Education
Ph.D. - American History -
University of Oklahoma - 2002
M.A. - American History -
University of Oklahoma -1999
B.A. - History and Philosophy -
University of Oklahoma - 1996
Dissertation
The Intersection of Feminism and
Indianness in the Activism of LaDonna Harris and
Wilma Mankiller
Ph.D. Examination Fields
Twentieth Century Native American
History
United States History to 1865
United States History Since 1865
Latin American Women’s History
Academic Work Experience
Associate Professor, Cameron
University, 2007- present
Assistant Professor, Cameron
University, August 2001-2007
Adjunct Instructor, Cameron
University, January 2001- May 2001
Instructor, University of
Oklahoma, December 2000 -May 2001
Teaching Assistant,
University of Oklahoma, August 1997 - December 2000
Adjunct Instructor, Rose
State College, January 2000 - May, 2000
Books
Pride of the Wichitas: A History of Cameron
University (Oklahoma City:
American Heritage Association, 2010)
Beloved
Women: The Political Lives of LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller (Dekalb:
Northern Illinois University Press, 2007).
Articles
“‘Cameronites Love America’: Aggie
Life in an Era of Depression and War” Great Plains Journal (2011): 3-33.
“Composed
Portraits: Defining African American Citizenship,” Great Plains Journal (2008): 46-55.
“‘Her Heritage
is Helpful’: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Politicization of LaDonna
Harris,” Great Plains Quarterly Fall (2005): 211-227.
Encyclopedia Articles
Encyclopedia entries on Fred Harris (250 wds), LaDonna Harris (250 wds)
and Wilma
Mankiller (250 wds) in Encyclopedia of United States Indian
Policy and Law, eds. Paul
Finkelman and Tim Alan Garrison. Washington, DC: CQ Press (2009).
Encyclopedia entries on James
Monroe (1000 wds), Josiah Quincy (500 wds), Israel Putnam (500 wds), Nathan Hale (500
wds), and Jean LaFitte (500 wds) in
Revolution and New Nation,
1754-1820, ed. Paul A. Gilje (General ed. Gary Nash). New York: Facts on
File (2002).
Book Reviews
Book review
for the Western Historical Quarterly
(Spring 2011) Blue Clark, Indian Tribes of Oklahoma: A Guide (Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 2009).
Book review for Reviews in History (September 2010)
Review no. 962, Paul Gottfried,
Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right (New
York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009).
Book review for
the Journal of Southern History (May 2008) David LaVere, Looting
Spiro Mounds: An American King Tut’s Tomb (Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 2007).
Book review for
History: Reviews of New Books, v. 35 n. 2 (Winter 2007)
Angela Boswell and Judith N. McArthur, eds., Women Shaping the South:
Creating and Confronting Change (Columbia: University of Missouri Press,
2006).
Book review for Minerva:
Quarterly Report on Women and the Military (Fall 2007) Ellen Hampton, Women
of Valor: The Rochambelles on the WWII Front (New York: Palgrave MacMillan,
2006).
Book review for Minerva:
Quarterly Report on Women and the Military, H-Minerva (June 2005) Margaret
A. Weitekamp, Right Stuff Wrong Sex: America’s First Women in Space Program, Series edited by Joan E. Cashin and Ronald G.
Walters. Gender Relations and the American Experience Series.(Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2004).
Book review for
History: Reviews of New Books, v. 33 n.4 (Summer 2005)
Gerald McMaster and Clifford E. Trafzer, eds., Native Universe: Voices of
Indian America (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of the American Indian,
Smithsonian Institution, 2004).
Book review for
History: Reviews of New Books, v. 33 n. 1 Marjorie A.
Stockford, The Bellwomen: The Story of the Landmark AT&T Sex
discrimination Case (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004).
Book review for
History: Reviews of New Books, v. 32 n.1 (Fall 2003) Jessamyn Neuhaus, Manly
Meals and Mom’s Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003).
