Curriculum Vitae
Susan M. Ouellette
Department of History
Saint Michael’s College
Winooski Park
Colchester, Vermont 05439
408A Dalton Drive
Colchester, Vermont 05446
Tel. (802) 654-2256
Email: souellette@smcvt.edu
Education:
PhD. University of Massachusetts (American Colonial History, Antebellum
Social History, French Canada/Native Peoples)
Dissertation Title: All Hands Are Enjoined to Spin: Domestic Textile Production in
Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts
M.A. University of Massachusetts (American Social History)
B.A. SUNY at Plattsburgh (History, Anthropology and Historic Archeology)
Professional Experience:
Professor
Saint Michael’s College, Vermont (2008-present)
Associate Professor
Saint Michael’s College, Vermont (2003-2008)
Assistant Professor
Saint Michael’s College, Vermont (1998-2003)
Assistant Professor
Lander University, Greenwood, SC (1996-98)
Visiting Assistant Professor
SUNY Plattsburgh, New York (1996)
Administrative Experience:
Chairperson, Department of History (2005-January 2011)
Faculty Council (elected, 2011-2015; chair, 2012-2014)
Executive Committee (appointed, 2012-2014)
Selected Fellowships and Honors:
Bauer-Gordon Graduate Fellowship, Spring 1995
Walter Muir Whitehall Prize in Colonial History, Spring 1996
Lander Foundation Fellowship, Fall 1996
Lander Faculty Development Grant, Summer 1997
Southeastern Regional Education Board Fellowship, Fall 1997
Saint Michael’s College Junior Faculty Summer Stipend, 2000
Saint Michael’s College Faculty Development Grants, Summer 1999, 2000, 2001
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Fellow, Summer Institute, 2006
Saint Michael’s College Faculty Development Grants, Summer 2009
Turning Points in American History Grant, 2010-2014
Digital Humanities Grant, collaborator, Consortium of Independent Colleges,
2014-2016
Publications:
Monographs:
- US Textile Production in Historical Perspective: A Case Study from
Massachusetts, New York: Routledge Press, 2007.
Selected Journal Articles: (all refereed)
- “Divine Providence and Collective Endeavor: Sheep Production in Early
Massachusetts,” The New England Quarterly, Vol. LXIX, No. 3, Sept.
1996: 355-380.
- “Mobility, Class and Ethnicity: French Canadians in Nineteenth Century
Plattsburgh, New York,” Journal of New York History, Vol. LXXIII, no. 4,
Fall 2002: 366-384.
- “The Domestication of Betsey Ketchum: Class Status and Female
Evangelism in Antebellum America,” Journal of New York History,
LXXV, no. 1, Winter 2004:22-38.
- “Perils of the Parkhills: Marriage, Sexuality and the Gospel of Love,”
Journal of American Culture, Volume 28, Number 3, September 2005:
302-308.
- “Religion and Piety in the Journal of Phebe Orvis,” Vermont History,
Volume 77, No.1, Winter/Spring 2009: 6-15.
Book Chapters: (all refereed)
- “In the Shadow of the Factory: Worker Housing in Winooski,” in Mills at
Winooski Falls: Winooski and Burlington, Vermont, ed. Laura Krawitts,
Winooski: Onion River Press, 2000.
- “Fort Saint Frederick: In the Defense of French Soil in the Champlain
Valley” in Colonial Fortifications in North America, 1562-1763, ed.
Veronique Deplanne, Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press,
forthcoming.
- “Political Fabric,” in Town Born: the Political Economy of New England
Towns from Their Founding to the Revolution, University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
- “Early Female Education in the Journal of Phebe Orvis,” in In Our Own
Words: New England Diaries, 1600 to the Present, Vol I. , ed. Peter Benes,
Boston, MA: Boston University, 2009.
- “Windmills and Garden Plots: Early French Settlement in the Champlain
Valley,” in When the French were still here …. And They’re still here:
Proceedings of the Champlain Quadricentennial, ed. Nancy Nahra,
(Burlington, VT: Champlain College, 2010), 87-115.
- “Lake Champlain: An Ice Highway,” in New England Highways and
Byways, ed. Peter Benes, forthcoming 2014.
Edited Collections: (refereed)
- Conflict and Accommodation in the North Country, 1850-1930. An
edited collection of articles on New York State History, Maryland:
University Press of America, 2005.
- Encyclopedia of New York State History, Syracuse University Press,
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005.
Encyclopedia Entries: (all refereed)
- “Bacon’s Rebellion,” “Bartolome de Las Casas,” “Leisler’s Revolt,” “The
Mayflower Compact,” “Smallpox in the New World,” in The American
Heritage Encyclopedia of American History, ed. John Mack Faragher,
New York: H. Holt, 1998.
