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MIRIAM FORMAN‑BRUNELL, PHD
University of Missouri-Kansas City Department of History, 203 Cockefair Hall
Kansas City, MO 64110o. 816‑235-5728 Ext. 3 f. 816‑235‑5723
Forman‑[email protected]
EDUCATION:
1990 Ph.D American History, Rutgers University
Major Field: American history; Minor Field: Women’s history
Dissertation: Guise & Dolls: The Rise of the American Doll Industry and the Material Culture of Gender, 1830-1930
Dissertation Adviser: T.J. Jackson Lears
1982 M.A. Women’s History, Sarah Lawrence College
Thesis: From Society to School: The New York City YMCA Ballard School,
1870-1920
1977 B.A. Liberal Arts, Sarah Lawrence College
CERTIFICATION:
2015 UMKC Online Instructor Certificate
CITIZENSHIP:
United States
Germany
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS:
Women’s and Gender Studies Research Grant, 2013
American Library Association RUSA ABC-CLIO Online History Award, Honorable Mention, 2011
Featured, Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
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AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS, cont’d
National Endowment for the Humanities, Material Development Grant, 2007-2010
University of Missouri Research Board Grant, Book Subvention, 2008
Women’s & Gender Studies Research Grant, UMKC, 2008
Faculty Development Leave, UMKC, Fall 2006
LGBT/UMKC Outstanding Faculty Award for 2005-2006
Schlesinger Library Research Support Grant, Harvard University, 2004-2005
University of Missouri Research Board Grant, 1997-1998
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Huntington Library, 1995
Salzburg Seminar Barr Fellowship, Salzburg, Austria, 1995
Faculty Research Grant, UMKC, 1995, 1996
Center for Research on Women, Wellesley College, 1993
Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award finalist, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 1993
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1992
Faculty Research Award, Wellesley College, 1992, 1993
Princeton University Research in the Humanities, Research Grant, 1991
Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship in Women’s Studies, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 1987
Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship, National Museum of American History, 1987
New Jersey Historical Commission, Research Grant, 1986
ONLINE UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE COURSES:
Women in Preindustrial America Children & Youth in History Women in Modern America Girls & Popular Culture US History to 1877
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UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE COURES, cont’d:
Gender & History History of Sexuality Constructions of Motherhood Women & Work in Early America Girlhood in America Introduction to Women’s Studies US History to 1877 Historiography & Methods US Colloquium: Subcultures Senior Capstone Seminar Girls & Popular Culture Gender and Material Culture Introduction to Material Culture Modern American Women Labor & Leisure in America Social History of the Family Historiography & Methods ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:
Co-Director, MA Program (2012 – present) Department of History, UMKC
Co-Director (2007 - Present) Children and Youth in History, UMKC and Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University <http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/>
Girls’ Studies Coordinator (2007 - 2012) Women’s & Gender Studies Program, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City
Interim Director (WS 2007), Director (1997 - 2000) Women’s and Gender Studies Program, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Interim Director (2002 - 2003) Kansas City Regional History Institute, University of Missouri, Kansas City
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Full Professor (2002 - Present), Associate Professor (1997 - 2002), Assistant Professor (1994 - 1997), Doctoral faculty (1994 - present), Department of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City (tenured)
Assistant Professor (1991-1993) Department of History, Wellesley College
Lecturer (1990 - 1991) Department of History, Princeton University
Adjunct Lecturer (1982 – 1987) Kingsborough Community College of the City of New York, Brooklyn, New York
FACULTY AFFILIATIONS:
Ad Hoc Graduate Faculty (2012 - 2016) Department of History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
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FACULTY AFFILIATIONS, cont’d.
