Current vitae #2



Renée M. Sentilles

Rms30@case.edu

Curriculum Vitae, January 27, 2019

Department of History

Case Western Reserve University

10900 Euclid Avenue

Cleveland, OH 44106-7107

216/368-5413

Present Positions

Associate Professor of History, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.

Director of the American Studies Program, CWRU

Women and Gender Studies Advisory Committee and Program Faculty, CWRU

Associate of the Schubert Center for the Study of Children, CWRU

Teaching and research interests: American women’s history, girlhood studies, gender and sexuality, nineteenth-century American culture, American Studies, American childhood studies, African-American history, Native American history, American Popular Culture, American race relations.

Other Teaching Experience:

Clark University, Worcester, MA, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, 1999-2000

Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Visiting Assistant Professor of History and American Studies, 1996-98

College of William and Mary, Instructor, Spring 1994, Fall 1994

Education

Ph.D, American Studies, College of William and Mary, 1997

M.A. (Western American) History, Utah State University, 1991

B.A. cum laude, American Studies, Mount Holyoke College, 1988

Publications

Monographs:

American Tomboys: 1850-1920 (University of Massachusetts Press, 2018)

Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

Refereed Articles

“Identity, Speculation and History: the Case of Adah Isaacs Menken,” History and Memory: Studies of Representations of Past (Vol 18, No. 1, Spring 2006).

“Toiling in the Archives of Cyberspace,” Antoinette Burton, ed. Archive Stories: Evidence, Experience and History (Duke University Press, December 2005).

“Catching it All in the Web,” Journal of Women’s History, (spring 2003), 176-78.

Essay in a Collection

With Laura Ansley, “American Theater and Civil War,” in Zoe Trodd and Maggie Morehouse, Civil War in American Life and Culture, (Routledge, 2012).

Book Review Essay

"Race and Girlhood in the United States," Journal of Women’s History. (vo. 30, no 4, Winter 2018).

“New Girls for the New (Twentieth) Century,” Journal of Women’s History, (Vol 21, no. 4, Winter 2009), 196-204.

“That I Would Be Good”: Laying the Groundwork of the History of American Girlhood,” Reviews in American History (September 2003), 441-424.

Book Reviews

Heather S. Nathan, Hideous Characters & Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage in American Jewish History (winter 2018)

Ryan K. Anderson, Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood: The Progressive Era Creation of the School boy Sports Story in Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, vol 10, number 1, Winter 2017, 135-36.

Janet Floyd, Writing: The Pioneer Woman, in Western Historical Quarterly, (Spring 2003).

Allan Ackerman, The Portable Theatre, Forthcoming in Journal of Early American

History (Fall 2002).

Alison M. Parker, et al., Women and the Unstable State in Nineteenth-Century

America,Western Historical Quarterly, (Winter 2001).

C. Dallet Hemphill, Bowing to Necessities: A History of Manners in America, 1620-1860, H-SHEAR (book reviews on line), (February 2001).

Kristen Iverson, Molly Brown : Unraveling the Myth in Western Historical Quarterly,

(Autumn 2000).

Malinda Jenkins, Gambler’s Wife: the Life of Malinda Jenkins, in Pacific Northwest

Quarterly, (Winter 1999/2000).

Richard A. Peterson, Creating Country Music, in Western Historical Quarterly, (Winter

1998).

Susan Zanjani, A Mine of Her Own: Women Prospectors in the American West, 1850

1950, and Mary, Murphy, Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte,

1914-41 in Journal of American History (March 1998), 1538-39.

Gloria E. Myers, A Municipal Mother: Portland's Lola Green Baldwin, America's First

Police Woman in Journal of the American West (January 1998), 116-17.

Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith, Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement: Life on

the Home Frontier in American Studies (Spring 1995), 173-75.

Barbara Love and Frances Love Froideaux, eds. Lady's Choice: Ethel Waxham's Journal

and Letters, 1905-1910 in Journal of the American West (April 1996), 109.

Other publications

With Katie Callahan, “Beauty Over the Centuries—Female,” Encyclopedia of Body Image and Human Appearance (London: Elsevier, 2012).

