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Joanne L. Goodwin

Professor, Department of History Box 455020

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-5020

Office Phone (702) 895-1026

Office FAX (702) 895-1782

E-Mail Address: [email protected]

EDUCATION

Summer Institute, Columbia University Oral History Program, 2005.

Ph.D. U.S. History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1991

M.A., U.S. Women’s History, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, 1983

B.F.A. Fine Arts, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1973

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor, Department of History, UNLV, July 2014—June 20, 2021.

Executive Director, Women’s Research Institute of Nevada, UNLV, 1999-- 2017.

Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas,

Nevada, 1997—2014.

Director, Las Vegas Women Oral History Project, Department of History and WRIN, 1994-2014.

Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas,

Nevada, 1991—1997.

Lecturer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1989-1990.

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Changing the Game: Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940-1990 (University of Nevada Press,

2014).

Claudine Williams: A Life in Gaming, interview and editing by Joanne L. Goodwin (Las Vegas,

NV: Women’s Research Institute of Nevada, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2007).

Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform: Mothers’ Pensions in Chicago, 1911-1929. Chicago:

University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Articles in Refereed Journals:

“Mapping Nevada’s Suffrage Campaigns,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 63:1-2

(Spring/Summer 2020): 19-36.

“Nevada’s Campaigns for Woman Suffrage,” Western Legal History, a publication of the Ninth

Judicial Circuit Historical Society 30:1&2 (2019):115-123.

“Wages, Rights, and Civic Life: Women’s Lives in Las Vegas, 1940-1990,” (under revision)

“From the Ground Up: building archival sources for the history of women in Las Vegas,”

Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (Winter 2006): 263-276.

“Mojave Mirages: Gender and Performance in Post-war Las Vegas,” Women’s History Review:

Special Issue: U.S. Women and the Performing Arts, 11:1 (Spring 2002): 115-131.

“’Employable Mothers’ and ‘Suitable Work’: A Re-evaluation of Welfare and Wage-earning in

the Twentieth Century United States,” Journal of Social History (December 1995), 253-274.

Nominated for the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women Article Prize.

“An American Experiment in Paid Motherhood: The Implementation of Mothers’ Pensions in

early Twentieth-Century Chicago,” Gender & History (Autumn 1992), 323-42.


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Refereed Book Chapters, Contributions, Introductions, and Review Essays:

Editor, “Nevada Suffragists.” In Online Encyclopedia of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the

United States, Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (Alexander

Street Press, a ProQuest company, 2017-2020). Responsible for finding authors to write brief

biographical sketches on women in the state who participated in the suffrage campaign of the 1890s-

1920. Edit and format entries and forward them to the series editors, Tom Dublin.

“Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940-1980.” In Oral History, Community, and Work in the

American West. Ed. Jessie Embry (Tucson AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2013), 175-96.

“Revealing New Narratives of Women in Las Vegas.” In Finding Women in the Sources. Eds.

Nupur Chauduri, Sherry Katz, and Elizabeth Perry (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois

Press, 2010), 177-191. This collection won the Barbara "Penny" Kanner Prize of the Western

Association of Women Historians.

“Employment” and “Education” chapters in The Status of Women and Girls in Nevada a report

sponsored by the Nevada Women’s Fund and released November 2005 (Reno: NWF, 2005).

“Mothers’ Pensions in Chicago, 1911-1931.” In Major Problems in the History of American

Families and Children. Anya Jabour, pp. 302-311 (NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2004).

“’She Works Hard for Her Money’, A Reassessment of Las Vegas Women Workers, 1940-1980.”

In The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas. Edited by Mike Davis and

Hal Rothman, 243-259. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

“Industry, Modernity, and Diversity: a Historical Overview of the Twentieth-Century.” Joyce

Appelby, Eileen Cheng, and Joanne Goodwin, eds. Vol. 3, pp. 1-5. Women in American

History, 1585—present. New York: M.E. Sharp Publishers, 2002.

“Bigger than a Ballot Box.” Review essay of Sara Hunter Graham, Woman Suffrage and the New

Democracy. Yale University Press, 1996; Anne Meis Knupfer, Toward a Tenderer Humanity

and a Nobler Womanhood: African-American Women's Clubs in Turn-of-the-Century

Chicago. New York University, 1996; Carol Cornwall Madsen, ed. Battle for the Ballot:

Essays on Woman Suffrage in Utah, 1870-1896. Utah State University Press, 1997; and

Suzanne M. Marilley, Woman Suffrage and the Origins of Liberal Feminism in the United

States, 1820-1920. Harvard University Press, 1996. In Journal of Women’s History 11:1

(Spring 1999): 219-28.