Affiliated Faculty (2010 – Present) Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
Affiliated Faculty (1997 – Present) Women’s & Gender Studies, UMKC
PUBLIC HISTORY:
2000 – 2001 Historical Consultant, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT. Exhibit: “Childhood in the Twentieth Century”
2000 – 2001 NEH Childhood Collections Documentation Grant Consultant, Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, Dearborn, MI
1992 -1993 Historical Consultant, Strong Museum, Rochester, NY
1992 Scholar in Residence, Peabody and Essex Museum, Salem, MA
1989 Historical Consultant, Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, RI. Exhibit supported by the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities Awarded Certificate of Commendation by the ASSLH
1986 – 1987 Women’s History Archivist, Special Collections, Alexander Library, Rutgers University
1980 – 1981 Researcher, Writer, National Board, YWCA and Laura Parsons Pratt Research Center for the YWCA of the City of New York. Researched and wrote histories of adult education and summer camps for working women
1979 Milliner, Commodore Hat Company, New York City. In preparation for an oral history of the millinery workers union president, I trimmed women’s hats with bows, bands, and buckles
1976 Researcher, American Civil Liberties Union, Women’s Rights Project, New York City. Researched history of battered women during the summer
BOOK MONOGRAPHS:
Babysitter: An American History. New York University Press, 2009; 2011 (pb)
Made to Play House: Dolls and the Commercialization of American Girlhood, 1830-1930. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998, paperback; Yale University Press, 1993, hardcover. Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award finalist, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 1993
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BOOK REVIEWS OF MY BOOK PUBLICATIONS:
Children & Society; SIGNS: The Journal of Women, Culture and Society; Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal; American Journal of Play; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Enterprise & Society; Journal on the History of Childhood and Youth; Journal of Popular Culture; Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal; Washington Post (Book World); Bust Magazine; TakePart Social Action Network, Library Journal; Babble.com; The Nation; American Historical Review; Journal of American History (3x); Business History; Journal of Social History; Business History Review; Contemporary Sociology; Technology and Culture; History of Education Quarterly; School Library Journal; Choice; Booklist; Library Journal; H-Net; Women’s Art Journal; Missouri Historical Review; H-New Reviews in the Humanities and Social, Sciences; Publisher’s Weekly; Journal of Gender Studies; Winterthur Portfolio, Feminist Collections
EDITED PUBLICATIONS:
Co-Editor, Dolls Studies: The Many Meanings of Girls’ Toys & Play (Peter Lang, 2015)
Co-Editor, Princess Cultures: Mediating Girls’ Imaginations & Identities (Peter Lang, 2015)
Guest Editor, Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 5 (1) Summer 2012 Special issue on new research in dolls studies. PDF of Journal Introduction: http://www.michelepolak.com/3099spring13/Weekly_Schedule_files/FormanBrunell.pdf
Co-Editor, Girls’ History & Culture Reader: The 19th Century. University of Illinois Press, 2011
Co-Editor, Girls’ History & Culture Reader: The 20th Century. University of Illinois Press, 2011
Editor, Girlhood in America: An Encyclopedia, 2 vols. ABC-CLIO, 2001
Editor, The Story of Rose O'Neill, An Autobiography. University of Missouri Press, 1997
Book Series Editor, Childhood and Youth: History & Culture, ABC-Clio/Greenwood, (2003-2008):
Jane Greer (ed), Girls and Literacy (2003)
Prescott, Meckel, Golden, (eds), Child Health in American History (2004)
Benson Tong, (ed), Asian American Childhoods (2004)
Philip Safford and Elizabeth Safford (eds), Children and Disabilities (2005)
Lori Askeland (ed), Children and Youth and Adoption (2006)
Caroline Cocca (ed), Children, Youth, and Sexuality (2006)
Lisa Jacobson (ed), Kids and Consumer Culture (2008)
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CURRENT BOOK PROJECTS:
Girls’ Economies & Girlhood Cultures: Work, Play, Performance (co-edited collection in progress)
Girls in America: A History of Girlhoods (narrative history in progress)
“Discursive and Subversive Mothers’ Little Helpers: Girls’ Chores and Toy Technologies of (Household) Power (article in progress)
BOOK CHAPTERS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES:
“Interrogating the Meanings of Dolls: New Directions in Doll Studies,” Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 5 (1) Summer 2012: 3-13
“The Politics of Dollhood in Nineteenth-Century America,” in Forman-Brunell and Paris (eds), The Girls' History and Culture Reader: The Nineteenth Century (University of Illinois Press, 2011), pp. 222-241
“Imagined Bobby-Soxer Babysitters and the Uses of Girls’ Work Culture” in Forman-Brunell and Paris (eds), The Girls' History and Culture Reader: The Twentieth Century, pp. 242-265
“Barbie in LIFE: Life of Barbie” (Object Lesson), Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, vol. 2, No. 3 (Fall 2009): 303-311
“Anxious Adults & Bad Babysitters: The Struggle over Girlhood in Interwar America,” Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2 (1), (Summer 2009): 130–147
Co-author, “The Graceful and Gritty Princess: Managing Girlhoods from the New Nation to the New Millennium,” American Journal of Play Vol. 1, No. 3, Winter, 2009: 338-364.
“Monsters, Maternity, and Murder: Legends in Babysitting Horror,” in Frances Gateward and Murray Pomerance (eds) Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Contemporary Cinemas of Girlhood. Wayne State University Press, 2001
“Deconstructing Teddy’s Bear: The Material Culture of Masculinity and Childhood,” OAH Magazine of History, vol. 15, no. 4 (Summer, 2001): 48-50
“From Truculent to Tractable: Conflict, Culture, and the Gendering of Baby Sitting, 1947-1960,” in Sherrie A. Inness (ed). Delinquents and Debutantes: Twentieth-Century American Girls'ʹ Culture. New York University Press, 1998, 61-82
“The Politics of Dollhood in Nineteenth-Century America,” reprinted in Henry Jenkins (ed) The Children’s Culture Reader. New York University Press, 1998
“Fatherland: Technology, Masculinity, and the Doll Economy, 1860-1909,” in Katharine M.
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BOOK CHAPTERS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES, CONT’D.
