Curriculum Vitae
DEGREES
Ph.D., University of Maine, 1975
M.A., Emory University, 1968
B.A., Emory University, 1967 (High Honors in History)
EMPLOYMENT
Professor Emeritus of History, Bryant University, 2021-present.
Professor of History, Bryant University, 1987- 2021.
Associate Professor of History, Bryant University, 1981-1987
Assistant Professor of History, Bryant University, 1975-1981
HONORS AND AWARDS
2018 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. Awarded by the Marquis Who’s Who Publication Board.
2007 Honorary Chairs’ Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities. Awarded by the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.
2006 Best in French Culture Award. Awarded by Cultural Services Office of Embassy of France to An American Heroine in The French Resistance.
James Madison Prize, 1994. Awarded by the Society for History in the Federal Government for article, "`To The Rescue of the Crops': The Women's Land Army during World War II," Prologue, 25(Winter 1993): 346-361 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
National Historical Publications and Records Commission endorsement of project to edit and publish The World War II Letters of American Women, February 1991.
Bryant University Research and Publication Award, 1997, 2005.
Bryant University Herstory Award, 1996.
Bryant University Summer Research Stipend, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2017.
Bryant University Alumni Distinguished Faculty Member Award, 1989.
Bryant University Faculty Federation Distinguished Faculty Member Award, 1988.
Bryant University Professional Development Leave, 1982-1983; 1986-1987;1990-91; Spring Semester 1996; Spring Semester 2004; Spring 2012, Spring 2018.
Bryant University Merit Award, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016.
Sinology Fellow, Hanban (Office of Chinese Language Council International, Beijing, China), Summer 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015.
Bryant University and U.S. China Institute Grant for two-week research and study trip to China, June 12-25, 2010.
Bryant University Summer Research Stipend for CIEE Faculty Development Seminar in Southwest China, June 14-25, 2008.
Project Director, Higher Education Support Program Grant, Open Society Institute, Collaborative Learning at a Distance in the Social Sciences Summer School, Minsk, Belarus, July 1999.
Project Development and Administrative Team, Bryant University Community Connections Program with Belarus, U.S. Department of State Grant, 1999-2008.
Project Director, U.S. Department of State Grant to promote Curriculum/Faculty Development between European Humanities University(Minsk, Belarus), Bryant University, and Suffolk University, 1997-2000.
Assistant Project Director, United States Industry Coalition Grant to develop Cost Accounting and Financial Record Keeping System for New Independent States-Initiatives in Proliferation Prevention Project, U.S. Department of Energy, 1997-1998.
Eurasia Foundation Travel/Research Grant to Republic of Georgia, June 9-June 17, 1997.
Bryant University Summer Research/Travel Stipend to Ukraine, May 19-June 9, 1997.
Center for International Business and Economic Development and Department of Defense Travel/Research Grant to Estonia, Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, March 22-April 22, 1996; June 14-July 6, 1996; October 17-27, 1996; November 12-16, 1996.
U.S. Department of Education Title VI and Bryant University Travel/Research Grant to England and France, Summer 1995.
Phi Alpha Theta
Phi Kappa Phi
Pi Sigma Alpha
Ford Career Scholar
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Bryant College Goes to War. Smithfield: Bryant University, 2018 revised electronic edition. https://issuu.com/bryantuniversity/docs/bcgoestowar_5-30-2018?e=1402335/61874176
Bryant College Goes to War. Smithfield: Bryant University, 2013.
Editorial Supervisor, Festival Ballet Providence: Four Decades of Dance, 1978-2018. Providence: Hope & Fourth Press, 2018.
Miss You: The World War II Letters of Barbara Wooddall Taylor and Charles E. Taylor, Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2013 paperback edition in honor of the Press’s 75th Anniversary year (co-authored with David C. Smith and Barbara and Charles Taylor).
Dancing with Colonels: A Young Woman in World War II Turkey. Pierre: South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2011.
An American Heroine in the French Resistance: The Diary and Memoir of Virginia d’Albert-Lake, New York: Fordham University Press, 2006, paperback edition, 2008.
Fighting Fascism in Europe: The World War II Letters of an American Veteran of the Spanish Civil War. New York: Fordham University Press, 2003 (co-edited with David E.Cane and David C. Smith).
What Kind of World Do We Want? American Women Plan for Peace, Wilmington: Scholar Resources, 2000, paperback edition, 2000.
Dear Poppa: The World War II Berman Family Letters. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1997.
American Women in A World at War: Contemporary Accounts from World War II, Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1997, paperback edition, 1997.
We’re in This War, Too: World War II Letters from American Women in Uniform, New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
European Immigrant Women in the United States: A Biographical Dictionary, New York: Garland Publishing, 1994 (co-edited with Judith McDonnell).
Since You Went Away: World War II Letters From American Women on the Home Front, New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. paperback edition, 1995, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas (co-authored with David C. Smith).
Dear Boys: World War II Letters From A Woman Back Home, Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1991, paperback edition, 1991 (co-edited with David C. Smith).
Miss You: The World War Two Letters Of Barbara Wooddall Taylor And Charles E. Taylor, Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1990 (co-authored with David C. Smith and Barbara and Charles Taylor).
The American Midwife Debate: A Sourcebook on its Modern Origins, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1986.
American Midwives, 1860 to the Present, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1978. paperback edition, 1985.
Recognition: A Sourcebook on Working Women in Maine, Orono, Maine: Bureau of Labor Education, 1974 (co-authored with Hal Litoff)
Training Manual
IPP Funds Accountability In The NIS: A Training Program Manual, U.S. Department of Energy, NIS/IPP Program in cooperation with USIC: Smithfield, RI, 1998(with Joseph A. Ilacqua, et.al.)