- “Family History/Local History,” in Encyclopedia of Local History, ed.
Carol Kammen, Maryland: Alta Mira Press, 2000.
- “History of Franklin County,” in Encyclopedia of New York History,
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005.
Book Reviews:
- Joseph L. Peyser, Jacques Legardier de Sainte-Pierre: Officer, Gentlemen,
Entrepreneur, in Journal of New York History, Vol. LXXVII, No. 4,
October 1996: 463-464.
- Robert Shalhope, Bennington and the Green Mountain Boys, in H-Pol, HNet Reviews in the Humanities, December 1998. URL: http:/www.hnet.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=16159914439770
- Frederick Matthew Wiseman, The Voice of the Dawn, in Journal of
Popular Culture, November 2003, Volume 37:2.
- Paul E. Rivard, A New Order of Things: How the Textile Industry Transformed
New England, in Vermont History, Vol. 72, Nos. 1&2, Winter/Spring 2004:
89.
- Gail Fowler Mohanty, Labor and Laborers of the Loom: Mechanization and
Handloom Weavers, 1780-1840, in Labor, Vol 6, No. 3, Fall 2009: 123-125.
- Marilyn Blackwell and Kristen Oertel, Frontier Feminist: Clarina Howard
Nichols and the Politics of Motherhood, in Vermont History, Vol. 79,
Winter/Spring, 2011: 190-192.
- Reynolds Williams, Susan. Alice Morse Earle and the Domestic History of
Early America, online Journal of Women and Social Movements,
forthcoming fall 2014.
- Mark R. Anderson, The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony: America’s War of
Liberation in Canada, 1774-1776, in Vermont History, Vol. 82: 2,
Summer/Fall 2014.
Works in Progress:
- Just Like a Song or Story I pass my life: the journal of Phebe Orvis
Eastman, 1820-1830, an edited journal with accompanying essays on
social history of the era. Completed manuscript under contract at SUNY
Press with expected publication in 2016.
Major Conference papers:
- “The Rise and Fall of Industry in an Adirondack Town: The Case of
Keeseville,” 29th Congress of the Northeastern Anthropological
Association, Montreal, P.Q., Canada, March 15-19, 1989.
- “French Canadians and the American Dream: Myth or Reality?” Showcase
89, SUNY Plattsburgh, New York, April 12, 1989.
- “The Domestication of Betsy Ketchum,” Conference on New York State
History, Tarrytown, New York, June 1-2, 1989.
- “French Canadian Artisans in Plattsburgh, 1850-1880,” Conference on
New York State History, Bard College, New York, June 7-8, 1991.
- “Willing Hands: Textile Production in Colonial Massachusetts,” National
Social Science History Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 31November 3, 1991.
- “The Saga of Horace and Jane: The End of a Nineteenth-Century
Marriage,” Second Annual Carleton University Conference on the History
of the Family, Ottawa, Ontario, May 12-15, 1994.
- “Survivance or Survival?: French Canadians in Northern New York, 18501880,” Franco-American Colloquium, University of Maine at Orono, Bar
Harbor, Maine, May 16-18, 1996.
- “The Deerfield Society for Blue and White Needlework: Arts and Crafts,
Modernity and Feminine Enterprise,” Washburn Seminar, Norlands
Living History Center, Livermore Falls, Maine, June 4-8, 1996.
- “Set Upon the Making of Cloth: Textile Production in early
Massachusetts,” National Social Science History Meeting, New Orleans,
Louisiana, October 10-13, 1996.
- “Peopling of the Champlain Valley,” Champlain Valley Heritage
Meeting, Valcour, New York, July 8-10, 1998.
- “The Perils of the Parkhills: Church and Community Influence in Marital
Disputes,” Washburn Seminar, Norlands Living History Center,
Livermore Falls, Maine, June 7-9, 2001.
- “Women at Their Wheels: American Textile Production in the 17th
Century,” Second Annual Textile History Forum, Cooperstown, New
York, July 12-15, 2001.
- “All Hands Are Enjoined to Spin,” New England Historical Association,
Colchester, Vermont, October 19-20, 2001.
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“‘I conclude there are some strange intentions’: Phebe Orvis Goes a
‘Courting,” Washburn Seminar Series, Farmington, Maine, June 6-8, 2002.
“Set Upon the Making of Cloth: Women, Families, and Textiles in New
England, 1630-1690,” Textile History Forum, Lowell, MA, July 12 –14, 2002.
