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Curriculum vitae

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Education

BA         1980      College of St. Catherine, Phi Beta Kappa, History

MA        1983      University of Minnesota, History

PhD       1991      University of Minnesota, History

 

Areas of Specialization

U.S. Social, Political and Constitutional History

U.S. and European Women’s History

History of Feminism in Western Society

19th Century Minnesota History

History of Slavery and Civil Rights in the United States

 

Dissertation

“Criminal Justice on the Minnesota Frontier, 1820-1857,” University of Minnesota, 1991

 

Publications   

  • "Mother Seraphine Ireland, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and the College of St. Catherine," in Brian Matz, editor, Non Scholae sed Vitae:  the Founding and Educational Vision of the Sisters of St. Joseph of North America (February, 2023)

  • Daybreak Woman:  An Anglo-Dakota Life, Minnesota Historical Society Press (November, 2020)

  • “St. Catherine-Story and History,”  St. Catherine University (November, 2018)

  • “A Vindication of Mary Wollstonecraft,” Colleagues, St. Catherine University (Fall, 2016)

  • “This Higgledy Piggeldy Assembly:  the McLeods, An Anglo-Dakota Family in Early Minnesota,” in The Confidence of a Noun:  Award-winning Selections from the Mary McCahill Denny Prize for Excellence in Writing at St. Catherine University (St. Catherine University and XanEdu Press, 2015)

  • “Naginowenah, Lucy Prescott  and the Cereal Wizard: Cultural Identity Across Three Generations of an Anglo-Dakota Family,” Minnesota History (Summer 2012)

  • “Extravagantly Visionary:  The Irelands and Sister Antonia McHugh,” in Carroll, Cavallaro, Doherty, editors, Liberating Sanctuary: 100 years of Women’s Education at the College of St. Catherine  ( Lexington Press, 2011) and The St. Catherine Core Reader  (2015)

  • Co-author with Joanne Cavallaro, “What a Woman Should Know, What a Woman Should Be:  Curriculum as Prism,” in Carroll, Cavallaro and Doherty, editors, Liberating Sanctuary: 100 years of Women’s Education at the College of St. Catherine ( Lexington Press, 2011)

  • Co-editor,  Liberating Sanctuary: 100 years of  Women’s Education at the College of St. Catherine (Lexington Press, 2011)

  • “ Places and Spaces for Women,”  Colleagues, St. Catherine University, November 2010

  • Book Review, “William Warren,” Minnesota History (Summer, 2008)

  •  “This Higgeldy-Piggeldy Assembly:  An Anglo-Dakota Family in Early Minnesota,”  Minnesota History (Summer, 2007)

  • The College of St. Catherine: Taking Women Seriously for 100 Years (SCU Alumnae Association, 2005)

  • “Who is Jane Lamont?:  Anglo-Dakota Daughters in Early Minnesota,”  Minnesota History (Spring, 2005)

  • Book Review,  “Controlling Vice,”  Minnesota History (Summer, 2000)

  • “Minnesota’s Territorial Newspapers,” in Anne Kaplan, editor, Making Minnesota Territory (St. Paul:  Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1999)

  • “Native Americans and Criminal Justice on the Minnesota Frontier,”  Minnesota History (Summer, 1996)

  • Engineering the Falls:  the Corps of Engineers’ Role at St. Anthony Falls (U.S. Government, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,1995)

  • “The Police, the Press and the Public:  Law Enforcement in Territorial St. Paul,” Minnesota History (Fall, 1993)

  • “Dams and Damages: the United States, the Ojibway and the Mississippi Headwaters Reservoirs,” Minnesota History (Spring, 1990)

  • “To Pray or Not to Pray:  the Supreme Court Says No to Prayer in the Public Schools,” in John W. Johnson, editor, an Encyclopedia of American Court Cases (New York:  Garland Publishing, 1989)

 

U.S. Government Published Reports, Documentation for the National Register of Historic Places, and Documentation for the Historic American Engineering Designation:

  • “Mississippi Headwaters Historic Preservation Plan” (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1989)

  • “Upper Mississippi River Historic Preservation Plan,”(U.S. COE, 1989)

  • “Determination of Eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places:  The St.    Paul Municipal Grain Terminal” (U.S. COE, 1990)