Articles and Book Contributions
“Home Fronts at War” in Oxford Handbook of World War II, G. Kurt Piehler ed., New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
“’Finally Our Story Is Being Told’: The World War II Letters of U.S. Women,” America in World War Two: Oral Histories and Personal Accounts, Adams Matthew Digital, Ltd., 2019. Available on line at http://www.americainworldwartwo.amdigital.co.uk/Explore/Essays
“One Woman’s War in China: The World War II Letters of an American Red Cross Club Director in Yunnan Province,” in Schreiben im Krieg –Schreiben vom Krieg: Feldpost im Zeitalter der Weltkriege, ed., Thomas Jander, Essen: Klartext, 2011.
“`Over the radio yesterday, I heard the starting of another war’: Women’s Wartime Correspondence, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the End of World War II,” in The Atom Bomb and American Society, G. Kurt Piehler, ed., Knoxville: University Press of Tennessee, 2009.
“Midwives,” in Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Peter Stearns, ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
“An American Heroine in the French Resistance: The Story of Virginia d’Albert-Lake,” in Breakthrough: Essays and Vignettes in Honor of John A. Rassias, Mel Yoken, ed. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2007.
“Home Front Americans at War,” in Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Modern America, David S. Heidler and Jeanne A Heidler, eds., Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007.
“Women on the U.S. Home Front,” Newsletter of the Hawai’i Council for the Humanities 05-2(Winter 2005-2006): 9.
“Enforced Tourists: American Women, Travel, and the ‘Far-Flung Fronts’ of World War II,” Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 3(2005): 178-193.
“The Nation Transformed: United States Women,” in From Total War to Total Victory:
How the War Was Really Won. Steven Weingartner ed., Wheaton, IL: Cantigny First Division Foundation, 2005.
“Women and World War II,” in Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront, Vol. 3, 1901-1945, John P. Resch, ed., Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
“Rosie the Riveter,” in Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront, Vol.: 3, 1901-1945, John P. Resch ed., Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005
“Gunther’s Travels: The Odyssey of Metasequoia Seeds from the 1920s?” in The Geobiology and Ecology of Metasequoia, Ben A. LePage, Christopher J. Williams, and Hong Yang, eds. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2005.
“Olive Ann Beech” in Notable America Women, Volume 5, 1976-2000, Susan Ware, ed., Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004.
“Transforming Educational and Business Practices in Belarus: Collaborative Learning at a Distance,” Journal of Teaching in International Business 14(2/3 2003): 41-66 (co-authored with Gaytha Langlois and Joseph A. Ilacqua). Reprinted in Digital Technology in Teaching International Business, Lloyd C. Russow, ed., New York: The Hayworth Press, 2003.
“Women on the Home Front,” OAH Magazine of History 16(Spring 2002): 7-12. Reprinted in Annual Editions, American History, Vol. II, Robert J. Maddox, ed., Guilford, Connecticut: Mc Graw-Hill/Dushkin, 2005.
“When Heroes Were Ubiquitous: Churchill and His Jerome Relations,” Finest Hour113(Winter 2001-2002): 32-33.
“Reaching Across Boundaries: The Bryant University-Belarus Connection,” Syllabus(October 2001): 12-14(co-authored with Gaytha Langlois and Joseph A. Ilacqua).
“Midwives,” in Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century, Paul Finkelman, ed., New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001.
“An Overview of Bryant University’s Collaborative Learning at a Distance Project, with a Progress Report on Teaching Cultures and Economies in Transition in the Post Soviet Era,”AABSS Perspectives Electronic Journal 2 (Fall 1999)(co-authored with Joseph A. Ilacqua).
“Using a Non-Hierarchical Approach to Collaborative Learning Projects: The Bryant University Model,” AABSS Perspectives Electronic Journal 2(Fall 1999)(co-authored with Gaytha A. Langlois).
"Charles Simon Barrett," in American National Biography, John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes eds., New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
“The World War II Letters of American Women Project,”Annotation, 27(March 1999): 1,9,12 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"Tools for Creating Accountability and Trust in Transnational S & T Projects," in Transforming Science and Technology Systems - the Endless Transitions, Werner Meske, ed., Amsterdam: IOS Press, NATO Advanced Research Workshop, 1998 (co-authored with Joseph A. Ilacqua).
"Forging Economic Alliances Between Small and Medium-Size Businesses in the Newly Independent States and the United States: Estonia, A Case Study," in Conversion of R&D Personnel in Belarus: Problems and Prospects, Gennady Nesvetailov, ed., Minsk, Belarus: International Humanitarian Foundation, 1997.
"Southern Women in World at War," in Remaking Dixie: The Impact of World War II On The South, Neil M. McMillen, ed., Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.
"The Wartime History of the Waves, Spars, Women Marines, Army and Navy Nurses, and Wasps," in A Woman's War Too: U.S. Women in the Military in World War II, Paula Nassen Poulos, ed., Washington, DC: National Archives, 1996(co-authored with David C. Smith).
"A Wac from Maine in the South: The World War II Correspondence of Katherine Trickey," Maine History 34(Winter Spring, 1995): 194-209 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"Letters from the Home Front: United States Women and World War II," in Andere Helme - Andere Menschen, Detlef Vogel and Wolfram Wette, eds., Stuttgart: Biblothek Fur Zeitgeschichte, 1995 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"An Enduring Tradition: American Midwives in the Twentieth Century," in Readings In American Health Care: Current Issues in Socio-Historical Perspective, William G. Rothstein, ed., Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.
"United States Women, the Home Front, and World War II," The Historian, 57(Winter 1995): 349-360 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"Gender, War, and Imagined Geographies," in Writing Women and Space: Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies, Gillian Rose and Alison Blunt, eds., New York: Guilford Publications, 1994 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"`To The Rescue of the Crops': The Women's Land Army during World War II," Prologue, 25(Winter 1993): 346-361 (co-authored with David C. Smith). Reprinted in The American Experience in World War II, Walter L. Hixson, ed., New York: Routledge, 2002.
"`I Wish That I Could Hide Inside This Letter': World War II Correspondence," Prologue, 24(Summer 1992): 102-114 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"`Writing Is Fighting Too': The World War II Correspondence of Southern Women," Georgia Historical Quarterly, 76(Summer 1992): 436-457 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"Since You Went Away: The War Letters of America's Women," History Today, 41(December 1991): 20-26 (co-authored with David C. Smith). Reprinted in Annual Editions: American History, Vol. II, Robert James Maddox., ed., Guilford, Connecticut: Dushkin Publishing, 1993.
