Department of History
Monmouth College
Monmouth, IL 61462
stacy@monm.edu
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Ph.D. in History, highest honors, The University of Texas at Austin, May 1992 |
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M.A. in History, high honors, The University of Texas at Austin, May 1986 |
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B.A. in Theater, highest honors, The University of Texas at Austin, May 1983 |
Books:
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Work in progress: Juliette Gordon Low, Founder of the Girl Scouts. Viking, forthcoming, 2012. |
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Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker. New York: Viking, 2007. |
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Historic Photographs of Theodore Roosevelt. Nashville: Turner Publishing, 2007. |
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Theodore Roosevelt: In the Vanguard of the Modern. Claremont: Wadsworth Press, 2003. |
Articles:
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"Princess Alice:" The Life and Times of Alice Roosevelt Longworth," Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, Volume XXIII, Number 4 (2000), 10-14. |
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"'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:
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"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. |
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"Helen H. Taft," in American First Ladies: A Biographical Encyclopedia, Lewis L. Gould ed., Garland Publishing, 1996, 321-339. |
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"Edith Kermit Roosevelt," in American First Ladies: A Biographical Encyclopedia, Lewis L. Gould, ed., Garland Publishing, 1996, 294-320. |
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"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. |
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"Juliette Gordon Low," Notable American Philanthropists: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Giving and Volunteering, Robert T. Grimm, Jr., ed., Greenwood/Oryx Press, 2002, 187-191. |
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"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. |
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"Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney" and "Juliette Gordon Low" (Vol. 9, pp. 714-720), Women in World History, Anne Commire, ed., Yorkin Publications, 2001. |
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"Theodore Roosevelt," Encyclopedia of American Studies, George T. Kurian and Miles Orvell, eds., Grolier Press, 2001. |
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"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. |
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"Bebe Daniels," The New Handbook of Texas Volume 2, Texas State Historical Association, 1996, 507. |
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"Anna Pennybacker," The New Handbook of Texas Volume 5, Texas State Historical Association, 1996, 141-142. |
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"Anne Sheridan," The New Handbook of Texas Volume 5, Texas State Historical Association, 1996, 1018. |
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"Alice Roosevelt Longworth," for Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement, Volume 10, Kenneth T. Jackson, ed., Charles Scribners' Sons, 1995, 464-466. |
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"Mildred Dunnock," in Notable Women in the American Theater, Robinson, Roberts, and Barranger, eds., Westport Press, 1989, 243-246. |
Web Resources:
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Web bibliographer, National First Ladies' Library, 2001-present. |
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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:
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Fighting Bob LaFollette: The Righteous Reformer, Nancy C. Unger, Indiana Magazine of History, December 2001, 321-322. |
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Vols. I and II, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Journal of Policy History, 12, 4 (2000), 531-534. |
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Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life, J. William T. Youngs, for H-Net's H-Women academic listserv, December 1999. |
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Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life, Desley Deacon, for H-Net's H-Women academic listserv, November 1998. |
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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. |
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U.S. National Archives Digital Classroom Project: Woman Suffrage and the Nineteenth Amendment, Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History, summer 1998. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Eleanor Roosevelt, by Blanche Wiesen Cook, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Volume 91, Number 2 (Spring 1993), 235-237. |
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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. |
| "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. |
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| "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. |
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| "'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. |
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| 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. |
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| Invited speaker for Women's History Month, "The Lessons of Feminist Biography for the Roosevelt Family Women," Vanderbilt University, March 1997. |
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| Invited speaker for Women's History Month: "Women in a Man's World: Gender, Politics and the Roosevelt Family," Tennessee Tech University, March 1997. |
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| "Alice Roosevelt Longworth and the 1912 Election: An Insider's Perspective," Mid-America Conference on History, Topeka, Kansas, 1996. |
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| Commentator, "Autobiography and Constructions of the Self," The Quiet in the Land?: Women of Anabaptist Traditions in Historical Perspective Conference, Millersville, Pennsylvania, 1995. |
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| Moderator, "Gender and Nature: A Partnership for Equality and Integrity," Southeastern Women's Studies Association Conference, Greenville, North Carolina, 1994. |
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| "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. |
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| "Anna Pennybacker and the Tradition of Progressive Reform in Texas," Phi Alpha Theta meeting, the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1990. |
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| "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. |
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| "Anna Pennybacker and the Tradition of the Genteel Reformer in Texas, 1880-1920," Women and Texas History Conference, Austin, Texas, 1985. |
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| "Ethiopia: Politics and Theatrics in the New Deal," The University of Texas Historical Symposium, Austin, Texas, 1985. |
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| "Anna Pennybacker and Eleanor Roosevelt: Feminism Between the Wars," Southwestern Social Sciences Association Conference, Fort Worth, Texas, 1984. |
Teaching Positions:
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| Professor (2006); Monmouth College; fall 1994 though present. Courses developed: World War II, U. S. Women's History, African-American 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Assistant Instructor, The University of Texas at Austin; fall 1990 through spring 1991. Course taught: United States History since 1877. |
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| Lecturer, University of Arkansas; fall 1988 through spring 1990. Course taught: United States History since 1877. |
Professional Service:
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| Theodore Roosevelt Association Advisory Board, 2008-2010. |
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| "Steele Talkin'," WCCO live radio show, Twin Cities, on the topic of First Ladies, September 2007. |
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| Journal of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era Best Article Prize Committee, 2007-2009. |