“’Employable Mothers’ and ‘Suitable Work’: A Re-evaluation of Welfare and Wage-earning in

the Twentieth Century United States.” Journal of Social History (December 1995), 253-274.

Reprinted in Mothers and Motherhood: Readings in American History, Janet Golden and

Rima Apple, eds. Ohio State University Press, 1997.

Review essay of Anne Firor Scott, Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American History.

University of Illinois Press, 1991; Noralee Frankel and Nancy S. Dye, eds. Gender, Class,

Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era. University of Kentucky Press, 1991; and Ruth

Hutchinson Crocker, Social Work and Social Order: The Settlement Movement in Two

Industrial Cities, 1889-1930. University of Illinois Press, 1992. In SIGNS, Journal of Women

in Culture and Society 20:2 (Winter 1995): 455-58.

Public History and Media Products:

Nevada State Coordinator for the Pomeroy Foundation and the National Collaborative for

Women’s History Sites to install five historic markers noting suffrage activity in the state.

Five sites that represent significant activity by Nevada suffragists were installed in 2020

across the state and one more will be installed in 2021.

[digital] Nevada State Coordinator, National Votes for Women Trail (a project of the National

Collaborative for Women’s History Sites), to create a digital legacy of suffrage activity


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across the U.S. At the end of 2020, I had documented 67 sites for the map. Ongoing.

http://ncwhs.org/votes-for-women-trail/#trail

Chair, National Historic Landmark Committee, National Collaborative for Women’s History

Sites, National Park Service approval for two sites: Navajo tribal leader Annie Wauneka and

home of Mary Baker Eddy. 2020. Awaiting final signature from the Secretary of the Interior.

[digital] Nevada Women’s History – A Digital Legacy Project. An online repository of text, audio

and video from the combined resources of the MAKERS project, the Las Vegas Women Oral

History Project, and historical research. 118 individuals with multiple resources each. Initial

launch March 2011, additional video profiles incorporated fall 2017.

https://womennvhistory.com

“Bringing Women into the Curriculum, version 2.0.” To address the persistent absence of

women in the middle school and high school curriculum, this project creates a plug and play

unit with a video clip from the MAKERS combined with documents, study questions,

curriculum standards, and ideas for extended learning. Additional teacher specific materials

offer the non-content specialist the background for utilizing the unit.

MAKERS: Women in Nevada History. Three ½-hr programs co-production with VegasPBS.

Original air date, October 21, 2014. Rebroadcast annually in March.

https://womennvhistory.com/makers

Goodwin, Joanne and England, Kathleen, "Nexus 20: Pioneer women in Nevada" (2011).

Lectures/Events (BMI). Paper 102.

[digital] Founding co-editor. Online Nevada Encyclopedia. The Nevada Humanities. 2004-2006.

https:// http://www.onlinenevada.org/

Dance and Dancers in Las Vegas, five ½-hour programs discussing the historical contributions of

performers to the entertainment capital of the world. In collaboration with UNLV-TV and

Distance Education.

Looking Back at Nevada Women, 9 mini-documentaries on women and their roles in the

development of Las Vegas and Nevada. In collaboration with Clark County, Cultural Affairs.

Originally aired Spring 2001.

Oral Histories/Interviews (selected):

Myrna Williams (2009)

Claudine Williams (2007)

Florence McClure (2007).

Stella Butterfield (2006).

Emilie Wanderer (2005).

Bernice Jaeger (2003).

Gail McQuary (2003).

Betty Francisco (2003).

Janet Kravenko (2003).

Ruth Poirier (2003)

Diane Saunders (2003).

Mildred Nay (2002)

Toni Clark (1996).

Reference Works:

Co-editor. Joyce Appleby, Eileen Cheng, and Joanne Goodwin, eds. Women in American History,

1585—present. New York: M.E. Sharp Publishers, 2002.

Invited Publications:

http://ncwhs.org/votes-for-women-trail/#trail

https://womennvhistory.com/

https://womennvhistory.com/makers

http://www.onlinenevada.org/


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“Nevada Civil Rights Act of 1965.” Nevada Lawyer (February 2012): 25

“Pioneering Women in Nevada Law” “Nevada Female Lawyer Firsts,” with Kathleen J. England,

Nevada Lawyer, published March 2011, pp. 6-12.

“Gender.” In Encyclopedia of American Urban History. David R. Goldfield, ed. Thousand Oaks,

CA: Sage Publications, 2006. Vol. 1: 299-302. 2500 word essay describing the way in which

gender plays out in urban history.

