POSITION
Associate Professor of History/Director of Social Studies 2017-present
Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
Assistant Professor of History/Director of Social Studies 2011-2017
Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
EDUCATION
PhD, Modern German History 2010
Dissertation: “Transnational Identities in National Politics: The SPD and the German Peace Movements, 1921-1966” (Distinguished Dissertation in Social Sciences)
Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York
M.A., Modern European History 2005
Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York
B.A., History/Secondary Education, Summa Cum Laude, Honors 2003
Massachusetts State Teaching Certification in History
Western New England University, Springfield, Massachusetts
PUBLICATIONS
Peer Reviewed Articles
“Bertha von Suttner’s Die Waffen nieder! and the Gender of German Pacifism,” In Women Writing War: From German Colonialism through World War I, edited by Katharina von Hammerstein, Julie Shoults, and Barbara Kosta. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2018.
“The Changing Landscape of Peace Research: Geographic, Archival, and Digital Spaces,” Peace & Change 42:2 (April 2017): 277-290.
“Place and Politics at the Frankfurt Paulskirche after 1945,” Journal of Urban History 42, no. 1 (January 2016): 145-161.
“The Penumbra of Weimar Political Culture: Pacifism, Feminism, and Social Democracy,” Peace & Change 36, no. 3 (July 2011): 313-343.
Invited Articles & Essays
“Women’s History and Digital Media: Uniting Scholarship and Pedagogy.” Inaugural Digital Media Review Essay, Journal of Women’s History. 30, no. 3 (Autumn 2018).
“German and American Transnational Spaces in Women’s and Gender History.” Review Essay, Journal of Women’s History 30, no. 1 (Spring 2018).
Diefendorf, Jeffry M. and Janet Ward, eds. Transnationalism and the German City. H-German, (September 2016).
“Kooperative Aktivistinnen, Gender und Frieden,” Spurensicherung: Feminismus in Aktion und Dokument (Fall 2013): 37-44.
Open Textbooks/Educational Resources
Ancient World History, co-edited with Meshack Owino and Kelly Wrenhaven, 2019-2020.
Geography for Social Studies Educators (formerly Google Earth Virtual Workbook), 2013-2020.
Modern World History, 2019-2020.
The Right to Vote: The 15th & 19th Amendments, co-edited with Stephanie Hinnershitz and Robert Shelton, 2019-2020.
Digital Humanities
Co-PI & Web Designer, Cleveland Teaching Collaborative, http://cleteaching.org/ (2020-present)
Project Director, Gender Studies Resources. http://gsrdb.org/ (2019-present)
Steering Committee, Protest Spaces Research Network. Committee members: Tamar Carroll, Martin Klimke, Tom Scheinfeldt & Graham Stinnett (2018-present)
Author, Digital Scholarship Evaluation, https://dsevaluation.com/ (2018-present). Directed by Anke Finger.
Founding Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities Network, German Studies Association. Co-coordinators: Anke Finger and Kurt Fendt. (2017-2019)
Founding Convener, DigitalCSU, Cleveland State University. (2016-2018)
Project Director, “Protest Spaces: Peace Movements in Germany and the United States, 1920-2000.” www.protestspaces.org (2014-present)
Director/Co-PI with J. Mark Souther, “Protest Voices: Using Activist Oral Histories to Teach Historical Thinking,” 2016. Recipient of 2016 CSU Office of Research 2nd Place Poster Prize
http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/crohc750/ & www.historyspeaks.clevelandhistory.org/
Director/Co-PI with J. Mark Souther, “History Speaks: Using Oral History to Teach Historical Thinking,” 2015. www.historyspeaks.clevelandhistory.org/
Director/PI, “Connecting Historical Thinking and Technology in the Classroom,” 2014. www.socialstudies.clevelandhistory.org
Google Earth Virtual Workbook, 2013-2017. https://sites.google.com/site/csugelab (Open Access)
Books (in progress)
Gender and the Politics of Peace: Cooperative Activism and Transnational Networks on the German Left, 1921-1983.
Gender in Global Contexts: Labor, Law and Human Rights. Co-editor with Jennifer V. Evans.
