Ann M. Little
Department of History,
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
ann.little@colostate.edu
NAME:
Ann M. Little, Associate Professor, History Department
ADDRESS:
1641 Montview Blvd., Greeley CO 80631
PHONE:
970.301.3971
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
M.A., University of Pennsylvania
A.B., cum laude, Bryn Mawr College
1996
1991
1990
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2004-present
2001-04
1997-2001
Spring 1997
1995-96
Associate Professor, History, Colorado State University
Assistant Professor, History, Colorado State University
Assistant Professor, History, University of Dayton
Visiting Assistant Professor, History, Wellesley College
Visiting Lecturer, History, the Catholic University of America
CURRENT JOB DESCRIPTION
If there has been a significant change in your job description during the past 5 years, please
note.
50
% Teaching 35 % Research/Creative Activity 15 % Service/Outreach
TEACHING
List all courses taught at Colorado State University during the last 5 years. Include laboratory
sections and independent study courses, if any. If course is team-taught, indicate the actual
number of contact hours.
Year
2009
2009
2010
2010
2010
2010
2011
2011
2011
2011
2012
Semester
Fall
Fall
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Spring
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Spring
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Fall
Spring
Course No./Title
HIST 150: U.S. to 1876
HIST 358: Am. Women to 1800
HIST 492: Capstone Seminar
HIST 340: Colonial North America
HIST 511: Am. History to 1877
HIST 358: Am. Women’s Hist.
HIST 341: 18th C America
HIST 492: Senior Research Sem.
HIST 501: Historiography
HIST 480A4: Hist. Am. Sexuality
HIST 150: U.S. to 1876
Cr. Hrs.
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
Enrollment
100
33
13
34
14
37
32
8
10
64*
94
1
2012
2012
2012
2013
2013
2013
2013
2014
2014
2014
Spring
Fall
Fall
Spring
Spring
Fall
Fall
Spring
Spring
Fall
HIST 340: Colonial North America
3
36
HIST 358: Am. Women’s Hist.
3
28
HIST 511: Am. History to 1877
3
15
HIST 341: 18th C America
3
25
HIST 492: Senior Research Sem.
3
18
HIST 480a4: Hist. Am. Sexuality
3
40*
HIST 501: Historiography
3
12
HIST 150: U.S. to 1876
3
60
HIST 340: Colonial North America
3
35
Sabbatical
*co-taught with Professor Ruth Alexander
PUBLISHED WORKS
Books:
Ann M. Little, 2007, Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England, University
of Pennsylvania Press, 264 pp.
Refereed Journal Articles:
Ann M. Little, 2010, “We’re All Cowgirls Now,” Journal of Women’s History 22:4, 220-234.
Ann M. Little, 2009, “Gender and Sexuality in the North American Borderlands, 1492-1848,”
History Compass 7, 1-10.
Ann M. Little, 2006, “Cloistered Bodies: Convents in the Anglo-American Imagination in the
British Conquest of Canada,” Eighteenth Century Studies 39:2, 187-200.
Ann M. Little, 2002, “The Life of Mother Marie-Joseph de l’Enfant Jesus, or, How a little girl
from Wells became a big French politician,” Maine History 40:4, 276-308.
Ann M. Little, 2001, “‘Shoot that rogue, for he hath an Englishman’s coat on!’ Cultural Cross
Dressing on the New England Frontier, 1620-1760,’” New England Quarterly 74:2, 238273.
Ann M. Little, 1997, “Men on Top? The farmer, the minister, and marriage in early New
England,” Pennsylvania History 64: special supplemental issue, 123-150.
Non-refereed Journal Articles:
Ann M. Little, 2014, “Historians Respond to MOOCs: Can Teaching be Taken ‘to Scale’?,” AHA
Perspectives on History, February (1,595 words).
Ann M. Little, 2013, Contributor to “AHA Roundtable: Historians’ Perspectives on Web Ethics,”
Perspectives on History (541 words).