"Women At War With Militarism: Part I -- Setting The Stage," National Women's Studies Association Journal, 3(Spring 1991): 309-315 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"Women At War With Militarism: Part II -- The Experience of Two World Wars," National Women's Studies Association Journal, 4(Spring 1992): 98-105 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"Courtship By Mail: The World War II Letters of Barbara Wooddall Taylor and Charles E. Taylor," in The American Family: Historical Perspectives, Jean E. Hunter and Paul T. Mason, eds., Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1991 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"Letters to and from the Front -- Letters excerpted from Miss You: The World War II Letters of Barbara Wooddall Taylor and Charles E. Taylor," in Constructing the American Past, Eliott J. Gorn, et. al., eds., New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991.
"An Historical Overview of Midwifery in the United States," Journal of Pre and Perinatal Psychology, 5(Fall 1990): 5-22.
"Midwives and History," in The History of Women, Health and Medicine in America, Rima Apple, ed., New York: Garland Publishing, 1990. paperback edition, Rutgers University Press, 1992.
"Dear Boys: The Wartime Letters of Mrs. Keith Frazier Somerville," Journal of Mississippi History, 52(May 1990): 77 - 93 (co-authored with David C. Smith and Martha Swain).
"Women of Letters," Providence Sunday Journal Magazine, March 11, 1990, pp. 18 - 22 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"`Will He Get My Letter?': Popular Portrayals of Mail and Morale during World War II," Journal of Popular Culture, 23(Spring 1990): 21-43 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"Since You Went Away: The World War II Letters of Barbara Wooddall Taylor," Women's Studies, 17(1990): 249 - 276 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"`Granny' Midwifery," "Immigrant Midwifery," and "War Brides During World War II," in Handbook Of American Women's History, Angela Zophy and Francis M. Kavenik, eds., New York: Garland Publishing, 1990. 2nd Edition, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2000.
Guest Co-Editor, Special Issue on Cajun Life and Culture, Journal of Popular Culture, 23 (Fall 1989).
"American Women, 1898-1952," in Growth and Change: America, 1898-1952, John Carroll, ed., Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1986.
"The Midwife Throughout History," Journal of Nurse-Midwifery, 27(November/December 1982): 3-11.
"Carolyn Van Blarcom," in Notable American Women: The Modern Period, Barbara Sicherman, ed., Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1980.
"Forgotten Women: American Midwives at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," The Historian, 40(February 1978): 235-251. Reprinted in History of Women in the United States, vol. 11, Women's Bodies: Health And Childbirth, Nancy F. Cott, ed., New Providence, New Jersey: K.G. Saur, 1993; Reprinted In Midwifery, Theory and Practice, Philip K. Wilson, ed., New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996.
"Working Women in Maine: A Note on Sources," Labor History, 17(Winter 1976): 88-95 (co-authored with Hal Litoff).
"The Conscientious Objector in America," Emory Career Scholars, 4(1966): 3-11.
Proceedings
“Memory, Museums, and Cultural Heritage: The Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, 1931-1945,” 2013 Proceedings, Tourism and the Shifting Values of Cultural Heritage : Visiting Pasts, Developing Futures – International Conference, Taipei, Taiwan.
“Travel as Transformation: Advancing the Teaching of Economics and the Social Sciences,” 2008 and 2009 Teaching Economics: Instruction and Classroom Based Research (co-authored with Joseph A. Ilacqua).
“Travel as Transformation: Advancing the Teaching of the Social Sciences,” 2009 National Social Science Proceedings, Volume 41, Number 3, 2009 (co-authored with Joseph A. Ilacqua).
“American Women, Travel, and the ‘Far-Flung Fronts’ of World War II,” 2004 Tourism & Literature: Travel, Imagination & Myth Conference Proceedings, 2004.
“Introducing the Culture and Practices of American Business to Entrepreneurs from the Newly Independent States: Belarus as a Case Study,” Northeast Business and Economics Association, 2000 Annual Conference Proceedings(co-authored with Joseph A . Ilacqua).
“A New Paradigm For Transforming Educational, Economic, and Civic Practices in Belarus: A Collaborative Learning at a Distance Program,” 2000 Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Global Business & Economic Development, 2000.
“Using Technology to Foster Collaborative Learning at a Distance: The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and Bryant University Connection,” 1999 International Conference on Technology and Education Proceedings.
“Using Distance Learning to Foster Collaborative Learning between the United States and the Newly Independent States,” 1999 Teaching Economics Proceedings (co-authored with Joseph A. Ilacqua).
“Cooperative Learning at a Distance: The Newly Independent States and the United States,” Northeast Business and Economics Association, 1998 Annual Conference Proceedings(co-authored with Joseph A. Ilacqua).
“Innovative Collaboration: Using the Internet to Foster Technology Transfer for Countries with Economies in Transition,” Proceedings of the 1998 Science and Innovation Policy Conference of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, on occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (co-authored with Joseph A. Ilacqua and Gaytha A. Langlois).
“Introducing an Understanding of Western Business Practices and Culture to Students in the Former Soviet Union,” Northeast Business and Economics Association, 1997 Annual Conference Proceedings.
BOOK REVIEWS
American Communist Review, American Historical Review, American Review of Canadian Studies, Annals of the American Academy of Political And Social Science, Georgia Historical Quarterly, the Historian, Journal of American History, Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of the Early Republic, Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Society, Journal of Popular Culture, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, Michigan War Studies Review, Naval Institute Proceedings, North Carolina Historical Review, Providence Journal, the Alabama Review, the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society.
IN PROGRESS
A book, American Women in China, 1900-1950.
SCHOLARLY PAPERS
“Memory, Museums, and Cultural Heritage: The Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, 1931-1945,” Fourth International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse, Bryant University, June 10-12, 2016.