  • “Determination of Eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places:  the Mississippi Headwaters Reservoirs,” (U.S. COE, 1991)

  • “Dams on the Upper Souris and J.Clark Sayler National Wildlife Refuges,” U.S. COE, 1990)

  • “LaFarge, Wisconsin Railroad Bridges,” (U.S. COE, 1989)

  • “Sandy Lake Dam Tender’s Residence,” (U.S. COE, 1991)

  • “Mississippi Headwaters Dams,” (U.S. COE, 1993)
     

 Presentations

  • “Mother Seraphine Ireland, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and the College of St. Catherine,” Sisters of St. Joseph Institutional History National Symposium (January 27-28, 2022)

  • Daybreak Woman Presentation, Ramsey County Library History Series (May 31, 2022)

  • Daybreak Woman Presentation, Minneapolis Women’s Club (February 22, 2022)

  • Daybreak Woman Presentation, Marine on St. Croix Public Library (September 16, 2021)

  • Daybreak Woman Presentation, Dakota County Historical Society (July 9, 2021)    

  • Daybreak Woman Presentation to Women’s Group, Minnesota Historical Society (May 12, 2021)

  • Book Launch for Daybreak Woman:  An Anglo-Dakota Life, on Facebook Live, co-sponsored by the Minnesota Historical Society and SCU Center for Women (December 9, 2020)

  •  “Naginowenah, Lucy Prescott and the Wizard of Breakfast Food:  Public Identity Through Three Generations of An Anglo-Dakota Family,”  Northern Great Plains History Conference, St. Cloud, Minnesota (October 15, 2009)

  • “The McLeods: An Anglo-Dakota Family,” McLeod County Historical Society (July 14, 2008)

  • “The McLeods: An Anglo-Dakota Family,” Pond Heritage Society (June 22, 2008)

  •  “Beyond the Limits of De Tocqueville’s Democracy:  Minnesota’s Frontier Society,” ( June 26, 2007) National Endowment for the Humanities Institute on De Tocqueville and American Society, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minnesota

  •  “Who Was Jane Lamont:  Anglo-Dakota Daughters in Early Minnesota,” (July, 2006) Fort Snelling: a Contentious Ground , Teacher’s Workshop, Minnesota Historical Society

  • “Taking Women Seriously:  The College of St. Catherine and Women’s Education,” Women’s Group, Minnesota Historical Society (November 9, 2005) (with Dr. Sharon Doherty)

  • “Anglo-Dakota Families in the Bloomington Area,” Gideon Pond House (July 17, 2005)

  • Panel Chair and Commentator, “Title IX Turns 30,” Oxford University, UK, Oxford Round Table conference on Human Rights and Gender Discrimination (March 30-April 4, 2003)

  • “Sinclair Lewis and the History of the U.S. in the Early 20th Century,” St. Anthony Park Library, (December 1, 2002)

  • “Who is Jane Lamont? :  Daughters of Dakota Women and Anglo-American Men in Minnesota Before 1862,” Northern Great Plains History Conference, Minneapolis (October 11, 2002)

  • Panel Commentator, “Women and Reform Work in the Progressive Era,” Missouri Valley Regional History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska  (March 2002)

  •  “Minnesota’s Territorial Newspapers,” Minnesota Historical Society (March, 1999)

  • “Jazzing Up American History:  Using Babbitt and Elmer Gantry to Teach the History of the 1920s,” Sinclair Lewis Conference, Sauk Centre, Minnesota, (1997)

  •  “Dams and Damages:  the United States, the Ojibway and the Mississippi Headwaters Reservoirs,” Minnesota Archeology Week, Leech Lake, Minnesota (1995)

  • “Dams and Damages…,” Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (1996)

  • Resistance and Persistence:  The Ojibwe and Dakota in Minnesota, One Read for Justice Series, SCU (November 17, 2021)

  • Daybreak Woman:  Book Club Discussion, SCU Women’s Center (February 18, 2021)

  • “Daybreak Woman and the Disruption of an Obsolete Historical Narrative of Minnesota,” Alumnae Relations, St. Catherine University (August 18, 2020)