“Social Services and Charity.” In Encyclopedia of American Urban History. David R. Goldfield,

ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006. Vol. 2:745-749. 2500 word essay

describing the evolution of social services in urban history.

“The Progressive Era and the 1920s.” In Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of

History, Politics, and Policy. Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O’Connor, eds. Santa Barbara,

CA: ABC-Clio, 2004. 3500 word essay describing the major currents in social welfare

during the specified time period.

“Mothers’ Pensions,” In Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America. John M.

Herrick and Paul H. Stuart, eds. Sage Publications, 2004. 1500 word essay on the origins of

publicly funded local programs for single mothers.

Three articles on “Social Services,” “Mothers’ Pensions,” and “Charity Organization Societies.”

In Encyclopedia of Chicago History. James Grossman, et.al. eds. Chicago: University of

Chicago Press, 2004.

34 individual entries. In Women in American History, 1585-present. Vol. 3 The Twentieth

Century. Goodwin, et.al. eds. New York: M.E. Sharp Publishers, 2002.

“Maude Frazier.” In American National Biography. John Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds. New

York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

“Historical Background on Nevada.” Statewide Child Care Strategic Plan for Nevada. Nevada

Institute for Children, UNLV, 1998.

Four entries. In Encyclopedia of the American West. 4 vols. Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod,

eds. New York: Macmillan Reference Co., 1996.

The Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism, ed. Susan Auerbach (New York: Marshall Cavendish

Corp., 1994). Thirty-eight entries on women’s history subjects.

Book Reviews:

Jessica Wilkerson. To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements

for Social Justice. The Working Class in American History series. Champaign, IL: University

of Illinois Press, 2019. In Oral History Review 20:1 (January 2020): 131-132.

Christine K. Lemley. Practicing Critical Oral History: Connecting School and Community.

Practicing Oral History series. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018. In The Oral History Review,

46:2 (2019): 467-468.

Kelly C. Sartorius. Deans of Women and the Feminist Movement, Emily Taylor’s Activism. New

York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. In The Oral History Review 46:1 (Winter/Spring 2019):

218-220.

James P. Kraft. Vegas at Odds: Labor Conflict in a Leisure Economy, 1960-1985. Baltimore:

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. In the Pacific Historical Review, 80:2, pp. 324-325.

Jill Gerson. Hope Springs Maternal: Homeless Mothers talk about making sense of adversity.

New York: Gordian Knot Books, 2007. In The Oral History Review, 37:1 (January 2010):

100-102.

S.J. Kleinberg, Widows and Orphans First: the family economy and social welfare policy, 1880-

1939. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006. In American Historical Review

112:3 (2007): 879-880.

Rebecca J. Mead. How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-

1914. New York and London: New York University Press, 2004. In Journal of Peace and


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Change 32:2 (April 2007): 227-229.

Maureen A. Flanagan. Seeing With Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good

City, 1871-1933. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. In Journal of the Gilded Age

and Progressive Era 3:4 (October 2004): 411-414.

Michael Katz, The Price of Citizenship, redefining the American welfare state. Metropolitan,

2001. In Journal of American History (June 2002): 315-316.

Suzanne Mettler, Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy. Cornell

University Press, 1998. In Law & History Review 19:2 (Summer 2001): 460-461.

Elizabeth Rose, A Mother’s Job, The History of Day Care, 1890-1960. Oxford University Press,

1999. In Children and Youth Services Review 22:1 (January 2000): 75-76.

Review essay of Sanford M. Jacoby, Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal.

Princeton University Press, 1997; Steven A. Sass, The Promise of Private Pensions: The First

Hundred Years. Harvard University Press, 1997. In American Historical Review (December

1999): 1703-1704.

Kriste Lindenmeyer. A Right to Childhood: The U.S. Children’s Bureau and Child Welfare,

1912-1946. In Journal of Mississippi History 61:2 (June 1999): 199-200.

Eileen Boris. Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United

States. In Journal of American History (June 1995): 277-78.

Beverly Stadum. Poor Women and their Families: Hard Working Charity Cases, 1900-1930.

State University of New York Press. 1992. In History of Education Quarterly 33:4

(Winter 1993): 613-15.

PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES and PANELS (Selected)

Presenter, “Memorializing Woman Suffrage in Nevada,” Western Suffrage History Summit

(virtual), October 27-28, 2020.

Chair and participant, “How Feminisms Impact our Work in Oral History,” Southwest Oral

History Association Conference, September 12, 2020.

