Professor Emerita

About

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  • Role

    Emeritus

  • Position

    • Professor Emerita

  • Concentration

    • United States History: gender, sexuality, race, class
    • History of modernity
    • Public and Oral history
    • US and Global Environmental History

  • Department

    • All College of Liberal Arts, History, International Studies, and Public Lands

  • Education

    • B.A. City College of New York
    • M.A. University of California, Santa Barbara
    • Ph.D. Cornell University

  • Curriculum Vitae:

Biography

As a scholar and teacher I have been especially interested in ideas, institutions, experiences, and relationships of power that are associated with modernity, gender, and race and with natural and built environments.

I have published The 'Girl Problem': Female Sexual Delinquency in New York 1900-1930  (Cornell University Press) and am co-editor with Sharon Block and Mary Beth Norton of Major Problems in American Women's History: Documents and Essays, now in its 5th edition with Cengage (2014).

My articles, essays, and book chapters have appeared in the Journal of Women's History, the Journal of American History and American Quarterly, and in two edited collections, Small Worlds: Childhood and Adolescence in America 1850-1950 and Sexual Borderlands.

My newest book was published in 2023 with the University of Oklahoma Press and is titled:  Democracy's Mountain: Longs Peak and the Unfulfilled Promises of America's National Parks. 

In addition to being a member of the History Department, I have been a Principal Investigator in the Public and Environmental History Center at CSU. I have conducted research and led projects related to the interpretation and use of environmental and cultural resources for the National Park Service, other public lands agencies, and municipal and state entities.

I have recently been the PI on two oral history projects:

PI, Rocky Mountain National Park Oral History Project, Rocky Mountain National Park and the Rocky Mountain Conservancy, 2023-2026.

PI, CSU Covid-19 Oral History Project, CSU Morgan Library, CSU Office of the President, the College of Liberal Arts and the Public Lands History Center. 2022-2025

I have also been involved in teaching at the CSU Center in Todos Santos, Mexico since 2019.  In my course, History, Community, and Environment in Mexico, students learn about the history of Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, and Mexico through site visits and by conducting oral history interviews with members of the local community.

In Spring 2025 I was a faculty member on Semester at Sea, traveling to, and teaching about, 10 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe. My classes included HIST 171: World History since 1500; HIST 470: World Environmental History; and IE 272: The Experience, Status, and Activism of Contemporary Women.

Courses

  • HIST 501: Historical Methods

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  • HIST 415: Study Abroad: History, Community, and Environment in Mexico

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    This course is part of the CLA Community Engagement Program in Todos Santos, Mexico. The course combines experiential educational practices with Public History and Environmental History theory and methods. Most importantly, students and faculty meet and conduct oral history interviews with a range of community members and organizations, from teachers and high school students, to cultural leaders, ranchers, conservation scientists, environmental educators, and members of women’s organizations.

  • HIST 171: World History since 1500

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  • HIST 470: World Environmental History

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  • IE 272: Experience, Status, and Activism of Contemporary Women

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