  • “St. Catherine University’s History of Inclusive Excellence,” with Sharon Doherty, Presentations to the Board of Trustees and SHAS Faculty (October and December, 2019)

  • “The Joy of Intellectual Pursuit,” Phi Beta Kappa Initiation Ceremony (April, 2018)

  • “Four British Women Writers and the Woman Question,” Saturday Seminar, Alumnae Relations Department (November 17, 2012)

  • “Liberating Sanctuary:  A Collaborative Journey,” Women’s Studies Brown Bag Series (February 24, 2012)

  • “Naginowenah, Lucy Prescott and the Wizard of Breakfast Food,”  Women’s Studies Brown Bag Series (May, 2010)

  • “The College of St. Catherine and Phi Beta Kappa,” Alumnae Association (October 29, 2007)

  • “Scholars and the Creative Process,” College of St. Catherine, Endowed Chair in the Humanities Panel (November, 2000)

  • “The Police, the Press and the Public in Territorial St. Paul,” Endowed Chair in the Humanities Lecture Series, College of St. Catherine (1993)

 

Media Productions and Exhibits

  • “Taking Women Seriously,” College of St. Catherine Centennial History Panel Exhibit (2004)

  • “Where the Portraits on the Walls are Women,” College of St. Catherine Centennial History Documentary DVD (2004)

 

 

Professional Activities

  • History Day Judge, Murray Junior High, St. Paul, Minnesota (February 21, 2012)

  • History Day Judge, Murray Junior High, St. Paul, Minnesota(February 22, 2011)

  • Chapter Delegate, Phi Beta Kappa Triennial Conference, Austin, Texas, (2009)

  • Participant, “Making Sense of Minnesota History in the Information Age,” Roundtable discussion at Minnesota Public Radio (October 23, 2007)

  • Book and Journal Manuscript Reviewer, Minnesota Historical Society Press (1996-2015)

  • Chapter Delegate, Triennial Council, Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society, Seattle (2003)

  • Director, Minnesota State Board of American Association of University Professors (2002-2004)

  • Judge, Minnesota History Day, Minnesota Historical Society (2001)

  • Judge, Minnesota Historical Society, Solon J. Buck Award (1999)

  • Consultant and on-film commentator, “Uncommon Ground,” Documentary Film Series, John Whitehead and the University of Minnesota, producers (2001-022)

  • On-line Guest, “River of Life: Mississippi Adventure,” Interactive curriculum for K-12 , Center for Global Environmental Education, Hamline University (March, 1998)

  • Consultant, “Waters to the Sea: Rivers of the Upper Mississippi,” CD-ROM, Center for Global Environmental Education, Hamline University (1998)

 

 

Honors, Awards and Grants

  • American Association for State and Local History, 2022 Leadership in History Publication Award,

Daybreak Woman:  an Anglo-Dakota Life (MHS Press, 2020)

  • Finalist, Minnesota Book Awards, Non-fiction, Daybreak Woman, 2021

  • Abigail Quigley McCarthy Faculty Research Writing Award, 2020

  • Sister Mona Riley Endowed Chair in the Humanities, 2017-2020

  • UMAIE Curriculum Development Grant, 2015

  • SCU Study Abroad Curriculum Development Grant, 2015

  • SCU Curriculum Development Grant, May 2014

  • Faculty Research Sabbatical, Winter 2014

  • Abigail Quigley McCarthy Faculty Research Writing Award, 2012

  • Denny Writing Prize, St. Catherine University, 2010

  • Solon J. Buck Award, Minnesota Historical Society, 2007

  • St. Catherine Study Abroad Award, 2007

  • Finalist,  Faculty Teaching and Advising Award (2004-2005)

  • Faculty Research Sabbatical, Winter Semester (2005)

  • Abigail Quigley McCarthy Faculty Research and Writing Award (2003)

  • CSC Scholars’ Retreat (2002, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2014)

  • Curriculum Development Grants (2000, 2001, 2002)

  • Solon J. Buck Award, Minnesota Historical Society, 1991

  • Exceptional Performance Awards, U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers (1991, 1992, 1995)

  • Mother Antonia McHugh Award, College of St. Catherine (1981)

  • Phi Beta Kappa (1979)

  • Pi Gamma Mu (1979)

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