“The Domestication of Betsey Ketchum: The Transformation of Class and
Female Evangelism in Antebellum America,” Washburn Seminar Series,
Farmington, Maine, June 5-7, 2003.
“Rendered … more ignorant than others: Early Female Education in the
Journal of Phebe Orvis,” NECPA Conference, Worcester, Massachusetts,
October 31-November 1, 2003.
“Marriage Choice and Parental Pressures in the Antebellum Period: Phebe
Orvis’s Journal,” NEPCA Conference, Brookline, Massachusetts, October
29-30, 2004.
“Female Education in the Early Republic: A Case Study in Northern New
England,” Washburn Seminar Series, Livermore Falls, Maine, June 8-10,
2006.
“Religion and Piety in the Journal of Phebe Orvis,” NEHA, UMass
Dartmouth, October14-15, 2006.
“Early Female Education in the Journal of Phebe Orvis,” Dublin Seminar
on New England Folklife, Old Deerfield, Massachusetts, June 17, 2007.
“Emma Willard: Early Female Educator and Innovator” Washburn
Humanities Seminar, Norlands Living History Center, Livermore Falls,
Maine, June 5-7, 2008.
“Lake Champlain Ice Highway/Byway,” Dublin Seminar on New
England Folklife, June 12-14, 2009.
“Windmills and Garden Plots: Early French Settlement in the Champlain
Valley,” Champlain Quadricentennial Conference, Champlain College,
Burlington, Vermont, July 3-5, 2009.
“French Canadians in the Champlain Valley,” Legacy of the Lake
Conference, Clinton Community College, July 8-10, 2009.
“French Canadian Community: Plattsburgh, a case history” American
Council for Quebec Studies Conference, University of Vermont,
Burlington, Vermont, Nov 4-7, 2010.
“The Peopling of New France: les filles du Roi,” Quebec Studies
Conference, Canadian Museum of Immigration, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Oct
12-14 2012.
“We’re Going Where?: Experiential learning and Local History,” NEHA,
Sprigfield, MA, April 25-26, 2014.
Panel Comment:
- “Labor and Capital in North Country Communities, 1865-1890,”
Conference on New York History, SUNY Brockport, New York, June 2-3,
1995.
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“Gender, Piety, and Identity in New York City’s Evangelical
Denominations, 1820-1860,” Conference on New York State History,
Saratoga, New York, June 6-8, 1997.
“Religion and Excess,” South Carolina Historical Association Meeting,
Charleston, South Carolina, March 8-10, 1997.
“Exhibiting Culture,” New England Popular Culture Association Meeting,
Colby-Sawyer College, New Hampshire, November 8-9, 2002.
“Weapons Inspectors?: History Programs and Assessment,” NEHA,
Boston, MA, April 16-17, 2004
“Assessing PBS’s Colonial House: A Roundtable,” NEHA, Saint Joseph’s
College, Rutland, Vermont, October 16th, 2004.
“Identity and Culture in New England,” Washburn Humanities Seminar,
Norlands Living History Museum, Livermore Falls, Maine, June 2-4, 2005.
“Education and Change,” CNYSH, Cooperstown, NY, June 7-9, 2007
“Good Ole Yankee Innovation” 15th Annual Washburn Humanities
Seminar, Norlands Living History Center, Livermore Falls, Maine, June 57, 2008.
“Negotiating in Early North America,” NEHA, Endicott College, Beverly,
MA, October 25th, 2008.
“Political Leadership in Nineteenth-Century America,” NEHA, South
Portland, Maine, April 18, 2009.
“Canals and Early Transportation.” CNYSH, SUNY Plattsburgh, NY, June
4-5, 2009.
“Conflicts from the US Colonial Era to the Civil War,” PAT History
Conference, SUNY Plattsburgh, NY, April 14, 2012.
Guest Public Lectures:
- “Seeking the North Country’s Sense of Place,” NCPR, Canton, New York,
October 1999.
- “Boarding Houses and Factory life in Winooski,” Champlain Mill
Museum, Winooski, Vermont, November 18, 1999.
- “All Hands Are Enjoined to Spin,” Faculty Colloquium, Saint Michael’s
College, Winooski, Vermont, March 15, 2000.
- “Witches and Other Female Deviants,” Waterford Historical Museum,
Waterford, New York, September 30, 2001.
- “Willing Hand: Female Textile Labors in the Colonial Era,” Brickhouse
Museum, Kennebunkport, Maine, November 9th, 2001.
- “Critical Theory in Gender and Women’s History,” Saint Michael’s
College, Winooski, Vermont, March 20, 2002.
