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Caroline Waldron Merithew
Curriculum Vitae
Work:
History Department
University of Dayton
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Dayton, OH 45469
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Education:
Ph.D., U.S. History with secondary fields in Comparative Working Class, Immigration, and African History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dissertation: “‘The Great Spirit of Solidarity’: The Illinois Valley Mining Communities and the Formation of Interethnic Consciousness, 1889-1917,” 2000.
M.A., U.S. History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1994.
B.A., History; minor, Spanish Language and Literature, University of Missouri, Columbia, 1991.
Academic Fellowships, Honors, and Awards:
Newberry Library, Short Term Fellowship, Summer 2007
The Anita S. Goodstein Junior Scholar Prize for the best article published in the field of
American Women’s History, University of the South, 2006
Fund for Vocational Exploration Grant, UD, 2005-2006.
Faculty Seminar in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Grant, UD, 2005.
Summer Research Grant for Pre-Tenure Women Faculty, Women’s Center, University of Dayton,
2004-2006.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 2003.
Albert J. Beveridge Grant, American Historical Association, 2003.
Research Council Seed Grant, University of Dayton, Summers 2003-2005.
Fund for Educational Development Grant, University of Dayton, Winter 2003.
Utica College Womyn’s Resource Center Recognition Award, Spring 2001.
Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Seminar Travel Grant, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota, September 2000.
Feminist Scholarship Award, Women’s Studies Department, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, 1999.
Excellent Teachers List, University of Illinois, ranked by students and compared to professors (rather than to graduate assistants), 1999.
George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award, Immigration History Society, honorable mention, 1997.
Albert J. Beveridge Grant for research in the history of the western hemisphere, American Historical Association, 1997.
Alice E. Smith Fellowship for women in history, Wisconsin State Historical Society, 1996.
King V. Hostick Fellowship, Illinois State Historical Society, 1996.
University of Illinois, Graduate College, On-campus Dissertation Research Grant, 1996.
American-Italian Historical Association Award, 1995.
Outstanding Staff Award for Teaching given by the University of Illinois Panhellenic Council, 1995.
Humanities Council Research Grant, University of Illinois, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 1995.
Quadrangle Scholarship, University of Missouri, 1988.
Publications:
“‘We Were Not Ladies’: Gender, Class, and a Women’s Auxiliary’s Battle for Mining
Unionism,” Journal of Women’s History 18 (June 2006): 63-94.
“Making the Italian Other,” in Are Italians White? How Race is Made in America, Jennifer Guglielmo and Salvatore Salerno, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2003).
“Anarchist Motherhood: Toward the Making of a Revolutionary Proletariat in Illinois’ Coal Towns,” in Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World, Donna Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta, ed. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002).
(with James R. Barrett) “‘We are All Brothers in the Face of Starvation’: Forging an Interethnic Working Class Consciousness in the 1894 Bituminous Coal Strike,” Mid-America, 83 (Summer 2001): 121-154.
“‘Lynch Law Must Go!’: Race, Citizenship, and the Other in an American Coal Mining Town,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 20 (Fall 2000): 50-77.
“Domesticating the Diaspora: Remembering the Life of Katie DeRorre,” in Intimate Lives,
National Identities, Donna Gabaccia and Loretta Baldassar, ed., forthcoming.
“Working Class Italians in Labor and Immigration History,” in Teaching Italian American
Literature, Film, and Popular Culture (MLA in press).
Review of Laurie Mercier and Jaclyn Gier, ed., Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry 1670-2005, International Review of Social History, 53 (August 2008).
Review of Najia Aarim-Heriot, Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in
the United States, 1848-1882, Left History, 12 (Fall/Winter 2007).
Review of Diane Vecchio, Merchants, Midwives and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in
Urban America, Journal of American History, 93 (December 2006).
Review of Christopher Sterba, Good Americans: Italian and Jewish Immigrants During the First
World War, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 37 (Fall 2006).
Review of Brian Kelly, Race, Class and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-1921,
Labour/LeTravail 57 (Spring 2006).
Review of Thomas Guglielmo, White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color and Power in Chicago,
1890-1945, Labor: Working Class History of the America, 2 (Spring 2005).
Review of Thomas Bender, ed., Rethinking American History in a Global Age, in
Amerikastudien/American Studies, 48 (2003).
Review of Donna Gabaccia and Fraser Ottanelli, Italian Workers of the World: Labor Migration
and the Formation of Multiethnic States, Labor History, 43 (August 2002).
Review of Stefano Luconi, From Paesani to White Ethnics: The Italian Experience in
Philadelphia, Journal of Social History, 36 (Fall 2002).
Review of Elliott Gorn, Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America, International Labor and Working Class History, 62(Spring 2002).
Review of Karen A. Shapiro, The New South Rebellion: The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896, Labour/Le Travail, 43 (Spring 1999): 266-268.
Entries on “Birds of Passage,” “Lynching,” “United Mine Workers of America,” and, “Mining Communities,” Dictionary of American History, 3rd ed., Stanley Kutler and others, eds. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003).
