Expertise

U.S. history; late nineteenth and twentieth centuries; American philanthropy; women; religion; U.S. race relations; women and banking; and history of citizenship.

Past Affiliations

Director, Department of History, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Adjunct Associate Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Adjunct Associate Professor, American Studies, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Assistant Professor, Department of History, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Associate Professor, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Director, Women's Studies Program, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Professor, Women's Studies Program, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Assistant Professor, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Affiliate Associate Professor, American Studies, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Adjunct Associate Professor, American Studies, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Communities
History, Management
Degrees
PhD, New York University, 1997
MPhil, New York University, 1986
MA, New York University, 1984
AB, Mount Holyoke College, 1978
Keywords
women and banking philanthropy american history women's studies gender issues
Honors

Women’s Leadership Award for Veteran Female IUPUI Faculty Member, IUPUI Office for Women, 2012

Richard L. Wentworth Prize for Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the YWCA, 2008

Gateway Scholar, IUPUI, 2004-2005

Associations
Indiana Women’s History Association