Martinez and Kenneth Ames (eds) The Material Culture of Gender: The Gender of Material Culture. Winterthur Museum and the University Press of New England, 1997
Formanek-Brunell and Lidwien Kaptjeins, “History in Global Perspectives: Cultures in Contact and Conflict,” Radical History Review v. 59 (Spring, 1994): 129-135
“Marketing a Campbell Kids Culture,” Civitas, Cultural Studies at MIT, vol. 2, no. 3 (Spring 1993): 1-5.
“Sugar and Spite: The Politics of Dollhood in Nineteenth-Century America,” in Elliott West and Paula Petrik (eds) Small Worlds: Childhood and Adolescence in America, 1850-1950. University of Kansas Press, 1992
ENTRIES, ESSAYS, AND ARTICLES:
“Dolls” and “Babysitting” in Dan Cook and Erica Burman, (eds), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies, 5 vols. (UK: Sage Publications, forthcoming)
“Girlhood” in Hasia Diner (ed), Encyclopedia of American Women’s History (New York: Facts-On-File, Inc. 2012)
“Enslaved Girlhood” in Daina Ramey Berry and Deleso Alford Washington (eds), Enslaved Women: An Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, 2012)
“Adolescence” inPaul Boyer (Executive Editor) The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 6-10
“Digital Humanities and Children and Youth in History,” Society for the History of Children and Youth Newsletter, April 2011.
“Pocahontas Stories-Mythologies of Friendship and Affiliation” (entry), Alfred J. Andrea et al (eds), World History Encyclopedia, Era 6 (1450-1770) (ABC-CLIO, 2011)
Foreword, Jennifer Helgren and Colleen A. Vasconcellos (eds), Girlhood: A Global History (Rutgers University Press, 2010)
Co-author (with Kelly Schrum), “Children and Youth in History: An On-line Resource,” Anthropology News, vol. 49 No. 4 (April 2008)
“American Girl Dolls” in Gary Cross, et al., Dictionary of American History, Dynamic Reference edition (Charles Scribner’s Sons/Thompson Gale, 2008)
“Bratz Dolls” in Gary Cross, et al., Dictionary of American History, Dynamic Reference edition (Charles Scribner’s Sons/Thompson Gale, 2008)
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ENTRIES, ESSAYS, AND ARTICLES, cont’d.
“Gender and Toys” in Fedwa Malti-Douglas, (ed) Encyclopedia of Sex & Gender (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007) vol 4 pp. 1470-1472
“Babysitters” in Claudia Mitchell and Jacqui Reid-Walsh, (co-eds) Girl Culture Encyclopedia (ABC-Clio/ABC-Clio/Greenwood, 2008): 158-161
“Princess Play” in Claudia Mitchell and Jacqui Reid-Walsh, (co-eds) Girl Culture Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 2008): 483-486
“Dolls” in Burt Feintuch and David Watters (eds), Encyclopedia of New England Culture (Yale University Press, 2005), 433-4
“Babysitting” and “Barbie Dolls” in Paula Fass (ed) Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood: In History and Society (New York: Macmillan, 2004, pp. 77-78; 80-81
“Baby Sitting” in Joseph Hawes (ed) The Family in America: An Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, 2002)
“The Campbell Kids and the Cattenna Kids: Child Labor in the Turn-of-the-Century Doll Industry,” Doll Reader (Nov. 1990), 62-67
Dolls and Duty: Martha Chase and the Progressive Agenda, 1889-1925 (Rhode Island Historical Society and the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, 1989)
“Gym,” Elizabeth Cleaners Street School People, Starting Your Own High School (Random House, 1972), pp. 58-59
DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND HISTORICAL PEDAGOGY:
“Girls’ Labor and Leisure in the Progressive Era,” Beyond the Textbook National History Education Clearinghouse (2012) http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/beyond-the-textbook/25749
Children & Youth in History http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/A Students’ Guide To ‘Reading’ Primary Sources on the History of Children and Youth
Primary Source Annotations: Moll Flanders [novel]; Alice in Wonderland [film]; Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl [slave narrative]; Pippi Longstocking [graffiti]; Der Struwwelpeter [children’s book]; Babysitter and Man Upstairs [urban legend]; The House with the Closed Shutters, [D.W. Griffith film]; Swords and Hearts, [D.W.
Griffith film]; Little Mischief, [Edison short]; My Weekly Reader; Pieter Bruegel, Children’s Games [painting]; Holocaust Girls/Closet [short story]; Barbie in LIFE [magazine]; Coming of Age in Samoa; Letter to Santa; Creeping Baby Doll [patent]; Pocahontas [illustration];
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DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND HISTORICAL PEDAGOGY, cont’d.
Liberty in the Form of the Goddess of Youth [needlework]; The Hobby Horse [folk art]; The Girls’ Own Book [jump rope]; Thanksgiving ragamuffins [article]; Italian Mother and Child, Jacob Riis [photo]; Little Eva [children’s story]; Komori [songs]; Max und Moritz [story]; Carrying Native M.