Book Chapters (in progress)
“Reluctant Activists: Human Rights, Cleveland’s Catholic Left, and El Salvador”
Digital Essays
“Politics of Peace and Gender + Digital Humanities,” Peace and Change Blog, July 23, 2018. URL: https://peaceandchangeblog.wordpress.com/2018/07/23/politics-of-peace-and-gender-digital-humanities/
“Where is Standing Rock?” Peace & Change Blog, November 1, 2016. URL: https://peaceandchangeblog.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/where-is-standing-rock/
“Identity in Transnational History,” in “Forum on Transnationalism” H-German, 2006.
Wegbereiterinnen Series
“Anna Julia Cooper” in Wegbereiterinnen XV, ed. Gisela Notz, Neu Ulm: AG SPAK Bücher, 2018.
“Mary Harris ‘Mother’ Jones” in Wegbereiterinnen XIV, ed. Gisela Notz, Neu Ulm: AG SPAK Bücher, 2017.
“Aida Overton Walker” in Wegbereiterinnen XIII, ed. Gisela Notz, Neu Ulm: AG SPAK Bücher, 2015.
“Mary Church Terrell” in Wegbereiterinnen XII, ed. Gisela Notz. Neu Ulm:AG SPAK Bücher, 2014.
“Contanze Hallgarten” in Wegbereiterinnen XI, ed. Gisela Notz. Neu Ulm:AG SPAK Bücher, 2013.
“Olive Schreiner” in Wegbereiterinnen X, ed. Gisela Notz. Bonn:Pellens Verlag, 2012.
“Karin Michaëlis” in Wegbereiterinnen IX, ed. Gisela Notz. Bonn:Pellens Verlag, 2011.
“Emma Goldman” in Wegbereiterinnen VIII, ed. Gisela Notz. Bonn:Pellens Verlag, 2010.
“Alma Kettig” in Wegbereiterinnen VII, ed. Gisela Notz. Bonn:Pellens Verlag, 2009.
“Anna Seghers” in Wegbereiterinnen VI, ed. Gisela Notz. Bonn:Pellens Verlag, 2008.
GRANTS
PI & Academic Director: Migration in Global Context: History, Narrative and Project-Based Learning, Ohio Humanities (State-level National Endowment for the Humanities Affiliate), 2015-2016 ($20,000) Institute URL: http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/globalmigration/
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Cleveland State University Aug 2011-present
Assistant Professor/Associate Professor
Courses:
Ancient World History
Modern World History
Introduction to Geography
Introduction to Historical Studies
Introduction to Social Studies
20th Century Europe, 1914 to present
German History: Empire to EU
Global Interconnections: Historiography of World History
Politics of Peace and Gender (Digital Humanities)
Gender in European History (graduate and undergraduate seminar)
The City in European History (graduate seminar)
Binghamton University Aug. 2010-May 2011
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Courses: Modern World History
War and Peace in Society
France and the World in the 20th Century
Broome Community College Aug. 2010-Dec. 2010
Lecturer
Courses: The West and the World to 1500
The Rise of the West (1500-present)
United States History I
State University of New York at Cortland Aug. 2009-Dec. 2009
Lecturer
Courses: The World to 1500
The World since 1500
Binghamton University Aug. 2003-Dec. 2006
Teaching Assistant Jan. 2008-May 2009
Courses: Western Civilization
Modern World History
German History 1871-Present
Human Rights since 1945
The Holocaust
The US in the ‘60s
World War II and its Aftermath in Asia
West Springfield High School, Massachusetts
Student Teaching Practicum: Social Studies Sept. 2002- Dec. 2002
Courses: World History
European History
US History
PRESENTATIONS
“Politics of Protest and Gender: Project- Based Learning and DH,” Conference Paper, German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2018.
“Preserving Activist Voices in the Twenty-First Century” Panel Organizer and Presenter. Peace History Society Conference, Kansas City, MO, October 2017.
“Peace History and the Digital Humanities,” Roundtable Participant, Peace History Society Conference, Kansas City, MO, October 2017.
“Digital Humanities: Concept, Collaboration, and Process,” Seminar Convener & Presenter, German Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, October 2017.
“The Reformation and Digital Humanities,” Roundtable Organizer and Participant, German Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, October 2017.