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| Secretary, Women's and Gender Historians of the Midwest, summer 2000-present. |
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| Contributing Editor, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 2003. |
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| Member, Teaching Awards Committee, American Historical Association, 2002-2005; Chair in 2005. |
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| Guest e-scholar in Dr. Kris Lindenmeyer's "TR and Modern America" class, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, November 2002. |
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| "Jenna Has a Role Model," Scripps Howard News Service guest column, June 2001. |
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| Book Review Editor, H-Women, 2000-2005. |
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| Co-founder (with Dr. Steve Reschly) and faculty advisor for H-HistMajor, an H-Net listserv for undergraduate history majors, 1998-present. |
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| Newspaper interview by Susan Page of U.S.A. Today, on the topic of presidential fathers, 3 June 1997. |
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| List Editor, H-Women (an H-Net listserv for women's historians), 1996-2000. |
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| Associated Colleges of the Midwest Women's Concerns Committee Representative, 1996-1998. |
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| Member, Planning Committee, Western Illinois Arts and Humanities Council, 1994-1996. |
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| Membership Committee, Southern Historical Association, 1994-1995. |
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| Curriculum Committee, Department of History, East Carolina University, 1993-1994. |
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| Current Events Forum panel member, East Carolina University, February 1993. |
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| Graduate Student Representative and Council Member, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1989-1994. |
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| Radio Interview on Presidential First Ladies, BBC Radio Four's "Midweek," London, November 1992. |
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| Faculty-Graduate Multicultural Committee, Department of History, University of Texas, 1991. |
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| Graduate Student Representative and Board Member, Coordinating Committee for Women in the Historical Profession, 1989-1991. |
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| Member, Organizing Committee, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1988-1989. |
Fellowships, Grants, and Awards:
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| Hatch Teaching Excellence Award, 2007. |
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| R. McCormick Tankersley Charitable Trust Grant, 2003. |
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| Monmouth College Senior Professor of the Year, 2003. |
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| Associated Colleges of the Midwest Faculty Travel Grant, 2001. |
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| Monmouth College Professor of the Year, 1998. |
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| Monmouth College Professor of the Year, 1997. |
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| Herbert R. Paschal, Jr. Memorial Faculty Development Grant, East Carolina University, 1992. |
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| Dora Bonham Professional Advancement Grant, The University of Texas, 1991. |
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| Centennial Graduate Student Grant, The University of Texas, 1990. |
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| Dora Bonham Fellowship, The University of Texas, 1989. |
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| Bess Heflin Fellowship, The University of Texas, 1986. |
Professional Associations:
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| American Historical Association |
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| Women's and Gender Historians of the Midwest |
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| Theodore Roosevelt Association |
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| Phi Alpha Theta |
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| Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era |
Monmouth College Service:
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| Faculty Senate, 2007-2008 |
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| "The Feminist Quilt," The F-Word Series, April 2007 |
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| "Alice Roosevelt Longworth: The Other Washington Monument," promotion talk, November 2005 |
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| Chair, Department of History, spring 2003-2008 |
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| Member, AAS Committee, 2005-present |
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| Program advisor, study abroad exchange program, Umea University, Umea, Sweden, 2004-present |
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| Introduction to Liberal Arts--New Theme Committee, 2004-2005 |
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| "Writing Lives, Living Life: Or, A Feminist Biographer Makes Sense of Her Sabbatical," sabbatical talk, November 2002 |
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| "Pillow Politics: America's First Ladies," Monmouth College Board of Trustees presentation, October 2002 |
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| Played Macbeth in Macbeth, directed by Bill Wallace, 31 October-3 November 2002 |
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| Personnel Committee, 2002-2005 |
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| "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 |
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| "Of Women, Men, Saloons, Good, and Evil," talk to cast of What a Good Woman Needs, November 2000 |
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| "Pillow Talk: First Ladies and Political Power," Monmouth Associates talk, April 2000 |
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| Faculty Advisor, PRISM, 1999-present |
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| Faculty Senate Member, 1997-1999 (Secretary to Faculty Senate 1998-1999) |
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| Search Committee, Political Economy and Commerce, 1997-98 |
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| Search Committee, Director of Hewes Library, 1998 |
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| Coordinator of Women's Studies, 1995-2001 |
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| Public Affairs Committee, 1995-1997 |
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| Panelist, The Historical Jesus, October 1997 |
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| "Alice Roosevelt Longworth," tenure talk, November 1997 |
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| "Meditation on the Magnificat," Chaplin's Ecumenical Service, December 1996 |
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| Acting Chair, Department of History, spring 1996 |
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| Math Department Search Committee, 1995-1996 |
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| Curator of the Monmouth College Archives, 1995-present |
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| Faculty Advisor to Pi Beta Phi, 1995-1998 |
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| Co-coordinator of Campus Worship, 1995-1996 |
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| Co-advisor to Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society, 1995-present |
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| Advisor or co-advisor to the Coalition for Women's Concerns, 1995-present |
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| "Changing Times, Changing Places," Fulton Hall Dorm Talk, October 1995 |
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| Director of the Monmouth College Oral History Project, 1994-present |
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| Faculty Advisor to the Spirit Squad, 1994-1996 |
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| Affirmative Action Committee, 1994-1995 |
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| "TR, College Football, and Masculinity," Education Night, Sigma Phi Epsilon, September 1994 |
Selected 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. |