Ann M. Little, 2011, “Silence Dogood Rides Again,” Common-place 12:1 (4,343 words),
http://www.common-place.org/vol-11/no-02/reading/
Ann M. Little, 2011 “It’s My Misfortune and None of Your Own: Thoughts on Being a Cussedly
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Independent Academic Blogger,” OAH Outlook (November, 2011), 1 page.
Refereed Chapters in Books:
Ann M. Little, 2015 (forthcoming), “‘Keep me with you, so that I might not be damned:’ Age
and Captivity in Colonial Borderlands Warfare, in The Politics of Age in America, eds.
Corinne Field and Nicholas L. Syrett (New York University Press)
Ann M. Little, 2013, “Indian Captivity and Family Life in Colonial New England,” an abridged
excerpt of chapter 3 from Abraham in Arms, in Major Problems in American Women’s
History (5th edition, Cengage Learning, edited by Sharon Block, Ruth M. Alexander, and
Mary Beth Norton, 2013), 49-57.
Ann M. Little, 2010, “Captivity and Conversion: Daughters of New England in French Canada”
an abridged excerpt of chapter 4 from Abraham in Arms, in Women’s America:
Refocusing the Past,edited by Linda K. Kerber, Cornelia Hughes Dayton, and Jane
Sherron DeHart (7th edition, Oxford University Press), 103-116.
Trevor Burnard and Ann M. Little, 2007, “Where the girls aren't: women as reluctant migrants
but rational actors in early America,” In: The Practice of U.S. Women's History:
Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues, eds. Jay Kleinberg, Eileen Boris, and Vicki
Ruiz (Rutgers University Press), 12-29.
Ann M. Little, 2002, “Building Colonies, Defining Families,” In: A Companion to American
Women’s History, ed. Nancy Hewitt, (Blackwell), 49-65.
Ann M. Little, 2001, “Ideals of Colonial Womanhood,” In: The Encyclopedia of American
Cultural and Intellectual History, Mary Kupiec Cayton and Peter W. Williams, editors
(Charles Scribner’s Sons), 137-145.
Ann M. Little, 1999, “‘Shee would bump his mouldy britch’: Authority, Masculinity, and the
Harried Husbands of New Haven Colony, 1638-1670,” In Lethal Imagination: Violence
and Brutality in American History, ed. Michael Bellesiles (New York University Press),
43-66.
Non-refereed Chapters in Books:
Ann M. Little, 2012, “Wabanaki and Ursuline Catholicism in Quebec and Acadia: A
Comparative Perspective,” Under the Veil: Feminism and Spirituality in PostReformation England and Europe, ed. Katharine M. Quinsey (Cambridge Scholar’s
Press, 2012), 43-66.
Other: book reviews
Ann M. Little, 2014, “Goodnight Ladies,” a review essay of Elaine Forman Crane, Witches, Wife
Beaters, & Whores: Common Law and Common Folk in Early America (Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press, 2011); Mary Beth Norton, Separated by their Sex: Women in
Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 2011); and Rosemarie Zagarri, Revolutionary Backlash: Women in Politics in the
Early American Republic. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), for
Journal of Women’s History 26:2 (2014), 170-79.
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Ann M. Little, 2014, book review of Jan Noel, Along a River: The First French-Canadian
Women (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013), for The William and Mary
Quarterly 3rd ser. 71:2 (2014), 291-93.
Ann M. Little, 2011, “Bodies, Geographies, and the Environment,” and “Where the Boys Were,
a review essay and comment in a forum on Kathleen Brown’s Foul Bodies: Cleanliness
in Early America, The William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser. 68:4 (2011), 679-85 and 69798.
Ann M. Little, book review of Francis J. Bremer, John Winthrop: America’s Forgotten Founding
Father (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), for Journal of British Studies 47: 1
(2007), 189-90.
