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Department of History
Monmouth College
Monmouth, IL 61462
stacy@monm.edu

Education:

Ph.D. in History, highest honors, The University of Texas at Austin, May 1992

M.A. in History, high honors, The University of Texas at Austin, May 1986

B.A. in Theater, highest honors, The University of Texas at Austin, May 1983

Publications:

Books:

Work in progress: Juliette Gordon Low, Founder of the Girl Scouts. Viking, forthcoming.
Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker. New York: Viking, 2007.
Historic Photographs of Theodore Roosevelt. Nashville: Turner Publishing, 2007.
Theodore Roosevelt: In the Vanguard of the Modern. Claremont: Wadsworth Press, 2003.

Articles:

"Princess Alice:" The Life and Times of Alice Roosevelt Longworth," Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, Volume XXIII, Number 4 (2000), 10-14.
"'The First Daughter of the Land': Alice Roosevelt as Presidential Celebrity, 1902-1906," Presidential Studies Quarterly, Volume XIX, Number 1 (Winter 1989), 51-70.

Chapters:

"Women in Industrializing America," in The Gilded Age: Essays on the Origins of Modern America, Charles W. Calhoun, ed., Scholarly Resources, 2003, [1996], 111-135.

"Helen H. Taft," in American First Ladies: A Biographical Encyclopedia, Lewis L. Gould ed., Garland Publishing, 1996, 321-339.

"Edith Kermit Roosevelt," in American First Ladies: A Biographical Encyclopedia, Lewis L. Gould, ed., Garland Publishing, 1996, 294-320.
"Theodore Roosevelt's Private Diplomat: Alice Roosevelt and the 1905 Far Eastern Junket," in Theodore Roosevelt: Many-Sided American, Naylor, Gable, and Brinkley eds., Heart of the Lakes Publishing, 1992, 353-367.

Biographical Articles:

"Juliette Gordon Low," Notable American Philanthropists: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Giving and Volunteering, Robert T. Grimm, Jr., ed., Greenwood/Oryx Press, 2002, 187-191.
"Alice Roosevelt Longworth" (pp. 318-320); "Elliott Roosevelt" (pp. 446-448); "Theodore Roosevelt" (pp. 467-469); and "Anna Roosevelt Cowles" (pp. 115-116), The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia, Maurine H. Beasley and Holly C. Shulman, eds, Greenwood Press, 2001.

	*"Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney" and "Juliette Gordon Low" (Vol. 9, pp. 714-720), Women in World History, Anne Commire, ed., Yorkin Publications, 2001.*
	*"Theodore Roosevelt," Encyclopedia of American Studies, George T. Kurian and Miles Orvell, eds., Grolier Press, 2001.*
	*"Alice Roosevelt Longworth" (pp. 896-898); and "Helen H. Taft" (pp. 253-254) American National Biography, John Garraty, ed., Oxford University Press, 1999, 896-898.*
	*"Bebe Daniels," The New Handbook of Texas* Volume 2, Texas State Historical Association, 1996, 507.**

"Anna Pennybacker," The New Handbook of Texas Volume 5, Texas State Historical Association, 1996, 141-142.

"Anne Sheridan," The New Handbook of Texas Volume 5, Texas State Historical Association, 1996, 1018.

"Alice Roosevelt Longworth," for Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement, Volume 10, Kenneth T. Jackson, ed., Charles Scribners' Sons, 1995, 464-466.

"Mildred Dunnock," in Notable Women in the American Theater, Robinson, Roberts, and Barranger, eds., Westport Press, 1989, 243-246.

Web Resources:

Web bibliographer, National First Ladies' Library, 2001-present
Instructor's Manual for David A. Horowitz and Peter N. Carroll's On the Edge: The United States in the Twentieth Century, 3rd Edition, 2004.

Book Reviews:

Fighting Bob LaFollette: The Righteous Reformer, Nancy C. Unger, Indiana Magazine of History, December 2001, 321-322.

Eleanor Roosevelt, Vols. I and II, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Journal of Policy History, 12, 4 (2000), 531-534.

Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life, J. William T. Youngs, for H-Net's H-Women academic listserv, December 1999.

Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life, Desley Deacon, for H-Net's H-Women academic listserv, November 1998.

An Army of Women: Gender and Politics in Gilded Age Kansas, Michael Lewis Goldberg, Women Historians of the Midwest (WHOM) newsletter, fall 1998, 6-7.

U.S. National Archives Digital Classroom Project: Woman Suffrage and the Nineteenth Amendment, Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History, summer 1998.

