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B. A. 1990, Hamline University
M. A. 1992, St. Cloud State University
Ph.D. 1998, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Academic Interests
--Women's studies & feminist theory
--Nineteenth century woman suffrage and woman's social movements, especially the American midwest
--Late-nineteenth & early-twentieth century American women's history, culture, and literature.
Selected Publications
Tracing Arachne's Web: Myth and Feminist Fiction (Gainsville, Fla: University Press of Florida, 2001).
“Nineteenth Century Methodists and Coeducation: The Case of Hamline University.” Methodist History 47.1 (Oct. 2008): 48-62.
“She will marvel that it should have been possible: The Political Equality Club of Minneapolis.” Co-author with Erin Parrish. Minnesota History 60.3 (Fall 2006): 113-122.
“Cultural Critique and Consciousness Raising: Clara Bewick Colby’s Woman’s Tribune and Late-Nineteenth-Century Radical Feminism” Ed. James Danky. Women in Print: Authors, Publishers, Readers, and More since 1876 (Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2005), 27-63.