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Academic Positions
Professor of History, Mills College, 1988-Present
Associate Professor of History, Mills College, 1981-1988
Assistant Professor of History, Mills College, 1975-1981
Instructor, University of Michigan, Dearborn, Spring, 1975
Administrative Positions
Assistant Secretary, Mills College Board of Trustees, 2009-Present
Secretary, Mills College Board of Trustees, 2005-2009
Associate Provost, Mills College, 2002-2005
Interim Associate Provost, Mills College, 2001-2002
Director of Graduate Studies, Mills College, 2000-Present
Acting Director of Graduate Studies, Mills College, 1999-2000
Dean of the Division of Social Sciences, Mills College, 1997-2001
Professional Memberships
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Southern Historical Association
American Association for the History of Medicine
Western Association of Women Historians
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“Revitalizing the Mission of a Women’s College: Mills College in Oakland, California,” Challenged by Coeducation: Women’s Colleges Since the 1960s, eds. Leslie Miller-Bernal & Susan L. Poulson (Vanderbilt University Press, 2006)
“Edward Cunningham,” biographical entry, Dictionary of Virginia Biography, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, vol. 3 (2006)
Book Review: Free Blacks in Norfolk, Virginia, 1790-1860: The Darker Side of Freedom by Tommy L. Bogger in The Journal of Southern History, vol. 64, no. 2 (May 1998), 357-358
"Women in the Labor Force," with Nancy Thornborrow in Women: A Feminist Perspective, fifth edition, ed. Jo Freeman (1995)
"French and American Women in the Age of the Democratic Revolution, 1770-1815: A Comparative Perspective," with Linda Popofsky in History of European Ideas, vol. 8, no. 4/5 (1987), 597-609
Book Review: The Destructive War: The British Campaign in the Carolinas by John S. Pancake in The Journal of Southern History, vol. 52, no. 2 (May 1986), 293-4
"Comparative History of Women in the U.S. and Europe, 1750-1920: A Course Syllabus" with Linda Popofsky in Conference Group on Women's History Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 5 (October 1985), 20-23
Book Review: Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony by Karen Ordahl Kupperman in The Journal of Southern History, vol. LI, no. 3 (August 1985), 422-3
Book Review: A Richmond Reader, ed. by Maurice Duke and Daniel P. Jordan in Urban History Review/Revue d' histoire urbaine, vol. XIII, no. 3 (February 1985), 258-9
Book Review: The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South by Catherine Clinton in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 93, no. l (January 1985), 101-102
Book Review: Slaves No More: Letters from Liberia, 1833-1869, ed. by Bell I. Wiley in The Journal of Southern History, vol. XLVII, no. 3 (August 1981), 448-9
"Social Stratification in Richmond, Virginia, 1788-1817," South Atlantic Urban Studies, vol. 4 (1979), 177-197
"Black-White Relations in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1820,"in The Journal of Southern History, vol. XLV, no. l (February 1979), 27-44
Book Review: Richmond During the Revolution, 1775-83 by Harry M. Ward and Harold E. Greer, Jr. in The Journal of Southern History, vol. XLIV, no. 4 (November 1978), 627-8
"Richmond, Virginia: The Town and Henrico County to 1820," dissertation abstracts in William and Mary Quarterly, vol. XXXV, no. 3 (July 1978), 553
Book Review: Thomas Nelson of Yorktown: Revolutionary Virginian by Emory G. Evans in The Journal of American History, vol. LXIII, no. 2 (September 1976), 387
Professional ActivitiesPresentation at The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, June, 2005: “Revitalizing the Mission of a Women’s College: Mills College in Oakland, California,” panel on “Women’s Colleges Struggling in a Coed World, 1960-Present”
Book Awards Selection Committee, Women's Heritage Museum of San Francisco, 1996-1997
Presentation at the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, August, 1993: Comment on "Reason and Ritual: Women in Early America"
Presentation at Western Association of Women Historians, May 1992: Comment on "Marriage as a Mirror of Eighteenth-Century Culture"
Presentation at American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, August, 1987: "Comparative Historiography of the Woman Question" with Linda Popofsky, Mills College; Karen Offen, Stanford University; Maryanne Horowitz, Occidental College
Presentation at conference on "Teaching Women's History in the Core Curriculum," San Francisco State University, March 1983: "Integrating Women's History into College and University Survey Courses" with Linda Popofsky, Mills College
Presentation at conference on "Politics, Propaganda, Symbols and Food," Mills College, November 1980: "Food and Sexuality in Victorian America"
Membership Committee, Southern Historical Association, 1980-81
Presentation at Southern Historical Association, November 1979: "Preservation of the Social Order: Richmond as an Urban Case Study, 1779-1820"
Presentation at Community College Social Science Association, March 1979: "Teaching Women's History " with Linda Popofsky, Mills College
Local arrangements committee, American Historical Association, December 1978
Presentation at American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch annual meeting, August 1978: "Two Approaches to the Teaching of the Female Experience in Trans-Atlantic Perspective - A Workshop" with Karen Offen and Marilyn Yalom, Center for Research on Women, Stanford University; Erna Hellerstein, University of California, Berkeley; Leslie Hume, Stanford University; and Linda Popofsky, Mills College
Presentation at dissertation session of American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch annual meeting, August 1977
Presentation at Urban Studies Center, College of Charleston, March 1977: "Social Stratification in Richmond, Virginia, 1788-1817"
Presentation at Dusquene History Forum, October 1976: "The Dilemma of Middle-Level Government in Early America: Social Problems and Political Power in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1820"
Current ResearchColonial and revolutionary America, US immigration history, history of women and the family in the US, American south, US urban history