Commentary on Behind the Scenes in a Restaurant. Reproduced in History Resource Center (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group), http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HistRC/.
Commentary on A Comparative Study of the Mental Capacity of Children of Foreign Parentage. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group), http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HistRC/
“Incorporating Gender and Ethnicity: A Critical Review of the Historiography of Coal Mining and Miners,” Thematica 2 (1995): 77-88.
“Queen Sings,” (Interview with Koko Taylor), The Maneater, 9 September 1986, p.5.
Research in Progress
“A World to Gain”: Immigrants, Migrants, and Assimilation in Coal Mining Illinois, 1880-1936
(book mss).
Conferences and Talks:
“Perplexities Enough”: The Bodies and Minds of Working Class Women,
Newberry Library, Seminar in Labor History, May 8, 2009.
Roundtable Discussant, Radical Unionism in the Midwest by Rosemary Feurer, Social Science
History Association Annual Meeting, Miami, October 23-26, 2008.
Roundtable Discussant, “The Education of Labor Intellectuals,” Social Science History
Association Conference, Chicago, November 15-18, 2007.
“‘You Showed Me First and Told Me Later’: The Making and Forgetting of a Working Class
Radical,” Working Class Activism in the South and the Nation, Terry Sanford Institute
for Public Policy, Duke University, May 17-19, 2007.
The Anita S. Goodstein Junior Scholar Talk, the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee,
March 5, 2007.
“‘She Sure Looks Fine’: Memory and the Construction of a Working Class Feminist,” The
Women’s History Workshop, Ohio State University, April 27, 2007.
“‘This Little Italian Rock of Gibraltar’: An Exploration of How the Personal Becomes Political,
Western Association of Women Historians Conference, May 5-7, 2006, Asilomar Conference Center.
“‘We Were Not Ladies’: Gender, Class, and a Women’s Auxiliary’s Battle for Mining
Unionism,” Modern U.S Seminar, the Ohio State University, April 28, 2006.
“‘She Sure Looks Fine’: Writing the Social History of an Italian Immigrant Activist, Katie
DeRorre,” Social Science History Annual Meeting, November 3-6, 2005, Portland, Oregon.
“‘Love and Solidarity’: Generation and Women’s Radicalism,” Labouring Feminism and
Feminist Working Class History in North America and Beyond, September 29-October 2 2005, University of Toronto.
“‘For Bread and Freedom’: Gender, Class, and the Battle for Mining Unionism in the Women’s
Auxiliary,” The Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Scripps College, Claremont, California, June 2-5, 2005.
Panel Chair, “The Personal, the Political, and the Religious: Labor and Catholic Historians Talk
About What We Hold in Common,” American Catholic Historical Association, Spring
Meeting, April 23, 2005.
Invited Presenter, “‘Giving All, Asking Nothing’: Katie DeRorre and the Drowning of the
Personal with the Political,” Love of Country Symposium, University of Pittsburgh, April 8-9, 2005.
Panel Chair, Telling the Stories of Rural Immigrant Labor in the Midwest and Northeast,
Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, San Jose, California, April 1, 2005.
“‘We Were Not Ladies’: Gendering Coal Women, Miners, and the Union Movement in Illinois,”
Pacific Coast Branch American Historical Association, San Jose, California, August 6, 2004.
Roundtable Discussant, “Methods and Meaning of Social History: ‘Work, Culture, and Society’ at Thirty, Organization of American Historians, Boston, Massachusetts, March 27, 2004.
“`Laughing Last’: The Making of Working Class Internationalists,” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, November 14. 2003.
Roundtable Discussant, Constant Turmoil by Mary Blewett, Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, November 14, 2003.
Invited Panelist, “Italian Women Fight Back: Gender and Transnational Labor Radicalism in the US,” Symposium on Italian Labor-American Unions: From Conflict to Reconciliation to Leadership, SUNY-Stonybrook, October 31-November 2, 2003.
Invited Talk, “`L’Odio di Razza’: The 1895 Spring Valley Race Riot and Identifications of the Other,” presented at the Newberry Library Labor History Seminar, sponsored by the Scholl Center for Family and Community History, Chicago, Illinois, November 15, 2002.
Panel Chair and Commentator, “Employment and Earnings in the Twentieth Century,” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, 2002 Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, October 24-27, 2002.
Participant, “New Directions in Comparative and Transnational History,” Bissell-Heyd Associates Chair and the Center for the Study of the United States, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, May 21, 2002.
“‘Unfaithful to the Memory’: Immigrant Widows and the Transnational Policing of Sexuality,”
Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Connecticut at Storrs, June 6-9, 2002.
Invited Talk, “Rebel Widows and Anarchist Mothers: Immigrant Activism in the Illinois Valley Coalfields,” presented at Cornell University’s Kheel Center for Labor Management Documentation, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Ithaca, New York, April 18, 2002.
