EMPLOYMENT

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, August 2002 -
Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Department of History

EDUCATION

New York University
Ph.D., with distinction, in United States History, 2001.
Minor field: Comparative History of Women and Gender.

M.A. in United States History, 1997. Concentration in Public History.

Georgetown University
B.S. Foreign Service, cum laude, 1985, with honors in the Humanities in International Affairs.

DISSERTATION

The Manly World of Urban Reform: Political Manhood and the New Politics of Progressivism in New York City, 1877-1916. Dissertation Director: Thomas Bender.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND HONORS

Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians for best-written dissertation on a major topic in American History, 2002.

New York University Dean’s Dissertation Prize for Best Dissertation in the Humanities, 2002.

Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellowship, Center for the Humanities,
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 2001-2002.

Prize Teaching Fellowship, New York University, Department of History, 2000-2001.

Gregory Sprague Prize (Committee on Lesbian and Gay History of the American Historical Association) for outstanding essay by a graduate student at a North American institution, 1998-1999, for “Socrates in the Slums: Homoerotics, Gender, and Settlement House Reform.”

New York University Fellowship, 1993-1996

Distinction, written and oral comprehensive Ph.D. examinations, 1996.

PUBLICATIONS

The Manly World of Urban Reform: Political Manhood and the New Politics of Progressivism in New York City, 1877-1916 (in progress).

“Socrates in the Slums: Homoerotics, Gender, and Settlement House Reform,” in Laura McCall and Donald Yacovone, eds., A Shared Experience: Men, Women and Gender in U.S. History (New York: New York University Press, 1998).

“Culture and Poverty,” a thematic issue of Radical History Review 69 (Fall 1997), co-editor with Adina Back.

“Walking the Queer City,” Radical History Review 62 (Spring 1995).


TEACHING FIELDS

United States history; political history; history of women and gender; history of sexuality; urban history; cultural and intellectual history; public history.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, 2002-2003. Courses: “U.S. Urban History: Communities and Crises,” “Masculinities in U.S. History,” and “Senior Major Paper Seminar”

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Wesleyan University, 2001-2002. Course: “Queer American History.”

Prize Teaching Fellow, New York University, 2000-2001. Courses: “U.S. History Since 1865,” “Masculinities in American History,” and “U.S. in the Early Twentieth Century”

Instructor, Hofstra University, Spring and Summer 2000. Courses: “American Lives in Historical Perspective” and “African American History, 1865 to Present”

Instructor, New York University, Summer 1998. “U.S. History Since 1865”

Teaching Assistant, New York University, 1996-1997. “Experiences of the Civil War,” “Introduction to African American History, 1865 to Present,” and “Introduction to Metropolitan Studies”

CONFERENCES

“‘Alas the Mollycoddle’: Civil Service Reform and the Intermediate Sex in the United States,”
American Historical Association, San Francisco, California, January 4, 2002.

“The Industrial Army in the Progressive Era,”
Southwestern Labor Studies Conference,
California State University, Long Beach, California, May 5, 2000.

“Men in White: Militarism, Manhood and Street Cleaning in New York City, 1890-1900,”
Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Rochester, New York, June 4, 1999.

“Oral History and Men’s Sexualities,”
Chair, National Oral History Association Conference, Buffalo, New York, October 1998.

“White Armies and the White City: Militarism, Manhood, and Urban Space in New York City Reform, 1890-1910,”
American Historical Association, January 3, 1997.

“Socrates in the Slums: The Settlement House Movement and the Politics of Desire,”
National Gay and Lesbian Studies Conference, City University of New York, April 1997.

EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Curator, The New Metropolis: One Hundred Years of Greater New York, December 1997-October 1998 at the Museum of the City of New York.

Project Creator, The Other Half Show: Jacob Riis and Representations of Urban Poverty in American History, original production at “Lower East Sides: Histories and Communities,” an event sponsored by the New York University Program in Public History, April 1995. Additional productions at the Lower East Side Tenement House Museum.

Curator, Held in Common: Historic Structures in America’s National Parks and Competitionsx3: Recent American Memorials, exhibitions of the National Building Museum, Washington D.C., 1991-1993.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Radical History Review, New York, N.Y.
Managing Editor, August 1994-August 1996.
Responsible for management of editorial and administrative functions of scholarly journal.

National Building Museum, Washington D.C.
Assistant Curator, 1989-1992.
Responsible for all aspects of exhibition process including concept development, script research and writing, object selection and acquisition, design, and installation. Managed traveling exhibitions program.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
American Studies Association
Society of Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Urban History Association
Committee on Lesbian and Gay History