501 Life Sciences West
Department of History
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK 74078-0611
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Education
The
University of Virginia, Ph.D.
1996. “Defending a Way of Life:
American Propaganda and the Cold War, 1945-1959.”
The
University of Virginia, M.A.
1991. “Anglo-American Relations and the
Dismissal of MacArthur.”
The
University of Georgia, A.B., 1989, cum laude with High Honors with Honors
in History. Phi Beta Kappa.
Professional Experience
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Fall 1996 - present
Assistant Professor of U.S. History
Graduate
Faculty
Core
Faculty, Women’s Studies Program
Executive
Committee, American Studies Program
University of Virginia Academic
Center, Fairfax, VA
Fall
1995
Instructor, “Women in American History,” graduate colloquium.
Fall
1994
Instructor, “Gender in American Culture,” graduate seminar.
University of Virginia Department of
History, Charlottesville, VA
Spring
1996
Teaching
Assistant, History of the Civil
Rights Movement course
Fall
1992
Instructor, “Americans
and the Cold War,” undergraduate thesis seminar.
1991-92
Teaching
Assistant, U.S. History Survey
course, discussion leader.
1990-92
Research
Assistant to Olivier Zunz and
Melvyn P Leffler, Professors of History.
1990-91
Reader, U.S. Women’s History, Civil War and Reconstruction,
U.S. Foreign Relations.
Current Graduate and Undergraduate
Course Offerings
History of Gender in the United States
U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1917
Post-1945 U.S. history
History of Sexuality in the United States
20th Century United States History
U.S. History Survey from the Colonial Era to the
Present
Americans Abroad
Americans and the Cold War
America as a Foreign
Country
Books in Progress
Defending
the American Way: National Identity, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945-1959. Manuscript
in revision.
Editor, Speaking
of America: Readings in U.S. History,
2 vols. Contracted with Harcourt
College Publishing. David C. Tatom,
Executive Editor. Forthcoming 2003.
Articles
“Selling Capitalism: Modernization and U.S. Overseas
Propaganda, 1945-1959.” in Modernization, Development, and the Globalization
of the Cold War. eds, Michael Latham, Nils Gilman, Mark Haefele, and David
Engerman, eds. Amherst: University of
Massachusetts Press, forthcoming.
“A Family Affair? Gender, USIA, and Cold War Ideology,
1945-1960.” in Culture and International Relations. eds. Jessica Gienow-Hecht and
Frank Schumacher. Oxford, UK: Berghahn
Press, Ltd., forthcoming.
“Exporting America: The U.S. Propaganda Offensive,
1945-1959.” In The Arts of Democracy: Art, Public
Culture, and the State ed. Casey N. Blake. Wilson Center Press,
forthcoming.
“No Substitute for Virility: Douglas MacArthur,
Gender, and the Culture of Militarism.” in MacArthur
and the American Century ed. William M. Leary. Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press, 2001, pp. 436-465.
“Harvey Milk, San Francisco, and Gay Migration.” in The Human Tradition in the American West
eds. Reagan Lutz and Benson Tong. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc, 2001, pp. 209-225.
“United States Information Agency” and “Voice of
America.” in The Oxford Companion to
United States History. Paul S.
Boyer and Melvyn Dubovsky, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
“Anglo-American Relations
and the Dismissal of MacArthur.” Diplomatic
History 19 (Fall 1995):
641-68.
Reviews
Review of Kenneth D. Rose, One Nation
Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture in American
Historical Review, forthcoming.
Review of Andrea Slane, A Not So Foreign Affair:
Fascism, and the Cultural Rhetoric of American Democracy in Journal of
American History, forthcoming.
Review of Mary Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights,
in Journal of Cold War Studies, forthcoming.
Referee, “The Cuban
Missile Crisis,” History Pack.
Solicited by XanEdu Publishing with ProQuest. July 2001.
Review of Dennis Merrill, “Negotiating Cold War
Paradise: U.S. Tourism, Economic Planning, and Cultural Modernity in
Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico,” Diplomatic History, (Spring 2001),
posted on H-DIPLO, April 27, 2001.
Referee, Peter Hoffer and N.E.H. Hull, eds. The
Abortion Controversy. Solicited by Copley Publishing Group. March 2001.
Review of Allison Gilmore, You Can’t Fight Guns with Bayonets: Psychological Warfare against the
Japanese Army in the Southwest Pacific in American Historical Review 105 (December 2000): 1764.
“Reassessing Roosevelt.” Review of Dennis Dunn, Caught
between Roosevelt and Stalin: America’s Ambassadors to Moscow posted on
H-POL on March 31, 1999.
Review of Tom Engelhardt, The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of
a Generation in Journal of Asian
Studies Vol. 58, No. 1
(February
1999): 138-39.
“No Fighting in the War Room and Other Cold War
Ironies.” Review of Margot Henriksen, Dr.
Strangelove’s America: American Society and Culture in the Atomic Age in History Reviews On-Line, Vol. 5, No. 1
(Summer/Fall 1998).
Referee for Robert Griffith, Major Problems in American History Since 1945, 2nd
edition, solicited by Houghton Mifflin Company. April 1998.
“Personal, Political, and Powerful.” Review of Nancy
Hewitt, Jean O’Barr, and Nancy Rosenbaugh, eds. Talking Gender: Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political
Critiques. Posted on H-WOMEN on
January 22, 1998.
“A Time for Reflection.” Review of Robert
Schulzinger, A Time for War: The United
States and Vietnam, 1941-1975, posted on H-USA on January 31, 1998.
“Heated Issues,” Review of Nicole Keddie, ed. Debating Gender, Debating Sexuality,
posted on H-WOMEN, 19 November 1997.