Ann M. Little, book review of Nancy Shoemaker, A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White
in Eighteenth Century North America (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2004), for The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 62:3 (2005), 540-42.
Ann M. Little, 2003, book review of Ann Marie Plane, Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in
Early New England (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000), for Law and History
Review 21:3 (2003), 630-31.
Ann M. Little, 2002, book review of Richard Archer, Fissures in the Rock: New England in the
seventeenth century (University Press of New England, 2001), for The Journal of
American History 89:1 (2002), 195-96.
Ann M. Little, 2002, book review of Lisa Norling, Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England
Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 2000), for The Journal of American History 88:4 (2001), 1507.
Ann M. Little, 2000, book review of Carolyn Brekus, Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching
in America, 1740-1845 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), for
Social History 25:2 (2000), 243-45.
Ann M. Little, 1999, book review of A Shared Experience: Men, Women, and the History of
Gender, eds. Laura McCall and Donald Yacavone (New York: New York University
Press, 1998), for The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. ser. 56:3 (1999), 624-28.
CONTRACTS & GRANTS
Funded Projects as PI
2013: “The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright,” Dana and David Dornsife long-term
fellowship, the Huntington Library, 2014-15, $50,000.
2012: Supplemental travel funds for the American Studies Association annual meeting,
Professional Development Program, College of Liberal Arts, $1,089.
2011: “Esther Wheelwright (1696-1780),” Professional Development Program, College of
Liberal Arts, $1,019.
2008 “Esther Wheelwright: A Life Across Borders,” William and Mary QuarterlyEarly Modern Studies Institute Workshop on “Territorial Crossings: Histories and
Historiographies of the Early Americas,” at the Huntington Library, San
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Marino, CA, May 21-22, 2009, all expenses paid.
“Esther Wheelwright (1696-1780), an eighteenth-century life across borders,”
Professional Development Program, College of Liberal Arts, CSU, $1032.74.
2007 “Graduate student support and development for the U.S. and Canadian History Program
Committee Co Chair for the Fourteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
(2008),” Colorado State University College of Liberal Arts Professional Development
Program, submitted 11/13/06, $1,000 requested; $600 awarded.
2007 Request for Sabbatical Leave, Colorado State University, submitted 9/11/06, $27,000.
2006 “Sister in the Wilderness: Esther Wheelwright, Religion, and the Struggle for North
America,” Colorado State University College of Liberal Arts Research and Artistry
Enhancement Initiative Academic Enhancement Program, $3,500 for a course release in
Spring 2007.
2006 “Sister in the Wilderness: Esther Wheelwright, Religion, and the Struggle for North
America,” Faculty Development Fund, Colorado State University College of Liberal
Arts, $5,000.
2002 Course release, “Abraham in Arms: Gender and Power on the New England Frontier,
1620-1760,” Career Enhancement Grant, Colorado State University, $4,000.00
2002 Travel grant to attend “Re-visioning American women's history: women and gender
history in America from settlement to the twentieth century,” London, England,
Professional Development Program, Colorado State University, $1,200.00
2001 “Abraham in Arms: Gender and Power on the New England Frontier, 1620-1760,”
Mellon Foundation Fellowship, The Huntington Library (1 month), 2001-2002,
$1,500.00
2000 “Abraham in Arms: Gender and Power on the New England Frontier, 1620-1760,”
Society of Colonial Wars of Massachusetts Fellowship (1 month), Massachusetts
Historical Society, $1,500.00
1998 “Abraham in Arms: Gender and Power on the New England Frontier, 1620-1720,”
Monticello College Foundation Fellowship (6 months), The Newberry Library, $12,500
1998 “Abraham in Arms: Gender and Power on the New England Frontier, 1620-1720,”
Mayers Fellowship, The Huntington Library (3 months), $3,000.00
1998, 2000, and 2001, “Abraham in Arms: Gender and Power on the New England Frontier,
1620-1760,” Summer Research Seed Grant, University of Dayton, various amounts
totaling perhaps $6,000.00 or $7,000.00
1996 Research Fellowship (2 months), John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American
Civilization, Brown University, $1,200.00
2008
2013
2012
2012
2010
2010
2009
2009
2007
Not funded projects as PI
“The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright,” Massachusetts Historical Society,
$50,000 (withdrawn after acceptance of the NEH-Huntington fellowship)
“Esther Wheelwright,” long-term fellowship, Huntington Library, $50,000
“Esther Wheelwright,” long-term fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, $50,000
“Esther Wheelwright,” long-term fellowship, Huntington Library, $50,000
“Esther Wheelwright,” Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School,
$45,000
“Esther Wheelwright,” Howard Foundation Fellowship, $25,000
“Esther Wheelwright,” Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School,
$45,000
“The Physical Evidence: Bodies, Gender, and Culture in Early America,” American
Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship, $27,000.
