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Jennifer Fish KashayCurriculum Vitae Continued
Jennifer Fish Kashay, Ph.D.
2336 Valley Forge Ct.Department of History, B356 Clark
Fort Collins, CO80526ColoradoStateUniversity
(970) 484-1168Fort Collins, CO80523-1776
E-mail address:(970) 491-6334
EDUCATION
University of ArizonaPh.D. 2002
Dissertation Title: “Savages, Sinners, and Saints: The Hawaiian
Kingdom and the Imperial Contest, 1778-1839”
Major Field: U.S. History
Minor Field: Latin American History
GPA: 4.0 (A)
University of California, RiversideM.A. 1993
Major Field: U.S. History
Minor Field: Program in Historic Resources Management, Museum Studies emphasis
CaliforniaStateUniversity, San BernardinoB.A. 1988
Major Field: Anthropology
Museum Studies Certificate
MUSEUM/PUBLIC HISTORY EXPERIENCE
COLORADOSTATEUNIVERSITY FORT COLLINS2005-present
Assistant/Associate Professor of History. Classes include graduate courses in museum
methods and material culture. Public history projects include a $34,000 grant to
design an exhibit for the National Park Service.
CALIFORNIASTATEUNIVERSITY SAN BERNARDINO2002-2005
Assistant Professor of History. Designed an undergraduate track in public history.
Classes included exhibit design, museum methods, and oral history. Worked with
local museums, archives, and libraries, including the MissionInnMuseum and
Foundation, the San BernardinoCountyMuseum, the Smiley Library/Lincoln Shrine,
the San BernardinoCounty Library/California Room,Kimberly Crest House and
Gardens,the California Department of FireMuseum, and the Center for Community
Actionand Environmental Justice. Work with these institution included overseeing
internships, grant consultations, oral history workshops, projects, and panels,
and exhibit projects.
KIMBERLY CREST HOUSE AND GARDENS, REDLANDS, CA1990-1995
Staff Assistant, part time. Oversee docent volunteers on a weekly basis.
Researched archival materials. Researched, designed, and implemented exhibit.
SAN BERNARDINOCOUNTYMUSEUM, REDLANDS, CA1987-1992
Museum Assistant, part time. Worked in the History Department,
accessioning and cataloging historical artifacts. Helped research,
design, and implement exhibits.
HAWAIIAN MISSION CHILDREN’S SOCIETY LIBRARY1992
Research internship culminating in 1993 Master’s thesis, "New
England Missionaries in Early Nineteenth-Century Hawaii: A
Case Study in Acculturation."
MUSEUM/PUBLIC HISTORY EXPERIENCE CONTINUED
COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG, VA1990
Course with Cary Carson, Vice President of Research at Colonial
Williamsburg. Included material culture of the colonial and early
national periods in U.S. history and museum methods
MAUI HISTORICAL SOCIETY/BAILEY HOUSE MUSEM1989
Volunteer, 200+ hours during a 6 month period. Trained staff
and volunteers to accession, catalog, and preserve collections.
Created an accessioning and cataloging system for the museum.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK, SALANGO, ECUADOR1988
Fieldwork included excavation of a Pre-Valdivia trash midden.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor of History, Colorado State University Fort Collins, 2010-present
Historical Method: Museum Studies
Early U.S. Republic
Age of Jackson
US History to 1876
Material Culture in America
Assistant Professor of History, ColoradoStateUniversity Fort Collins, 2005-2010
Historical Method: Museum Studies
Early U.S. Republic
US History to 1876
Material Culture in America
Assistant Professor, CaliforniaStateUniversity San Bernardino, 2002-2005
Museum Exhibits
Indians in US History
Women in US History, 1620-1865
Introduction to Public History
U.S. History, 1607 to 1877
Oral History of the Inland Empire
Introduction to Oral History
Instructor, University of Arizona, 1998-2002.
U.S. History, 1877 to Present
U.S. History, 1945 to Present
Vietnam and the Cold War
Indians in U.S. History
American Foreign Relations, 1914 to Present
U.S. History, 1607 to 1877
Instructor, WaylandBaptistUniversity, Aiea, HI, 1999-2000.
U.S. History, 1607 to 1865
U.S. History, 1865 to Present
Instructor, St. Gregory College Preparatory School, Tucson, AZ, 1999.
U.S. History, 1607 to Present
Teaching Assistant, 1995-2000. Courses include, U.S. History, Colonial to 1877,
U.S. History, 1877 to the Present, Indians in American History, American
Women’s History, and U.S., Vietnam and the Cold War.