American babies [image; text]; Native American Children and Toys [image]; Gravestone [artifact]; Girls Making Snowman [painting]; Samoan Baby and Baby-Tending [text]
“Children & Youth in History,” Wonders & Marvels, October, 2009 http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2009/10/children-youth-in-history.html
“Suburban Sitretaries,” The Page 99 Test, Sept, 2009 “Babysitters, Bosses, and ‘Brats’,” Wonders & Marvels, Sept, 2009 http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2009/09/babysitters-bosses-and-‘brats’.html “What Barbie Can Tell Us About Postwar American Culture,” Artifact and Analysis: Interpreting Objects and Writing History (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies, Smithsonian, 2002) http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/idealabs/ap/essays/barbie.htm
BOOK REVIEWS:
Rev. Jason Reid, Get Out of My Room! A History of Teen Bedrooms in America (University of Chicago Press, 2017) Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (forthcoming, 2017)
Rev. Paul B. Ringel, Commercializing Childhood: Children's Magazines, Urban Gentility, and the Ideal of the American Child, 1823-1918 (University of Massachusetts Press, 2015), American Historical Review (forthcoming, 2017) Rev. of John F. Kasson, The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America. New York: W. W. Norton. 2014, American Historical Review, (2015) 120 (4): 1504-1505
Rev. of Female Adolescence in American Scientific Thought, 1830-1930, Bulletin of the History of Medicine (Winter, 2008)
Rev. of The Saturated World: Aesthetic Meaning, Intimate Objects, Women’s Lives, 1890-1940, Journal of American History, vol. 94 no. 2 (September, 2007): p. 584-585
Web Rev. of “Twentieth-Century Girls: Coming of Age in the Twentieth Century,” Journal of American History, vol. 94 no. 2 (September, 2007): p. 661
Rev. of The Greatest Generation Grows Up: American Childhood in the 1930s, The Journal of Southern History, vol. 73 no. 2 (2007): 492-3
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BOOK REVIEWS, cont’d:
Rev. of For the Good of the Children: A History of the Boys and Girls Republic, American Studies, vol. 46 no. 1 (2004): 170-1
Rev. of From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice, American Historical Review, June, 2003, pp. 850-1
Rev. of Disciplines of Virtue: Girls'ʹ Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Journal of Popular Culture. Vol. 32, no. 4, (1999): 142
Rev. of Generations of Youth: Youth Cultures and History in Twentieth--‐‑Century America, Journal of American History (September, 1999): 855-856
Rev. of Teenage New Jersey, 1941-1975, Journal of American History (Sept. 1998): 738
EDITORIAL AND ADVISORY BOARDS:
Editorial Board, Girls Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Undergraduate Research (2014-present)
Advisory Board, Girl Museum (2009 - present)
Editorial Board, Journal of American Culture (2009 - present)
Editorial Board, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (2007 - present)
Editorial Board, Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2007 - present)
Editorial Board, American Journal of Play (2007 - present)
INVITED AND KEYNOTE LECTURES:
White House Research Conference on Girls, White House Council on Women and Girls, Washington, D.C. April 28 2014
Women’s History Month Keynote Lecture, University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, SC, Mar 12-13, 2012, “Girls’ History: Grounding Girls Studies (Keynote)
Fourth Annual Josephine Berry Weiss Seminar Interdisciplinary Seminar, Pennsylvania State University, Mar 23, 2011, “Getting and Spending: The Dynamics of Commercial Teen Culture and Part-Time Work” (Keynote)
University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO, Mar 29, 2010, Women’s History Month lecture: “The Rise of Teenage Girls and the Fall of Babysitting” (Keynote)
Twelfth Annual Anita S. Goodstein Lectureship in Women’s History at Sewanee, The
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INVITED AND KEYNOTE LECTURES, cont’d.
University of the South, Sewanee, TN, March 24, 2010, “Get a Sitter! Fears and Fantasies about Teenage Girls” (Keynote)
Women’s History Month Lecture, University of Colorado, Denver, Mar 15, 2010, “The Rise of the Teenage Girl and the Fall of Babysitting
Feminism: Barbie’s Ambiguities and Ruth Handler’s Ambivalences,” Toy & Miniature Museum, Kansas City, MO, Mar 3, 2010, “Femininity and M.
