Dr. Katie Hindmarch-Watson
Curriculum Vitae
Department of History, Colorado State University
Campus Delivery 1776
Fort Collins, CO, 80524 USA
970-491-3715
EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor of History, Colorado State University.
EDUCATION
PhD, Johns Hopkins University, History: 2013
Dissertation Title: Dispatches from the Underground: Gendered Labour and Communications Technology in the remaking of the Liberal City, 1870-1916.
M.A. Johns Hopkins University, History: 2009
M.A. University of Manchester, Gender, Sexuality & Culture: 2005
B.A. Dalhousie University, English and Women’s Studies: 2001
PUBLICATIONS
Articles
“Male Prostitution and the London GPO: “Telegraph Boy ‘Immorality’ from Nationalization to the Cleveland Street Scandal” Journal of British Studies 51 (2012): 594 – 617.
“Lois Schwich, the Female Errand Boy: Narratives of Female Cross-Dressing in Late Victorian London,” GLQ: the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies 14 (2008): 69-98.
Book Reviews
A Lesbian History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Women Since 1500, by Rebecca Jennings, Women’s History Review 19 (2010): 481-482.
Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England, by Sharon Marcus, Sexualities 11 (2008): 650-651.
PRESENTATIONS (Invited Speaker)
Queer information networks and technologies of power: new directions for interrogating work, pleasure, and the state. Invited Speaker, New Directions:Gender, Sex and Sexuality in 20th Century British History Conference, University College London, April 8, 2014 (forthcoming).
Dispatches from the Underground: Gendered Labour and Communications Technology in the remaking of London, 1870-1916. Invited Speaker at the 2011 Society for the History of Technology Conference, Cleveland, November 5, 2011.
Male Prostitution and the London GPO: from Nationalization to the Cleveland Street Scandal. Invited Speaker at the Stokes Seminar, Dalhousie University, Halifax, September 16, 2011.
Lois Schwich, the Female Errand Boy. Invited speaker at the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, Tulane University, New Orleans, March 14, 2008.
PRESENTATIONS (Panel)
Queer information networks and technologies of power: possibilities and limitations. Queering the History of Technology in British Studies Roundtable, North American Conference of British Studies, Portland OR, November 9, 2013.
Male Prostitution and the London GPO: from Nationalization to the Cleveland Street Scandal. Paper presented at the North American Conference of British Studies, Baltimore MD, November 14, 2010.
Male Prostitution and the London GPO: “Immorality” among Telegraph Boys, 1875-77.” Paper presented at the British Queer History Conference, McGill University, October 16, 2010.
London’s Modern Mercuries in My Lord Gomorrah’s Den of Vice: Late Victorian Telegraph Boys and the Cleveland Street Scandal. Paper presented at the Northeast Conference of British Studies’ Annual Conference, Brown University, October 2, 2009.
Lois Schwich, the Female Errand Boy. Paper presented at Lesbian Lives XI: Historicizing the Lesbian, University College Dublin, Ireland, March 2006.
AWARDS
2011University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, School of Information History Travel Award, presented by the Special Interest Group on Computers, Information and Society at the Society for the History of Technology Annual Conference, November 4 2011.
Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality (Johns Hopkins) Teaching Fellowship Prize for “the Making and Breaking of Gay and Lesbian History” course, 2011.
Jackson-Turner Travel Fellowship (Johns Hopkins), 2009, 2010, 2011.
Doctoral Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), 2008-2010.
Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (Johns Hopkins) Summer Research Grant, 2008.
Doctoral Fellowships, Johns Hopkins University, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012
TEACHING
Courses:
“The Making and Breaking of Gay and Lesbian History: identity, self-representation, politics and contexts, 1900 to the Present,” Spring Semester 2011.
Composition:
Instructor, the Johns Hopkins Writing Center.
Teaching Assistant:
Professor Todd Shepard, The Undergraduate Seminar, September 2012-present
Professor Peter Jelavich, Occidental Civilization: Modern Europe, Spring Semester 2009.
Professor John Marshall, Occidental Civilization: Early Modern Europe, Fall Semester 2008.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Student Coordinator, The Gender History Workshop (John Hopkins), 2010-2011.
Respondent, Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality (Johns Hopkins) Workshop Series, 2009-2011.
Presenter, the Johns Hopkins Diverse Sexuality and Gender Alliance (DSAGA), 2012.
EMPLOYMENT
Archival assistant and researcher, the Adam M. Chesney Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 2008-2012.
Research Assistant for Professors Ben Vinson and Judith Walkowitz, 2010, 2011
Teaching Assistant, Johns Hopkins University, 2008-2009, 2012-2013
Teaching Assistant and Marker, Langara Community College business and creative writing program, 2006-2007.
Executive Assistant, Social Signal Networks, Vancouver, 2005-2007.
Technician, the Vancouver Film School, 2002-2004.
Program Coordinator for Adult Education Classes at the UBC Learning Exchange, Vancouver, 2003.
Mental Health Worker, the Portland Hotel Society, Vancouver, 2002-2003.
OTHER
Film: One tiny whale film collective, Made in Secret: the Story of the East Van Porn Collective, 2004.