“One Woman’s War in China: The World War II Experiences of an American Red Cross Club Director in Yunnan Province,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 2-5, 2014.
“Memory, Museums, and Cultural Heritage: The Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, 1931-1945,” Tourism and the Shifting Values of Cultural Heritage : Visiting Pasts, Developing Futures – International Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, April 5-9, 2013.
“An American Red Cross Club Director in Yunnan Province,” Society for Military History, Lisle, Illinois, June 9-11, 2011.
“One Woman’s War in China: The World War II Letters of an American Red Cross Club Director in Yunnan Province,” The Story of the World Wars by Those Who Lived It Symposium, Museum for Communication Berlin, Berlin Germany, September 13-15, 2010
“An American Red Cross Club Director in China: The World War II Experiences of Rita Pilkey,” ‘
Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 8-12, 2009.
“Travel as Transformation: Advancing the Teaching of the Social Sciences,” National Social Science Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 5-7, 2009 (co-authored with Joseph A. Ilacqua).
“Travel as Transformation: Advancing the Teaching of Economics and the Social Sciences,” Robert Morris University & McGraw Hill/Irwin Publishing Company Teaching Economics
Conference, February 26-28, 2009 (co-authored with Joseph A. Ilacqua).
“One Woman’s War in China: The World War II Letters of Rita Pilkey,” The Female Faces of War Conference, Battleship Cove, Fall River, Massachusetts, March 27-28, 2009
“American Women in a World at War,” The Female Faces of War Conference, Battleship Cove, Fall River, Massachusetts, March 7, 2008.
“Challenges of Entrepreneurs and Managers as They Negotiate Competing Cultural Realities in the Newly Independent States,” SOYUZ 2006 Symposium, Bryant University, Smithfield, Rhode Island, March 3-5, 2006 (co-authored with Gaytha A. Langlois and Joseph A. Ilacqua).
“`Over the radio yesterday, I heard the starting of another war’: Women’s Wartime Correspondence, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the End of World War II,” Atom Bomb and American Society Conference, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, July 15-17, 2005.
“American Women, Travel, and the ‘Far-Flung Fronts’ of World War II, “ International Conference on Tourism & Literature: Travel, Imagination & Myth, Sheffield Hallam University, Harrogate, England, July 22-26, 2004.
“I Love Lucy vs. The Feminine Mystique: Gender and Culture in the U.S. in the 1950s,” Fifth International Workshop of Women in the XXI Century,” University of Havana, Cuba, November 17-21, 2003.
“Letters from the Left: The World War II Correspondence of an American Veteran of the Spanish Civil War,” Society for Military History, Knoxville, Tennessee, May 1-4, 2003.
“Gunther’s Travels: The Odyssey of Metasequoia Seeds from the 1920s,” International Metasequoia Symposium, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, August 5-7, 2002.
“United States Women in a World at War,” Women on the Threshold of the 21st Century International Conference, University of Havana, Cuba, November 12-16, 2001.
“Collaborative Learning at a Distance: The Bryant University-Belarus Connection,” Syllabus Fall 2001 Conference, Danvers, Massachusetts, November 29-December 2, 2001.
“Introducing the Culture and Practices of American Business to Entrepreneurs from the Newly Independent States: Belarus as a Case Study,” Northeast Business and Economic Association, New York, New York, October 5-7, 2000.
“A New Paradigm For Transforming Educational, Economic, and Civic Practices in Belarus: A Collaborative Learning at a Distance Program,” 5th International Conference on Global Business & Economic Development , Beijing, China, June 21-24, 2000.
“American Women in a World at War: U.S. Women and Post World War II Planning,” Women on the Eve of the 21st Century, 3rd International Workshop of Federation of Cuban Women, University of Havana, Havana, Cuba, October 25-29, 1999.
“Using Technology to Foster Collaborative Learning at a Distance: The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and Bryant University Connection,” International Conference on Technology and Education, Tampa, Florida, October 10-13, 1999.
“Writing the History of Women and World War II,” Writing Women’s History and History of Gender in Countries in Transition Conference, Center for Gender Studies, European Humanities University, Minsk, Belarus, September 30-October 2, 1999.
“Using Distant Learning to Foster Collaborative Learning Between the U.S. and the Newly Independent States” Teaching Economies Conference, Robert Morris College, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, February 11-13, 1999 (co-authored with Joseph A. Ilacqua).
“The Organizational and Philosophical Underpinnings of Bryant University’s Collaborative Learning at a Distance Project,” Annual Meeting, American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 2-4, 1999 (co-authored with Gaytha Langlois).
“A Progress Report on Teaching Cultures and Economies in Transition in the Post Soviet Era with Bryant University and EHU Students,” Annual Meeting, American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 2-4, 1999.
“Innovative Collaboration Using the Internet to Foster Technology Transfer for Countries with Economies in Transition,” Science and Innovation Policy International Conference, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus, December 1-4, 1998.
"Collaborative Distance Learning and Higher Education," Northeast Business and Economic Association Conference, Newport, Rhode Island, October 1998.
"Collaborative Learning at a Distance: The US and NIS," Moscow 98, International Cooperation in Higher Education and Distance Learning, Moscow, Russia, June 18-21, 1998.
"Introducing an Understanding of Western Business Practices and Culture to Students in the Former Soviet Union," Northeast Business and Economics Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 26-27, 1997.
"Science and Technology Collaboration Between the United States and the New Independent States: A Uniform Cost Accounting and Financial Record Keeping System for the NIS-Initiatives in Proliferation Prevention Project," NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Budapest, Hungary, August 28-30, 1997 (co-authored with Joseph A. Ilacqua).
"Forging Economic Alliances Between Small and Medium Size Businesses in the New Independent States and the United States: Estonia, A Case Study," Conversion of R. & D. Personnel in Belarus: Problems and Prospects Conference, European Humanities University, Minsk, Belarus, November 14-15, 1996.
"The Letter as Historical Artifact: The World War II Correspondence of U.S. Women," The Letter In History Conference, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, March 20-21, 1996.
"Southern Women in a World At War," World War II and the American South Conference, the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, October 5-8, 1995.