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
Professional Affiliations:
member, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
member, Front Range Early American Consortium
member, Western Association of Women Historian
Office in professional societies:
2013
Program Committe Chair, Front Range Early American Consortium,
Denver, Colorado, October 4-5, 2013
2012-13
Program Committee, Western Association of Women Historians annual
meeting, Portland, OR, May 16-18, 2013
2011-14
Gilbert Chinard Prize Committee member, Society for French Historical
Studies; Committee Chair, 2013-14
2007
Organizer and Program Committe Chair, Front Range Early American
Consortium, Denver, Colorado, October 12-13, 2007.
2006-08
U.S. and Canadian History Program Committee co-Chair for
the Fourteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of
Women, Minneapolis, MN, June 12-15, 2008.
Grant Refereeing:
1999-2000
Reviewer of short-term fellowship applications, The Newberry Library
Manuscript Refereeing:
2013
Article: “Gender in North America,” an article for Oxford Bibliographies in
Atlantic History, Oxford University Press.
2013
Revised book manuscript, Heather Miyano Kopelson, Faithful Bodies:
Performing Race and Religion in the Puritan Atlantic, reviewed for New York
University Press.
2013
Article: “A Fraternity of Patriarchs: The Gendered Order of Early Puritan
Massachusetts,” for Massachusetts History.
2013
Article: “‘As Potent a Prince as Any Round Her’: Rethinking Weetamoo in
King Philip’s War” for the Journal of Women’s History (second review).
2012
Book manuscript, Heather Miyano Kopelson, Faithful Bodies: Performing Race
and Religion in the Puritan Atlantic, reviewed for New York University Press.
2012
Article: “‘As Potent a Prince as Any Round Her’: Rethinking Weetamoo
in King Philip’s War” for the Journal of Women’s History.
2012
Article: “‘Frying in the Fyre:’ Masculine Christianity and Violence at Fort
Mystic” for the Journal of Early American History
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2012
Article: ““Rescuing Early America from Nationalist Narratives: A
Transnational Approach to Colonial Canada and Louisiana,” for Historical
Reflections/Reflections Historiques.
2012
Article: “Generation(s) and (Re)generation: Sex and Group Identity in Colonial
New England,” for Journal of American History.
2011
Article: “The Nakedness of the Indians,” for the William and Mary Quarterly,
3rd. ser. (I was asked to review a second draft of this article.)
2011
Book manuscript, Sophie White, Wild Frenchmen & Frenchified Indians: Race,
Religion, and Dress in French Colonial Louisiana, reviewed for the University of
Pennsylvania Press.
2010
Book manuscript, Michelle LeMaster, Brothers Born of One Mother: Gender
and the Family in Anglo-Indian Relations in the Colonial Southeast, a revision of
the 2008 book I reviewed, University of Virginia Press
2010
Article: “The Nakedness of the Indians,” for the William and Mary Quarterly,
3rd. ser.