Invited Presenter, “Become a Trailblazer: Uncovering the Whole Story of Woman Suffrage,”

[webinar] U.S. Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission, August 13, 2020. Available at

https://www.womensvote100.org/webinars

Invited Presenter, “Nevada and the Campaigns for Women’s Voting Rights,” Nevada State

Museum [Carson City], February 27, 2020

Conference Panelist, “Voting Rights and Woman Suffrage, the National Votes for Women Trail,”

National Trust for Historic Preservation Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, November

14-16, 2018.

Conference Panelist, “Changing the Face of Public Leadership NEW Leadership TM Campus

Programs,” National Women’s Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 13-16,

2014.

Conference Panelist, “Building Bridges or Walking on the Edge: the inclusion of women and

gender in Las Vegas archives,” Berkshire Conference on Women Historians, Toronto, CA,

May 22-25, 2014.

Conference Panelist, “Narratives of gender and class in post-war Las Vegas,” Western

Association of Women Historians, Portland, OR, May 16, 2013.

Invited Participant, White House Conference on Women and Girls Civic Engagement and Leadership, Washington, D.C., April 21, 2013.

Invited Panelist, "Shattering the Glass Ceiling: advancing the role of women in politics, international development, and education." With Congresswoman Shelley Berkley, Dr. Esther Brimmer, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations, Greenspun Auditorium, UNLV, Sept. 1, 2011.

Panel Convener, Western Association of Women Historians, April 7-8, 2011.

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Conference Panelist, “Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940-1990,” The Urban History Association, Las Vegas, NV, October 23, 2010.

Roundtable Member, “Women in Nevada Politics,” Arizona-Nevada Historical Association Conference, Laughlin, NV, April 15-18, 2010.

Conference Panelist, “Educating Women for Political Leadership: The NEW Leadership Model in Nevada,” Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, April 1-3, 2010.

Conference Panelist, “Recovering women in the history of Las Vegas,” American Historical Association, San Diego, CA, January 7-10, 2010.

Conference Panelist, “Shaping the Sources on Las Vegas Women,” Western Association of Women Historians, Santa Clara University, CA, April 30 - May 3, 2009.

Roundtable Member, “Entrepreneurialism in Academic Research: History Departments and Sponsored Projects,” Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, Pasadena, CA, August 7-9, 2008.

Invited Presenter, “Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940-1980,” Oral History in the Intermountain West, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, August 4-5, 2008.

Conference Panelist, “Revealing new narratives of women in Las Vegas,” at the Western Association of Women Historians, University of San Diego, San Diego, California, May 3-6, 2007.

Comment, “Critical Reconsiderations of Marriage, Families, and the Development of Policy,” at the Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, NV, March 8-10, 2007.

Chair and Comment, "Not Another Song and Dance: The Women of Las Vegas." Session sponsored by the Coalition for Western Women’s History, Western History Association, Las Vegas, NV, October 13, 2004.

Convener, “Shaking Up the West,” Western Association of Women Historians, Santa Barbara, California, May 21-23, 2004.

Invited Participant, “Interpreting Women’s History for the Public,” Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW), Tucson, Az., April 28-29, 2004.

Panel Commentator, “At the Intersection of Home and Work,” Western Association of Women

Historians, Huntington Museum and Library, San Marino, CA. May 15-16, 2002.

Panel Commentator, “Negotiating Opportunity,” at the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association. Vancouver, British Columbia, August 2001.

Invited participant, New Leadership Development Network, Center for American Women and Politics, at Rutgers University, June 2001.

Conference Panelist, “She Works Hard for Her Money: New Perspectives on Women Workers in Las Vegas,” at the Fifth Women’s West Conference, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, July 27-29, 2000,

Conference Panelist, “Work Rules and Welfare Narratives,”at the Social Science History Association, Forth Worth, Texas, November 11-14, 1999.

Conference Panelist, “Using Legal Narratives in the History of Gender and Welfare,” at the Gender and Women’s History at the Millennium Series, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, October 14, 1999.

Conference Panelist, “Historical Continuities in Welfare Reform,” at the University of Alabama, School of Social Work, November 1998.

Conference Panelist, “Women’s Work in Las Vegas,” Louise Tilly Conference, July 10-12, 1998.

Conference Panelist, “Las Vegas Women and Cold War Culture,” UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Los Angeles, California. March 1998.

Conference Panelist, “Issues and Problems in the History of Welfare,” Las Vegas Women’s Summit ’98, Las Vegas, Nevada. March 1998.

Panel Commentator, “Challenging Ideas of Progressive Reform: Local Manifestations of Maternalist Activism”, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association. Portland, Oregon. August 7-10, 1997.