- “Why Don’t Men Like Women’s History?” Saint Michael’s College
Women’s Center, March 26, 2003.
- “American Women’s War Work in the Civil War,” Waterford Historical
Society, Waterford, New York, August 10, 2003
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“Phoebe Orvis’ Journal,” Vermont Public Radio, September 7, 2003
“Thomas Jefferson,” Saint Michaels’ College, April 8, 2004
“Phebe Orvis and the Textile Work of Antebellum Vermont Women,”
Champlain Mill Museum, Winooski, Vermont, April 1, 2004.
“Phebe Orvis and her family ties in Addison County,” Shoreham
Historical Society, Shoreham, Vermont, June 2, 2004.
“New England, a Place or an Idea?” Keynote address, Washburn
Humanities Seminar, Norlands Living History Museum, Livermore Falls,
Maine, June 2006.
“Northern New England’s Mysterious Past,” Welcome address,
Washburn Humanities Seminar, Norlands Living History Museum,
Livermore Falls, ME, June 14, 2007.
“French Canadians in the North Country,” Clinton County Historical
Association, Plattsburgh, NY, April 6, 2009.
“Female Textile Laborers in 19th century New England,” Senior Education
program, South Burlington, April 17, 2009.
“Antebellum Women's History through the Journal of Phebe Orvis
Eastman Phebe Orvis’ Journal,” Center for Research on Vermont Seminar,
April 7, 2010.
“Retired Much Fatigued: Domestic Labor in the Diary of Phebe Orvis,”
Ethan Allen Homestead Museum, September 18, 2011.
“Phebe Orvis: women and the historical record,” Wake Robin, Shelburne,
VT, April 12, 2012.
“Slavers and female factory operatives: Woolen textiles and the industrial
history of Vermont,” Woodstock Historical Society, Woodstock, VT, May
14, 2012.
“Americans in Retreat: Smallpox and other horrors of the American
Revolution in Canada,” Parcs Canada, Fort Chambly National History
Site, PQ, Canada, June 7, 2014.
“French Canadians in the Champlain Valley” Alburgh Historical Society,
Alburgh, Vermont, July 9, 2015.
“Lake Champlain Ice navigation” Isle La Motte Historical Society, Isle La
Motte, Vermont, July 17, 2015.
Professional Service, External review of programs:
History Department at Norwich University, Northfield, VT, 2004
History Department at Norwich University, Northfield, VT, 2011
History Department at Assumption College, Worcester, MA, 2012
Professional Memberships
American Historical Association
New England Historical Association
Northeast Popular Culture Association
Center for Research on Vermont
Lake Champlain Research Consortium
Faculty Committees/ Administration
Judicial Review Board (1999-2001)
Academic Review Board (1999, 2005-2010)
Faculty Welfare Committee (elected, 1999-2001)
Strategic Planning Committee (1999)
Multicultural Programming Committee (1999-2003)
Search Committee Latin American Position (2001)
External Evaluation for Norwich University History Program (2003)
Faculty Development Committee (2001-2003, Chair 2002-2003)
Academic Assessment Committee (2002-2004)
Women’s Center, Steering Committee (2005-2009)
Chairperson, Department of History (2005-January 2011)
Faculty Council (elected, 2011-2015; chair, 2012-2014)
Executive Committee (2012-2014)
Off Campus Professional Committees
Board Member, Mount Independence Coalition, (2000-2005)
Newsletter Editor, Mount Independence Coalition (2002-2006)
Book Award Committee, NEHA (2005-2006)
Graduate Student Award Committee, NEHA (2006-2007)
Executive Committee, NEHA (2007-2008)
Steering Committee, Vermont Women’s History Project (2005-2008)
Champlain Mill Museum Board, 2007-2010
Quadricentennial Commission, 2007-2009
Televised lectures:
www.retn.org/programs/antebellum-womens-history-through-journalphebe-orvis-eastman
The Decrypters: The Last Mohican?, National Geographic Television, Shine
Productions, Primrose Studios, London, UK.
Courses developed and offered:
Traditional courses:
Surveys:
U.S. History to 1865
United States History 1850-1930
Women in American Society
History of Black America
Native Peoples of North America
Seminars:
American Society and Culture to 1865 Age of American Revolution, 1763-1815
Antebellum America, 1830-1860
History of the American Family
Roots of America Society, 1607-1763
Issues in the History of Women and Gender
The Society of Saint Edmund in the Era of Civil Rights
Digital Courses:
Surveys:
US History to 1865
US History Since 1865
Seminar:
History of American Family (developed for CIC Digital Humanities Grant, 2015-6)