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Jennifer J Purcell
Department of History
Saint Michael’s College
802.654.2731
EDUCATION
2008University of SussexFalmer, UK
D.Phil., History
Dissertation: “Beyond Home: Housewives and the Nation, Private and Public Identities, 1939-1949”
2004University of ColoradoDenver, CO
M.A., History
Thesis: “The Domestic Soldier: Domesticity, Identity, and Change in Second World War and Postwar Britain, A Case Study of Nella Last”
1994University of ColoradoBoulder, CO
B.A., Psychology
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2015-PresentSaint Michael's College
Associate Professor of History
2009-2015Saint Michael's CollegeColchester, VT
Assistant Professor of History
2008-2009Saint Michael’s CollegeColchester, VT
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
2006-2008Saint Michael’s CollegeColchester, VT
Instructor
2006-2008University of VermontBurlington, VT
Instructor
2005University of SussexFalmer, UK
Undergraduate History Mentor
2004University of ColoradoDenver, CO
Instructor
Teaching Assistant
2003 – 2004University of ColoradoDenver, CO
Research Assistant
COURSES DEVELOPED and TAUGHT
Modern European History Survey
London Life and History Seminar
Empires: 1492-Present Seminar
19th Century Britain Seminar
The Great War and Masculinity Seminar
Europe in World War II Seminar
Orwell in the 1930s
Women, War, and Society Seminar
War and Gender in Britain, 1914-1945 Seminar
First Year Seminar: The Examined Life
First Year Seminar: On Memory
Honors Colloquium
Domestic Soldiers: Home Front Britain in World War Two (5 week study abroad course for American Studies in England, Bath, UK. Summer, 2015)
PUBLICATIONS
2014“‘Behind the blessed shelter of the microphone’: Managing celebrity and career on the early BBC – Mabel Constanduros, 1925-1957.” Women’s History Review. Published online, November 2014; print, volume 24, no. 3 June 2015. DOI:10.1080/09612025.2014.964068.
2013“Stories of War: The student discovery of Edmundite records from World War II England and France illuminate a history of endurance and faith,” Saint Michael’s Magazine (Summer/Fall 2013).
2010Domestic Soldiers: Six Women’s Lives in the Second World War. London: Constable and Robinson.
2009“‘Why Must We So Frequently Save the King?’: British Housewives and National Identity during the Second World War,” in Sex and Sexuality in a Feminist World, eds. Karen Ritzenkoff and Katherine Hermes. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.
2007“British National Identity and the People: Women’s Ideas of the Nation during the Second World War.” University of Sussex Journal of Contemporary History 11 (2007) online.
2005“The Domestic Soldier: British Housewives and the Nation in the Second World War.” History Compass 4, no. 1 (2006): 153-160.
REVIEWS______
2016“Review of Katherine Byrne, Edwardians on screen: from Downton Abbeyto Parade's End,” CHOICE (July 2016).
2014“Review of Julie V. Gottlieb and Richard Toye, eds. The Aftermath of suffrage: women, gender, and politics in Britain, 1918-1945,” CHOICE (April 2014).
2013“Review of Simon JPotter, Broadcasting empire: the BBC and the British world, 1922-1970,” CHOICE (Oct. 2013).
2012“Review of Christina Baade, Victory through Harmony: The BBC and Music in World War Two,” CHOICE (June, 2012).
2011“Review of Garry Campion, The Good Fight: Battle of Britain Propaganda and The Few,” Journal of British Studies.Vol. 50, no. 4 (Oct. 2011), 1006-1008.
SERVICE
Saint Michael’s College
2015-2016Chair, Faculty Welfare Committee
2015-2016Faculty Executive Committee
2013-2016Faculty Welfare Committee
August 2016SMC Connects Facilitator
July 2016Summer Advising
April 2016Presenter to accepted students’ parents, “Taste of the Liberal Arts” program
Mar 2016Organized Kuntz Lecture, “Vera Lynn Sings: Domesticity, Glamour, and National Belonging on 1950s British Television,” with Christina Baade
2013-2015Retirement Planning Committee
2014-2015Strategic Planning Initiative Faculty Development Committee
2014-2015Historical LSC Assessment Committee
2014-2015East Asian History Search Committee
April 2015Presenter to accepted students’ parents, “Taste of the Liberal Arts” program
Jan 2015Invited Lecture, Air Force Association, “Domestic Soldiers”
Dec 2014Panelist, Humanities Center World War I Centenary Panel, on-campus discussion
August 2014Faculty mentor, Canvas Boot Camp
July-Aug 2014Faculty mentor, Canvas Café
July 2014Summer Advising
May 1, 2014“Vermont Edition” panelist, radio program on Grading (VPR)
April 2014Presenter to accepted students’ parents, “Taste of the Liberal Arts” program
April 2014Panelist, “What is Feminism?” on-campus discussion
Mar 2014Assisted the URC’s evaluation of VPAA summer grants
Feb 2014Humanities Colloquium presentation, “Middle-Class adventures ‘Down Mangel St.’ and ‘Halcyon Row’: Interpreting the working-classes on the BBC, 1925-1957”
August 2013Panel presenter, “Three Models for Successful Advising”
July 2013Summer advising
2012-2013Undergraduate Research Committee
Oct 2011Motivating Engagement and Good Writing on-campus presentation
2011-2013Gender Studies Advisory Committee
2010-2013Faculty advisor of Phi Alpha Theta, history honors society
2010-2012Honors Committee
2009-2011History Department Meeting Secretary
2008-2010Residence Hall Floor Visitor Dialogue Program Faculty Participant
Nov 2010Organized on-campus Norbert A. Kuntz lecture, “Murder in the Metro,” with Gayle Brunelle and Anne Croswhite-Finley
Nov 2009Organized on-campus lecture, “The Tour Buses Don’t Stop Here: Voices from Small TownVermont,” with Vermont History Magazine journalists Karl Decker and Nancy Levine.
