Curriculum Vitae

Simone M. Caron

Department of History

Wake Forest University

Box 7806, Reynolda Station

Winston-Salem, NC 27109

Office Phone: (336) 758-5556

email: caron@wfu.edu

EDUCATION:

Clark University, Worcester, MA. Ph.D. in History (1990).

Major Doctoral Field: United States History since 1815.

Other Fields:

o Women's Political and Social Movements in the United States since 1800

o Women in Modern Asia, with a concentration on Japan, China, and India

o United States History to 1815.

Dissertation: "Race, Class, and Reproduction: The Evolution of Reproductive Policy in the

United States, 1800-1989."

Dissertation Director: Ronald P. Formisano

Northeastern University, Boston, MA. M.A. in History (1985).

Exams passed in American and European historiography.

Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA. B.A. in History (1983).

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:

Chair of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies: 2018 - .

Chair of the History Department: 2005-2013.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Wake Forest University, Associate Professor of History, 1998-2015; Professor, 2015-.

American Medical History

Health, Disease and Healing in World History since Antiquity

Gender in Modern America

Race, Gender and the Courts since 1787

US Gilded Age to Depression

US Depression to the present

Europe and the World in the Modern Era

FYS: The Depression through the Eyes of American Novelists

FYS: Medical Controversies in American History

US Social History to 1865

US Social History since 1865

Honors Seminar

Seminar: Controversies in American Medical History since 1700

Seminar: Race, Class and Gender in American History

Seminar: The Long Decade of the Sixties, 1956-1974

Wake Forest University, Assistant Professor of History, Fall 1991-1998

History of American Women, Colonial to the Present

United States History since 1865

United States Social History, Colonial to the Present

Women in Modern Asia

Europe and the World in the Modern Era.

Ancient World Civilizations

Seminar: Women in Japan

Seminar: History of Sexuality in the United States

Seminar: Honors in History

The College of William and Mary, Visiting Assistant Professor, September 1990 to May 1991.

United States History, 1920-1945.

United States History, 1945-1990.

Women's Political and Social Activism (US) since 1800.

Women in Modern Asia.

University of Massachusetts, Harbor Campus, Visiting Assistant Professor, Jan.-Aug. 1990.

United States History, 1865 to the present

The Individual and History (Lenin, Hitler, Gandhi, Mao & Ho).

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Visiting Instructor, January 1987 to May 1990.

Concepts of Historical Analysis

Women in the Labor Movement (US).

United States Foreign Policy, 1865-1941.

United States History, 1877-1921.

The Shaping of Post-1920 American Society.

Introduction to Social History.

Topics in Social History (Senior Seminar).

Advisor for Independent Senior Research Papers.

Clark University, Visiting Instructor, Fall 1988-1989.

United States Social History, 1850 to the Present.

History of American Women, Colonial to the Present.

Women in Modern Asia.

Northeastern University, Visiting Instructor, Summer 1988.

History of Ancient World Civilization.

Clark University, Teaching Assistant (1985 to 1987).

Various courses in Afro-American History, Asian History, and United States Social History.

Northeastern University, Teaching Assistant (1983-1985), Western Civilization.

PUBLICATIONS:

Book:

Who Chooses? American Reproductive History since 1830 (Gainesville: University Press of

Florida, 2008). Paper back and audio editions both in 2010.

Articles:

“‘Women Helping Women’: Domestic-skills Training for Unwed Mothers,” Gender and Women’

Studies 2.2 (2019): 1-11.

“‘We Won’t Go Back’: Abortion before Roe v. Wade,” Journal of Law and Policy 9.2 (2018): 167-

98.

“‘Endeavoring to Carry on Their Work’: The National Debate over Midwives and its Impact in

Rhode Island, 1890-1940,” Journal of Nursing History Review 25 (2017): 26-53.

“Strange Bedfellows in the Political Discourse Surrounding Roe v. Wade.” Reviews in American

History 44.4 (December 2016): 621-29.