PUBLICATIONS : REFEREED CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Jennifer Fish Kashay, “‘We will banish the polluted thing from our houses:’ Missionaries, Drinking,
and Temperance in the Sandwich Islands,” in Paul Burlin and Cliff Putney, eds., The Role of the American Board in the World: Bicentennial Reflections on the Organization’s Missionary Work, 1810-2010, WIPF & Stock, 2012, 287-311.
PUBLICATIONS: REFEREED ARTICLES
Article, “Missionaries, Foodways, and Imperialism in Early 19th-Century Hawaii,”Food and Foodways:
Explorations in the History and Culture of Human Nourishment, vol. 17, no.3, 2009.
Article, "Competing Imperialisms and Hawaiian Authority: The Cannoning of Lahaina in 1827,"Pacific
Historical Review, August 2008.
Article, “From Kapus to Christianity: The Disestablishment of the Hawaiian Religion and Chiefly
Appropriation of Calvinist Christianity, The Western Historical Quarterly, January, 2008.
Article, “Agents of Imperialism: Missionaries and Merchants in Early-Nineteenth-Century
Hawaii,”The New England Quarterly, June 2007.
Article, “Native, Foreigner, Missionary, Priest: Western Imperialism and Religious Conflict in Early
19th-Century Hawaii.” Cercles: Interdisciplinary Journal of Anglo-American
Literature, April 2002.
Article, “‘O That My Mouth May Be Opened’: Missionaries, Gender, and Language in Early
19th-Century Hawaii.” Hawaiian Journal of History, 2002.
Article, “Problems in Paradise: The Perils of Missionary Parenting in Early Nineteenth-
Century Hawaii.” Journal of Presbyterian History, summer 1999.
PUBLICATIONS: BOOK AND WEBSITE REVIEWS
Website Review, “Digital Archives Collection at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa Library”,
Journal of American History, vol. 99, no. 3, Dec. 2012, 1021-1022.
Book Review, My God, My Land: Interwoven Paths of Christianity and Tradition in Fiji,
Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific, by Jacqueline Ryle,
Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, vol. 81, no. 3, Sept. 2012, 728-729.
Book Review, Edward Bailey of Maui: Teacher & Naturalist, Engineer & Artist,by Linda McCullough
Decker, Hawaiian Journal of History, vol. 46, 2012, 145-146.
Book Review, Missionaries in Hawai’i: The Lives of Peter and Fanny Gulick, 1797-1883,”
by Clifford Putney, Hawaiian Journal of History,vol. 45, 2011, 182-183.
Book Review, “Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives, by Susan Sleeper-Smith, ed.,
Western Historical Quarterly, vol. XLI, no. 4, Winter 2010, 502-503.
Book Review, “Sailors and Traders: A Maritime History of the Pacific Peoples,” by Alastair Couper,
Pacific Historical Review, Feb. 2010, vol. 79, no. 1, 121-122.
Book Review, “Island World: A History of Hawaii and the United States,” The California
World History Series, by Gary Y. Okihiro, The Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 4, Winter
2009.
Book Review, “Imperial Maine and Hawaii: Interpretive Essays in the History of Nineteenth-Century
American Expansion,” by Paul T. Burlin, The Hawaiian Journal of History, vol. 42, December 2008.
Book Review, “Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America,” by Eric Jay Dolin, Pacific Historical
Review, vol. 77, No. 4, November 2008.
PUBLICATIONS: OTHER
Test Bank, The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, 7th edition, New
York: Pearson Longman, 2006.
Abstracts, America History and Life and Historical Abstracts: Modern History Abstracts.
Journals include Southwestern Historical Quarterly and Anglican and Episcopal History,
1998 to 2007.
ARTICLES AND BOOKS REFEREED
I have refereed various presses and journals, including Oxford University Press, Routledge, Editorial Directions Inc., Frontiers: A Journal of Women’sStudies, the Western Historical Quarterly, and the Pacific Historical Review.
AWARDS AND HONORS (POST-GRAUDATE)
2009, Nomination, Jensen-Miller Prize for best article in the field of women and gender
in the North American West, Western History Association, “Competing Imperialisms and
Hawaiian Authority: The Cannoning of Lahaina in 1827," Pacific Historical Review, 77,
3, 369-390.