"The Wartime History of the WAVES, SPARs, Women Marines, Army and Navy Nurses, and WASPS," A Woman's War Too Conference, National Archives, College Park, Maryland, March 3-4, 1996.
"`The Horrors of War and the Errors of Peace': United States Women and Postwar Planning, 1940-1945," American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, January 5-8, 1995 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"`We're in the Fight Too': World War II Letters from U.S. Women in Uniform," Social Science History Association, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, October 13-16, 1994.
"`I've Got This Far So I Might As Well Go On': The World War II Letters of U.S. Army Women in the Pacific," 1994 Conference of Army Historians, U.S. Army Center of Military History, Arlington, Virginia, June 13-16, 1994 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"`Today We Have Lived History': The D-Day Letters of United States Women," 1994 D-Day Remembered Conference, Eisenhower Center, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 16-17, 1994(co-authored with David C. Smith).
"Dollars and Sense: United States Housewives and the Economic Challenges of World War II," Annual Meeting, Eastern Economic Association, Washington, DC, March 19-21, 1993(co-authored with David C. Smith).
"Gender, War, and Imagined Geographies: United States Women and the `Far Flung' Fronts of World War II," International Conference of Historical Geographers, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, August 18, 1992 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"To The Rescue of the Crops: Women and American Agriculture During World War II," Rural/Farm Women in Historical Perspective Conference, University of California, Davis, June 27, 1992 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"Writing Is Fighting Too: The Wartime Correspondence of Southern Women," The Homefront in the South Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1, 1992 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"Reconsidering the Home Front: The World War II Letters of American Women," 1992 Eisenhower Center Annual Spring Conference, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 10-11, 1992 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"`Will He Get My Letter?': Popular Portrayals of Mail and Morale During World War II," 1991 American Homefront Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, October 17-19, 1991 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"The Historian as Detective: The Case of the Missing Letters," 1991 Mid-America Conference on History, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, September 19-21, 1991.
"`A Date Which Will Live in Infamy': Women's Response to Pearl Harbor and War," 1991 Siena College Conference on World War II, Loudonville, New York, May 30-31, 1991 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"Understanding the Home Front: The World War II Letters of American Women," 1991 Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Louisville, Kentucky, April 13, 1991 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"Women and Letter Writing During World War II," 1990 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, June 7-10, 1990 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"`Will He Get My Letter?': Popular Portrayals of Mail and Morale During World War II," a slide/tape show presented at the 1989 biennial meeting of Phi Alpha Theta, St. Louis, Missouri, December 27,1989 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"The Mail Goes Through: Letter Carriers and World War II," National Association of Letter Carriers Centennial Celebration, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 28-29, 1989 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"An Historical Overview of Midwifery," Fourth International Congress on Pre & Perinatal Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, August 4, 1989.
"Courtship By Mail: The World War II Letters of Charles E. Taylor and Barbara Wooddall Taylor," 1988 Duquesne History Forum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1988 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
"Sustaining Each Other `For the Duration': War Brides and World War II," 1988 Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, March 10, 1988 (co- authored with David C. Smith).
"`Since You Went Away': The World War II Letters of Barbara Wooddall Taylor," 1987 Popular Culture Association Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 26, 1987 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
“An Enduring Tradition: American Midwives at the Twentieth Century," University of Arizona Conference, A Century of Women's Health, Tucson, Arizona, February 16, 1985.
"The Life and Times of Moses Brown," Moses Brown School Bicentennial Forum, Providence, Rhode Island, February 9. 1984.
"The History of Midwives," 1982 annual meeting of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, Lexington, Kentucky, April 29, 1982.
"Researching the History of American Midwives," 1981 New England Historical Association Meeting, Mount Ida Junior College, Newton, Massachusetts, April 11, 1981.
"Future Directions in Researching the History of Midwifery," 1980 New England Women's Studies Association Meeting, University of Rhode Island, Kingstown, Rhode Island, April 12, 1980.
"Forgotten Women: American Midwives at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," 1976 Missouri Valley History Conference, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska, March 12, 1976.
"Problems in Researching Women's History," 1974 Conference for Research and College Librarians for the State of Maine, Orono, Maine, April 3, 1974.
"A Survey of American Attitudes Toward the Draft, 1943-1966," and "The Conscientious Objector in America," University of Chicago Conference on the Draft, Chicago, Illinois, December 4-7, 1966.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Chair, “The War in Kenya, India-Burma, and Turkey,” Comparative Home Fronts Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, January 14-16, 2016.
Commentator, “Home Fronts and Battle Fronts in the United Kingdom and the United States,” Comparative Home Fronts Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, January 14-16, 2016.
Invited Panelist, Higher Education in Belarus: Challenges of Internationalization Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania, December 11-12, 2006.
Chair and commentator, “World War II Letters and the Local Experience,” New England Historical Association, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, April 22, 2006.
Chair, “Exploring the Construction of Racial and Ethnic Identities within New England,” Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, November 2-6, 2005
Chair and commentator for session, “Making a Place for Themselves: Women and Military Culture during WW II and the Early Cold War Era,” Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Bethesda, Maryland, October 8-12, 2003.
Chair for session, “Telling Rhode Island’s Story: Innovative Collaborations in Public and Academic History , American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, January 3-6, 2002.
Commentator for session, “ Activist Women in 20th Century America,” New England Historical Association Fall Conference, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts, October 16, 1999.
Chairperson for session, “The Belarus Bryant Connection,” International Conference on Technology and Education, Tampa, Florida, October 10-13, 1999.
Keynote Speaker, “Writing Women’s History,” The Role of Women in History and the Modern World Conference, Women’s Educational and Cultural Center, Minsk, Belarus, July17, 1999.
Chairperson for session, “Against All Odds: Women Leaders in the Newly Independent States,” The Women’s Summit, Bryant University, Smithfield, Rhode Island, March 30, 1999.
Chairperson for session, “Using Technology to Foster Collaborative Learning at a Distance Between the United States and the Newly Independent States,” Annual Meeting, American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences,” Las Vegas, Nevada, February 2-4, 1999.