Discussant on Welfare Reform at the National Policy History Conference, Bowling Green State University. June 5-8, 1997.


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Conference Panelist, “Employable Mothers, Civil Rights and the Courts,” Organization of

American Historians, April 17-20, 1997.

Conference Panelist, “Work Policies and Social Welfare over the Twentieth Century,” Gender

and Poverty in the United States, A Conference at Dartmouth College. April 26-28, 1996.

Conference Panelist, “Gender and Race in Chicago’s Welfare System: The Structure of Public Provision, 1900-1930,” Organization of American Historians, April 14-17, 1994.

Conference Panelist, “Redefining Political Authority: Chicago Women and Political Innovation in State Building,” Social Science History Association, November 4-7, 1993.

Conference Panelist, “Social Policy and Women’s Work: Wage-Earning for Mothers Receiving Public Aid,” North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, October 14-16, 1993.

Panel Commentator, “The Male Breadwinner Ideal and Social Policy for Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century United States,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Vassar College, June 11-13, 1993.

Conference Panelist, “Work and Welfare: Reinterpreting the Origins of Social Provision for Indigent Mothers,” Organization of American Historians, April 1993.

Conferee, Teaching U.S. Women’s History Workshop, UCLA, 1992-date.

Conferee, Southwest Women’s History Group, University of Arizona, 1992-1997.

Panel Commentator, “New Research on the Moral and Political Economy of the Welfare State,” Social Science History Association, October 1991.

Conference Panelist, “Analyses of Mothers’ Pensions and A.D.C.,” Gender and Social Policy Conference, in conjunction with the Social Science History Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 1990.

Conference Panelist, “The Differential Treatment of Motherhood: Women on Welfare, Chicago 1900-1930,” Feminism and Legal Theory Conference, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, Wisconsin, June 1990.

Conference Panelist, “Women on Welfare: The State and Single Motherhood, Chicago, 1900-1930,” Social Science History Association. St. Louis, Missouri, November 1989.

Conference Panelist, “Mothers in Poverty: A Gender Analysis of Mothers’ Pensions, 1911-1929,” Seventh Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Wellesley College, June 1987.

AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

National Trust for Historic Places, wrote the grant application for the National Collaborative for

Women’s History Sites. First application’s final report submitted Spring 2020. A second

grant application submitted September 2020.

Ruby Award, Soroptimist International, 2020. For distinguished service to women through

education and research on outstanding women of Nevada.

Summer Research Stipend, College of Liberal Arts, 2018.

James V. Mink Award, Southwest Oral History Association, 2013. [In recognition of an

important body of work done in and about the Southwest].

Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, NNA Award, $1,000.

Women of Distinction Award nominee, National Association of Women Business Owners,

Southern Nevada. Nominee for Education. 2013.

Medal of Justice, Nevada State Bar Association, 2012. [Given to individuals and groups who

contribute to advancing the mission of the State Bar through exemplary programs and

volunteer work.]

National Council for Research on Women, Emerging Center Award, 2009.

Donald Schmeidel Service Award, College of Liberal Arts, 2009.

Roll of Honor Award, Nevada Women’s History Project, 2008.

Faculty Sabbatical Leave, UNLV, 2006.

“Dance and Dancers in Las Vegas,” Planning Initiative Award, $8,000, UNLV, 2001.


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William Morris Award for Excellence in Scholarship, UNLV, 1999.

UNLV Foundation Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award (nominee), 1998-1999.

Berkshire Conference on the History of Women Article Prize (nominee), 1997. “’Employable

Mothers’ and ‘Suitable Work’: A Re-evaluation of Welfare and Wage-earning in the

Twentieth Century United States.” Originally published in Journal of Social History

(December 1995), 253-274.

Faculty Development Leave, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1995-1996.

Alumni Association Faculty Recognition Award, UNLV, 1992-1993.

National Trust for Historic Preservation, National Votes for Women Trail Mapping Project

(Phase 2), 2019, $5,000. Grant written for the National Collaborative for Women’s History

Sites to hire a database consultant to prepare for mapping.

Eleanor M. Kagi Foundation, MAKERS production grant, 2014, $75,000.

Nevada Humanities, 2013-2014, $3,600.

Diane Bernard Foundation, 2010-2013, sustaining grant, $40,000.

Troy and Selma Bartlett Graduate Assistant Award, 2011-2012, $15,000.

Eleanor M. Kagi Foundation, annual sustaining grant, 2008-2011, $50,000 [total $200,000].

Ceec Abrahams Memorial Grant, Soroptimist International of the Americas, Sierra Nevada

Region, 2008, $10,000.