“The International Politics of Reproductive History,” Journal of Women’s History 27.4 (Winter

2015): 184-93.

“‘Poison that Lurks in the Blood’: Medical Views of Female Alcoholics in Late-Nineteenth

Century American Society,” International Journal of Gender and Women’s Studies 2.2 (Summer

2014): 1-41.

“‘It’s Been a Long Road to Acceptance’: Midwives in Rhode Island, 1970-2000,” Journal of

Nursing History Review 22 (2014): 61-94.

“Capitalism’s Hidden Victims: Desperate Women, Abortion, Infanticide and Single Motherhood,”

in Sexuality: Perspectives, Issues and Role in Society, Nicholas E. Peterson and Whitney Campbell,

eds. (NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2012), 119-36.

“‘Killed by Its Mother’: Infanticide in Providence County, Rhode Island, 1870-1938,” Journal of

Social History (Fall 2010): 217-41.

“‘I Have Done it and I Have Got to Die’: Coroners’ Inquests of Abortion Deaths in Rhode Island,

1876-1938,” The History of the Family 14 (Spring 2009): 1-18.

"Richard M. Nixon: The ‘Problem of Population’ versus the ‘Sanctity of Human Life’," New

England Journal of History 56 (Winter 1999-Spring 2000): 101-21.

"Birth Control and the Black Community in the 1960s: Genocide or Power Politics?" Journal of

Social History 31 (March 1998): 545-70.

"Recent Perspectives on Abortion," NWSA Journal 5 (Fall 1993): 393-404.

Works In Progress:

Women Helping Women: The Sophia Little Home of Rhode Island (book manuscript)

Encyclopedia Entries:

“Reproductive Rights Movement,” Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History (NY: Oxford

University Press, 2012).

“Abortion.” The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America. Vol. 1 (London: Sage

Publishers, 2012), 2-8.

“Andrea Yates.” The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America. Vol. 4 (London: Sage

Publishers, 2012), 1983-84.

“Buck v. Bell.” The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America. Vol. 1 (London: Sage

Publishers, 2012), 169-70.

“Comstock Law.” The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America. Vol. 1 (London: Sage

Publishers, 2012), 313-14.

“Eisenstadt v. Baird.” The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America. Vol. 2 (London:

Sage Publishers, 2012), 523-24.

“Griswold v. Connecticut.” The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America. Vol. 2

(London: Sage Publishers, 2012), 713-15.

“Infanticide.” The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America. Vol. 2 (London: Sage

Publishers, 2012), 836-37.

“Roe v. Wade.” The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America. Vol. 4 (London: Sage

Publishers, 2012), 1573-76.

“Frank Bosworth Brandegee," American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C.

Carnes, 24 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), vol. 3: 413.

"LeBaron Bradford Colt," American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes,

24 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), vol. 5: 268-69.

Book Reviews:

Review of Mary Ziegler, After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate (Cambridge: Harvard

University Press, 2015) in American Historical Review 124.3 (June 2019): 1107-08.

Review of Johanna Schoen, Abortion After Roe (Chapel Hill: University of Chapel Hill Press,

2015) in American Historical Review 121.4 (October 2016): 1325-26.

Review of Karen Weingarten, Abortion in the American Imagination: Before Life and Choice,

1880-1940 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2014) in Journal of American History.

Review of Pamela S. Nadell and Kate Haulman, eds., Making Women’s Histories: Beyond National

Perspectives (New York: New York University Press, 2013) in American Historical Review 119

(2) (2014): 474-75.

Review of Rose Holz, The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World (Rochester: University of

Rochester Press, 2012) in Social History of Medicine 26 (2013): 794-96.

Review of Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America (NY: Oxford University

Press, 2011) in American Historical Review (April 2012): 573-74.

Review of The Notorious Dr. Flippin: Abortion and Consequence in the Early Twentieth Century

(Lubbock: Texas Tech, 2011) in Journal of American History 98 (2011): 864-65.

Review of From Marriage to the Market, Susan Thistle (Berkeley: University of California Press,

2006), in Journal of the History of Sexuality 20 (September 2011): 656-59.