April 2009Invited lecture, ‘The Women’s Rebellion’ for Elder Education, South Burlington
2007-2009Founder and faculty advisor of SMCVoice, student-led club dedicated to researching and documenting campus life and opinion
Fall 2007History Department Meeting Secretary
Service to the Profession
Northeast Conference on British Studies
2014-PresentTreasurer
2014-Present2016 conference meeting local arrangements organizer at Saint Michael's College
National History Day
Feb 2016Organizer of research workshop for Vermont History Day participants at Saint Michael's College
April 2016Judge for 2015-6 Vermont statewide competition
2003-2004Colorado History Day Mentor and Judge
Manuscript Reviews
Mar 2016Bloomsbury Press (UK) review
Aug 2016Journal of Women’s History article review
Bloomsbury Press (UK) review
Sept 2016Bloomsbury Press (UK) review
New England Historical Association
2011-2013NEHA Jim Hanlan Book Prize Committee Member
2010NEHA Graduate Prize Committee Member
University of Sussex
2005Editorial Board, University of Sussex Journal of Contemporary History
Co-organizer, 2005 Humanities Postgraduate Conference
AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS
2016Richmond University Centre for Visual Arts and Cultures Summer Research Fellow, London
2016Faculty Development Grant, Saint Michael’s College
2015Advanced Studies in England (ASE) Visiting Summer Faculty
2015Faculty Development Grant, Saint Michael's College
2011Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant, Saint Michael's College
2004 Outstanding Graduate Award, University of Colorado at Denver
Graduate Tuition Award, History Dept., University of Colorado at Denver
PRESENTATIONS at MEETINGS
2016“Finding talent: The impact of amateur performers on the development of comedy on the fledgling BBC, 1922-1939,” Northeast Conference on British Studies, October, Colchester, VT.
2016“Grandma’s lost her teeth!”: Tracing the origins of domestic sit-com in Britain, 1923-1958,” invited extended lecture of 2015 NECBS paper, Montreal British History Seminar, Montreal, QC.
2015“Grandma’s lost her teeth!”: Tracing the origins of domestic sit-com in Britain, 1923-1958,” Northeast Conference on British Studies, October, Ottawa, ON.
2014“‘Like Everyone Else, I was born..at an extremely tender age...(for the usual reasons)’: Early BBC Comediennes’ Autobiographies, 1945-1976,” Northeast Conference on British Studies, October, Lewiston, ME.
2014Comment, "Female Agency and Representations of Femininity in Early Modern and Modern Britain and the Empire," Northeast Conference on British Studies, October, Lewiston, ME.
2013“Middle-class adventures ‘Down Mangel Street’ and Halcyon Row”: Classed comedy on the BBC, 1925-1939,” Northeast Conference for British Studies, October, Storrs, CT.
2011“The Comedy of Mabel Constanduros: Celebrity, Gender, and the BBC,” Northeast Conference on British Studies, October, Worcester, MA.
2011“The Power of Mass-Observation,” invited paper. The Second World War: Popular Culture and Cultural Memory, July, Brighton, UK.
2011“Women’s Use of Humour: The Comedy of Mabel Constanduros,” Social History Conference, April, Manchester, UK.
2010“Heroism or ‘Purgatory’? Negotiating the Propaganda of the ‘People’s War’,” North American Conference on British Studies, November, Baltimore, MD.
2010Comment, “Citizenship, Identity and the Self in Britain, 1880s-1940s,” Northeast Conference on British Studies, September, Burlington, VT.
2009Comment, “British Imperialism in China and India,” New England Historical Association Conference, April, Portland, ME.
2008“‘Damn All Foreigners!’: Personal Narratives and British National Identity in the Second World War,” Western Conference on British Studies, September, San Antonio, TX.
2008Chair, “Nationalism and Identity in Modern Britain and Ireland,” Western Conference on British Studies, September, San Antonio, TX.
2008“British National Identity and Women’s Ideas of the Nation during the Second World War,” New England Historical Association Conference, April, Boston, MA.
2007“‘Why Must We So Frequently Save the King?’: British Housewives and National Identity during the Second World War,” War and Gender Conference, April, Central Connecticut State University, CT.
2006“‘Housewife’ or ‘Domestic Servant in Husband’s Home’? The Domestic Identities of Women in the 1940s and 1950s,” Tenth Annual Women’s Studies Conference, April, Castleton State College, Castleton, VT.
2005“‘Wish Stalin could be our P.M. a while’: Housewives, Politics and National Identity in the Second World War,” North American Conference on British Studies, October, Denver, CO.
2005“‘Housewife’ or ‘Domestic Servant in Husband’s Home’? The Domestic Identities of Women in the 1940s and 1950s,” Fresh Perspectives Postgraduate Conference, March, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK.
2005Chair, “Appropriating Landscapes,” Fresh Perspectives Postgraduate Conference, March, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK.
2005Chair, “Scientific Environments,” Fresh Perspectives Postgraduate Conference, March, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK.
2003“The Domestic Soldier: Domesticity and National Identity in World War II Britain,” Western Conference on British Studies, November, Tucson, AZ.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
North American Conference on British Studies
Northeastern Conference on British Studies
New England Historical Association