1993

ACADEMIC AWARDS

1996- 1997

1992

2008- 2009

2005

2002- 2005

1995

1994- 1995

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS

“The Business of Relief Work: A Victorian Quaker in Constantinople and her Circle,” Victorian Studies (forthcoming Spring, 2009).

“Armenians in Las Vegas” (forthcoming in The Peoples of Las Vegas, Vol. 2, Tom Wright and Jerry Simich, eds.)

“Roundtable Discussion of Martin Conboy’s Journalism: A Critical History” with Martin Conboy, Joad Raymond and Kevin Williams for Media Studies 12:3 (2006).

“Women Making News: Gender and Journalism in Modern Britain,” University of Illinois Press,2005.

“Reforming Work: Gender, Class and the Printing Trade in Victorian Britain,” Journal of Women’sHistory 16, no. 1 (2004): 102- 125.

“Writing Stri Dharma: International Feminism, Nationalist Politics, and Women’s Press Advocacy in Colonial India,” Women’s History Review 12, no. 4 (2003): 623- 649.

“‘Not the Ordinary Victorian Charity’: The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women Archive,” History Workshop Journal 49 (2000): 220- 230.

“Inventing the New Woman: Print Culture and Identity Politics in Britain during the Fin-de-Siècle,” Victorian Periodicals Review 81, no. 2 (1998): 167- 182.

WORK IN PROGRESS

“Britain’s Middle East: A Historical Perspective of the Eastern Question” commissioned essay for History Compass Journal (September 2009).

“Why 1928 Mattered: A Cultural History of the Representation of the People Act”

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

 “Cultural Explanations of State-Sponsored Violence in the Middle East,” review of Priya Satia. _Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain’s Covert Empire in the Middle East, H-Net Book Review (June 2008).

“Imperial Journalism” review of Evelyn Waugh, John Maxwell Hamilton, ed. Waugh in Abyssinia for Journalism Studies, vol. 9 #2 April 2008.

“Reimagining Palestine” review of Nancy L. Stockdale, Colonial encounters among English and Palestinian Women, 1800- 1948, H-Net Book Reviews (June 2007).

“Imperialism, Islam and English National Identity” review of Diane Robinson-Dunn, The Harem, Slavery and British Imperial Culture: Anglo-Muslim Relations in the Late Nineteenth Century for H-NET (October 2007).

“Reading Gender through the Lens of Empire,” review of Angela Woolacott, Gender and Empire for H-NET, (May 2007).

“Roundtable Discussion of Martin Conboy’s Journalism: A Critical History” with Martin Conboy, Joad Raymond and Kevin Williams for Media Studies 12:3 (2006).

Review of Barbara Caine, Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Strachey Family for Journal of Interdisciplinary History 37.2 (2006) 281-283.

Review of Simon Potter, News and the British World for Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism (2006).

Review of Deborah Chambers, et al., Women and Journalism for Media History (January 2006).

 “Representing the People?” review of Mark Hampton, Visions of the Press for H-Net Book Reviews (March 2006).

Review of Marysa Demoor, ed., Marketing the Author, Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880- 1930 for Biography (Fall 2005).

“News for All” a review of Adrian Bingham, Gender, Modernity, and the Popular Press in Inter-War Britain for Media History (December 2005).

“A Literature of their Own?,” review of Judith Walsh, Domesticity in Colonial India: What Women Learned When Men Gave them Advice for H-Net Book Reviews (September 2004).

“Reinterpreting the New Woman,” review of Angelique Richardson and Chris Willis, eds., The New Woman in Fact and Fiction for the Institute of Historical Research (February 2003).

“Negotiating Consent: Nationalism and Feminism Between the Wars,” British Politics Group Newsletter, 2003.

“Gender, Patriarchy, and Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century India,” review of Tanika Sarkar,

“New Sources on Writing Women,” review of Elizabeth Burt, ed., Women’s Press Organizations, 1881- 1999 and Anne Varty, ed., Eve’s Century, Journal of Communication 51, no. 2 (2001).

Review of Valerie Korinek, Roughing it in the Suburbs, Harvard Business History Review 75, no. 3 (2001).

“(Re)Covering the Woman Journalist,” review of M. Lang, Women Who Made the News and M. Greenwald, A Woman of the Times,” Journal of Communication 50 (2000).

“The Business of Relief Work: Ann Mary Burgess in Constantinople,” presented at the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, San Marino California, March 2008.

“The New Global Citizen: Women’s Political Activism in Britain after 1928” presented at the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Tacoma, Washington, March 2007.

“Whatever Happened to British Feminism?: A Reconsideration of the End of the First Wave,” presented at the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Irvine, California, March 2006

“A Liberal Empire? The Case of the Radical Press and Women’s Political Activism in Imperial Britain and India,” invited lecturer for the Nation and Empire Seminar held at the Huntington Library, San Marino California, October 2005.