Half Sisters of History: Southern Women and the American Past, Catherine Clinton, ed., The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Volume 93, Number 3 (Summer 1995) 374-375.

I've Seen the Best of It: Memoirs, by Joseph Alsop, Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, Volume XX, Numbers 1 & 2 (Fall-Winter 1994-1995), 18-20.

Still Missing: Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern Feminism, by Susan Ware, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Volume 92, Number 3 (Summer 1994), 334-335.

How Am I to Be Heard?: Letters of Lillian Smith, Margaret Rose Gladney, ed., North Carolina Historical Review, Volume LXXI, Number 1 (January 1994), 131-132.

Eleanor Roosevelt, by Blanche Wiesen Cook, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Volume 91, Number 2 (Spring 1993), 235-237.

Pornography and the Law: An Annotated Bibliography of Conflict, 1970-1986, Sellin and Young, eds., in American History: A Bibliographic Review, III (1987), 200-203.

Presentations:

"Alice Roosevelt: Diva, Diplomat, First Daughter," Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society, November 2007.

	"Sunshine and Shadow: Theodore Roosevelt's Life in Boston," keynote speaker, Theodore Roosevelt Association Annual Meeting, Boston, October 2007.
	"Alice Roosevelt Longworth: Public and Private Lives," Savannah, July 2007.
	"Federal Censorship of the Federal Theater Project," DuPage Valley Social Studies Conference, Naperville, March 2007.
	"Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt: The First Presidential 'Two-fer'?" Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia, May 2006
	"The Other Washington Monument: Alice Roosevelt Longworth," Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site, Buffalo, New York, 7 March 2006
	"N.O.W. or Never? Betty Friedan, Phyllis Schlafly," DuPage Valley Social Studies Conference, Naperville, March 2006.
	"The Wartime Partnership of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt," DuPage Valley Social Studies Conference, Naperville, March 2006.

	"Theodore Roosevelt: The Morals Make the Man," Georgia Historical Society's Great Americans Biography Symposium, Savannah, Georgia, April 2005.
	Invited speaker for Women's History Month, "Stuck Between the China Cabinet and the Cabinet Briefing: The Role of Modern First Ladies," Bradley University, March 2005
	"The Modern Women's Liberation Movement: The Documented Truth," DuPage Valley Social Studies Conference, Naperville, March 2005
	"Did WWI Really Lead Directly to WWII?," DuPage Valley Social Studies Conference, Naperville, March 2005
	"Women and Politics: It's All About Power," Scholar-in-Residence, Kislak Adult Center, YMHA, New Jersey, 6-10 September 2004
	"Theodore Roosevelt: In the Vanguard of the Modern," DuPage Valley Social Studies Conference, Naperville, February 2003.
	"Rethinking the Origins of the American Republic: Catherine Allgor's Parlor Politics, DuPage Valley Social Studies Conference, Naperville, February 2003.
	"The Plow, The Pedestal, The Stump, The Coffin: Presidents After the Presidency," DuPage Valley Social Studies Conference, Naperville, March 2002.
	"From Sidelines to Center Court: A Brief History of Women in Sports," DuPage Valley Social Studies Conference, Naperville, March 2002.
	Invited speaker for Women's History Month, "Presidential Daughters and Their Histories," at the Hutchison School, Memphis, Tennessee, March 2002.
	"The Echo of the National Divide: Gender and the Coming of the Civil War," talk to AP History students, Glenbard North High School, Naperville, February 2002.
	"Alice Roosevelt Longworth and the 1912 Election: Public Woman, Private Crucible," Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Boston, January 2001.
	"Balancing a Teeter-Totter," for the Coordinating Committee on Women's History at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Boston, January 2001.
	Commentator, "Politics in the Progressive Era," papers by Richard Jensen and John McClymer, New England Historical Association Meeting, Boston, April 2000.
	"Partners in Power: First Ladies and United States History," DuPage Valley Social Studies Conference, Naperville, March 2000.
	"Unrecorded Casualties: Women and the Vietnam Conflict," DuPage Valley Social Studies Conference, Naperville, March 2000.
	"Sagamore Hill to San Juan: Theodore Roosevelt and the Spanish American War," DuPage Valley Social Studies Conference, Naperville, February 1999.
	"From Sagamore Hill to San Juan: Teaching About TR and the Spanish American War," Annual Conference on the Teaching of History, Western Illinois University, April 1998.

"'We Began to Seem Like Dinosaurs': The Demise of the Fortnightly Women's Club in its Centennial Year," Women Historians of the Midwest Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, July 1997.