2009
Article: “Sex and Disability in the Life and Legacy of a Founding Father,”
reviewed for Gender & History.
2009
Article: Essay on women and religion in early America, reviewed for History
Compass.
2008
Book manuscript: Laura M. Chmielewski, The Spice of Popery: Euroamericans
and Interfaith Conflict and Coexistence on the Maine Frontier, 1688-1727, for
Notre Dame University Press
2008
Book manuscript: Michelle LeMaster, Gendered Contacts: Men, Women, and
the Family in Indian-White Relations in the Colonial Southeast, for the
University of Virginia Press
2008
Anthology proposal: Thomas A. Foster, New Men: Manliness in Early America,
New York University Press.
2006
Book manuscript: Michael Parker, John Winthrop: Founding the City upon a
Hill, for Yale University Press.
2005
Book proposal: Paul Clemens, collection of primary sources for Blackwell
Publishers.
2003
Article: “‘That this belt joins our words and makes us stronger’: Wampum,
Literacy, and Exchange in Colonial New France,” for The American Historical
Review.
HONORS AND AWARDS
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2012
Nominated for a Best Teacher Award, sponsored by the CSU Alumni Association and
Student Alumni Connection, Colorado State University.
2010
Nominated for a Best Teacher Award, sponsored by the CSU Alumni Association and
Student Alumni Connection, Colorado State University.
2008
“Honourable Mention” for Abraham in Arms for the 2008 Albert B. Corey Prize from the
Canadian Historical Association and the American Historical Association for the best
book in Canadian-American history.
2006
Nominated for a Best Teacher Award, sponsored by the CSU Alumni Association and
Student Alumni Connection, Colorado State University.
PAPERS
PRESENTED/SYMPOSIA/INVITED
MEETINGS/WORKSHOPS
LECTURES/PROFESSIONAL
2014
“Riding the Fences of the Academic Blogosphere: A Conversation about Online
Professional Engagement,” Proseminar in History 202: Race, Sex, and Research,
University of California, Irvine, California, November 17.University of California,
Irvine, California, November 17.
2014
“Writing a biography of an almost undocumented person: Esther Wheelwright (1696
-1786),” Past Tense Workshop, Henry E. Huntington Library, September 12.
2014
“Is blogging Scholarship? No, but it can support and advance scholarship,” Roundtable,
Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, April 13. A
video of the panel is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2kfm7eOdaw
2014
Three lectures for the Second Annual Bea Spade Memorial Lecture Series, Colorado
State University-Pueblo, Pueblo, CO, March 19-20:
 “The Secret History of Early America: Communities of Women in the
Northeastern Borderlands of North America”
 “Keep me with you, so that I might not be damned: Captivity and Conversion in
the Northeastern Borderlands”
 “An American in Quebec City: Or, why all historians should do research in more
than one language”
2014
“Esther Wheelright (1696-1780), Identity, and Leadership in an Eighteenth-Century
North American Convent,” seminar paper, Center for the Humanities University of
California, Merced, CA, January 29.
2014
“Creating an Online Professional Identity: the Possibilities and Perils of Social Media,”
brown bag lunch talk, Center for the Humanities University of California, Merced, CA,
January 29.
2014
“How Should Historians Respond to MOOCs,” annual meeting of the American
Historical Association, January 3. A video of the panel was published on History News
Network, http://hnn.us/article/154407.
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2013
Comment on panel, “Early American Gender & Sexuality,” Western Association of
Women Historians, May 18.
2013
“Wabanaki women and the work of conversion in the northeastern borderlands,”
Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, April 12.
2013
Invited lecture, “Religious Women as ‘Lesbian-Like’ Communities in New World: A
Provocation,” University of Michigan Department of American Culture, April 2, 2013.
2012
“Time, Place, and Cyberspace: My ‘Second Life’ as a Queer Medievalist,” on the
“Blogging as Public Pedagogy” roundtable, American Studies Association, San Juan,
PR, November 14, 2012.
