Ph.D., 1992, University of California, Irvine, History

M.A., 1988, University of California, Irvine, History

B.A., 1984, State University of New York at Plattsburgh

Associate Professor, History, Western Washington University, 2000-Present

Director, Women's Studies, Western Washington University, 1998-2001

Assistant Professor, History, Western Washington University, 1995-2000.

Assistant Professor, Arts and Humanities, University of Texas, Dallas, 1992-1995

Co-Editor with Frances Early, Athena's Daughters: Television's New Woman Warriors. (Syracuse University Press, 2003).

    ----Author, "Love is the Battlefield: The Making and unmaking of the Just Warrior in Xena, Warrior             Princess, pp. 40-52. 

    ----Co-author with Frances Early, "Athena's Daughters, A Critical Introduction," pp. 1-10.

Co-Editor with Sharon Ullman, Sexual Borderlands: Constructing An American Sexual Past (Ohio State University Press, 2003).

Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens: Women and Subversion During World War I. Indiana University Press, 1999.

Publications: Refereed Journals:

"Results of A Misspent Youth: Joan Jett's Performance of Masculinity," Women's History Review, 11:1 (2002): 89-114.

"Writing Trash: Truth and the Sexual Outlaw's Reinvention of Lesbian Identity." Feminist Theory 1:2 (2000): 151-172.

"Casting and Evil Eye on the Youth of the Nation: The Wartime Case of Kate Richards O'Hare." 39:3 American Studies (Fall 1998): 105-129.

        Winner: Judith Lee Ridge Prize, Western Association of Women's Historians, 1999

"Loyalty and Citizenship in the Wisconsin Woman's Suffrage Association." Mid-America, 76:2 (Spring/Summer 1994): 109-131.

Publications: Book Chapters:

"Ida B. Well's Crusade For Peace and Freedom," in Women Speak For Peace, ed. Colleen E. Kelley and Anna Eblen. Lanham, MA: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001: 17-26.

"Meridel Le Sueur and Working Class Women," in The Human Tradition: America Between the Wars, 1920-1945. Donald Whisenhunt. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2002.

Publications: Review Essays:

"The Hairpin Drop Heard Round the Academy: A Review of Teaching Texts in Lesbian and Gay Studies." Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 1:3 (1994): 349-358.

Publications: Book Reviews:

No Cross, No Crown: Black Nuns in Nineteenth Century New Orleans, edited by Virginia Meacham Gould and Charles Nolan, H-Catholic (2002).

Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation, by Kate Weigand, Journal of Women's History (2002).

Crime, Sexual Violence, and Clemency, by Vivian Miller. American Nineteenth Century History, in press.

Changing the Future by Blanche Linden-Ward and Carol Hurd Green. Peace and Change (January 1995).

One Woman's Passion For Peace and Freedom by Margaret Hope Bacon. Journal of American History (June 1994).

The Wolf Girls of Vassar, by L. McCay. Committee on Lesbian and Gay Newsletter, (January 1994).

Publications: Encyclopedia Articles:

"Espionage Act." Encyclopedia USA, 2001: 109-111.

"Red Scares" and "Crystal Eastman." Handbook of Women's History, 2^nd ed. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.

Publications: Editor:

Newsletter of the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History, Fall 1998-Spring 2001.

Guest Editor with Scott Bills, (Author with Scott Bills, "Introduction") Peace and Change (Fall 1998).

Invited Presentations:

"Facing East, Facing West: Orientalism and the Unmaking of the Western Hero in Xena, Warrior Princess"

    ----Bryn Mawr College, Center for Visual Culture, November 2002

    ----State University of New York at Plattsburgh, Women's Studies and History, November 2002

Conferences:

Forthcoming, "Bodily Pain and the Myths of Nation Making: Catholics and Indians in the Protestant Historical Imagination." Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, New Haven, CN, November 2003 (Panel Author)

"Facing East, Facing West: Orientalism and the Unmaking of the Western Hero in Xena, Warrior Princess"

    ----Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 2003. (Panel Author)

    ----Northeast Popular Culture Association Meeting, New London, NH, November 2002.

"Bodily Violence in Abolitionist and Anti-Catholic Thought," Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2002, Panel Author.

"The Nun, The Priest and The Pornographer: Imagining Violence Against Women in Antebellum America." 

    ----Berkshire Conference of Women's Historians, Storrs, CN, June 2002 (Panel Author)

    ----The American Historical Association, San Francisco, CA, January 2002. (Panel Author).