UMKC Miller Nichols Library, Feb 26, 2010, “Unpacking Barbie and her Wardrobe: The Body as Historical Text”
Shepherd’s Center of Kansas City, Adventures in Learning Lecture Series, Oct. 26, 2009, “History of Babysitting”
Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, Nov, 18, 2008, “The Bad Babysitter: An American Hisory”
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, Oct 23, 2004, “Hoydens at Home: The Changing Meanings of Dolls in the Nineteenth-Century”
The Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA, Oct 2002, “Contents and Contexts: The Gendered History of American Dolls”
Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT, April 2000, “Children’s Day: Constructing a Consumer Culture for Girls, 1900-1930”
Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, Dearborn, MI, May 2000, “Inferences and ‘Echoes of the Past’: The Private Sphere of Museum Doll Exhibits”
Kewpiesta, Branson, MO, April 1997, “The Story of Rose O’Neill and the Kewpie”
Colonial Dames of America, Kansas City, MO, October 1996, “Who was Rose O'Neill? The Culture of Biography and Autobiography”
Hallmark, Kansas City, MO, April 1995, “Gender and Culture: Writing the History of Dolls”
Harry S. Truman Library, Film Series, Independence, MO, Feb. 1995, “‘State of the Union’: Gender Politics in the Truman Era”
Peabody and Essex Museum, Lecture Series, Salem, MA, December 1993, “Dolls: Artifacts of American Cultures”
Popular Cultures Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oct. 1992, “Advertising a ‘Campbell Kids’ Culture: Engendering New Kid Dolls, 1902-1914”
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INVITED AND KEYNOTE LECTURES, cont’d.
Rhode Island Historical Society Lecture Series, Providence, RI, October, 1989, “Material Maternalism of Martha Chase: Ideology, Agenda, and Dolls”
Second Annual Feminist Round Table, Women and the Culture of Consumption, George Mason University, Washington, D.C., April 1988, “With Pins and Patents: Mothers'ʹ Resistance to the Toy Store, 1870-1900”
CONFERENCE PANEL CHAIR AND COMMENTATOR:
Chair, Considering Gender in the History of Child Labor, Society for the History of Children & Youth Ninth Biennial Conference, Camden, NJ, June, 22, 2017 Chair, Youth in Motion: Tracking the Role of Children in America's Information and Entertainment Economies, Organization of American Historians (OAH) Conference, New Orleans, Apr 6-9 2017 Chair, Girls & War, International Girls’ Studies Association, Inaugural Conference, East Anglia University, Norwich, UK, Apr 6-10, 2016 Chair, Girls’ History and Cultures, Midwest Popular Culture Association, Annual Conference, St. Louis, Oct 11-13, 2013 (withdrew for medical reasons)
Chair, Girlhood Beyond the Doll Corner: Discursive, Performative, and Historical Spaces, Society for the History of Children and Youth, Nottingham, UK, June 25-27, 2013
Chair, Girls’ Media and Sexuality, Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association, Columbus, OH, Oct 12-14, 2012
Chair, The Objects of Learning Material Culture, Imaginative Pedagogy and the Twentieth-Century Child, American Studies Association, Baltimore, MD, October 20-23, 2011
Chair, Childhood and Education in 19th-Century Missouri, 53rd Annual Missouri Conference on History, Kansas City, MO, Apr 15, 2011
Comment, Girls in Motion: Twentieth-Century Girls Across National Boundaries, 13th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, June 2-5, 2005
Chair, Serializing American Childhood, Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 17-19, 2003
Chair, Girls’ Public Spheres: Voicing Shared Identity in the Twentieth Century, American Studies Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., November 2001
Chair, Constructing and Consuming the Female Adolescent, The Second Annual History of Children and Youth Conference, Marquette University, Milwaukee, July 2001
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CONFERENCE PANEL CHAIR AND COMMENTATOR, CONT’D.
Chair, Commentator, Boundaries of Childhood: The Gendered Aspects of Earning and Spending Money, Organization of American Historians, St. Louis, MO, Mar-Apr 2000
Chair, Comment, Re-Defining Women’s Sphere, Mid-America Conference on History, Washburn University, Topeka, KS, September 1996,
Chair, Children’s History and Leisure, American Studies Association Convention, Montreal, Canada, October 1999
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
“Fluid and Fleeting: Girls’ Economies & Girlhood Cultures,” Children’s History Society Conference, University of Greenwich, UK, June 21-23, 2018
“Girls’ Economies and Girlhood Cultures: Working, Performing, Playing.” Midwestern Popular Culture/American Culture Association conference, Hyatt Regency, St. Louis, MO, Oct 18-22, 2017
Society for the History of Children and Youth conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, June 24-26, 2015, “Discursive and Subversive Mothers’ Little Helpers: Girls’ Chores and Toy Technologies of (Household) Power” National Women’s Studies Association, “Girls’ Studies in the United States and Abroad: A Roundtable Discussion,” November 7-10, 2013, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Social Science Social Science History Association, Boston, November 17-20, 2011, “Accessing Toys/Interpreting Play: Children and Youth in History’s Online Sources and Instructional Strategies”
International Play Association Conference, Cardiff, Wales, July 4-7, 2011, “Playing in the Past: Children and Youth in History’s On-Line Sources for Teachers and Students”
Society for the History of Children and Youth, Teacher’s College, Columbia University, New York City, June, 25, 2011, “International and Interdisciplinary: Children and Youth in History Online”
Society for the History of Children and Youth, University of California, Berkeley, July 10-12, 2009, “Childhood Matters: Children & Youth in History” (Workshop)
American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., November 5-8, 2009. “Children and Youth in History: Belonging in the Past and the Present” (Workshop)
Organization of American Historians, Seattle, WA, March 27, 2009 “Children and Youth in History: A New Media Workshop”
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, cont’d.
