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Curriculum Vitae: Ardis Cameron

Employment

2001- Professor, American and New England Studies
2001 Director, American and New England Studies, University of Southern Maine
1993-1997 Associate Professor, New England Studies, University of Southern Maine
1988-1993 Assistant Professor, New England Studies, University of Southern Maine
1987-1988 Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University
1986-1987 Assistant Professor, History Department, Wilson College
1985-1986 Teaching Assistant, History and Literature, Harvard University
1984-1983 Instructor, University of Massachusetts, Boston
1982-1983 Instructor, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts

Education

  • Graduate Study: Ph.D. with highest honors, Boston College, 1986. American Social and Cultural History.
  • Fields of Concentration: Immigration, Labor and Women's History.
  • M.A. with Highest Distinction, Stetson University, 1973, American Studies.
  • Undergraduate Study: B.A. Western College for Women, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1970.

Academic Grants and Honors

2001 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
2000 National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship
1998 Nominated by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences as possible Fellow at the Center, Stanford University, California
1994 Finalist, Berkshire Prize for best first book, 1994. Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
1994 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, "Creating New England," co-author
1980 Newberry Library Fellowship, Summer Institute in Quantitative Methods
1975 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for high school Teachers in American Studies, Summer Grant

Publications

Books

  • Radicals of the Worst Sort: The Laboring Women of Lawrence, 1860-1912. (University of Illinois Press, 1993).
  • Looking For America: The Visual Production of a People and a Nation. (Blackwell Publishing Inc., 2004)

Selected Articles

  • "As We Go Playing: Leisure, Pleasure and Women's Activism," Journal of Women's History (forthcoming: Spring 2006)
  • "Spaces of Encounter: The Cultural Labor of Class Difference," International Labor and Working Class History, (forthcoming Fall, 2005).
  • "Boys Do Cry: The Rhetorical Power of the 'New' Labor History," Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, (April, 2004).
  • "When Strangers Bring Cameras: The Poetics and Politics of Othered Places," American Quarterly, 2002.
  • "Women on The Move: Immigration and Migration," in Nancy Hewitt, ed. Blackwell's Companion To Women's History, (Boston: Blackwell Publishers, forthcoming).
  • "Open Secrets: Rereading Peyton Place." Introduction to Peyton Place, by Grace Metalious. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999).
  • "Comments on Gerald Sider." Radical History Review (Spring 1996): 91-97.
  • "Immigrant Women and Literature," in Cathy Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995):417-420.
  • "Landscapes of Subterfuge: Working-Class Neighborhoods and Immigrant Women," in Gender, Class, Race and Reform in the Progressive Era, Noralee Frankel and Nancy Dye (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1991): 56-72. Reprinted, 1995.
  • "Bread and Roses Revisited: Women's Culture and Worker Activism in the Lawrence Strike of 1912," in Women, Work and Protest: A Century of Women's Labor History, Ruth Milkman, ed. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985): 165-168. Reprinted, 1987, 199, 1995, 1997, 1999.
  • "In the Shadow of the 'Square Deal': Rethinking Workers, Managers and Welfare Capitalism," New York History, LXII (Oct. 1990): 451-455.

Media

  • "The Irish Empire," British Broadcasting Company. Script Writer and Historical Consultant, to be aired in Europe, spring 2000, in America fall, 2000 for Public Broadcasting Company.
  • C.D. Rom: "Labor and Reform" in U.S. History Survey, HarperCollins Publications, 1994. Writer and visual text researcher. Co-editors, James Axtell, Jack Rakove, and Clayborne Carson.
  • Video: Against the Grain: Women in Non-Traditional Occupations, Script writer, Consultant, and visual text researcher. Center for Educational Media, 1994.

Professional Activities

  • Academic Board, The SALT Institute, 1999-present.
  • Board of Directors, Center for Diversity, 1998-present.
  • Advisory Board, New England Studies Book Series, University Press of New England, 1998-
  • Reader, Journal of American History 1996-1999
  • Learner-Scott Prize Committee for best Ph.D. dissertation in Women's History, Organization of American Historians, 1996
  • Executive Committee on Secondary Education, American Studies Association, 1995-2000