Fields of Expertise
women's history; public history; transnational history
Current Research
El Terrible: Life and Labor in Pueblonuevo, 1887-1939 (new book)
Digital and Public History Projects
Get it on Paper: 20 Years of Street Roots, exhibit 2019
Lyric Truth: Paintings, Drawings and Embroideries by Rosemarie Beck 2015
Say We Are Here: Culture, Community & Activism Across Four Generations of Black Oregonians 2012
Healing from Cambodian Genocide: The CACO Oral History Project 2009
Publications
"Madre y Matríz: The Politics of Town-Making in Cordoba, 1887-1905," Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies vol. 44, issue 1 (2019): Iberia in Entangled and Transnational Contexts, article 6.
"A History of Colonial Inscription: 'The Wedding' and 'The Buddy Story' in Oklahoma Statehood Commemorations," Postcolonial Studies vol. 21, no. 1 (March 2018): 1-21.
“A Seriously Playful Pedagogy for Gertrude Stein’s Late, Great Opera, 'The Mother of Us All.'” Teaching Gertrude Stein, eds. Logan Esdale and Deborah M. Mix. Modern Language Association, 2018.
"A Feminist Case for the Decolonial," Special Issue of Feminist Studies on decolonial and postcolonial approaches, vol. 43, no. 3 (2017): 646-655.
“Feminist Historiography, Anti-Imperialism, and the Decolonial.” Empire's Twin: Anti-Imperialism from the Founding Era to the Age of Terrorism, eds. Jay Sexton and Ian Tyrrell. Cornell University Press, 2015.
Exploring the Decolonial Imaginary: Four Transnational Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Remembering the Power of Words: The Life of an Oregon Activist, Legislator, and Community Leader. An oral memoir of Avel Louise Gordly. Oregon State University Press, 2011.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930. University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Courses
- HST 340 Women and Gender in America to 1848
- HST 341 Women and Gender in the United States, 1848-1920
- HST 342 Women and Gender in the United States, 1920 to present
- HST 343 American Family History
- HST 369 Women in World History - The Iberian Atlantic
- HST 413/513 Topics in Transnationalism
- HST 491-2/591-2 Readings and Research in Women's History
- HST 495/595 Public History Lab