18th Annual SCSU Women’s Studies Conference on Girls’ Culture and Girls’ Studies, New Haven, CT, October 17-18, 2008, “Girls’ History Matters: Online Teaching Resources in Children and Youth in History
5th World Congress of the International Toy Research Association Conference on Toys & Culture, Nafplion, Greece, July 9-11, July 2008, “The Princess of Multivalence: Adults’ Anxiety & Girls’ Identity”
Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Minneapolis, MN, June, 12-15, 2008, “Shaping ‘Sitologists’: Babysitting Education and the Containment of Teenage Girls, 1943-2003
“Mid Atlantic American Studies/Great Lakes American Studies, American Play: Sports, Games, Entertainment, and Fantasy in American Culture Conference, Strong National Museum of Play, Rochester, NY, April 4-5, 2008, “Producing and Pretending: The Princess, Girlhood, and Cultural Anxieties”
American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., Nov 28-Dec 2, 2007, “The Telephone and the Teenage Babysitter: Constituting, Critiquing, Controlling, Cautioning, and Contesting Female Adolescence”
Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association, Kansas City, October, 3-5, 2007, “Grace and Grit: The Princess, Play, and Girls’ Culture”
National Women’s Studies Association 28th Conference, St. Charles, IL, June 28-July 1, 2007, “‘Gadget Age Girls’ and Anxious Adults: The Uneasy Origins of Babysitting in the U.S.” (poster)
American Studies Association, Oakland, CA, October, 12-15, 2006, “Babysitters Beware! Impulses, Ideologies, and Girls’ Employment in the 1960s”
Midwest Popular Culture Association conference, Cleveland, OH, October 8-10, 2004, “’I Was Different’! Ruth Handler and the Barbie Doll”
Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 17-19, 2003, ‘”The Baby-Sitters Club’: Empowerment, Containment, and the Girl Power Ethos”
Second Biennial Meeting of the Society for the History of Children and Youth, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, June 2003, “Ambivalence and Abuse: The State of Babysitting and Babysitters and the State”
The Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Connecticut, Storrs,
June 2002, “Women’s History and Children’s History” (workshop)
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, cont’d.
History of Childhood Conference, Benton Foundation, Washington D.C., Aug 2000, “The Challenges of Conceptualizing and Cataloguing Girlhood in America”
Seventh International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, University of Tromso, Norway, June 1999, “Villains, Victims, and Vixens: Representations of Babysitters in American Popular Culture”
The Stuff of Women’s History: Using Artifacts, Landscapes, and Built Environments to Research and Teach Women’s History in the Classroom, Women’s Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, NY, August 1998, “‘By Means of Dolls’: Teaching the History of Gendering”
National Women’s Studies Association 17th Annual Conference, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, June 1996, “Not Training for Motherhood: Baby Sitting and the Search for Social Identity, 1946-1960”
Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Chapel Hill, NC, June 1996, “Truculent and Tractable: Antagonism, Conflict, and the Gendering of Babysitting in Postwar America”
Mid-America American Studies Association Conference, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, April 1996, “From the Beaux d'Arts to the Ozarks: Contestation, Multivocality, and Self Representation in the Work of Rose O'ʹNeill”
Missouri-Valley History Conference, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NB, March 1995, “Rose O’Neill, the Kewpies, and the Gendering of the Missouri Ozarks”
American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Costa Mesa, CA. Nov. 1992, “An Androgynous Utopia: Rose O’Neill and Kewpieville, 1909-1914”
New England Foundation for the Humanities, Yankee and Strangers Lecture Series, Boston, MA, May, 1992, “The Imagined and the Real: Versions of New England Girlhoods”
Sixth Annual Lowell Conference on Women’s History, Lowell National Historical Park, Mar 1992, “Teaching Girls’ History: Businesswomen, Workers, and Girls’ Culture in the 19th- American Doll Industry”
Eighth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Douglass College, June 1990, “Dollhood: Changing Doll Play in Nineteenth-Century America”
Colloquium, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1989 “In the Dolls'ʹ House: The Rag Doll Movement, 1889-1906”
Material Culture of Gender: Gender of Material Culture Conference, Henry Francis du Pont
Winterthur Museum, Delaware, Nov. 1989, “Fatherland: Masculinity, Technology, and the Doll Economy, 1865-1908”
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, cont’d.