Book review for History: Reviews
of New Books, v. 31, n.2 (Winter 2003). Margaret Paton-Walsh, Our War Too:
American Women Against the Axis (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2002).
Book review for History: Reviews
of New Books, v. 30, n. 2 (Spring 2002). June Melby Benowitz, American Women and
Right Wing Politics, 1933-1945 (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University
Press, 2002).
Book review for Minerva:
Quarterly Report on Women and the Military (Spring/Summer2002). Phillip Thomas Tucker, Cathy
Williams: From Slave to Female Buffalo Soldier (Mechanucsburg, PA:
Stackpole Press, 2002).
Book review for Minerva:
Quarterly Report on Women and the Military (Fall/Winter 2001). Michele J. Nacy, Members
of the Regiment: Army Officers’ Wives on the Western Frontier, 1865-1890 (Westport,
Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000).
Book review for Minerva:
Quarterly Report on Women and the Military, H-Minerva (September 2003).
Tammy M. Proctor, Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First
World War (New York: New York University Press, 2003).
Book review for The Social
Science Journal n. 39 (2002). David LaVere, Contrary Neighbors: Southern Plains and
Removed Indians in Indian Territory (Norman:
University of Oklahoma, 2000).
Conference Papers
“Hippie Gender-Bending in the American West” delivered at the Mid-America
Conference on
History,” Stillwater, Oklahoma, September, 2011
“A School at War: Rhetoric, Identity, and the
Cameron Way, delivered at the Mid-America Conference on History,” Norman,
Oklahoma, October, 2009
“Native American
Women in Oklahoma,” Roundtable discussion, Western Historical Association
Annual Conference, OKC, Oklahoma, October 2007.
“‘The Time of
the Women’: Gendered Activism and Indian Politics,” delivered at the Sixth
Native American Symposium, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant,
Oklahoma, November 2005.
“Re-Imagining the Noble Savage:
Native American Women and the Media,” delivered at the Western Historical Association
Annual Conference, Fort Worth, Texas, October, 2003.
“Integrating Lawton: Grassroots
Activism and Military Persuasion,” delivered at the Southwest Social Sciences
Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2003.
“Wilma Mankiller and the
Globalization of Indianness,” delivered at the Cameron University Festival V
Globalization and the Human Experience Conference, Lawton, Oklahoma, March 2003.
“Deconstructing the Intersection of
Feminism and Indianness in the Politics of LaDonna
Harris and Wilma Mankiller,”
delivered at the Western Social Science
Association Annual Conference,
Reno, Nevada, April 2001.
“Wilma Mankiller and the Politics
of Identity,” delivered at the Western Social Science
Association Annual Conference, San
Diego, California, April 2000.
“From Assimilation to Cultural
Restoration: Image and Identity in the Activism of LaDonna Harris,” delivered at the
Third Native American Symposium, Southeastern Oklahoma State
University, Durant, Oklahoma, November 1999.
“Redefining the Practical
Application of Prescribed Gender Roles Through the Letters
of Abigail Adams,” delivered at
the Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, University of Tulsa, Tulsa,
Oklahoma, February 1999.
Conferences Attended as Panel or Session Chair,
Discussant, or Judge
Oklahoma
Association of Professional Historians and Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference,
served as judge in the student paper competition, Oral Roberts University,” Tulsa,
Oklahoma, March 2010.
Mid-America
Conference on History, served as panel chair & comment for “American
Education in the Twentieth Century,” Norman, Oklahoma, October, 2009
Oklahoma
Association of Professional Historians and Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference,
served as judge in the student paper competition, University of Central
Oklahoma,” Edmond, Oklahoma, February 2009.
Oklahoma
Association of Professional Historians and Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference,
served as judge in the student paper competition, Oklahoma Christian
University,” OKC, Oklahoma, March 2008.
Mid-America
Conference on History, served as panel chair for “Farming Freedom on the
Plains: African American Agricultural Communities and Societies,” Tulsa,
Oklahoma, September, 2007
Oklahoma
Association of Professional Historians and Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference,
served as judge in the student paper competition, Northeastern University,
Tahlequah, Oklahoma, March 2007
Oklahoma
Association of Professional Historians and Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference,
served as judge in the student paper competition, East Central University, Ada,
Oklahoma February 2006.
