Eileen M. Eagan, Ph.D.

Education

Temple University, Ph. D. (1979)
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, M.A. (1970)
D'Youville College, Buffalo, New York, B.A (1968)

Courses Taught

Women, Work and Resistance in Film
Labor History through Film
The 1930s: Class, Culture and the New Deal
Immigration in U.S. History
Introduction to Women's Studies: Culture and Community in the U.S. (A team taught COR course)
Crossing Borders: Irish Women's Migration to America
History of Women in the U.S.
History of Women in the Twentieth Century U.S.
Senior Seminar: Whose Monuments? Whose History?

Women's Studies Activities

Research presentation, women and monuments, Women Studies research retreat, May 2007.

Planning Committee for Maine Women Studies Consortium Conference, held at USM October 2002

Women's Studies Council; Program Committee Chair 1996-97, 1989-1990, 1990-1991, 1994-95; Programming committee member 1997- 2004, 2007-present

Coordinator, Maine Women's Studies Consortium Retreat, Spring 2001 - Spring 2007

Planning committee, Women Film Makers Forum, Maine Jewish Film festival, 2000-2001, 2001-2002

Women's Studies Organizing Committee for Maine Women's Studies Conference, USM, March 18, 1995

Women's Studies Council Member, 1987-92, 1994-present

Facilitator, panel on "Women in Non-Traditional Roles and Disciplines," Women's Studies Retreat, University of New Brunswick - University of Maine, St. Andrew's by the Sea, New Brunswick (October 26, 1990)

Workshop leader, "The Climate for Women in the University of Maine System" - Consortium Program University of Maine, Augusta (March 30, 1990)

Speaker, Teach-in on War in Yugoslavia, April 1999

Co-leader, Portland Women's History Trail walk, Take Your Daughters to Work Day, April 1996, April 1998

Panelist:"Race Relations in the United States," USM, January 16, 1996

Speaker, "Student Radicalism," Fourth Annual Student Leadership Conference, USM, March 18, 1995

Speaker,"Students in the Streets--1968 in Mexico and the United States," USM, November 29, 1994

Panelist: "History Standards?" Fall 1994

Panelist and Judge for Honors Program, December 1988, January 1990

Select Publications

Books

Class, Culture and the Classroom: The Student Peace Movement of the 1930s, Temple University Press, 1982.

Articles

"Working Portland: Women, Class, and Ethnicity in the Nineteenth Century" in Joseph Conforti, ed., Creating Portland: History and Place in Nothern New England (Durham, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2005).

"From Galway to Gorham's Corner: Irish Women in Portland, Maine," in Marli Weiner, ed., Of Gender and Place: Women in the History of Maine (Orono: University of Maine Press, 2005)

"Mutually Single: Irish Women in Portland, Maine," coauthored with Patricia Finn, in Michael Connolly, ed., They Change Their Sky: The Irish in Maine (Orono: University of Maine Press: 2004)

"Immortalizing Women: Finding Meaning in Public Sculpture" in Polly Kaufman and Katharine Corbett, ed. Her Past Around Us: Interpreting Sites for Women's History (Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company, 2003)

"Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Youth Congress" in Maurine Beasley, ed. The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia (West Port, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000)

"The Irish in Maine" in Michael Glazier, ed. The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America (South Bend, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999): 101-106

"Whose History Is This Anyway? Bringing Irish Women Into the History of Maine", Lewiston Sun Journal, Nov. 28, 1999

"Our Town in Cold War America: The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show," Film and History 26:1-4 (1996)

Co-author, "Work and Workers in an Industrial Age" in Judd, Churchill, and Eastman, ed. Maine: The Pine Tree State from Pre-history to the Present (University of Maine Press, 1995)

"Kent State Deaths Remain Meaningful", Lewiston Sunday, May 6, 1990

"Female Students and the Campus Peace Movement of the 1930's," in Celebrate Women -- Volunteer Service in Pennsylvania: 1870-1986, edited by Patricia O'Donnell, Pennsylvania Federation of Women's Clubs (1986)

"History and the Secondary Schools Curriculum," Network News Exchange (Fall 1984)

"War is Not Holy -- The American Student Peace Movement in the Thirties," Peace and Change (Fall 1984)

"The Student Peace Movement in the U.S., 1930-1941," Ph.D. dissertation, Temple University, 1979

"Parks, Planners, and the People: City Planning in Milwaukee," M.A. thesis, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1970

Reviews

Review of Joy Ann Williamson, Black Power on Campus: The University of Illinois, 1965-75 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003) in The American Historical Review 92:1 (June 2005): 827-28

Review of Brian Dooley, Black and Green: the Fight for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland and Black America (Pluto: 1998) in Choice 36:3 (November 1998)

Review of Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement: an on-line archival collection (URL:scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/ in Choice 35:supplement (summer 1998):156

Review of Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession in Choice 35:6 (February 1998): 1031

Review of Joanne L. Goodwin, Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform: Mothers' Pensions in Chicago 1911-1929 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997) in Choice 35:4 (December 1997)

Review of One Woman's Passion for Peace and Freedom: The Life of Mildred Scott Olmsted by Margaret Hope Bacon (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1993) in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January/April 1995)

Review of When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and America's First Mass Student Movement, 1929-1941 by Robert Cohen, The Journal of American History (September 1994)

Review of Scott Nearing: An Intellectual Biography by John A. Saltmarsh, American Historical Review (June 1993)

Review of Homefront on Penobscot Bay: Rockland During the War Years, 1940 - 1945, by Paul G. Merriam, Thomas J. Malloy and Theodore W. Sylvester, Jr., The Public Historian (Summer 1993)

Review of The Struggle for Academic Democracy: Lessons From the 1938 "Revolution" in New York's City Colleges by Abraham Edelman, Journal of American History (Fall 1991)

Review of American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century, by David Glassberg, New York History (July 1991)

Review of Agnes Smedley, The Life and Times of an American Radical, by Janice A. MacKinnon and Stephen A. MacKinnon, American Historical Review, 94 April 1989:534