“Equal Rights,” coursepack for ; released Fall 2001

“United States Women’s History Survey,” in Women’s History, vol. 1—American

History, ed. Louise Stevenson (Princeton: Markus Weiner, 1998), 42-49.

Works in Progress:

In Her Shoes: Getting to the Sole of American Women’s History.

“Tomboys as Retrospective,” in Reclaiming the Tomboy: Posthumanism, Gender Representation, and Intersectionality, eds. Jennifer Harrison, Holly Wells, and Joan Dymond (Lexington Books)

With Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, “Imagining the Black Girl: Popular Culture and the Construction of Modern Black Girlhood”

Media Appearances

2018 “Thinking Aloud,” Radio

2016 Louisiana Anthology Podcast: “Adah Isaacs Menken”

2016 Louisiana Anthology Podcast: “Loretta Janetta Valesquez”

2013 talking head in Rebel, PBS documentary by Iguana Films, Director Maria Agui Carter

2008 Interviewed for WVIZ film “Applause,” producer David C. Barnett.

2007 Interviewed on “Around Noon,” WCPN (NPR).

2001 Interviewed about 9/11 on local FOX news

Miscellaneous interviews for newspapers and magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Los Angeles Times, Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

Invited Talks:

Tomboys and Juvenile Fiction, CWRU Special Collections, March 2018.

Smith College Alumnae of Cleveland, “American Tomboys,” Novemer 2017.

“American Tomboys,” open forum at the Happy Dog, Cleveland, April 2017.

Public Policy Series, CWRU, spring 2016, “Citizenship in the United States.”

Mount Holyoke Club of West Florida, “Passing of the Tomboy,” Boca Grande, FL, 2016

Flora Stone Mather Community Salon, “Tomboys,” Cleveland, OH 2015

Laurel School, Cleveland, Ohio, 2013, 2014

“American Studies in the Academy,” “American Studies, American Lives,” Draper Conference, University of Connecticut Storrs, October 2014

“Herstory: Women's Roles in Modern Civil Rights Movements,”panel member, CWRU, January 2010.

“American Tomboys and Girlhood Development,” Northeast Ohio Clinical Social Work Society,” April 2007

“Election Dissection,” Cleveland ACLU, 2006

“Construct Femininity/Femininity Construct,” B. K. Smith Gallery, Lake Erie College, April 2004

“Rumor, History, and Hype,” American Studies Program, Regensburg University, Germany, October 2003

“History and Hearsay,” History Department, Universitat Essen, Germany, November, 2003

“Rumor, History, and Hype,” Public Programs, American Antiquarian Society, December, 2003.

Presentations:

Recent work, Schubert Center for Child Studies, October 2018.

Comments, “Nimble Minds: Women and Intellectualism,” Organization of American Historians, New Orleans, LA, 2017

“The Bliss of Boyhood,” American Studies Association, Los Angeles, CA, November 2014.

Comments, “Creating the Useful American Child,” Bi-annual Conference for the Society of the History of Childhood and Youth, Nottingham, England, June 2013

“Rebel: A Woman, A Myth, and the Politics of Cultural Identity,” American Studies Association Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 2012.

“Tomboys, Girl Sports, and Western Pulp Fiction, 1860s-1900,” Berkshire Conference 2011.

Roundtable discussion on “Teaching American Women’s History: Innovations and Ideas” American Historical Association, San Diego, CA, January 2010.

“Cowgirls and Tomboys,” Baker Nord Center, CWRU, December 2009.

“Girlish Masculinities: American Tomboys at the Turn of The Twentieth Century,” CWRU, September 19, 2007

“American Tomboys: Research in progress,” Sallie Bingham Center, Duke University, Durham, NC, July 17, 2007

“Finding the balance between media images and the self,” Flora Stone Mather Center for Women, CWRU, February 2007.

Comments, “Sex and Murder in Philadelphia—What’s a Brother to do?” SHEAR, Philadelphia, PA, July 2005.

“ Nineteenth-century American Tomboys and Constructions of Whiteness,” Organization of American Historians, April 2005.