2009, Nomination, Arrington-Prucha Prize for best essay on the religious history of the
West, WesternHistory Association, “FromKapus to Christianity: The Disestablishment
of the Hawaiian Religion and Chiefly Appropriation of Calvinist Christianity,” Western
Historical Quarterly, 39, 17-39.
2009, Nomination, Arrell Gibson Award for best essay on the history of Native
Americans, WesternHistory Association, “FromKapus to Christianity: The
Disestablishment of the Hawaiian Religion and Chiefly Appropriation of
Calvinist Christianity,” Western Historical Quarterly, 39, 17-39.
2009, Nomination, Judith Lee Ridge Prize for best article in the field of history,
Western Association of Women Historians, “FromKapus to Christianity: The
Disestablishment of the Hawaiian Religion and Chiefly Appropriation of
Calvinist Christianity,” Western Historical Quarterly, 39, 17-39.
2003, 5 Years of Service, ABC-Clio, California.
GRANTS
Professional Development Program Award, “The Temperance Movement in Hawai’i,” College of Liberal
Arts, ColoradoStateUniversity, 2009.
Geology and Paleontological Exhibits for FlorissantFossilBedsNational Monument, Rocky
MountainCESUNational Park Service Grant, 2006-2007.
Academic Enrichment Program Grant, “Savages, Sinners, and Saints: The HawaiianKingdom and the
Imperial Contest, 1778-1839,” College of Liberal Arts, Colorado State University, 2006.
Consultant, MissionInnMuseum, National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Assistance Grant,
2005. Grant awarded 2006.
Course Development Grant, Teaching Resource Center, California State University
San Bernardino, Spring 2004
Consultant, Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice, National Endowment for the
Humanities “Preserve & Create Access to Humanities Collections” Grant, 2004.
Consultant, Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice, Institute of Museum and Library
Services National Leadership Grant, 2004.
Consultant, MissionInnMuseum, National Endowment for the Humanities Stabilization Grant
resubmission, 2004.
Course Development Grant, Teaching Resource Center, California State UniversitySan Bernardino,
Summer 2003.
Consultant, MissionInnMuseum, National Endowment for the Humanities Stabilization Grant, 2003.
Consultant, MissionInnMuseum, National Endowment for the Humanities “Preserve & Create Access to
Humanities Collections” Grant, 2003.
Consultant, Mission Inn Museum, California Council for the Humanities, California Story Fund, 2003.
Grant awarded for “Mission Inn Stories,” 2004.
PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Paper, “‘No pleasing anticipation exists in their mind of a happy reunion with their departed friends’:
The Transformation of Hawaiian Burial Customs and Mourning Rituals in the Early 19th Century,”
New England Historic Association Conference, Merrimack College, Andover, MA, Oct. 2012.
Paper and Business Council representative, “Drinking and Temperance in the Hawaii, 1778-1839,” Pacific
Coast Branch of the American Historical Society, San Diego, CA, Aug. 2012.
Attendee, Interpreting Women’s Trades, workshop, Colonial Williamsburg, VA, June 2012.
Attendee, American Historical Association Conference, Chicago, IL, Jan. 2012.
Business Council Representative, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association Conference,
Seattle, WA, Aug. 2011.
Attendee, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Amherst, MA, June 2011.
Business Council Representative, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, San Jose,
CA, August, 2010.
Paper, “‘O That My Mouth May Be Opened’: Missionaries, Gender, and Language
in Early 19th-Century Hawaii,” Society of Church History Conference, Jan. 2010.
Paper, “Missionaries, Foodways, and Imperialism in 19th-Century Hawai‘i,” PacificCoast
Branch of the American Historical Association Conference, August 2009
Power Point Presentation, “New Kids on the Block- Training the Next Generation,”ColoradoWyoming
Museum Association Conference, May 2009.
Workshop Leader, “‘You want me to do what?’ Creating effective internships,” ColoradoWyomingMuseum
Association Conference, May 2009.
Paper, “Gender and the Legitimacy of Public History,” Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
June 2008.
Chair, Commenter, “Public History, Gender, and the Academy,” Berkshire Conference of Women
Historians, June 2008.
Paper, “Missionaries, Foodways, and Imperialism in 19th-Century Hawai‘i,” Pacific Worlds and the
American West Conference, February 2008.
Paper, “Sites of Desire, Sites of Contestation: Imperialism, Subjectivity, and the Production of
Meaning with Regard to the 1827 Cannonading of Lāhainā, Māui,”Organization of American
Historians Conference, April 2007.