2012
“Stays and Colonial-Era Clothing,” lecture for HIST 358 recorded by C-SPAN 3,
American History TV; recorded October 22, 2012, air dates December, 22-23, 2012;
description and streaming video archived at http://www.cspan.org/History/Events/Lectures-in-History-Stays-amp-Colonial-EraClothing/10737436371/.
2012
“A Pair of Stays,” Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early
American History, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, June 15, 2012.
2011
Invited lecture, “Thoughts on Todd Romero’s Making War and Minting Christians,”
University of Houston, Houston, TX, September 8, 2011.
2011
Invited lecture, "Familial Intimacy in Women's Religious Communities: the Ursulines of
Quebec in the Eighteenth Century," McNeil Center for Early American Studies,
Philadelphia, PA, April 21.
2011
Invited lecture, “Cowgirl Up: The Pleasures and Perils of Academic Feminist Blogging,”
University of Texas, Austin, TX, March 3.
2011
“Religious Women and Lesbian-Like Families in New World History,” Centering
Families in Atlantic Worlds, 1500-1800,” co-sponsored by the Omohundro Institute of
Early American History and Culture and the Institute for Historical Studies, University of
Texas, Austin, TX, February 28.
2011
“Cross-cultural contact in the Ursuline Convent of Québec: hybridity and
francisization,” Society for French Historical Studies, Charleston, SC, February 12.
2010
“Mali in Wabanakia,” faculty seminar in the History Department, Colorado State
University, Fort Collins, CO, May 3.
2010
Invited lecture, “English Captives, Indian Women, and French Nuns: Gender on New
England’s Colonial Borders,” CIC-American Indian Studies Consortium and History
Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, April 5.
2009
“Permeable Spaces and Occupied Places: the Ursuline convent in Quebec and the
British Conquest,” Western Society for French History, Boulder, CO, October 24.
2009
Roundtable, “What About Women in Early America?” at the Fifteenth Annual
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Conference of the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, Salt
Lake City, UT, June 12.
2009
“Esther Wheelwright: A Life Across Borders,” presented at Territorial Crossings:
Histories and Historiographies of the Early Americas, A William and Mary Quarterly &
USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Workshop at the Huntington Library,
May 21-22.
2008
“Gender and Sexuality in the North American Borderlands,” a paper delivered at the
Front Range Early American History Consortium, Tucson, Arizona, October 11.
2008
“L’Étrangère: Leadership and Identity Politics in an Eighteenth-Century Ursuline
Convent,”a paper presented at the Western Society of French Historians’ annual
conference, Quebec City, P.Q., November 7. (I organized this panel.)
2008
Roundtable, Dual Careers in Academia: Challenges, Experiences, Strategies (Chair), at
the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Minneapolis, MN, June 13.
2008
Panel, Women and Religion in the Atlantic World (Chair), at the Berkshire Conference on
the History of Women, Minneapolis, MN, June 13.
2007
Invited Lecture: “War and Gender in Colonial America and Today,” Women’s Studies,
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, March 6.
2007
Invited Lecture: “War and Gender in Colonial America and Today,” History
Department, Miami University, Oxford , Ohio, March 5.
2007
Invited Lecture: “War and Gender in Colonial America and Today,” Great
Conversations lecture series, College of Liberal Arts, Colorado State University,
February 20.
2006
“Sister in the Wilderness: Esther Wheelwright, Religion, and the Struggle for
North America,” Front Range Early American Consortium, Salt Lake City, October 14.
2006
“Masculinity and Empire: New England’s Visions of New France,” presented at the
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference, Montreal, P.Q.,
March 31.
2005
“Mother Esther and Emily Montague: Names and Bodies in the Northeastern
Borderlands,” presented at the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Claremont,
CA, June 5.
2005
“The Cloistered Body: Life In (and Out) of the Ursuline Convent in Eighteenth-Century
Quebec,” presented at the American Historical Association annual conference, Seattle,
WA, January 7.