Invited Speaker, "The Image of Women in U.S. History," Conference on Women and Mass Media in Belarus: Transformation of Cultural Stereotypes, Center for Women's Education and Consulting, Minsk, Belarus, June 13, 1998.
Keynote Speaker, "Development of Feminism in Contemporary Society," Society in Transition: Problems and Issues, Alumni Association Conference, ACTR/ACCELS, IREX, Minsk, Belarus, June 1-2, 1998.
Panelist, "Belarus Higher Education and the European Humanities University(Minsk): A Meeting of Western Funding Organizations," ACTR/ACCELS, Washington, DC, April 29, 1998.
Chairperson for session, "Desperately Seeking Mentors," The Women's Summit, Bryant College, Smithfield, Rhode Island, March 15-16, 1997.
Panelist, "How The War Was (Really) Won," U.S. Naval Institute and the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation, Cantigny, Wheaton, Illinois, March 1-2, 1995.
Chairperson for session, "Plumbing and Bathing," 1991 Missouri Valley History Conference, March 14-16, 1991.
Commentator for the session, "Women's Issues in Medico-Law in England, France and the United States," 1984 Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky, November 1, 1984.
Coordinator, Southern "Granny" Midwives Conference, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, June 15-16, 1984.
Chairperson and commentator for session, "New Directions in America Midwifery Research," 1983 Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 8, 1983.
Moderator for documentary film presentation, "Daughters of Time," Conference on the History of Nursing, Rockefeller Archive Center, North Tarrytown, New York May 22, 1981.
Chairperson for session, "Sociology of Birth," 1980 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, New York, August 30, 1980.
Panelist for workshop, "Midwives: Past and Present," Our Health Our Lives Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, May 19, 1979.
Chairperson and commentator for session, "Childbirth as Controversy," Conference on the History of Women, The College of St. Catherine, St. Paul Minnesota, October 23,1977.
Chairperson for the workshop, "History of Women's Health," Rhode Island Women's Health Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, March 27, 1976.
Chairperson for session, "Health Care and the Woman Patient," Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Radcliff College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 26, 1974.
BIOGRAPHICAL LISTINGS
Directory of American Scholars
Directory of International Biography
International Who's Who in Education
Men and Women of Distinction
Outstanding Young Women of America
Who's Who in American Education
World Who’s Who of Women
Who’s Who of Rhode Island
Who’s Who in America
Who’s Who in the East
Who’s Who of American Women
PROFESSIONAL AND PUBLIC SERVICE
Co-Chair, Comparative Home Fronts Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, January 13 -16, 2016.
Invited Lecturer, U.S. China Institute, August 7, 2015.
Invited Lecturer, South County Museum, October 6, 2014
Invited Lecturer, U.S. China Institute, July 2014.
Invited Lecturer, The Hero Symposium, Fordham University, November 11, 2013
Invited Lecturer, Norton Institute for Continuing Education, Wheaton College, May 22, 2013.
Invited Lecturer, 2013 Annual Convention of the National Farmers, Springfield, Massachusetts, March 3, 2013.
Invited Lecturer, Institute on World War II and the Human Experience, Florida State University, October 16, 2012.
Invited Lecturer, U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, June 20, 2012.
Invited Lecturer, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, August 2011.
“Meet the Author” Stauffacher Artist and Lecture Series, State Fair Community College, Sedalia, Missouri, May 9-11, 2011
Invited Lecturer, Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, December 16, 2010.
Invited Lecturer, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, June 12, 2008.
Invited Lecturer, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, April 3-4, 2008.
Invited Lecturer, Keynote Speaker, Sixth Annual Pickens-Salley Symposium on Southern Women, University of South Carolina, Aiken, March 19, 2008.
Invited Lecturer, Charles W. Johnson Lecture, University of Tennessee, March 31, 2004.
Invited Veterans Day Lecturer, The Rutgers University Libraries and Rutgers University Living History Society, November 11, 2003.
Invited Workshop Co-Director, Center For Gender Studies, European Humanities University, Women, Memory and the Great Patriotic War, March 19-20, 2004.
Invited Lecturer, Shijiazhang Univeristy of Economics, Shijiazhang, China, June 2000.
Invited Lecturer, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, June 2000.
Visiting U.S. Department of State - American Studies Professor, European Humanities University, Minsk, Belarus, May-June 1998, July 1999.
Project Consultant, Pilot Program for the Transfer of Defense Technology to Private Industry, Defense Advanced Research Project, Bryant University, 1997-1998.
Co-Director, Training Session on Financial Accountability, Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia, December 1997.
Director, Bryant University and Center for International Business and Economic Development Trade Mission to Estonia, October 17-27, 1996.
Panelist, Bryant University Community Connections Program Assessment, Minsk and Gomel, Belarus, May 21-26, 2005.
Panelist, Bryant University Community Connections Program Assessment, Minsk and Gomel, Belarus, July 9-19, 2003.
Panelist, Bryant University Community Connections Program Assessment, Minsk and Gomel, Belarus, August 12-22, 2001.
Expert Visit, Information Technologies Center, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus, for development of Center for International Collaboration, May-June 1998.
Invited Lecturer, ENVILA Women's College, Minsk, Belarus, May 1998.
Invited Lecturer, Tbilisi Business School, Tbilisi, Georgia, June 1997.
Visiting Lecturer, Kiev State University of Economics, Kiev, Ukraine, May 1997.
Invited Lecturer, Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia, March 27, 1996
Invited Lecturer, European Humanities University, Minsk, Belarus, April 8, 11, 1996.
Invited Lecturer, Celebrate Freedom!: Pigeon Forge Salutes America’s Veterans, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, November 9, 2000.
Invited Lecturer, Museum of our National Heritage, Lexington, MA, October 15, 2000.
Invited Speaker, World War II Veterans Committee Annual Conference, Washington, DC, November 8-10, 2001,November 10-11, 2000; November 11-13, 1999; November 4-7, 1988.