Congressional Directed Grant. U.S. Department of Education, “Expansion of community

education programs,” 2005-2008, $99,200.

Nevada Legislative Appropriation, WRIN, 2005-2007, $300,000.

City of Las Vegas, Centennial Education Grants, 2005, $1,500.

Congressional Directed Grant. U.S. Department of Education, “College Women and Civic

Engagement,” to study college women’s leadership development and engagement in civic life,

2003-2005, $150,000.

New Leadership Development Network Partner, Center for American Women and Politics at

Rutgers University, Kellogg Foundation, $10,000, 2002.

Enhancing Technology Education for Women and Girls, U.S. Dept of Labor, Women’s Bureau,

$6,023 [May] to hold a forum with individuals from schools, business, and government. The

contract was extended, $5,750 [December], to develop a statewide network of individuals

working on projects to develop girls and women’s participation in the fields of technology.

Refereed.

U.S. Department of Education, Teaching American History proposal, (denied).

“The Families of Tule Springs,” Nevada State Parks Cooperative Association, $2,000, 2000.

Emilie N. Wanderer Oral History Project, UNLV Foundation, $50,000, 1999.

Initial proposal for $500,000 gift to endow the oral history center at Lied Library.

Oral History Project Grant, UNLV Foundation, $60,000, 1997-1999.

Nevada Humanities Committee, Public Programs Grant, 1994.

Nevada Humanities Committee, 1992-1993, 2000, 2012, 2013.

Graduate College Research Award, UNLV, 1992-1993.

Marjorie Barrick Faculty Development Grant, UNLV, 1991-1993.

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships. 1995-1996.

National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Research Grant, 1995-1996.

University Research Grants and Fellowships, UNLV, 1994-1995.

Graduate College Research Award, UNLV, 1994-1995.


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“Urban Poverty and the Underclass,” post-doctoral fellowship, Northwestern University, 1991-

1992 (declined).

Mary Malcomson Raphael Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1990-1991.

Department of History Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1989-1990.

Albert J. Beveridge Grant for Research in the History of the Western Hemisphere, American

Historical Association, 1988-1989.

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Women’s Studies Program, 1988-1989

(finalist).

RESEARCH CONTRACTS:

“Enhancing Technology Education for Women and Girls.” U.S. Department of Labor, Women’s

Bureau, $5,750 [May]; contract extended $5,750 [December], to develop a statewide network

of individuals working on projects to develop girls and women’s participation in the fields of

technology. 2001-2002.

“The Children’s Literacy Project.” U.S. Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of

Post-Secondary Education in collaboration with the Nevada Institute for Children at UNLV,

$25,000 to provide historical content for a supplemental history text for fourth grade Nevada

History. 2001-2002

Oral histories of Nanyu Tomiyasu and Vernon Bostick. Southern Nevada Water Authority, Las

Vegas, Nevada. $12,000. 2000-2002.

“The Families of Tule Springs,” State of Nevada Division of Parks, $2,500, to conduct oral

histories on the Nay and Gilcrease families. 2000-2002.

ACADEMIC COURSES TAUGHT

UNLV undergraduate courses:

HIST 101: U.S. History from Contact to 1877

HIST 102: U.S. History Since 1877

HIST 251: Historical Methods

HIST 451: History Capstone Course

HIST 453: Women in Politics

HIST 485: Oral History

UNLV Undergraduate/Graduate Courses:

HIST 432/632A: Women in U.S. History from Contact to 1877

HIST 432/632B: Women in U.S. History Since 1877

HIST 490/690: Las Vegas History Workshop

HIST 494X: National Education for Women’s Leadership Nevada

HIST 495/695: Women and Leadership in U.S. History

HIST 495/695: Western Women

HIST 498/698: U.S. Women Since 1960

UNLV Graduate Courses:

HIST 730j: Colloquium in American Women’s History

HIST 731j: Seminar in American Women’s History

HIST 749: Public History Colloquium

HIST 750: Public History Colloquium

HIST 754: Oral History Theory and Practice


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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Consultant and reviewer, Historic Context for Women’s History in Nevada, NSHPO grant.

Summer 2020 – Spring 2021.

Co-editor, Suffrage Issue of the Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Fall 2020.

External Reviewer for faculty promotion to full professor, Illinois State University, 2020.

Reviewer, NEH Fellowships and the US History, Media, and Communication Panel, 2020.

Secretary, Executive Committee, National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites, 2017-2019.

Board Member, National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites, 2016-date.

Chair, National Historic Landmarks committee, National Collaborative for Women’s History

Sites, 2017-2021.