2004
“Introduction,” Abraham in Arms (book manuscript), presented to the History
Department Colloquium, October.
2004
Comment for a panel, Gender, Religion, and War: Revolutions of Faith in early New
England and Virginia, Organization of American Historians annual meeting, Boston,
Mass., March 26.
2003
Invited lecture, “Manhood, Power, and Historical Memory: Anglo-Indian encounters in
early New England,” the Mayflower Society, Golden, CO, May.
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2002
Chair, panel discussion: Native American history and the ‘inevitability’ question, Front
Range Early American History Consortium, Boulder, CO, September.
2002
Program Committee Co-chair, Front Range Early American History Consortium,
Boulder, CO.
2002
“‘Who will be Masters of America The French or the English?’ Manhood and Imperial
Warfare, 1730-1760,” presented to the History Department chapter draft reading group,
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
2002
“Captivated: Family and Identity on the Eighteenth-century New England Frontier,”
presented at the eighth annual conference of the Omohundro Institute for Early American
History and Culture, College Park, MD.
2002
Panel discussion of www.common-place.org, American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies annual meeting, Colorado Springs, CO.
2001
“Where the girls aren't: women as reluctant migrants but rational actors in early
America,” paper co-authored with Trevor Burnard, presented at Re-Visioning American
Women’s History, Brunel University, London, England.
2001
“The Life of Mother Marie-Joseph de L’Enfant Jesus, or, How a little English girl
became a big French politician and why nobody remembers it now,” presented at the
seventh annual conference of the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and
Culture, Glasgow, Scotland.
2001
“Insolent Squaws and Unreasonable Masters: Captivity and Family Life, 1675-1760,” the
Ohio State University Early American History Seminar, Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH.
2000
Comment for a panel: “A Polite, Ordered and Masculine Society: The Politics of
Gender, Space, and Nation in Transatlantic Perspective,” Social Science History
Association, Pittsburgh, PA.
2000
“Insolent Squaws and Unreasonable Masters: Captivity and Family Life, 1675-1760,”
women’s history and literature chapter reading group, Oxford, OH.
2000
“Unreasonable Masters: Gender and Captivity,” brown bag presentation, the
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA.
2000
Invited lecture, “Sisters and Strangers: Captivity, Intermarriage, and Family Politics on
the New England Frontier,” Daughters of the War of 1812, Beavercreek, OH.
2000
“What Are You an Indian or an English-Man? The Contest of Masculinities on the New
England Frontier, 1620-1713,” presented to the Michigan Seminar for Colonial Studies,
The Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
1999
“Fields of Screams: Contested Masculinities on the New England Frontier, 1620-1760,”
presented at the American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, Ledyard, CT.
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1999
“‘Shoot that rogue, for he hath an Englishman’s coat on!’ Cultural Cross-Dressing on the
Colonial Frontier,” presented at the Fellows Seminar, The Newberry Library, Chicago,
IL; also at the History Department Faculty Colloquium, University of Dayton, Dayton,
OH.
1999
Invited lecture, “Sisters and Strangers: Captivity, Intermarriage, and Family Politics on
the New England Frontier,” the Daughters of American Colonists Endowed Lecture
Series, Wilmington College, Wilmington, OH.
1999
“Unreasonable Masters: Gender and Captivity, 1675-1760,” brown bag presentation for
the D’Arcy McNickle Center for the Study of the American Indian, The Newberry
Library, Chicago, IL.
1999
“His Sister’s Keeper: Brothers, Sisters, and the Household Laboratory of Patriarchy in
Early New England,” presented at the Organization of American Historians’ annual
meeting, Toronto, Ontario.
1999
“Shoot that rogue, for...he hath an Englishman’s coat on,” preliminary research
presentation, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL.
1998
“The Boy who Cried ‘Indian’: a New England Murder Mystery,” presented at the fourth
annual conference of the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture,
Worcester, MA.