Invited Lecturer, Minnesota Historical Society Press, St. Paul, Minnesota, September 21, 1997.
Invited Lecturer, Old South Meeting House, War and Remembrance Lecture, Boston Massachusetts, May 14, 1997.
Invited Lecturer, Newport Historical Society Annual Winter Lecture Series, April 30, 1996
Invited Lecturer, The Heritage Plantation, Sandwich, Massachusetts, May 4, 1995, October 3, 1995.
Invited Lecturer, Women and World War II, Rhode Island Historical Society, Annual Meeting, September 29, 1995.
Invited Lecturer, Letters From Home, 1995 Emory University Alumni Reunion Weekend, Atlanta, Georgia, September 16, 1995.
Invited Lecturer, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut, April 4, 1995.
Invited Scholar, Normandy Seminar, U.S. Naval Institute and the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation, Cantigny, Wheaton, Illinois, March 2-3, 1994.
Invited Lecturer/Banquet speaker, American Red Cross Overseas Association Annual Meeting, New York, New York, July 2, 1994.
Invited Lecturer, National Postal Museum, Washington, D.C., May 5, 1994.
Invited Lecturer, Smithsonian Campus on the Mall Lecture Series, Washington, D.C., May, 4, 1994.
Invited Lecturer, Middays at the Old South Meeting House, Boston, Massachusetts, October 21, 1993.
Invited Lecturer, The World War II Home Front, Middle Georgia Historical Society, Macon, Georgia, May 3, 1993
Invited Lecturer, The World War II Home Front, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia, May 2, 1993.
Invited Lecturer, Meaning and Memory: World War II in the American Experience, Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, Virginia, April 1-4, 1993.
Invited Lecturer, Women's History Month, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, March 25, 1993.
Invited Lecturer, World War II: The Home Front, A Public Symposium sponsored by the Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, February 26, 1993.
Invited Lecturer, Auburn University Symposium, World War II: A Time Remembered, War Fronts/Home Front, January 13 - 14, 1993.
Invited Lecturer, National Convention of Women Involved in Farm Economics, Little Rock, Arkansas, November 21, 1992.
Invited Lecturer, Public Lecture Series on World War II, Strong Museum, Rochester, New York, June 7, 1992.
Invited Lecturer, Women's Week '92, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, March 30, 1992.
Invited Lecturer, Bolivar County Library, Cleveland, Mississippi, December 8, 1991.
Invited Lecturer, National Archives Pearl Harbor Day Commemoration, Washington, DC, December 3, 1991.
Inaugural Lecturer, The Joyce Thompson Lectureship, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas, November 12, 1991.
Invited Lecturer, National Archives Author's Forum, Washington, DC, January 22, 1991.
Invited Lecturer, Old Campbell County Historical Society, Fairburn, GA, June 17, 1990.
Invited Scholar and seminar leader, U.S. Department of Education, University of Tennessee, and East Tennessee State Historical Society, “Teaching American History” Grant, July 13-14. 2005.
Fulbright Specialist Peer Review Member, 2011- present.
Historical Consultant, Center for American War Letters, Chapman University, 2014-present.
Advisory Board, Story on the Public Square, 2013- present.
Editorial Board, Adams Matthew Digital Ltd, “World War II: Oral Histories and Personal Accounts.”
Historical Consultant and On-Site Supervisor, Kirsten Evans, “Festival Ballet Providence: Four Decades of Dance, 1978-2018.”
Historical Consultant, East Tennessee Veterans Memorial Association, 2004-2008 .
Historical Consultant and seminar leader, U.S. Department of Education and Rhode Island
Historical Society “Teaching American History” Grant, 2003-2007.
Historical Consultant, NEH and Rhode Island Historical Society “Schools for a New Millennium” Grant, 2002-2003.
Advisory Board, World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension, Fordham University Press, 2000- present.
Advisory Board, World War II Veterans Committee, 2001-2002.
Advisory Board, “A Woman’s War Too,” EPC Documentary Film, 1999-2002.
Historical consultant, “Warrior Girls Project,” 2011-present.
Historical consultant, “The Perilous Fight: America’s World War II in Color,” PBS Documentary, 2001-2002. Nominated for 2003 Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Research.
Historical consultant, “The Color of War,” History Channel Documentary, 1999-2000.
Historical consultant, “Dear Home,” A & E Television Networks Documentary, 1999.
Historical consultant, "American in the Forties: A Sentimental Journey," Tom Spain, Inc., PBS Documentary, 1996-1998.
Historical consultant, Pathmakers, National Memorial Day Concert Documentary, 1996, 2000.
Historical consultant, The American Story: World War II, Alexandria, Virginia, Time-Life Books, 1997
Historical consultant, Bostonian Society, "When the Boys Came Marching Home, Everyday Life In Boston, 1945-1952," 1994-1996.
Historical consultant, Imperial War Museum, Forces Sweethearts Exhibit, 1992-1993.
Historical consultant, National Postal Museum, Letter Writing Exhibit, 1992-1993.
Historical consultant, Monadnock Media, "Missing You - Letters in Wartime," video, 1992-1993.
Historical consultant, KOCH-TV Productions, Inc. D-Day documentary, 1992-1994.
Historical consultant, Durrin Films award-winning documentary film, "Daughters of Time," 1980.
Senior Honors Thesis Outside Examiner, Kenyon College, May 12-13, 1995.
Willie Lee Rose Prize Committee, Southern Association of Women’s Historians, 2003.
Southern Historical Association - Program Committee, 1993, 1999. Membership Committee, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1999.
Popular Culture Association - Area Program Committee, 1987-1988.
Scholarly reader/referee, Addison Wesley Longman, University of Georgia Press, Greenwood Press, University of Illinois Press, University of Tennessee Press, Prentice Hall, University Press of Colorado, University Press of Kentucky, Scholarly Resources, Inc., Texas A & M University Press, Northern Illinois University Press, Fordham University Press, Wadsworth Publishing, Oxford University Press, University of Illinois Press, North Carolina Historical Press, University of Missouri Press, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Journal of American Ethnic History, Journal of Women's History, The Historian, Agricultural History, Michigan Historical Review, Journal of the History of Sexuality, National Endowment for the Humanities proposals, Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine proposals, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada proposals, Selection Committee, US Department of State Contemporary Issues Fellowship Program for Ukraine.