Executive Committee, Western Association of Women Historians, 2012-2013.

Member, Awards Committee, National Council for Research on Women, 2010-2013.

Member, Judith Lee Ridge Prize Committee, Western Association of Women Historians, 2010-

2012.

Nevada Representative, National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites, Trails Committee,

2010-2018.

Interviewed on my research by Working Woman Magazine, Wall Street Journal, and Las Vegas

Review Journal, Las Vegas Sun, DAVIDx, KNPR.

Member Center Representative, National Council for Research on Women, New York City,

2005-date.

Member, Advisory Board to the Status of Women in the States, Institute for Women’s Policy

Research, Washington, D.C., 2003-2006.

Member, Editorial Board, Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-2000,

Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin, eds. Website [http://womhist.binghamton.edu] in

partnership with the Alexander Street Press, 2003-2008.]

Member, City of Las Vegas Centennial Committee, Historical Working Group, 2003-2004.

Consultant, Nevada Test Site Women’s Oral History Project, Nevada Test Site Museum and

Foundation. 2002-2004.

Member, Advisory Board, “The Nevada Quilt Odyssey.” Nevada State Museum, Carson City,

January – March 2002.

Member, Sierra Book Prize Committee, Western Association of Women Historians, 2000--2002.

Member, Board of Advisors, Status of Women and Girls in Nevada, Nevada Women’s Fund,

2001-2005.

Review of Tenure and Promotion Package, Northern Illinois University, 2001.

Member, Editorial Board, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 2001-date.

Panelist/Reviewer. Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education. Department of

Education. Washington, D.C., 2001.

Member, Southwest Regional Humanities Center Task Force, National Endowment for the

Humanities, 2000.

Member, Editorial Board, Social Science History, 1998-2000.

Proposal Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1999.

Member, Executive Board, Western Association of Women Historians, 1997-1998.

Member, Editorial Board, Halcyon, vols. 21 – 23, 1997-1998.

Member, Organization of American Historians, Membership Committee, 1993-97.

Campus Faculty Representative, Southwest Institute for Research on Women, 1994-1997.

Manuscript Reviews for Publication:


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Bedford/St. Martin’s Press (1), Northern Illinois University Press (1), University of Nevada Press

(8), University of New Mexico Press (1), University of North Carolina Press (2), University

Press of Colorado (1), Frontiers, A Journal of Women’s Studies; Journal of the Gilded Age

and the Progressive Era; Journal of Policy History(3); Journal of Women’s History (4); The

Historian; Modern American History|Cambridge Core; Nevada Historical Society Quarterly

(10); Oral History Review (3); Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State, and

Society; Social Science History (2); Social Service Review; and Women’s History Review.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Nevada System of Higher Education:

UNLV representative, Nevada Network, American Council on Education, Office of Women in

Higher Education, 2007-2009.

University:

Chair, Women’s Council, Vice-President’s Council (formerly Commission) on Diversity

Initiatives, 2011-2013.

Member, Vice-President’s Council (previously Commission) on Diversity and Inclusion, 2008-

2013.

UNLV representative, Southwest Institute for Research on Women, Directors’ Meeting, 2009-

2013.

Conference coordinator, “Defining Beauty” with Dove Corporation and the Woodhull Institute

for Ethical Leadership, UNLV, Dec. 1.

Fiscal Affairs Committee, Faculty Senate, 2003-2006.

Nevada Women’s Archives Advisory Board (chair), 1994-1999

Sabbatical Leave Committee, 1992-1994.

Women’s Studies Program, Curriculum Committee, 1991-1993

College of Liberal Arts:

Representative of WRIN, Executive Committee, 2011-2014.

Member-at-large (elected), Executive Committee, 2000-2002, 2008-2010.

Member, Don Schmiedel Service Award Selection Committee, 2009-2012.

Member, Advisory Council, NEW Leadership Nevada, 2002-2012.

Morris Award for Excellence in Scholarship Selection Committee, 2000-2004.

Member-at-Large (elected), Executive Committee, 2000-2002.

Center for Advanced Research Advisory Committee, 1999-2002..

Director, Women’s Research Institute of Nevada, 1999-date

Ethics and Policy Studies, Steering Committee, 1997-1999.

University Forum Lecture Series Committee, 1994-2001

Women’s Studies Program, Steering Committee, 1993-1995

Academic Standards Committee, 1993-1995.

History Department:

Awards Committee, 2011-13.

Public History Committee, 2006-2013.

Cultural-Public History Search Committee, 2003-2004.

Personnel Committee, 1999-2002.