“American Tomboys, 1850-1920,” University of California Davis, CA, February 2005.

“Tomboys and Little Women: Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth Century American Popular Literature and Culture” American Studies Association, November 2004.

"Teenage Girls: A New Phenomenon? A Short History of American Adolescent Girlhood" Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, CWRU, October 2004.

“American Tomboy,” Baker-Nord Center, CWRU, Spring 2004.

“Tomboys and Other Ninteenth-century Girls,” American Antiquarian Society, July 2003.

“Tomboys and Fashionable Girls: Gender Constructions in American Culture,” Essener Kollege fur Geschlechterforschung, Duisburg-Essen University, Germany, October 2003

“Rumor, History, and Hype,” American Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, LA, April 2003.

Comments, “Female Perversions,” Flora Stone Mather Center for Women, CWRU, Spring 2003

“History and Plagiarism,” Case History Associates, CWRU, Fall 2002.

“Celebrity, Hype and History: The Rewriting of Adah Isaacs Menken,” CWRU, Spring

2002.

Comments, “Hank Williams and American Culture,” American Music Masters, CWRU and the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame, October 2001.

Comments, “Subverting the Marketplace of Images”( Native Americans in American culture), American Studies Association, Houston, TX, November 2002.

“Rewriting and Re-imaging Adah Isaacs Menken,” Organization of American Historians, Los Angeles, CA, April 2001.

“Revealing the Body and Concealing the Self,” Society for History of the Early Republic, Baltimore, MD, July 2001.

Comments, “The ‘Sporting’ Press in 1840s New York: Three Interpretations,” American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada,1999.

“Adah Isaacs Menken,” Women Studies Conference, Worcester, MA, Fall 1999.

Comments, “Spectacular Bodies,” Nineteenth-Century Cultural Studies, Philadelphia, PA, Fall 1999.

“Cartes de Visites: Personal Advertising in American Culture, 1850-1870,” American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, Spring 1999.

“Sexuality and Cross-Dressing on the Civil War Stage,” New England Seminar Series,

American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, October 1998.

"An Ideal Duality of Sex," Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, 1997

"Conversation: Intersections between American Women's History and Feminist Biography," American Studies Association, Kansas City, MO, November 1996.

"Adah Isaacs Menken in California: Bohemian Days," American Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 1995.

"Adah Isaacs Menken in Cincinnati: Exploring Gender in Reform Judaism," American

Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, OH, 1995.

"Race and Gender in a Foreign Land: Kate Chopin's Safe Setting for Dangerous

Questions," George Washington University, Washington D.C., 1992

"Habits of the Hive: The Sisters of the Holy Cross in Salt Lake City," University of

Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 1991.

"Gens de Couleur Libres of Antebellum Louisiana," Utah State University,

Logan, UT, 1991.

“Mixed History: The Failure of Race Definition," Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 1991.

Fellowships and Grants:

Flora Stone Mather History Fellowship, 2010, 2016

Mary Lily Research Grant, Sallie Bingham Center, Duke University, Spring 2007

Baker-Nord Fellowship Seminar on Childhood, Case, Fall 2005

UCITE teaching seminar, Case, fall 2005

Service Learning Seminar, Case, spring 2005

Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 2003

New England Research Fellowship Consortium, 2003

Essener Kolleg fur Geschlechterforschung, Duisberg-Essen, Germany, 2003

Glennan Fellowship for Innovation in Teaching, Case, 2002

W. P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Fund, Case, 2001 and 2002

Flora Stone Mather Alumnae Association Grant, Case, 2000

McGregor Grant, Case, 2000

Andrew W. Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellow at American Antiquarian Society, 1999

Rapoport Research Fellowship, American Jewish Archives, 1995

Williams Research Fellowship, Historic New Orleans Collection, 1993

Mariner's Museum Fellowship, William and Mary, 1991-93

George Ellsworth Fellowship, Utah State University, 1989-91

Teaching and Mentoring Awards:

