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Catherine J. Lavender <lavender@mail.csi.cuny.edu> The College of Staten Island/CUNY |
| Address: | Department of History, 2N 215 2800 Victory Boulevard Staten Island, New York 10314 United States |
| Web Page: | http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/ |
| List Affiliations: | Former List Editor for H-West |
| Interests: | American History / Studies Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
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Bio: Catherine J. Lavender, Ph.D. Department of History The College of Staten Island The City University of New York 2800 Victory Boulevard, 2N 215 Staten Island, NY 10314 Phone: 718-982-2870 EDUCATION Ph.D., History, 1997, University of Colorado-Boulder Dissertation: Storytellers: Feminist Ethnography and the American Southwest, 1900-1940 Dissertation Advisors: Lee Chambers and Patricia Nelson Limerick M.A., History, 1991, University of Colorado-Boulder Thesis: Bringing Down the Clouds: Maria Chona, Ruth Underhill, and Papago Woman B.A., History, 1985, University of Colorado-Boulder TEACHING AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Director, American Studies Program, The College of Staten Island/CUNY, January 1999 to present. Director, M.A. Program in History, Department of History, The College of Staten Island/CUNY, January 2006 to present. Associate Professor, Department of History, The City University of New York, The College of Staten Island/CUNY, 2003 to present. Assistant Professor, Department of History, The City University of New York, The College of Staten Island/CUNY, 1996 to 2003. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: Catherine Lavender, Scientists and Storytellers: Feminist Ethnographers and the Construction of the American Southwest (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006). (www.unmpress.com/Book.php?id=10923293962984) Catherine Lavender and Lillian Schlissel, eds., The Western Women's Reader (New York: HarperCollins, 2000). Catherine Lavender, "Ruth Murray Underhill and the People of the Crimson Evening," in Shirley Leckie and Nancy Parezo, eds., Out on Their Own Frontier: Women Intellectuals and the Re-Visioning of the West, 1900-1960 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming). C. Lavender, "Not-So-Plain Anne Ellis," critical introduction to Plain Anne Ellis (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997). C. Lavender, WestWeb (www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/). COURSES TAUGHT: (For a complete listing and syllabi, see: www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/mainprevious.html) Women's History Courses: Introduction to Women's History American Women's History Western American Women Women in New York City, 1890-1940 Gender and Sexuality in American Women's History Multicultural and Transnational Feminisms (CUNY Graduate Center) Proseminar, Contemporary Feminist Thought (CUNY Graduate Center) U.S. History/American Studies Courses: American Issues, Ideas, and Institutions American Society American Popular Culture American Republic, 1788-1850 Race and Class in American History, 1877-1914 American Modernism, 1914-1945 Environmental History Locality and Historical Memory Cold War America (Graduate Seminar) U.S. History, 1900-1940 (Graduate Seminar) Twentieth-Century U.S. Cultural History (CSI/CUNY M.A. Program in History) American Studies Histories and Methods (American Studies Program, CUNY Graduate Center) Historical Method Courses: Introduction to Historical Method Historiography Advanced Historical Research Seminar Historical Method and Historiography (CSI/CUNY, M.A. Program in History) Thesis Seminar (CSI/CUNY M.A. Program in History) Honors College Seminars: Cultural Exchange and Globalization American Frontiers & Borderlands Western Utopias & Dystopias |
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