Director, Las Vegas Women Oral History Project, 1995-2012.

Public History Search Committee, 1998-1999 (chair), 2015-2021.

Legal & Constitutional History Search Committee, 1996-1997.

Travel Committee, 1995-1997.

Teaching & Awards Committee, 1991-1995, 1996-1998, 1998-2001(chair).

Graduate Committee, 1993-95; 1994-1995 (chair).

Latino/a pre-Search Committee (chair), 1992-1993.

Political/Economic Search Committee, 1992-1993.


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Curriculum Committee, 1991-1992.

Graduate College Representative, 1992-1994.

PUBLIC SERVICE (selected)

Speaker, Installation of Las Vegas Suffrage Markers, (Tonopah, Carson City) and Las Vegas

March 5, 2020.

Keynote Speaker, MGM Resorts, Women’s History Month event, March 2012.

Board Member, Nevada-history.org., 2010-2012.

Speaker, “The Status of Women in Nevada,” Soroptimist International, Sierra Nevada Region

Conference, March 2010.

Panel Participant, “Women in Clark County History,” A Clark County Centennial event, March

2009.

Las Vegas ONE @ 9 with Jeff Gillan, March 2009, on women’s history month, WRIN, and oral

history.

“Update on the Status of Women in Nevada,” talk to the American Association of University

Women, April 2007, January 2009.

Speaker, “Status of Women in Nevada,” League of Women Voters, October 15, 2005.

Coordinator and Moderator, “The Role of Women in the Commerce of the Las Vegas Valley,”

City of Las Vegas “Community Conversations,” a program celebrating the Las Vegas

Centennial, May 18, 2005.

Humanities consultant, “Women in Las Vegas History,” A Las Vegas Centennial Program,

Nevada Women’s History Project (March 2005).

“Writing women into Las Vegas History,” presentation to the regional meeting of the

Soroptimists International, September 2004.

Consultant on video exhibits, First Ladies Conference on Women and Health, Las Vegas,

November 2003.

“Women Building Community in Las Vegas,” presentation to the American Association of

University Women, Las Vegas, NV. September 2003.

“Las Vegas Women and History,” Clark County History Museum Guild, March 2003.

Selection Jurist, Nevada Women’s History Project Role of Honor, March 2003.

“Women and Social Change,” presentation for The Life of Mary Baker Eddy, West Charleston

Library, March 2002.

Representative at Senator Harry Reid’s Women’s Issues Forum, May 2001.

Presentation on Women’s History, MacDonald Ranch Literary Club, May 2001.

“Helen Stewart in Las Vegas History,” Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park, May

2001.

History Workshop, Take Your Daughters to Work Day, UNLV, April 2001.

Oral History Workshop, for Soroptimists International of Greater Las Vegas, April 2001.

Presentation on Women’s History Month, Winchester Community Center, March 2001.

Testimony before Nevada State Assembly for Assembly Bill 260, March 2001.

Judge, Nevada Women’s History Project, Roll of Honor, March 2001.

“Las Vegas and Women’s History,” talk to the Soroptimists of Las Vegas, January 2001.

“Nevada Women: Emerging Into Public Life,” Mt. Charleston Writers Series, October 2000.

Panel Participant, Nevada Women’s Summit 2000, March 18, 2000.

Consultant, Nevada Women’s History Project, biographical encyclopedia project, 1998-2000.

Speakers Bureau, Health Care Reform, League of Women Voters, 1998.


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Women’s Biographical Encyclopedia workshop leader, Nevada Women’s History Project,

September 1998--2000.

Moderator, College Democrats Forum on Women in Politics, March 1998.

Invited speaker, American Association of University Women, May 1997.

Invited speaker, Mesquite Club, May 1997.

Guest on KXNT, radio talk show with Icie Parker, May 1997.

PROFESSIONAL AND HONORARY ASSOCIATIONS

National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites, 2016-present

Coordinating Council for Women in History, 1982-present

Organization of American Historians, 1983-present

Social Science History Association, 1986-2002

American Historical Association, 1987-present

Southwest Institute for Research on Women, 1991-2020

Western Association of Women Historians, 1992-present.

National Council for Research on Women, (renamed Re: Gender) 1993-2019.

Institute for Women’s Policy Research, 1994-present

REFERENCES

Alice Kessler-Harris, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History in Honor of Dwight D.

Eisenhower, Columbia University, New York City.

Elizabeth Jameson, Imperial Oil and Lincoln McKay Chair, Professor of History, University of

Calgary.

Elizabeth Faue, Professor of History, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.

Gayle Gullett, Professor of History, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ.

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