“Perspectives on the Press in Modern Britain,” invited comment for the North America Conference on British Studies, Denver, Colorado, October 2005.

“Empire between the Wars: Feminism and Indian ‘Home Rule’” presented at the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Riverside, California, April 2005.

“Social Movements and Print Media: Towards a Clearer Understanding of How Women Made the News” at the Feminisms and the Periodical Press Project conference in Toronto, Canada, September 2004.

“Dissenting Strategies: Political Violence and the Case of the Suffragette Newspaper”: presented at the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Berkeley, California, April 2004.

“‘To Set My Mother’s House in Order: Interwar Feminist-Nationalist Politics and the British State”: presented at the North American Conference on British Studies, Portland, Oregon, October 2003.

“‘Women’s Interests Today are as Wide as the World’: Victorian Women Readers Confront the World Outside of Britain”: presented at the International Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference, London, England, July 2003.

“Uneasy Alliances: Indian Nationalist Dissent and British Politics Between the Wars”: presented at the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Sonoma State University, April 2003.

“Making Sex Respectable: Victorian Women Journalists Educate the New Woman Reader”: presented at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, UCSC, March 2003.

“Nationalism, Gender and the Media in Colonial India”: presented at the National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2002.

“An Irish Radical in India: The Journalism of Margaret Cousins”: presented at the Women on Ireland Research Network Conference, Liverpool, England, March 2002.

“Cooperation, Contest, and Friendship: Margaret Cousins’ and Muthulakshmi Reddy’s Journalism in India”: presented at the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Stanford, April 2001.

“Print Media in the Colonial Context: Women’s Journals and their Publics in India during the 1920s and 1930s”: presented at the North American Conference on British Studies, Pasadena, California, October 2000.

“Creating Feminist Dialogue? Women’s Publishing, The Media, and the Politics of Difference in Colonial India”: presented at the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies Annual Conference, Santa Barbara, California, March 2000.

“A Literary Marketplace of their Own: Women Printers, Publishers, and Writers in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain”: presented at the British Women Writers Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 1999.

“Censoring the Radical Women’s Press: Gender, Media, and the British State”: presented at the Western Conference of Journalism History in Berkeley, California, February 1999.

“Making Women their Business: The Origins of the Women’s Political Press in Britain”: lecture delivered at the Modern Britain Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research in London, England, March 1999.

“The New Woman in Europe”: invited lecture delivered to the European Women’s History course at the University of California at Davis, March 1999.

“Time and Tide Wait for No Man: Propaganda, Political Action and the Weekly Review”: presented at The North American Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado, October 1998.

“‘Raided!’: Censorship or Illegal Incitement?, The Case of the Suffragette Newspaper”: presented at the American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch Conference, San Diego, California, August 1998.

“Making Work ‘Respectable’: Labor, Gender, and Class in the Printing Trades”: presented at the Western Association of Women Historians Conference, San Marino, California, May 1998.

  “The Invention of the New Women in the British Periodical Press, 1893- 1899”: presented at the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Conference, Portland, Oregon, September 1996.

  “Imagining Feminism in Turn-of-the Century Britain: The Contest over the Identity of the New Woman in the Feminist and Popular Press”: presented at the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies Annual Conference, Los Angeles, California, March 1995.

St. Brides Printing Library; Public Records Office;

Irish Archives

Dublin, Ireland: National Library, National Archives

Palo Alto, California: Hoover Archive and Special Collections, Stanford University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor of British History

University of Nevada Las Vegas: Fall 2001 to present

“Race, Class and Gender in British History”- Developed and taught graduate colloquium in Intellectual and Cultural history track.

“Researching Race, Class, and Gender”- Developed and taught graduate research and writing seminar in Intellectual and Cultural history track.

“History of the British Empire”- Developed and taught upper-division course on imperialism.

“Modern Britain”- Developed and taught upper-division course on the 19th an 20th centuries.

“Early Modern Britain”- Developed and taught upper-division course on Tudor/Stuart period.

“Sex and Society”- Developed and taught upper-division course on the history of women and gender in Modern Europe.

“World Empires”- Developed and taught introductory interdisciplinary world history course exploring the rise and fall of imperial dynasties from Rome to the present day.

“Perspectives on Western Civilization”- Developed and taught interdisciplinary seminar on interactions between the Western peoples and the world beyond Europe.

“Democratic Societies in Europe and America”- Instructed interdisciplinary seminars on themes in modern and early modern history.  

“The Self, Sacred, and the Human Good”- Instructed interdisciplinary seminars that incorporated historical, literary, and religious texts.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES

Phi Alpha Theta Committee, 2002

Honors College faculty affiliate- supervised undergraduate thesis projects; designed courses

Organizational Service

Secretary, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, 2006- 2008

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

North American Conference on British Studies

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (INCS)