Oklahoma
Association of Professional Historians and Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference,
served as judge in the student paper competition, Oklahoma Baptist University,
Shawnee, Oklahoma, February 2005.
Oklahoma
Association of Professional Historians and Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference,
served as judge in the student paper competition, University of Oklahoma,
Norman, Oklahoma, March 2003.
Southwest Social
Sciences Association Annual Conference, served as panel discussant for “Women,
Stores, and Guns, Las Vegas Nevada, April 2003.
Southwest Social
Sciences Association Annual Conference, served as panel discussant for “Gender,
Post World War II Politics, and the U.S. Military,” San Diego, California,
April 2000.
Seminars, Guest Lectures, and Workshops Conducted
“Writing the History of Cameron,”
Leslie Powell Gallery, January 2011
“Cameron and the Community,” Lawton
Ambucs, July 2010
“The Gendered
Politics of LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller,” Lawton Chapter, American
Association of Business and Professional Women, January 2008
Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day Panel Discussant, “Patriotism, Poverty and American Justice:
Bridging the Gaps in the 21st Century,” Cameron University, January
2006.
Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day Panel Discussant, “Civil Rights: Living the Promise in a Divided
America,” Cameron University, January 2005.
“The Struggle
for Civil Rights from World War Two to the Present,” Cameron Campus Ministry,
February, 2004.
Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day Panel Discussant, “Racism: Lessons From the Past for the Future,”
Cameron University, January 2004.
“The Political
Partnership of Fred and LaDonna Harris,” Optimist Club, November 2003.
Showing and
Discussion of “Two Towns of Jasper,” Museum of the Great Plains, October 2003.
“The Myth of the
Melting Pot in American History,” Cameron Campus Ministries, September 2003.
“The Political
Lives of LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller,” Museum of the Great Plains,
August 2003.
Book Signing/Lectures
Pride of the Wichitas book signing at
Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma, March 2010
Beloved
Women book signing at the Full Circle Bookstore, OKC, Oklahoma, November 2007
Beloved
Women book signing and Lecture at the Museum of the Great Plains, Lawton, Oklahoma, May 2007
Beloved
Women book signing and lecture at East Central University, Ada, Oklahoma April
2007
Beloved
Women book signing and Lecture at the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, Norman, Oklahoma,
April 2007
Beloved
Women book signing at the Oklahoma Association of Professional Historians
and Phi Alpha Theta Regional
Conference at Northeastern University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, March 2007
Historical Consulting and Museum Work
Museum of the
Great Plains Exhibit consultant and text author for “African Americans and
Citizenship,” 2007-2008
Museum of the
Great Plains Exhibit Committee for “A Struggle for Equality-A Community View,”
2002-2003
Awards and Honors
Hackler Award for Teaching
Excellence, 2007-2008
Cameron
University’s Student Support Services Program Award for “Excellence in
Teaching,” April 2005
Center for
Emerging Technology and Entrepreneurial Studies at Cameron University,
Certificate of Appreciation, January 2006.
Bea Mantooth Estep Travel
Fellowship Award, University of Oklahoma, 1999 and 2000.
Conference and Creative Exhibition
Grant Award, University of Oklahoma Graduate Student Senate, 2000
Donnell M. Owings Award for
Outstanding Student in American History, University of Oklahoma, 1999
The National Society of the
Colonial Dames of America - State of Oklahoma American History Scholarship Award, 1999
Second Place Award Recipient at the
1999 Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Tulsa, Oklahoma, February 1999
Professional Memberships
American Historical Association
Coalition of Western Women’s
Historians
Oklahoma Association of
Professional Historians
Phi Alpha Theta National History
Honor Society
Phi Kappa Phi National Honor
Society
Southern Association for Women’s
Historians
Western History Association
