instructor
bio
Before I came to George Mason University in 2001 to join the faculty of the history & new media program, I spent seven years at Montana State University and eleven years at the University of Maine. Historians are fond of saying that a history major is a versatile major. Proof of concept: I spent my last year at the University of Maine as chair of the Department of Mathematics & Statistics. My research interests concern the history of women and the family in the American West, the US toy industry, the development of domestic law, and the application of digital technology to teaching history and historical research. Predictably, my teaching reflects these areas of expertise. In the past, I have received a Fulbright Fellowship to the United Kingdom, an NEH Fellowship, an Apple Computer Faculty Internship, and a Smithsonian Fellowship, among others, in addition to the Paladin and Oscar O. Winther prizes. I am orginally from Montana, have three cats—Gray Mowit, Dakota, and Wing.
education
- Certificate in Web Design, Digital Arts Center, 1999
- PhD, SUNY-Binghamton, 1982
- MA, SUNY-Binghamton, 1979
- MFA, University of Montana, 1973
- BA, Cornell University, 1969
selected publications
- @history: An Interactive Resource,
with Kelly Woestman (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999) - Creating and Designing Multimedia with Director,
with Ben Dubrovsky (New York: Prentice Hall, 1997) - Small Worlds: Children and Adolescents in America, 1850-1950,
with Elliott West (Lawrence: KS: University of Kansas, 1992) - No Step Backward: Women and Family on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier (Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society Press, 1987)
research in progress
- “Parading as Millionaires: Helena, Montana Banks and the Panic of 1893”
- “A Bank Examiner’s Tale: Eugene Wilson and the Panic of 1893”
- “Occasions of Unhappy Differences: Divorce Law in the Far West”
- “Playthings for the Republic’s Children: American Culture, Toys, and the Business of Play”