“Anarchist Motherhood: Female Immigrant Anarchists' Activism in Illinois’ Coal Mining Communities,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 8-11, 2001.
Panel Commentator, “New Approaches to Chicago Immigrant History,” Social Science History Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, November 15-18, 2001.
“Thinking and Acting Globally: Immigrant Diasporas and Working Class Internationalism, 1890-1917,” North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, Michigan, October 18-20, 2001.
Panel Chair, “De-Centering U.S. Paradigms: Towards Transnational Approaches in Feminist Labor History – The Case of Italian Women Workers, Militants and Exiles, North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, Michigan, October 18-20, 2001.
“‘The Maternal Mission’: The Construct of Motherhood in Immigrant Women’s Activism,” Women’s History Month Seminar Series, SUNY-Cortland, March 2001.
“‘Lynch-law Must Go!’: Race, Citizenship and the Other in an American Coal Mining Town," Race, Ethnicity, and Migration: The United States in a Global Context, University of Minnesota, November 16-18, 2000.
“‘Not Excluding Women and Invalids’: The Construction of Whiteness in Illinois’ Coal Communities,” Symposium, University of Toronto, October 13-15, 2000.
“‘A Common Bereavement Has Made Them Sisters’: Immigrant Widows and the Cherry Mine Disaster, 1909-1910,” American Historical Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, January 6-9, 2000.
“‘The Supreme Aim’: Leisure in the Multiethnic Upper Illinois Valley, 1890s-1920s,” Social Science History Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, November 19-21, 1998.
“Anarchist Motherhood: Toward the Making of a Revolutionary Proletariat in Illinois’ Coal Towns,” North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, Michigan, October 15-17, 1998.
“Using the Environment: Coal Capitalization and Identity Formation,” Midwest Labor History Conference, Iowa City, Iowa, March 6-8, 1998.
“‘Luisa Michel’: French and Italian Immigrant Women’s Activism, 1890-1920,” Feminist Scholarship Series, University of Illinois, March 5, 1998.
“Labor in Illinois History: Political Activism, Legislative Reform and Union Organizing in Illinois’ Coal Communities,” Illinois Labor Teach-in: Mining the Past to Meet the Future, April 26, 1997.
“Immigrant Crowd Actions in the Illinois River Valley: The Case of the Bituminous Coal Strike of 1894,” Illinois History Symposium, Springfield, Illinois, December 6-8, 1996.
“Inclusion/Exclusion: Cross-ethnic and Cross-gendered Spheres of Political Action in the Illinois River Valley, 1894-1902,” American-Italian Historical Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 14-16, 1996.
“Jane Addams and the Production of Culture: Twenty Years at Hull House as Ethnographic Text,” Illinois History Symposium, Springfield, Illinois, December 2-3, 1994.
Teaching Experience
Assistant Professor of History, University of Dayton, Start Date, Fall 2002.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Academic Year, 2001-2002
Assistant Professor of U.S. History, Utica College of Syracuse University, Academic Year 2000-2001.
Teaching Fellow, Unit-1 Living and Learning Community, The United States in the Twentieth Century, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Spring Semesters 1996-2000.
Lecturer, Chicago, the City; Illinois, the State, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Fall
1999.
Writing Consultant, Writers’ Workshop, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Fall 1998.
William Widenor Teaching-Fellowship, alternate, History in Black and White: Race Consciousness and Racism in Industrial America, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Teaching Assistant, Writing Intensive Sections, United States History, Colonial-1877, Fall 1994 and Summer 1995.
Teaching Assistant, Writing Intensive Sections, United States History, 1877-Present, Academic Year 1993-1994 and Spring 1995.
Teaching Assistant, African History, Spring 1993.
Professional Service:
Interviewed for the documentary, “Remember Virden,” July 2006.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Referee, 2006.
Social Science History Association, Executive Board Member, 2006-2008.
Humanities Base Committee, AY2006-2007.
History Department Colloquium Committee, AY 2006-2007.
Executive Committee, History Department, AY2005-2007.
Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women’s Studies, Judge, AY 2005-2006.
Women’s Studies Committee, University of Dayton, Spring 2003-present.
American Religion Search Committee, AY 2005-2006.
"Funding Support to Help Faculty and Students Explore Vocation," Faculty Exchange Series, February 17, 2006.
"Making Research Personal: Using Genealogy Tools In and Out of the Classroom," Faculty Exchange Series, January 26, 2006
“Maternity and the Family Leave Policy at the University of Dayton,” Faculty Exchange Series Presenter (with Ellen Fleischmann and Clare Talwalker), February 17, 2005.
“Gender and the Politics of Work,” Guest Lecture, Women’s Studies 150, March 7, 2005.
“The Crisis of Capitalism,” Honors Cohort Lecture, October 26, 2005.
Women’s Studies 150 Course Development Committee, Fall 2004
Curriculum Committee, University of Dayton, AY 2004-present.
AFW, Co-coordinator, Critical Race and Feminist Theory Reading Group, Fall 2003- present.