Invited speaker for Faculty Colloquium, "Reclaiming Biography: Feminist Scholarship in the Age of Social History," Humanities Research Center at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England, May 1997.

Invited speaker for Women's History Month, "The Lessons of Feminist Biography for the Roosevelt Family Women," Vanderbilt University, March 1997.

Invited speaker for Women's History Month: "Women in a Man's World: Gender, Politics and the Roosevelt Family," Tennessee Tech University, March 1997.

"Alice Roosevelt Longworth and the 1912 Election: An Insider's Perspective," Mid-America Conference on History, Topeka, Kansas, 1996.

Commentator, "Autobiography and Constructions of the Self," The Quiet in the Land?: Women of Anabaptist Traditions in Historical Perspective Conference, Millersville, Pennsylvania, 1995.

Moderator, "Gender and Nature: A Partnership for Equality and Integrity," Southeastern Women's Studies Association Conference, Greenville, North Carolina, 1994.

"You Are My Greatest Inspiration: Anna Pennybacker and the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs," South Central Women's Studies Association Conference, Denton, Texas, 1990.

"Anna Pennybacker and the Tradition of Progressive Reform in Texas," Phi Alpha Theta meeting, the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1990.

"Theodore Roosevelt's Private Diplomat: Alice Roosevelt and the 1905 Far Eastern Junket," Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of Modern America Conference, Hempstead, New York, 1990.

"Anna Pennybacker and the Tradition of the Genteel Reformer in Texas, 1880-1920," Women and Texas History Conference, Austin, Texas, 1985.

"Ethiopia: Politics and Theatrics in the New Deal," The University of Texas Historical Symposium, Austin, Texas, 1985.

"Anna Pennybacker and Eleanor Roosevelt: Feminism Between the Wars," Southwestern Social Sciences Association Conference, Fort Worth, Texas, 1984.

Teaching Positions:

Professor (2006); Monmouth College; fall 1994 though present. Courses developed: World War II, U. S. Women's History, Biography and History, The Vietnam Era, the Trans-Atlantic World, Historical Methods. Courses taught: Introduction to Liberal Arts, United States History 1492-1901; United States History 1750-1901; United States History 1901-Present, History of Illinois; Women, Justice, and Equality.

Visiting Assistant Professor, East Carolina University; fall 1992 through spring 1994. Courses taught: United States History to 1877; United States History since 1877; Honors Independent Study--Women and Family during the Civil War

Assistant Instructor, The University of Texas at Austin; fall 1990 through spring 1991. Course taught: United States History since 1877

Lecturer, University of Arkansas; fall 1988 through spring 1990. Course taught: United States History since 1877.

Professional Service:

Theodore Roosevelt Association Advisory Board, 2008-2010

"Steele Talkin'," WCCO live radio show, Twin Cities, on the topic of First Ladies, September 2007.

Journal of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era Best Article Prize Committee, 2007-2009.

Secretary, Women's and Gender Historians of the Midwest, summer 2000-present.

Contributing Editor, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 2003.

Member, Teaching Awards Committee, American Historical Association, 2002-2005; Chair in 2005.

Guest e-scholar in Dr. Kris Lindenmeyer's "TR and Modern America" class, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, November 2002

"Jenna Has a Role Model," Scripps Howard News Service guest column, June 2001.

Book Review Editor, H-Women, 2000-2005.

Co-founder (with Dr. Steve Reschly) and faculty advisor for H-HistMajor, an H-Net listserv for undergraduate history majors, 1998-present.

Newspaper interview by Susan Page of U.S.A. Today, on the topic of presidential fathers, 3 June 1997.

List Editor, H-Women (an H-Net listserv for women's historians), 1996-2000.

Associated Colleges of the Midwest Women's Concerns Committee Representative, 1996-1998.

Member, Planning Committee, Western Illinois Arts and Humanities Council, 1994-1996.

Membership Committee, Southern Historical Association, 1994-1995.

Curriculum Committee, Department of History, East Carolina University, 1993-1994.

Current Events Forum panel member, East Carolina University, February 1993.

Graduate Student Representative and Council Member, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1989-1994.

Radio Interview on Presidential First Ladies, BBC Radio Four's "Midweek," London, November 1992.

Faculty-Graduate Multicultural Committee, Department of History, University of Texas, 1991.

Graduate Student Representative and Board Member, Coordinating Committee for Women in the Historical Profession, 1989-1991.

Member, Organizing Committee, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1988-1989.

Fellowships, Grants, and Awards:

Hatch Teaching Excellence Award, 2007.

R. McCormick Tankersley Charitable Trust Grant, 2003.

Monmouth College Senior Professor of the Year, 2003.