"Reimagining Violence: The New Just Woman Warrior," Co-authored with Frances Early. Feminist Utopias, University of Toronto, November 9-11, 2000.

Commentator and Panel Author, "Reimagining Violence: The New Just Woman Warrior," Through The Looking Glass: Feminism and Popular Culture, SUNY New Paltz, NY, October 28, 2000.

Commentator for panel on Women and the Left, Berkshire Conference of Women's Historians, University of Rochester, June 1999.

"Sexualizing Subversion: Sexual Discourse and the State's Prosecution of Women During World War I." Social Science History Association, Chicago, IL., November, 1998.

"Gender and Nativism in the Prosecution of Women Under the Espionage and Sedition Acts: The Case of Rose Pastor Stokes." Pacific Branch of the American Historical Association, Portland, OR, August 1997.

Commentator for panel on Gender and Class in the Labor Movement. North American Labor History Conference, October 1996.

"Subversive Classrooms: The Wartime Cases of Gertrude Pignol and Jessie Wallace Hughan," The Western Association of Women's Historians, Monterey, CA, June 1995.

"Morality, Community and Masculinity in the Writings of the Pro-War Progressives, 1914-1917." Organization of American Historians, Atlanta, GA, April 14-17, May 1992.

"In Search of the Armageddon: Gender and Citizenship in the Pro-War Writings of Theodore Roosevelt," The Western Association of Women's Historians, Pasadena, CA, 1992 and The Image of War, Colorado Springs, CO, 1991.

"Declaring War on War:" Gender and Anti-Militarism in the Writings of the Socialist Anti-War Movement, 1914-1918," Pittsburgh, PA, October 1990.

Conferences: Program Committee:

Co-Chair with Scott Bills, "Peace and War Issues: Gender, Race, Identity and Citizenship." Peace History Society, November 14-16, 1997.

Conferences: Local Arrangements:

"Women's Lives, Voices, Solutions: Shaping a National Agenda for Women in Higher Education," (Teleconference) Western Washington University, March 27-29, 2000.

Peace History Conference, Western Washington University, April 2000.

Grants:

Diversity Grant, Western Washington University, Summer 2001.

Summer Teaching Grant, Western Washington University, 1999.

Summer Research Grant, Western Washington University, 1996, 2002.

Summer Research Grant, University of Texas at Dallas, 1995.

Exhibits:

"Celebrating Women in History," with Linda Williamson. McDermott Library, University of Texas, Dallas. March 1994.

Service: Western Washington University:

President, Faculty Senate, 2001-2002.

Faculty-Elect, Faculty Senate, 2000-2001.

Acting President, Faculty Senate, Summer 2000.

Chair, University Librarian Search Committee, 2000-2001.

Member, Kaleidoscope Project, 2000-Present

Member, University Librarian Search Committee, 1999-2000.

Member, Faculty Senate, 1999-Present.

Member, Diversity Award Committee: 1998.

Service: Western Washington University, Department of History:

Graduate Advisor, 1999-2002.

Graduate Committee, 1999-2002.

Member, Search Committee, History of China, 2001-02

Member, Search Committee, One Year Position, American, 1998.

Member, Executive Committee, 1996-1997.

Member, Search Committee, Western History, 1996-1997.

Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 1995-1998.

Member, Library Committee, 1995-1997.

Service: Western Washington University, Women's Studies Program:

Member, Minority Fellowship Search Committee, 1997-1998.

Member, Steering Committee, 1995-Present.

Member, Curriculum Committee, 1996-Present

Member, Scholarship Committee, 1996-Present.

Member, Women's Studies 411 Committee, 1995-1996.

Service: Historical Profession:

Chair, Charles DeBenedetti Prize in Peace History Committee, 2003

Member, North American Board, (Elected Position) Peace History Society, 2000-Present

Reader, Book Manuscript, University of Illinois Press, 2001; Northern Illinois Press, 2002

Reader, Book Manuscript, Course Reader and Textbook, Bedford Books, 1997, 2001, 2002; Houghton Mifflin, 2003.

Service Community:

Guest Speaker, "Women and Anti-Catholicism," American Association of University Women, November 2001.

Participant, "Windows on Our Community," Radio Show on Women's Issues, Opportunity Council, February 1999.

Membership: Professional Organizations:

American Historical Association

Organization of American Historians

Peace History Society

Western Association of Women's Historians