“Protest Spaces,” Digital Humanities Lightning Round, American Historical Association, Denver, CO, January 2017.
“The Future of Digital Humanities in German History and German Studies,” Seminar Convener, German Studies Association, San Diego, September/October 2016. www.gsadh.clevelandhistory.org
“Place Matters: Occupied Spaces in German Peace History 1921-1983,” Conference Paper, Historical Perspectives on War, Peace, and Religion, Annual Meeting of the Peace History Society, West Hartford, CT, October 2015.
“Petra Kelly as Political Kommunikatorin und Cooperative Activist,” Conference Paper and Panel Organizer, German Studies Association, Kansas City, MO, September 2014.
“Transnational Networks of War Resistance from the Great War to the Viet Nam War,” Comment and Panel Organizer, Resisting War in the Twentieth Century, Lisbon, Portugal, February 2014.
“Transnationale Netzwerke, Kooperative Aktivisten und Politische Legitimität bei der Deutschen Linken, 1974-1987,” Conference Paper, Jahrestagung des AKHF an der Forschungstelle für Zeitgeschichte, Hamburg, Germany, October 2013.
“‘Where Erich Ollenhauer Once Stood’: The Reconstruction of the Frankfurt Paulskirche as Physical and Political Space, 1948-1968,” Paper Presentation, Social Science Brown Bag Series, Cleveland State University, April 17, 2013.
“A German in 1950s Japan: Pacifist Kurt Essen and Transnational Encounters with Cooperative Activism,” Conference Paper, German Studies Association, Milwaukee, WI, October 2012.
“’A Source of Energy for New Action!’ Transnational Pacifist Networks and German Peace Movements, 1921-1963,” Conference Paper, American Historical Association, Chicago, IL, Jan. 2012.
“Where Erich Ollenhauer Once Stood” German Peace Activism and the Politicization of the Streets, 1921-1966,” Conference Paper, German Studies Association, Louisville, KY, September 2011.
“Feminist Politics on the Non-Communist German Left between 1919-1966: The Cases of Gerda Weyl and Alma Kettig,” Roundtable Paper, Berkshire Conference on Women’s History, Amherst, MA, June 2011.
“‘We Say We are Against War, But We are Still Ready to Lead the Next One:’ German Social Democrats, Pacifists, and Peace Politics, 1921-1966,” invited lecture, Binghamton University History Department Fall Colloquium Series, October 2010.
“Cooperation or Conflict? Social Democrats, Pacifists, and Cold War Peace Politics in the 1950s and 1960s,” Conference Paper, German Studies Association, Oakland, CA, October 2010.
“Pacifists, Feminists, and Social Democrats: Transnational Actors in the Weimar Republic, 1921-1933,” Conference Paper, Fourth American-Canadian Conference (ACC) in German and European History, Buffalo, NY, April 2010.
“Changing Political Space on the Left: Social Democrats and Pacifists in Weimar and Cold War Germany,” Conference Paper, “Change is the Only Constant,” University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, March 2010.
“Peace Party Politics and Pacifism: Transnational Identities in the Weimar Republic, 1921-1933,” Conference Paper and Panel Organizer, German Studies Association, Washington, D.C., October 2009.
“Transnational Dynamics of Peace in National Politics: German Social Democrats and Pacifists, 1958-1966,”Conference Paper, Summer School: “New Approaches to Political History. Writing British and German Contemporary History,” German Historical Institute London, United Kingdom, September 2009.
“Alma Kettig and the Tensions between Pacifists and Social Democrats in Postwar Germany” Conference Paper, “Social and Political Transformations in Germany and Austria, pre- and post- 1945,” Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom, July 2009.
“Transnational Identities in National Politics,” invited paper for the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies Research Colloquium, December 2007.
“Transnational Identities in National Politics: the SPD and the German Peace Movements, 1921-1966,” paper presentation for the Colloquium zur Zeitgeschichte led by Prof. Dr. Paul Nolte, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, November 2007.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Cyrus Eaton Foundation Trustee 2016-present
DIGITAL HUMANITIES SKILLS
Applications and Programs
ArcGIS
Google Suite for Education and Non-Profits
Omeka
Google Earth
WordPress
Bepress
Coding
HTML
TEI/XML