Associated Colleges of the Midwest Faculty Travel Grant, 2001.

Monmouth College Professor of the Year, 1998.

Monmouth College Professor of the Year, 1997.

Herbert R. Paschal, Jr. Memorial Faculty Development Grant, East Carolina University, 1992.

Dora Bonham Professional Advancement Grant, The University of Texas, 1991.

Centennial Graduate Student Grant, The University of Texas, 1990.

Dora Bonham Fellowship, The University of Texas, 1989.

Bess Heflin Fellowship, The University of Texas, 1986.

Professional Associations:

American Historical Association

Women's and Gender Historians of the Midwest

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Phi Alpha Theta

Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Monmouth College Service:

Faculty Senate, 2007-2008

"The Feminist Quilt," The F-Word Series, April 2007

"Alice Roosevelt Longworth: The Other Washington Monument," promotion talk, November 2005

Chair, Department of History, spring 2003-present

Member, AAS Committee, 2005-present

Program advisor, study abroad exchange program, Umea University, Umea, Sweden, 2004-present

Introduction to Liberal Arts--New Theme Committee, 2004-2005

"Writing Lives, Living Life: Or, A Feminist Biographer Makes Sense of Her Sabbatical," sabbatical talk, November 2002

"Pillow Politics: America's First Ladies," Monmouth College Board of Trustees presentation, October 2002

Played Macbeth in Macbeth, directed by Bill Wallace, 31 October-3 November 2002

Personnel Committee, 2002-2005

"From the Sidelines to Center Court: A Brief History of Women and Sports in the U.S.," guest lecture in Sports History class, April 2002

"Of Women, Men, Saloons, Good, and Evil," talk to cast of What a Good Woman Needs, November 2000

"Pillow Talk: First Ladies and Political Power," Monmouth Associates talk, April 2000

Faculty Advisor, PRISM, 1999-present

Faculty Senate Member, 1997-1999 (Secretary to Faculty Senate 1998-1999)

Search Committee, Political Economy and Commerce, 1997-98

Search Committee, Director of Hewes Library, 1998

Coordinator of Women's Studies, 1995-2001

Public Affairs Committee, 1995-1997

Panelist, The Historical Jesus, October 1997

"Alice Roosevelt Longworth," tenure talk, November 1997

"Meditation on the Magnificat," Chaplin's Ecumenical Service, December 1996

Acting Chair, Department of History, spring 1996

Math Department Search Committee, 1995-1996

Curator of the Monmouth College Archives, 1995-present

Faculty Advisor to Pi Beta Phi, 1995-1998

Co-coordinator of Campus Worship, 1995-1996

Co-advisor to Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society, 1995-present

Advisor or co-advisor to the Coalition for Women's Concerns, 1995-present

"Changing Times, Changing Places," Fulton Hall Dorm Talk, October 1995

Director of the Monmouth College Oral History Project, 1994-present

Faculty Advisor to the Spirit Squad, 1994-1996

Affirmative Action Committee, 1994-1995

"TR, College Football, and Masculinity," Education Night, Sigma Phi Epsilon, September 1994

Monmouth Community Service:

"Mary Todd Lincoln," Pathfinders, First Lutheran Church, 11 February 2007.

	"The Women's Rights Movement," talk to two fifth grade classes, Silas Willard Elementary, 20 May 2004.
	The Roosevelt Family," YMCA's Active Older Adults program, May 2003.
	"The Stronger the Womb, the Stronger the Nation: Theodore Roosevelt and the Construction of Gender," Monmouth AAUW, March 2003.
	"First Ladies and the Question of Power," Coldbrook Women's Club, 22 March 2001.
	"The Post-Presidential Career of Theodore Roosevelt," Carl Sandburg College for Senior Citizens, March 2001.
	"Eleanor Roosevelt: Leadership Despite the Odds," presentation before the student council members of twelve regional high schools, Warren High School, 25 January 2001.
	"'These Ten Months of Strain': Alice Roosevelt Longworth and the 1912 Election," presentation before the Monmouth Chapter of the American Association of University Women, 21 November 1996.
	" 'My Dearest Partner of Greatness': Mary Todd Lincoln as First Lady" presentation before the Lincoln Society, Monmouth, 15 April 1996.
	"Come and Sit By Me," presentation before the Monmouth Kiwanis Club, 9 April 1996.
	Secretary, Board of Directors, Warren County Habitat for Humanity, 1995-1996.
	"The First American Female Celebrity," presentation before the Monmouth Rotary Club, 8 January 1996.

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