Won: J. Bruce Jackson, MD., Award for Undergraduate Mentoring, CWRU 2010

Won: Jessica Melton Perry Award for Teaching Undergraduate Writing, CWRU 2010

Nominated for a SAGES instructional award 2015

nominated for teaching award by CWRU student government 2003

nominated for Diekhoff award in graduate mentorship, CWRU: 2005, 2009, 2019

nominated for the Carl F.Wittke undergraduate teaching award, CWRU:

2002, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014

Writing Honors and Awards

Finalist George Freedley Memorial Award, Theater Library Association, 2004

Finalist for the ASA Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize, 1997

William and Mary Nominee for the AHA Nevins Prize, 1997

Charles Peterson Thesis award, Utah State University, 1990

Service: To the College or University

College Executive Committee, 2016-19

Faculty Development Committee, CAS, CWRU, 2016-

Source Funding Committee, CAS, CWRU, 2015-16

Faculty adviser for FMLA 2000-2002, 2009

Co-chair of the inaugural FSM Women’s Center “A Case for Art” Fundraiser 2008

A&S rep for UUFCC committee

Active participant in Fac-parent group

Director of American Studies, 2000-present

Dittrick Medical History Center Advisory Committee, 2003-5

Rock ‘n Roll Hall and Case Committee, 2005

Women’s Center strategic planning committee 2003-4

Women and Gender Studies Advisory Council 2008-15

Women’s Studies Steering Committee, 2000-2007

Committee on Status of Faculty Women, Faculty senate 2002-3

Girls and Girlhood Studies Group (Schubert Center for Childhood Studies) 2003

Campus recruiting, 2000-

UCITE Resource group (chair, fall 2004)

Schubert Center for Childhood Studies Associate 2006-present

To the Department

Chair of African-American History search, fall of 2017

Visiting Assistant Professor search, spring of 2017

Flora Stone Mather Fellowship Committee

Director of Undergraduates, 2007-12

Undergraduate Studies Committee, 2000-present

Asian History Job Search Committee 2008-09

Faculty Adviser for the (undergraduate) History Club 2008-12

Phi Alpha Theta Faculty Advisor, 2004-6, 2007-09, 2016-

Graduate Council, 2002- 2009

African-American Postdoctoral fellowship committee: 2008-10, 2016

Strategic Planning Committee, 2001-2002

American History Search Committee, Spring 2002

Speaker Committee, 2001-2003, 2012-15

To the Community:

Faculty Advisor for CWRU chapter of Alpha Chi Omega 2018-

FSM Center for Women, community salons 2007, 2009, 2016

Western Reserve Historical Society, Collections Committee, 2004-6

Cleveland Public Theater Advisory board, 2004.

To the Profession

Tenure file reviews

Co-organizer, Draper Conference “American Studies, American Lives,” University of Connecticut, Storrs, October 2014.

Hench Dissertation Fellowship Selection Committee, AAS, 2010, 2012

Peer reviewer for various journals and presses, among them Journal of Women’s History, Legacy, University of North Carolina Press, and University of Massachusetts Press.

Andrew Mellon Post-dissertation Fellowship Committee, American Antiquarian Society, January 2003

Focus Group: The Future of Early American History, American Antiquarian Society, January 2003.

Other Professional Experience:

Journal consultant and publications writer for Mariner's Museum, Newport News,

Virginia. 1991-93

Editorial assistant, The Western Historical Quarterly, Logan, Utah, 1989-91.

Legal Assistant, Testa, Hurwitz &Thibeault, Boston, Massachusetts, 1988-89

Professional Development:

The Outside Reader: Writing for a Cross-over Audience 2018

CWRU: UCITE mentoring seminar, 2010

Baker-Nord seminar “Childhoods,” Case, Fall 2005

UCITE Learning Seminar, Case, Fall 2005

Seminar on Service Learning, Case, Spring 2005.

American Antiquarian Society, Summer Seminar in the History of the Book in American Culture: “Telling Lives, Telling Lies? Biography, Autobiography, and Personal Narrative,” 1999

Clark University: Teaching Portfolio Workshops, 1999.

Pedagogy of Writing, William and Mary, 1992

Memberships:

American Historical Association

American Studies Association

Organization of American Historians

Society for the History of Childhood and Youth

Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians

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