“Images of the Past.” Review of OSSHE Historical and
Cultural Atlas Resource, posted on H-SURVEY, 29 October 1997.
Visiting Lectureships
“Postwar America,”
“Fighting for the Family,” and “Erasing Racism,” in “Defining the American Way
of Life,” American Studies Teaching and English Language Seminar, Center for
U.S. Studies, Leucorea Foundation, Martin Luther University, Wittenberg,
Germany, June 8-11, 1998.
Public Lectures/Presentations
“History Isn’t Boring Anymore: Teaching History in
the 21st Century.” New Techniques for a New Millennium: A Seminar on
Pedagogy and Technology, Sponsored by OSU Arts & Sciences Curricular
Affairs, General Education, and Extension Committee, April 5, 1999.
“Defining the American Way of Life.” American
Studies Lecture Series, The Center for U.S. Studies, Leucorea Foundation,
Martin Luther University, Wittenberg, Germany, June 9, 1998.
Conference Papers/Presentations
“The Politics of
Passion, or the American Love-Hate Relationship with Gary Condit, Jerry
Falwell, Britney Spears, Bill Clinton, Lorena Bobbitt, etc., etc. . . .” The History
of Sexuality: Explorations, A Roundtable Discussion, 23rd Annual Mid-America
Conference on History Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, September
20-22, 2001.
“A Family Affair? Gender, USIA, and Cold War
Ideology, 1945-1959.” International Symposium on Culture and International
Relations, The Center for U.S. Studies, Leucorea Foundation, Martin Luther
University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, December 17-19, 1999.
Co-Commentator for
panel, “Contesting Images at Home and Abroad: Culture and American
International Relations at Mid-Century.” 1999 Annual Conference Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations, Princeton University, June 24-26,
1999.
“Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Cultural: A Young Scholar
Looks at Our (Mine) Field.” 1999 American Historical Association Annual
Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 7-10, 1999.
Panel entitled “Old Borders, New Boundaries: Doing American Diplomatic
History in the Twenty-First Century.”
Commentator for panel “Imperial Fantasies: Sex,
Empire, and the Construction of the Other in Cold War Foreign Policy.” 1998 American Studies Association Annual
Meeting, Seattle, Washington, November 19-22, 1998.
“A Rich, Tawdry, Gun-Toting, Jazz-Loving,
Unscrupulous Lot: Anti-Americanism in the Early Cold War.” 1998 German American Studies Workshop on
“The American Century”, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, June 2-5,
1998.
“Getting ‘Em to
Talk: How to Teach Discussion Sections.” 1997 Mid-America Conference, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater,
OK, September 17-21, 1997.
“Defining
Democracy: Images of Politics in U.S. Propaganda, 1945-1959.” 1997 Society for
Historians of American Relations Conference, Georgetown University, June 19-22
1997.
“Defining Democracy: Images of Politics in U.S.
Propaganda, 1945-1959,” 1997 British Association for American Studies,
“Reconstructing America,” University of Birmingham, U.K., April 4-7, 1997.
“Mr. and Mrs. America: Images of Gender and the
Family in Cold War Propaganda.” 1996
Berkshires Conference on Women's History, The University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, June 6-9, 1996.
“William B. Benton
and the Postwar Information Program, 1945-47,” Annual Meeting of the Society
for Historians of American Foreign Relations, United States Naval Academy, June 21-24, 1995.
“Almost Everyone is a Capitalist: The USIA Presents
the American Economy, 1953-1959.” Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians
of American Foreign Relations, Bentley College, June 23-25, 1994.
Grants, Fellowships, and Honors
1999 Nominee,
Phoenix Graduate Teaching Award
1999 Oklahoma
Humanities Council Grant
1998 OSU
College of Arts and Sciences Travel Grant
1998 Dean’s
Incentive Grant
1997 OSU
Innovative Teaching Grant
1997 OSU College of Arts and Sciences
Summer Research Award
1997 Oklahoma Foundation for the
Humanities Grant
1997 OSU College of Arts and Sciences
Matching Grant for OFH award
1997 Harry S. Truman Institute Travel
Grant
1996-97 Research Travel Fellowship - OSU
Department of History
1994-95 Dupont
Fellowship
1993-94 Dupont
Fellowship
1991-92 Academic Enhancement Fellowship
1990-91
Academic Enhancement Fellowship
1991
Summer Foreign Language Study
Grant
1991
Graduate Travel Grant from
Harry S. Truman Institute
1991
Department Liaison, Teaching
Resource Center
1990 Travel Grant, Douglas MacArthur
Memorial Foundation
Service
2001-present Department of History, Graduate Studies
Committee.
2001-present
College of Arts and Science On-Line and Distance Education Policy Committee
2000-present Founder and Chairperson, OSU Women’s Film
Festival
2000-2001
College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee
2000-2001 ALPHA
Faculty Liaison
2000-2001 Department
of History, Curriculum Committee
1999 Department of History, Search Committee, Middle Eastern History
1998-present OSU
Women’s Faculty Council
1998 Department
of History, Personnel Committee
1998-2000 Technology 2000 Committee, statewide
body, appointed by OSU President James Halligan
1998-1999 Department of History, Scholarship Committee
1997-1998 Department
of History, Graduate Studies Committee
1997 Program Committee,
Mid-America Conference
1996-1997 Co-advisor,
Phi Alpha Theta
1996-97 Department of History, Library Committee
1996-1999 College of Arts and Sciences Rules and
Procedures Committee
Professional Memberships
American
Historical Association
American
Studies Association
Society
for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Organization
of American Historians