New Jersey Historian’s Seminar, Princeton University, NJ, Mar 1987, “‘Even the Babies are Striking’: Doll Workers in Newark and New York”
Seventh Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Wellesley College, June 1987, “The Factory and the Nursery: Businesswomen in the American Doll Industry”
National Women’s Studies Association, University of Illinois, June, 1986, “Dolls & Dollars: Forming an Industry, Forging a Culture”
International Conference on Women’s History, University of Amsterdam, Mar. 1986, “Materialism, Maternalism, and the Miniature Culture of Modern Girlhood”’
Fifth Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, Nassau Community College, Hempstead, NY, November, 1985, “‘Mother, Where Can I Play’? Children’s Day in American Cities”
Second International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, April 1984, “Guise & Dolls: The Rise of the Doll Industry and the Material Culture of Girls in the 1920s”
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Co-Chair, Girls’ History & Culture Network, Society for the History of Children and Youth, 2017-present
Co-Editor, The Girls’ History & Culture Network Newsletter, 2017 – present Fall, 2017 issue: http://mailchi.mp/685eee7f08e7/ghcn-newsletter-148783?e=f86456ab03 AHA Committee on the Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History, 2012-2015
Steering Committee, International Girls’ Studies Association, 2011–Present
Website Advisory Committee, Society for the History of Children and Youth, 2011-Present
Peer Review Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipends program, Fall, 2010
OAH Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians, 2005-2014
University of Missouri System P&T Committee, 2007-Present
Advisory Editor, Material Culture in America (ABC-Clio, Greenwood/Praeger, 2008)
Co-Contributing Editor, Society for the History of Children and Youth Newsletter, Girls’ History:
History of Girls” (feature column) 2002-2005
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SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE, con’t.
Faculty Press Board Member, University of Missouri Press, 2004 – 2007 Editorial Board, Newsletter, Society for History of Children & Youth, 2002
Curators’ Book Award Committee, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, MO, 2007
Area Chair in Girls’ Culture, Midwest Popular Culture Association, 2005-Present Book Prize Committee, Society for the History of Children and Youth, 2006-7
Society for History of Children & Youth, Selection Committee (2013); Nominating Committee (2005); Chair, Program Committee (2001); At-large member, Executive Committee, 2001
BOOK MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER
Oxford University Press, Harvard University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, New York University Press Rutgers University Press, Routledge Press, University of Kansas Press, Rowman & Littlefield, Zed Books, Palgrave Macmillan Press, Berghahn Books, Peter Long Publishers, Longman Publishers University of Missouri Press, ABC-Clio/Greenwood, Bloomsbury Academic/Zed Books MANUSCRIPT PEER REVIEWER:
Journals: Journal of American History; The Oral History Review; Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary; Journal of the History of Sexuality; Journal of Social History; Journal of American Studies; Journal of American Culture Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture; American Journal of Play; Feminist Formulations; Journal of Cultural and Social History (UK); Journal of Children’s Literature; Israel Science Foundation (ISF); National Endowment for the Humanities
SELECTED UNIVERSITY SERVICE:
Women’s & Gender Studies Program Review Board Arts & Sciences Faculty Standards Board Fulbright Selection Committee American Studies Steering Committee Salzburg Seminar Committee Women’s Studies Advisory Board Chancellor’s Advisory Womenʹs History Month Steering Committee UMKC History Department Advisory Committee LGBT Advisory Board
Toy and Miniature Museum Board M. Forman-Brunell/Page 18 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS, cont’d. American Studies Association (and Children and Youth Caucus) American Historical Association Organization of American Historians National Women’s Studies Association (Girls and Their Allies Caucus) Society for the History of Children and Youth Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association International Toy Research Association
MEDIA INTERVIEWS:
Jessica Williams, “Dolls for Boys—An Important and Growing Market,” Mother Magazine, Mar 13, 2017. http://www.mothermag.com/dolls-for-boys/
Haley Krischer, Playing with Dolls Isn’t Just Fun and Games: All That Chatter has Powerful Impact, Racked, January 8, 2016 http://www.racked.com/2016/1/8/10732442/playing-with-dolls-leadership-ava-duvernay-barbie
Debra Bass, “The Cinderella Defect Among Girls (and Women) Who Play Princess,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 27, 2015
Julia Plevin, “Don’t Fear the Male Babysitter,” The Atlantic Magazine, July 19, 2013 http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/07/dont-fear-the-male- babysitter/277924/
Sarah Boesveld, “No more adventures in babysitting: Today’s texting teens aren’t interested in looking after other people’s kids,” National Post (Canada), December 9, 2011 http://www.nationalpost.com/
Linda Friedel, “Still an Icon After 50 Years: Exhibit Examines All Things Barbie,” The Wednesday Sun, March 17, 2010
Walt Bodine Show, “Barbie: Role Model or Negative Influence,” KCUR-FM, Kansas City, Feb 19, 2010
Mark Lynch, WICN-FM, New England, “The Babysitter,” Dec 1, 2009
Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC-FM, New York City, “What Can the Babysitter Teach Us,” Sept 28, 2009
Liesl Bradner, Los Angeles Times, (Books & Ideas) “Lolita, Psycho Nanny or the Girl Next
Door?” Sept 11, 2009
Steve Kraske, Up to Date, KCUR-FM Radio, Kansas City, “The History of Babysitting,” Aug 26, 2009
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MEDIA INTERVIEWS, cont’d.
