Theresa Kaminski
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Office: 469 CCC Phone: 346-4695 E-mail: tkaminsk@uwsp.edu Title: Professor Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign M.S., Illinois State University B.A., Rosary College |
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Specialty:
American Women’s History
Classes Taught:
History 211 United States to 1877
History 212 United States since 1877
History 290 Selected Historical Problems: Sophomore Seminar
History 384/584(MNS) Women in American History I: Colonial to Antebellum
History 385/585(MNS) Women in American History II: 19th and 20th Centuries
History 386/586 Women's Rights and Feminism in the United States
History 391/591 Contemporary Historical Problems: Women and War
History 490 Selected Historical Topics: Senior Seminar
Memberships:
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Women Historians of the Midwest
Recent Publications:
Prisoners in Paradise: American Women in the Wartime South Pacific, University Press of Kansas, 2000.
Enduring What Cannot be Endured: Memoir of a Woman Medical Aide in the Philippines in World War II, by Dorothy Dore Dowlen, Edited and with an introduction by Theresa Kaminski, McFarland Press, 2001.
"Joyce Johnson" entry in William T. Lawlor, ed., Beat Culture: Lifestyles, Icons, and Impact, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005.
"Ethel Thomas Herold: Doing Women's Work in a Philippines at War," in Kriste Lindenmeyer, ed., Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives. Scholarly Resources, 2000.
Sweet Dreams: An American POW Longs for Home
Presentations:
"'So Many Things Have Happened to Me': An American Woman in the Philippines" Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, opening of the Frank Family Papers, November 11, 2004.
"Womanhood and National Identity in the Philippines: The World War II Odysseys of Ethel Thomas Herold and Claire Phillips: Women's and Gender Historians of the Midwest Conference, June 12, 2004, Chicago, IL.
"From Potosi to the Philippines: The Rural Borders of Ethel Thomas Herold" Rural Women's Studies Association Conference, February 2003.
Awards:
2005-2006 Bordin/Gillette Researcher Travel Fellowship Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor for Sentimental Imperialist: Ethel Thomas Herold and the Philippines
2003 OAH-JAAS Short-Term Residency in Japan, Chiba University
2001 University Scholar Award, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
2001 Outstanding Achievement Recognition Wisconsin Library Association for Prisoners in Paradise: American Women in the Wartime South Pacific
1996 American Summer Faculty Fellowship, American Association of University Women
1996-1997 Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison