curriculum vitae

education

Ph.D. in History
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
1980
M.A. First Class Honors in American Studies
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
1971
B.A. Double Major in History & American Studies
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
1970
Diploma of Teaching
Christchurch Teachers’ College, Christchurch, New Zealand
1972
Management Development Program
Harvard Institutes for Higher Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1972

awards & fellowships

Fulbright-Hays Program
(New Zealand-United States Educational Foundation), Research and Travel Grant
1975 / 1976
James B. Duke Commonwealth Fellowship
Duke University. One of three Fellows selected from the British Commonwealth. First woman to hold this fellowship.
1972 - 1975

positions held

Dean of the School of Liberal Arts
Philadelphia University
1999 - present
Interim Dean of the School of Liberal Arts
Philadelphia University
1998 / 1999
Professor of History
The School of Liberal Arts,
Philadelphia University
2004 - present
Associate Professor of History
The School of Liberal Arts,
Philadelphia University
1989 - 2004
Assistant Professor of History
The School of Liberal Arts,
Philadelphia University
1984 - 1989
Adjunct Lecturer
Graduate Program, Dept. of History,
Villanova University
1995 / 1996
Adjunct Lecturer
Department of History,
University of Pennsylvania
1992 / 1993
Visiting Lecturer
Department of American Civilization, University of Pennsylvania,
On leave from Philadelphia University
1986 / 1987
Earlier Teaching Positions
Rutgers University, Camden
University of Deleware
St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia

other administrative positions

Co-Director, FIPSE Grant
(Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education) Participated in writing the grant proposal, planning and organization of interdisciplinary faculty workshops, and evaluation of the grant.
1992 - 1995
Director, College Studies Program
Chair of the general education committee, administrator of new liberal arts and sciences core curriculum with Chair of the Department of of Humanities and Social Sciences
1991 - 1995
Co-Director, NEH Grant
Funded pilot program to integrate writing instruction in content area. Wrote section of grant for course entitled ‘ “If All the World Were Philadelphia,”: The City and the American Experience’
1988 / 1989
Director, Summer Institute for Public School Teachers
NEH funded institute for PATHS (Philadelphia Alliance for Teaching Humanities in the Schools) at the Atwater Kent Museum, Entitled “A New View of Philadelphia: Family and Community”
1989
AAC & U Grant
“Integrative Learning Project: Opportunities to Connect,” Wrote grant and was a member of the three person team for a three year grant project funded by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U),
www.carnegiefoundation.org,
Bismarck, ND.
2003 - 2006

professional participation: higher education

Presenter
“Inquiry, Innovation, and Integration: Building a Culture of Evidence Around Integrative Teaching and Learning,” International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Washington, DC
November 10, 2006
Invited Participant
Oxford Roundtable: “Women’s Leadership,” Exeter College, Oxford, UK
Discussion Leader
“Gender and Justice in the Washington State Courts: A Decade of Leadership by a Supreme Court Commission,” Exeter College
August 6 - 11, 2006
Chair and Presenter
“From Integrative Structures to Integrative Learning in the First Year Experience,” Integrative Learning: Creating Opportunities to Connect, AAC&U Conference, Denver, Colorado
October 20 - 22, 2005
Presenter and Facilitator
“Integrating Student Learning and Pedagogies Across the Professional Studies/General Education Divide: Re-Engineering A Liberal Education Capstone Course,” International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Commitment, Community and Collaboration, Vancouver, Canada Workshop Leader
October 16, 2005
Workshop Leader
“Crossing Boundaries: Globalisation, Integrative Learning and Connecting Liberal Education with Professional Studies.” Third International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Cambridge, UK
August 2 - 5, 2005
Invited Participant
AAHE Research Forum: creating research agenda for AAHE and higher education, National Conference on Higher Education, AAHE, Atlanta, GA
March 17, 2005
Presenter
“A Small University Information Literacy Model: The Role of Assessment in Moving from Pilot to Campus-Wide Implementation,” AAHE Conference on Assessment. Boston, MA
June 23, 2002
Invited Speaker
“The Glass Ceiling? Women in Higher Education,” Seminar for AAUW chapter, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
August 1, 2001
Outside Evaluator
Social Studies Curriculum, Jenkintown School District, Pennsylvania, Meetings with faculty and school visits undertaken between June 1999 and June 2000, Report to School Board June 13, 2000
1999 – 2000
Presenter
“What Should be Integrated?: The Solutions at Philadelphia University,” Panel entitled, “Ways of Integrating Liberal and Professional Studies and Assessing Student Outcomes: Three Case Studies,” Integrating Liberal and Professional Studies: From Aspiration to Improved Practice, conference sponsored by the AACU with ANAC: Network for Academic Renewal, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington
April 6 - 8, 2000
Chair
Test Development Committee for American History and Social Studies Achievement Tests (SAT II), Educational Testing Service for the College Board
1993 -1996
Presenter
"The Hole in the Doughnut: General Education in the Professional Curriculum," panel at the American Association of Higher Education National Conference on Higher Education, Washington, D.C.
March, 1995
Evaluator
The Philadelphia-Pittsburgh Teachers Partnership, "Discovering America: The Peopling of Pennsylvania," Summer Institute, Held at the Balch Institute and funded by the Annenberg Foundation
1993
Member
Test Development Committee for American History and Social Studies Achievement Tests,(now SAT II), Educational Testing Service for the College Board
1992
Consultant
For continuing PATHS projects. Visited several public schools for consultation on teaching the history of Philadelphia, Gave keynote lectures, acted as moderator, lecturer and consultant for several projects connected with PATHS/Prism and the improvement of teaching in the Philadelphia public schools
1986 – 1990
Faculty Consultant
PATHS Writing Across the Curriculum Project, West Philadelphia, PA
1984 / 1986