1998
“‘What are you an Indian or an English Man?’ Gender and Politics on the Anglo-Indian
Frontier,” presented at the Newberry Seminar in Early American History, The Newberry
Library, Chicago, IL, and at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA.
1997
“What do you mean ‘faction,’ white man? Or, What Tonto knew that James Madison
Didn’t,” comment on panel presented at Rhode Island Reconsidered, Brown University,
Providence, RI.
1997
“A ‘Family’s Good According to Rule’: New England Families, Politics, and
Seventeenth-century ‘Republican Fathers,’” presented at the Carleton Conference on the
History of the Family, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario.
1996
“Men on Top? The Farmer, the Minister, and Marriage in Early New England,”
presented at the John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization,
Brown University, Providence, RI.
1996
“‘Shee would bump his mouldy britch’: Authority, Masculinity, and the Harried
Husbands of New Haven Colony, 1638-1670,” presented at Pure Richard’s Almanack: A
Conference in Honor of Richard S. Dunn, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
1996
“‘A Wel Ordered Commonwealth’: patriarchy and the frontier in New Haven Colony,
1638-1643,” History Department Colloquia, Catholic University, Washington, DC.
1995
“Men on Top? Domestic Patriarchy in New Haven Colony,” presented at the first annual
conference of the Institute for Early American History and Culture, Ann Arbor, MI.
1994
“The Comfortable Colony: family and community in New Haven Colony, 1650-1665,”
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presented to the Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
1994
commentator for a panel, “The Practice of Religion,” at Possible Pasts: Encounters in
Early America, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
COMMITTEES
College Committee:
Teaching awards committee,College of Liberal Arts, 2011-2014
College Tenure and Promotion Committee, fall 2006 (substituting for Thaddeus
Sunseri); and full term, 2008-2011
PDP Grant Committee, 2004-05
Department Committees:
Graduate Studies committee, 2012-14
Public History search committee, 2011-2012
Chair, Undergraduate awards committee, 2011-12
Undergraduate Studies Committee, 2001-02, 2006-07
Chair, Graduate Studies Committee, August 2005-July 2006
Chair, Public History and U.S. Early Republic search committee, 2004-05
Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2004-present
History Department Executive Committee, 2002-2003, 2005-06, 2008-09, 201213
African American search committee, 2002-03
Public History, U.S. History, and military history search committee, 2001-02
STUDENT ADVISING/GRADUATE SUPERVISION
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS:
# Current Undergraduate Advisees: 30
# Previous Undergraduate Advisees: 38
GRADUATE STUDENTS:
Current Graduate Advisees: 1
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Clarissa Jansen, M.A., continuing enrollment
Current Graduate Committee Memberships (excluding those chaired):
____# Plan C
_ # Plan B
_ # MS/MA
# PhD
Graduate Committee Memberships (for past 5 years, not including those above)
10 # Plan B
4 # MS/MA
# PhD
Graduate Degrees Completed Under Your Supervision (past 5 years):
Jacquelyn Stiverson, 2014, M.A.
Matthew Diven, 2009, M.A.
Garrett Matthias, 2009, M.A.
OTHER ACTIVITIES/ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Special service to the state/community related to professional expertise (past 5 years)
Participated in a discussion of my book, Abraham in Arms, in Prof. Nicholas
Syrett’s graduate seminar at the University of Northern Colorado, February 11,
2014
Invited talk on feminist blogging for Feminism and Co. lecture series at the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, March 28, 2013.
“Haudenosaunee/Iroquois Life in the Colonial Period,” a presentation for Becky
Buhler’s third grade class, St. Mary Catholic School, Greeley, CO, January 26,
2012.
“Pilgrims and Wampanoags,” a presentation for Donna Bornhoft’s second grade
class, St. Mary Catholic School, Greeley, CO, November 24, 2010.
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