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 176: United States to 1877
History 177: United States from 1877
History 300: Methods and Skills of History
History 284 (MNS): Women in American History I
History 285 (MNS): Women in American History II
History 384: Women’s Rights and Feminism in the United States
History 385 (WE): Women, War, and Peace
History 395: Topics in U.S. History:
The Narratives of History
(WE)
History 490: Selected Historical Topics: Senior Seminar:
America in the 1960s
American Women and
Sexuality
Professional Memberships:
Organization of American Historians
Women Historians of the Midwest
Western Association of Women Historians
Work in Progress
Dale Evans: Her Life and Times
A biography of the popular
entertainer, this book focuses on the relationship between Evans’s
Christian faith and her career to illuminate key issues of
twentieth-century American women’s history.
Citizen of Empire: How a Century of Imperialism and War Shaped
One American Woman’s Perceptions of Citizenship and Patriotism
This is a biography of
Ethel Thomas Herold, an “ordinary” American woman, whose life reveals
the connections between war, imperialism, citizenship, and patriotism
through the twentieth century.
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:
“’Time Out, Ladies!’: Dale Evans on Women and Families in 1960s America,” paper presentation at the Western Association of Women Historians Conference, Santa Clara, California, May 2009
“Sentimental Imperialist: Ethel Thomas Herold and the Philippines,” presentation in the “Biography as Women’s History” workshop at the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, June 12-15, 2008, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
“Prisoners in Paradise: American Women in the Wartime South Pacific,” Charles W. Johnson Lecture on War and Society, Center for the Study of War and Society, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, March 2008
“’The Americans Come’: Ethel Thomas Herold’s Experiences in the Two
World Wars,” paper presentation at the Varieties of Experience
Conference, November 30, 2007, Caen, France
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