lectures, papers & presentations

Invited Speaker
“Women of Industry and Reform: Shaping the History of Pennsylvania, 1865-1940.” Series on “Bringing New History to a Public Audience,” sponsored by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, The Pennsylvania Federation of Museums and Historical Organizations, The Pennsylvania Historical Association, and the Mid-Atlantic American Studies Assn. Pennsylvania State Museum
March 29, 2007
Author Talk / Book Launch
“Women of Industry and Reform: Shaping the History of Pennsylvania, 1865-1940,” Hosted by the Friends of Bryn Mawr Library, Bryn Mawr College, PA
March 21, 2007
Panel Discussion
“What Do Our Students Know about Pennsylvania History?,” Committee for Women and Minorities, Pennsylvania Historical Association Annual Meeting, Millersville University, PA
October 19, 2002
Chair
Session entitled “Mental Health Care in Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania Institutions,” Pennsylvania Historical Association Annual Meeting, Millersville University, PA
October 19, 2002
Panel Discussion
Atttitudes toward Women Faculty,” Committee for Women and Minorities, Pennsylvania Historical Association, Johnstown, PA
October 2001
Invited Speaker
“A New Zealander Abroad,” Seminar for Women’s Studies Department, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
August 2, 2001
Keynote speaker
“A New Zealander Abroad: Unexpected Journeys and Women’s History in Unexpected Places,” Eleventh Annual Elizabeth Cady Stanton Research Award Conference, Villanova University, PA
March 16, 2000
Other papers and panels
on Southern history, Pennsylvania history and labor history

professional services: american history

President
Pennsylvania Historical Association
2009 – 2011 term
Vice-President
Pennsylvania Historical Association
2007 – 2009 term
Member
Southern Association for Women Historians’ Mentoring Committee
2007
Member
Local Arrangements Committee, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Annual Meeting Supplement: Emma Lapsansky & Marion Roydhouse, “Philadelphia’s Public Spaces: Shared, Contested, Celebrated,” and Marion Roydhouse, “Meals Worth Walking For: Philadelphia Restaurants”
January 4 - 8, 2006
Member
Ad Hoc Mentoring Committee, Southern Association of Women Historians
2006
Member
Pennsylvania Historical Association Council
1998 - 2004
Member
Julia Cherry Spruill Prize Committee, Southern Association for Women Historians
Summer 2004
Chair
Committee for Women and Minorities, Pennsylvania Historical Association
2000 – 2003
Editorial Advisory Board
Greenwood Press series, "Major Issues in American History"
Fall 1998
Chair
Philip Klein Prize Committee, Pennsylvania Historical Association, Organized submissions and read some 16 books for the award for the best book on Pennsylvania history
1998 / 1999
Member
Philip Klein Prize Committee, Pennsylvania Historical Association, Prize for best article in Pennsylvania History journal
1997 / 1998
Member
Balch Institute Press, Editorial Board
1986 – 1990
Member
Academic Advisory Board, Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, (Secretary 1990-1992)
1985 - 1994

publications: american history

Women of Industry and Reform: Shaping the History of Pennsylvania, 1865- 1940. Pennsylvania History Studies Series, No.29. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania Historical Association, 2006.

Review of Alamance: The Holt Family and Industrialization in a North Carolina County, 1837-1900, by Bess Beatty. American Historical Review, February, 2002.

"Gladys Boone (1895-1982) economist and labor specialist," in Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Vol. 2. Edited by Sara B. Bears et al. Richmond, VA: Library of Virginia, 2001.

"Bridging Chasms: Community and the Southern YWCA" in Visible Women: New Essays in American Activism, edited by Nancy Hewitt and Suzanne Lebsock, dedicated to Anne Firor Scott, University of Illinois Press, 1993: 270-295.

"What is Ethnicity? A New Zealander Discovers Herself in America." Guest Editorial, Newsletter of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Fall, 1988.

"Big Enough to Tell the Weeds from the Beans: the Impact of Industrial Life on Women in the South," in The South Is Another Land, edited by Bruce Clayton and John Salmond, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1987: 85-106.

"Partners in Progress: The Affiliated Schools for Women Workers," in Sisterhood and Solidarity: Education Programs for Women Workers, edited by Joyce Kornbluh and Mary Frederickson, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1985: 187-221.

"Lorraine Hansberry," entry in The Dictionary of the Black Theater, Allen L. Woll, ed. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983: 212-4.

"Maria Martin," biographical entry in The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, published for the Center for the Study of Southern Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

"Black Slave Mammies," article in The Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery, Randall Miller and John David Smith, eds., Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1989.

Reviews of works in southern history, history of reform and women's history.