Moderator, “Popular Culture,” The Image of Power in Media, Literature, and Society Conference,
March 2006.
Paper, “Material Culture and Power,” The Image of Power in Media, Literature, and Society Conference,
March 2006.
Paper, “Missionaries, the Ten Commandments, and Moral Law in Early 19th-Century Hawaii,”
Southwestern Social Science Association Conference, March 2005.
Paper, “The Press, the Pen, and Power: Gunboat Diplomacy in 1830s Hawaii,” PacificCoast Branch of the
American Historical Association Conference, August 2004.
Chair, “Orientalism, Potters, and Christianity,” Western Social Science Association Conference,
April 2004.
PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION CONTINUED
Paper, “Hawaiian Chiefs and the Adoption of Protestant Christianity: Political, Economic, and Social
Factors,”Western Social Science Association Conference, April 2004.
Paper, “Incorporating Artifacts, Objects & Other Media in the Classroom,” Lily Conference on College &
University Teaching-West, accepted for March 2004.
Chair, Commentator, “Oral History in an Academic Setting,” Mission Inn Museum/California Council for
the Humanities, January 2004.
Paper, “‘Wretched Pagans’ or ‘Simple Children of Nature’?: Western Discourse Concerning the
Sandwich Islands and Its Inhabitants, 1778-1830,” PacificCoast Branch of the American
Historical Association Conference, August 2003.
Chair, Commentator, “Religion, Power, and Gender in the Early Modern World,” Phi Alpha Theta Western
RegionalConference, April 2003.
Paper, “‘I know of no man on earth whom I loved more’: American Missionaries and Their Changing
Assessments of the Hawaiian People, 1820-1853,” American Historical Association
Conference, January 2003.
Paper, “Western Traders and Sailors in Hawaii: Access to Wealth, Status, and Power, 1778-1825,”
New England Historical Association Conference, October 2002.
Paper, “‘Owhyhee’s Idols are No More’: Foreign Incursion and the Overthrow of Hawaiian
Cosmology, 1778-1820,” American Society for Ethnohistory Conference, October 2001.
Paper, “Native, Foreigner, Missionary, Priest: Western Imperialism and Religious Conflict in Early
19th-Century Hawaii,” Society of Historians for American Foreign Relations Conference,
June 2001.
Paper, “Savages, Sinners, and Saints: Morality and Law in the HawaiianKingdom, 1820-1840,”
Organization of American Historians Conference, April 2001.
Paper, “‘Sowing the Weeds of Fanaticism’?: Foreign Efforts to Control Native Labor
in Early 19th-Century Hawaii,” New England Historical Association Conference, April 2001.
Paper, “‘O That My Mouth May Be Opened’: Missionaries, Gender, and Language
in Early 19th-Century Hawaii,” Southwestern Social Science Association Conference, April 1999.
Paper, "Protestant Missionaries, Children, and Hawaiians: Image and Reality on the Anglo-Hawaiian
Frontier," American Historical Association, PacificCoast Branch Conference, August 1998.
Paper, "Protestant Missionaries, Children, and Hawaiians: Image and Reality on the
Anglo-Hawaiian Frontier," Society for the Interdisciplinary Studyfor Social Imagery's Image
of the Frontier in Literature, the Media, and Society Conference, March 1997.
WORKSHOPS
ColoradoStateUniversity, 2007
“Frontiers and Borderlands: Historical and Geographic Literacy,” A
Bimson Humanities Endowment Seminar for K-16 Educators
CaliforniaStateUniversity San Bernardino, 2002-2004.
Universal Design: Ways to Benefit a Diverse Student Body
Writing and Evaluating Multiple-Choice Exams
Plagiarism: Proactive Strategies and Technology Tools
Bloom's Taxonomy
Fight Plagiarism and Win
PowerPoint
Grant Development Workshop
Barstow Unified School District, 2004.
Teaching American History Workshop
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Member, American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Hawaiian Historical
Society, Western Historical Association, Western Association of Women Historians, Phi Alpha
Theta.
National Representative, Phi Alpha Theta, for formation of Riverside chapter, May 2004.
Faculty Advisor, Alpha Delta Nu Chapter, Phi Alpha Theta, 2002-2003, 2003-2004.
President and Co-Secretary, Zeta Omega Chapter, Phi Alpha Theta, 1998-1999.
Vice-President, Zeta Omega Chapter, Phi Alpha Theta, 1997-98.