Contributor, World War II Times.
Featured on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” segment, “American Woman Helped Save Airmen in France,” June 6, 2009.
Featured on “This I Believe,” WRNI Radio, November 28, 2007.
Featured on “The Rhode Island Women of World War II,” RI-PBS, September 23, 24, November 11, 2007.
Featured on “Amazing Women,” 630 WPRO AM Radio, 92 PRO FM, and LITE ROCK 105 FM, “Women and War,” Providence, Rhode Island. July 1, 2007.
Featured on “Not Your Classroom,” WRNI Public Radio, “Women’s Letters from World War II,” Providence, RI, January 26 and 28, 2007..
Featured on “Fordham Conversations,” WFUV Public Radio, “An American Heroine in the French Resistance,” Fordham University, August 5, 2006.
Featured on “Vital Women,” Donna Mac Radio Program, 93.3, Providence, Rhode Island, March 30, 2004.
Featured on Cambridge Forum-National Public Radio Program, “American Women in a World at War,” March 2001.
Featured on C-Span, “Women on the Home Front,” November 11, 1998, “Women and World War II,” November 11, 2001.
Featured on Channel 6 TV evening news, three-part series, "U.S. Women and V-E Day," May 8 - 10, 1995.
Featured on CBS This Morning, "Women and D-Day," June 6, 1994.
Featured on WCBS Radio, "Women and D-Day," June 6, 1994.
Featured on Christian Science Monitor Cable Channel, "50 Years Ago Today," March 1992.
Featured on the Voice of America Radio, "The World War II Letters of American Women," December 1991, March 1992, May 1994.
Featured on CNN Early Prime, to discuss Since You Went Away, October 8, 1991.
Featured on National Public Radio 30 minute program, "Sealed with a Kiss: The Wartime Letters of American Women," December 1989, April 1991, November 1991.
Featured on WRGB-TV, Schenectady, New York, 30 minute program, "Letters From the Heart," November 26, 1990.
Featured on CNN Sonya Live, "Women's Letters from World War II," July 4, 1990.
Featured in Digital Commons Subscriber Newsletter, “Chronicle of Higher Education Features Digital Commons@Bryant, Fall 2009.
Featured in Chronicle of Higher Education, “Found in Library Basement: Letters Home from World War II, June 29, 2009.
Featured in the Providence Journal, “College of Letters,” (front page of section B], April, 28, 2009.
Featured in the Providence Journal, “Voices from the Past” (lead front page article), December 24, 2008.
Commentary, “Holiday Spam cooked in butter on R.I.’s home front,” Providence Journal, December 7, 2011.
Commentary, “On drawing, with joy, that black line for the Obama-Biden ticket,” Providence Journal, November 12, 2008.
Featured in the Providence Journal, “Letters discuss fallout from the atomic bomb,” (lead “Lifebeat” article), August 13, 2005.
Featured in Rhode Island Monthly, June 2004.
Featured in the Providence Journal, “The Real Look of the War”(lead “Lifebeat” article) February 12, 2003.
Featured in HERS magazine section, Providence Journal (cover story), March 19, 1998.
Featured in the Boston Globe, "Letters Echo a Generation," July 4, 1993.
Featured in Kansas City Star Magazine (cover story), "Words of Love," October 4, 1992, pp. 6 - 10.
Featured in Yankee Magazine, "Sealed with a Kiss: The Love Letters of Marjorie Gaunt," September 1990, pp. 67 - 71, 126 - 129.
Member, Story Board, Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, Salve Regina University, 2013- present.
Board of Directors, Stages of Freedom, 2014-present.
Board of Directors, U.S.S. Massachusetts Memorial Committee, 2008 – present
Board of Directors, Festival Ballet Providence, 2007- present.
Board of Directors, Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, 2004- 2013
Executive Board, Humanities Forum of Rhode Island, 2000-2007.
Board of Trustees, Rhode Island Historical Society, 1999- 2003.
Council Chair, Newell D. Goff Institute for Ingenuity and Enterprise at the Rhode Island Historical Society, 1999-2003.
Council Member, Newell D. Goff Institute for Ingenuity and Enterprise at the Rhode Island Historical Society, 1998-2004.
Board of Overseers, The Moses Brown School, 1984-1993.
Board of Overseers, The Lincoln School, 1982-1988.
Girl Scout Leader, Providence, Rhode Island, 1979-1988 (developed Women's History badge).
First Day School Teacher, Providence Monthly Meeting of Society of Friends, 1978-1985.
Board Member, Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, 1982-1986.
Frequently speak to university and community groups such as Hamilton House of Providence, RI; Mayflower Society of RI; Woonsocket Kiwanis Club; Woonsocket Chamber of Commerce; Woonsocket Jaycee Women; East Providence and North Providence Business and Professional Women's Clubs; Lifetime Learning of Rhode Island; Lincoln Republican Women's Club; Greenwich Bay Women's Club; Tyler Free Public Library of Foster, RI; Warwick, RI American Association of University Women Chapter; Bangor, ME Retired Teachers Association; Bangor, ME Historical Society; Bryant University Alumni Association; Bryant University Parents' Association; RI Environmental Protection Agency; Brown University; Salve Regina College; Colby College; University of ME; University of RI; Providence Public Library; Pawtucket Public Library; Cum Laude Society of Moses Brown School; Shea High School; Providence Monthly Meeting of Society of Friends; SALT Archives of ME Folklife; Old Campbell County, GA Historical Society; Carrollton, GA Kiwanis Club; RI History Day; RI Historical Society; Pawtuxet Valley Preservation and Historical Society; North Kingstown, RI Free Library; RI State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts; Ladies High Tea.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Phi Alpha Theta
Southern Historical Association
Southern Association of Women Historians
Stages of Freedom