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Areas
of Interest
19th- and 20th-century U.S. social and urban history.
U.S. women's history.
U.S. labor history.
Women in medicine and public health.
Historical biography. |
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Current
Courses
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Publications
Monograph:
• "Dallas: The
Making of a Modern City". Austin: University of Texas Press,
1996.
Articles:
• Foreward (with Harvey J. Graff) to a reprint edition
of Warren Leslie's,
Dallas Public and Private:
Aspects of an American City. Dallas: South-
ern Methodist Univerisity Press, 1998.
• "'Carrying
Health to the Country': The Mountain Medical Service of the
American
Women's Hospitals," (Medical College of Pennsylvania Arch-
ives and Special Collections on Women in Medicine)
Collections, Winter
1997, pp. 1-6.
• "Invisible Labours: Mill Work and Motherhood
in the American South,"
Social History
of Medicine 9 (August 1996): 235-251.
• "Our
People--Hilla Sheriff," Carologue (South Carolina Historical
Society),
Autumn 1996.
• "'Go
Tell It on the Mountain': Hilla Sheriff and Public Health in the South
Carolina Piedmont, 1929-1940," American
Journal of Public Health 85
(April 1995):
578-584. Experienced in Storyletters (a women's studies
newsletter) 8 (Winter 1996): 8-9.
• "Redefining
Occupational Illness: Mill Work, Maternal Health, Social
Class
and Women's Roles in the Textile South," Sigerist Circle
News-
letter 8 (Winter 1995): 3-5.
• "Real Women and True Womanhood: Grassroots
Organizing Among
Dallas Dressmakers in 1935,"
Labor's Heritage 5 (Spring 1994): 4-17.
• "Women's
Groups and the Extension of City Services in Early Twen-
tieth-Century
Dallas," East Texas Historical Journal 30 (1992): 3-10.
Winner of the East Texas Historical Association's
C.K. Chamberlain
Award for outstanding article published in vol.
30 of the quarterly.
Essays in Ensemble
Works:
• "Dallas," in The Encyclopedia
of Urban America; the Cities and Suburbs,
ed.
Neil Larry Shumsky, ABC-Cilio, 1998.
• "Hilla
Sheriff," and "Maude E. Callen," in Doctors, Nurses,
and Medical
Practitioners: A Bio-Bibliographical
Sourcebook, ed. Lois N. Magner,
49-54,
251-254. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.
• "Dallas
Dressmakers' Strike, 1935," and "Charlotte Duncan Graham,"
in The Handbook of Texas. Austin: Texas
State Historical Society,
1996. |
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Selected
Awards and Achievements
• July 1996 and 1997 Resident Scholar, San Jose
State University Hist-
ory-Social Science Project
(professional development for K-12 teachers
of history
and the social sciences).
• Summer 1996 California
State University Research Fellowship.
• Summer 1994
Study Grant for College and University Teachers, Nation-
al
Endowment for the Humanities.
• Summer 1994 Summer
Research Fellow, Institute for Southern Studies,
University
of South Carolina.
• Summer 1993 M.Louise Carpenter
Gloeckner Research Fellowship,
Medical College of
Pennsylvania.
• Summer 1992 Research Fellowship, Oregon
Humanities Center, Univ-
ersity of Oregon.
• Summer
1992 Travel to Collections Grant, National Endowment for the
Humanities.
• School of Arts and Humanities
Dissertation Research Fellowships,
UT-Dallas. |
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Personal
I serve as the statewide secretary and SJSU chapter president
of the
California Faculty Association - the union for all CSU faculty members.
When not engaged as a historian or union activist, I enjoy playing
tennis,
skiing, hiking, and wine collecting. |
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