Ramona Koval, Book Show, ABC Radio National, Australia, “A Literary History of Babysitting,” Aug 18, 2009
Edward M. Eveld, Kansas City Star, “Adventures in Baby-Sitting: UMKC professor explores cultural change in ‘Babysitter: An American History’, August 18, 2009 (also in The Sacramento Bee; Modesto Bee, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, etc.)
Sarah Boesveld, Globe and Mail, “Why the Sitter Scares the Parents,” Aug 9, 2009
Shannon Proudfoot, “Stalker or Temptress: Babysitting Fraught with Baggage,” “Beware the babysitter: Icon of teen girlhood reflects society’s fears”; “Tracing the history of the babysitter”; “Sitter image a reflection of society,” Canwest, Montreal Gazette, Edmonton Journal, Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun, National Post, Regina Leader-Post, Saskatoon Star Phoenix, Ottawa Citizen, Times Colonist, The Windsor Star, Aug 8, 2009
Marty Moss-Coane, WHYY-FM (NPR, Philadelphia, PA), “A History of the American Babysitter,” Aug 3, 2009
Newstalk 106-108, Sean Moncrieff Show, Dublin, Ireland, “Babysitter,” July 28, 2009
Patt Morrison, KCPP-FM (Southern California Public Radio), “Vixen, Victim, or Ingénue Au Pair?,” July 27, 2009
Andrea Walker, The New Yorker, “Ask an Academic,” “Babysitters as Bad Girls,” July 30, 2009
Katharine Mieszkowski, Salon.com, “What’s the Babysitter Up To?” July 17, 2009 C-SPAN, “Babysitter,” Seattle, Washington, March 28, 2009
Marc Bassets, “Barbie cumple 50 años manteniendo el tipo pese a la competencia creciente,” La Vanguardia March 10, 2009
Dahleen Glanton, “Barbie ages, but doll is forever young in eyes of U.S. girls,” Chicago Tribune, March 4, 2009
Melissa Stoeltje, “Little girls carried away on a pink wave of princess products,” San Antonio Express Times, March 10, 2007, Life sect. p. 1
Peggy Orenstein, “What’s Wrong With Cinderella?” New York Times Magazine, December 24, 2006, pp. 34-39
“Thanksgiving: Diversity, Traditions, and their Meanings to Children,” New York University Child Study Center, Aboutourkids.org (Nov 2004)
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MEDIA INTERVIEWS, cont’d.
WGBH Educational Foundation, “They Made America,” PBS series on the history of innovation (Jan. 2004)
Peggy Jacquie Loohauis, “Devotion to the Doll,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Q sec. Dec 19, 2003
Dec 21, 2003 Nancy Redwine, “A History of Dolls that Double as Art,” Santa Cruz Sentinel, Oct 3, 2002
Edward M. Eveld, “Uncommon Sense: Kennedy Women have Sidestepped the foibles of their Fated Family,” Kansas City Star, July 22, 1999, FYI, pp.1, 6
Dru Sefton, “Re: Monica’s Lipstick,” Kansas City Star, March 18, 1999, FYI, pp. 1, 4. Ross Atkin, “The fun they had, back in 1899,” and “Piecing Together a Doll-filled Past,”
Christian Science Monitor, Feb 2, 1999, pp. 22-23 Dinitia Smith, “Wanted: Victim or Vixen at $7 an Hour,” New York Times, Aug 1 1998, A15
Brian Burnes, “For the Record, Scrapbooks Help,” Kansas City Star, Sec. C 1, 2
John Johnson, “In Search of Sitters,” Cincinnati Enquirer, 23 August, 1996, E1
“Baby Sitting,” Channel 4 News, Kansas City, MO, 22 May 1996, 9 pm “Defining Moments,” Kansas City Star, 21 April 1996
Brian McTavish, “Pieces of Us, Cherished Objects are Hearts of America’s Smithsonian,” Kansas City Star, 10 April 1996, F1:6
“Kansas City Close Up,” 18 February 1996, KMXV-FM (93.3)
Haya El Nasser, “Baby Sitting’s History,” USA Today, January, 1996, 40
Alice Cary, “The Serious Business of Sitting,” Boston Herald, March 20, 1994, 6
M. Forman-Brunell Page 21 REFERENCES:
Dr. Steven Mintz University of Texas at Austin O. Henry Hall 601 Colorado St., 4th Floor Austin, TX 78701 [email protected] Dr. Kelly Schrum Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media George Mason University Fairfax, VA 22030 64113 [email protected] Dr. John Herron, Associate Dean Department of History University of Missouri-Kansas City Kansas City, MO 64110 [email protected]