since 1865
Recent America
Culture and the Cold War
American Thought and Culture since 1865
Applied Teaching Methods in History/Social
Studies
History/Social Studies Student Teaching
Supervision
Other Teaching and Professional
Experience:
Director, Annual
Summer Academy, Teaching American History Grant, Page Unified
School District and Northern Arizona University, summer 2003
Lecturer, “American
Radicalism since 1865,” Department of History, Portland State
University, summer 2001
Coordinator and
fundraiser for “An Evening with Dave and Betty Dellinger,”
University of Texas at Austin, spring 2001
Lecturer, “Women
and Gender in U.S. History since 1865,” Department of History,
Portland State University, summer 1999
Lecturer, “Women,
Work, and Culture,” Department of History, Portland State
University, summer 1998
Instructor, “U.S.
History since 1865,” Continuing and Extended Education,
University of Texas at Austin, fall 1999-summer 2003
Supplemental
Instructor, Department of History, University of Texas at
Austin, fall 1998-fall 1999
Teaching Assistant,
Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, fall
1996-spring 2001
Research Assistant,
School of Law, University of Texas at Austin, 1996
Publications
Articles:
“Christianity, Dissent, and the Cold War: A.J. Muste’s Challenge
to Realism and U.S. Empire.” Diplomatic History,
forthcoming September 2006.
“A.J. Muste: 1885-1967.” Dictionary of Literary Biography:
American Radical and Reform Writers, vol. 303 (Thomson Gale,
September 2004): 254-67.
“The ‘Two-ness’ of the Movement: James Farmer, Nonviolence, and
Black Nationalism.” Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace
Research 29, no. 3&4 (July 2004): 430-53.
“‘In My Extremity I Turned to Gandhi’: American Pacifists,
Christianity, and Gandhian Nonviolence, 1915-1941.” Church
History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 72, no. 2 (June
2003): 361-88.
Book
Reviews:
Tom Hastings, Meek Ain’t Weak: Nonviolence and People of
Color (University Press of America, 2002). Peace and
Change: A Journal of Peace Research 29, no.1 (January 2004):
126-128.
Other:
Entry on A.J. Muste, Encyclopedia of Activism
and Social Justice (Sage
Publications, forthcoming May 2007)
“Scholar: Slavery and Race have Dynamic Meanings.” Arizona
Daily Sun (April
10, 2005).
Works in Progress:
Book Length
Project: A.J. Muste and American Radicalism
Presentations
Presenter,
“Pragmatism and ‘Transcendent Vision’: A.J. Muste, Militant
Labor Progressivism, and the History of Left and Labor in the
1930s,” Annual Meeting of the Organization of American
Historians, Minneapolis, MN, April 2007.
Presenter, “’Of
Holy Disobedience’: A.J. Muste, Christianity, and the Struggle
against the Bomb,” Annual Meeting of the American Studies
Association, Oakland, CA, October 2006
Invited talk, “The
IWW and the History of Left and Labor in the United States,”
Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the Industrial Workers
of the World, Hive Community Center, Flagstaff, Arizona,
February 2006
Presenter, “A.J.
Muste, Workers’ Education, and the Making of a Cultural Front,”
Annual Meeting of the North American Labor History Conference,
Detroit, Michigan, October 2005
Chair/commentator,
“Peace and International Justice,” Annual Meeting of the
Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association,
Corvallis, Oregon, August 2005
Invited talk, “A.J.
Muste and Moral Courage,” Martin-Springer Institute for Teaching
the Holocaust, Tolerance, and Humanitarian Values, Northern
Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, April 2005
Presenter,
“Christianity, Dissent, and the Cold War: Reinhold Niebuhr and
A.J. Muste,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of
American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Austin, Texas, June 2004
Presenter, “James
Farmer, Pacifism, and Black Civil Rights,” Annual Meeting of
the American Historical Association (AHA), Washington, D.C.,
January 2004
Moderator,
“Violence in World History: Women, War, and Nationalism,
Southwest Women’s History Colloquium, Flagstaff, AZ,
September 2003
Presenter, “James
Farmer, Pacifism, and Black Nationalism,” Annual Meeting of
the Peace History Society, Mt. Pleasant, MI, March 2003
Presenter, “Gender
and the Origins of Nonviolence in the United States,” Women’s
Studies Symposium, Flagstaff, AZ, March 2003
Presenter, “‘The
Day of the Lord is Here and it is a Day of Judgment’: A.J. Muste
and the Cold War,” Annual Meeting of the Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR),
Washington, D.C., June 2001
Presenter, “Prophet
and Peacemaker: A.J. Muste, Christian Pacifism, and the A-Bomb,”
Fifth Annual Millennial Studies Conference, Boston, MA,
October 2000
Presenter,
“African-American Outlaws in Jim Crow Texas: Race, Gender and
the Houston Riot of 1917,” Pacific Northwest American Studies
Conference, Portland, Oregon, April 1997
Presenter,
“Sentimental Fiction Reconsidered: The Case of Lydia Maria
Child,” Gender Studies Conference, Austin, Texas, March
1996
Honors & Awards
Intramural Grant
Program Recipient, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff,
Arizona, summer 2006
Intramural Grant
Program Recipient, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff,
Arizona, summer 2005
Intramural Grant
Program Recipient, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff,
Arizona, summer 2004
Schlesinger Library
Dissertation Grant, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2001-2002
Travel-to-Collection Research Grant, Sophia Smith Collection,
Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 2000
Alice E. Smith
Fellowship, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison,
Wisconsin, 1999-2000
David Bruton, Jr.
Fellowship, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Texas at
Austin, 1999-2000 (and again 2001-2002)
Dissertation
Research Fellowship, History Department, University of Texas,
1999-2000
Colonial Dames
Fellowship, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in
the State of Texas, San Antonio, Texas, 1999
Exemplary New
College Instructor, Continuing and Extended Education University
of Texas, 1999-2000
Teaching Excellence
Award, History Department and the Graduate Student Assembly,
University of Texas, 1998-99
Departmental
Honors, University of Rochester, 1993
Professional Service
Reviewer, book
proposal, Protesting against War (Pearson Longman), March
2006
Co-coordinator,
National History Day, Flagstaff, Arizona, March 2006
Member, Search
Committee, Lecturer, East Asian History, History Department,
Spring 2006
Member,
Undergraduate Committee, History Department, Spring 2006
Referee, manuscript
submission, Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research
December 2005
Member, Search
Committee, Visiting Assistant Professor, U.S. Gender/Women’s
History, History Department, NAU, 2005
Reviewer, Draft of
Social Studies Articulated Standard, Arizona Department of
Education, March 2005.
Judge, National
History Day, Flagstaff, Arizona, March 2005
Discussion leader,
“Mothering and the Academic Life: Combining Identities”
Commission on the Status of Women, Women’s Studies, and Faculty
Development, November 30, 2004
Member, Annual
Review Committee, History Department, NAU, 2004-05
Member, Women’s
Studies Steering Committee, NAU, 2004-05
Member, University
Secondary Teaching Education Committee, NAU, 2004-05
Member, Secondary
Education Committee, CAL, NAU, 2004-05
Discussion leader,
Common Reading Program, NAU, 2004
Member, Undergraduate Committee, History Department, NAU,
2003-04