Review of Fit to Be tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980, Rebecca

M. Kluchin (Rutgers University Press, 2009), in Journal of American History (March 2010): 1254-

55.

Review of The Fertility Doctor: John Rock and the Reproductive Revolution, Margaret Marsh and

Wanda Ronner (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), in American Historical Review 114.5

(December 2009): 1496-97.

Review of Becoming an Unwed Mother: A Sociological Account, Prudence Mors Rains, New

Brunswick: Aldine Transaction, 2007, in International Journal of Sociology of the Family, Volume

34, No. 1 (Spring 2008): 93-95.

Review of Website, "The Adoption Project" for Women and American Social Movements, Vol. 10,

no. 3 (September 2007).

Review of Johanna Schoen, Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in

Public Health and Welfare (2005), Journal of Southern History 72, no. 2 (May 2006): 499-500.

Review of Donald T. Critchlow, Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal

Government in Modern America, http:www.h-net.msu.edu/~women/ August 25, 1999.

Review of Janet Farrell Brodie, Contraception and Abortion in 19th-Century America (1994)

Journal of the History of Sexuality (July 1995).

Review of Anne N. Costain, Inviting Women's Rebellion: A Political Process Interpretation of the

Women's Movement (1992) Social Science Quarterly 74 (September 1993): 695.

Review of Mary C. Brinton, Women and the Economic Miracle: Gender and Work in Postwar

Japan (1993) Journal of Asian and African Studies.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

External Reviewer for NWO Social Sciences and Humanities Board (2019).

Representative for the Health, Medicine and Body Network of the Social Science Research

Association, 2015- .

Consultant to Old Salem in the creation of the Doctor’s House. Assisted in writing the federal grant

to fund the project and in creating the text for display. 2015-2017.

External Reviewer for Tenure and Promotion case at City University of New York Queens College

(2016 and 2018).

Referee for articles in the Journal of the History of Sexuality, Journal of America History, Journal

of Women’s History, and Journal of Women, Politics, & Policy (1999-present).

External Reviewer for J. William T. Youngs, Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life. 2nd

ed. (Longman Publisher, 2004)

External Reviewer for Clash of Will: Confrontations in the Making of Modern America (Longman

Publisher, 2003).

External Reviewer for National Endowment for the Humanities Project, December 2003.

External Reviewer for Parallel Lives: Black and White Women in American History (Longman

Publisher, 2001)

Clark University, Research Assistant to Professor Ronald Formisano for his book, Boston Against

Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s (Chapel Hill: The University of North

Carolina Press, 1991). Fall 1987 to Spring 1989.

Clark University, Research Assistant to President Richard Traina. Summer 1986.

Northeastern University, curriculum development. Developed computerized programmed

instruction modules for Western Civilization survey courses. Phase I implemented Fall 1984;

Phase II implemented Fall 1985.

Northeastern University, developed computerized index and retrieval system for the American

History slide collection (4000 slides) for use by faculty. Summer 1985.

RECOGNITIONS:

The Donald O. Schoonmaker Faculty Award for Community Service (February 2018).

Jon Reinhardt Prize for Excellence in Teaching, February 2014.

Reid-Doyle Prize for Teaching Excellence, February 1995.

Omicron Delta Kappa Award for Contribution to Student Life, February 1994.

Finalist, Allan Nevins Award, 1990 (National Award for best dissertation).

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES:

“Forsyth County Public Health and Urban Workers,” Social Science History Association, Chicago,

IL, November 2019.

Discussant for Session: Gendered Health and Reproductive Issues, Social Science History

Association, Chicago, IL, November 2019.

Discussant and Chair for Session: Geography, Age and Health, Social Science History Association,

Chicago, IL, November 2019.

“Health Care for Workers at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., 1880s-1920s,” Social Science History

Association, Phoenix, AZ, November 2018.

Chair of session: “In Good Health? Explorations into Perceptions of Being Healthy or Sick,” Social

Science History Association, Phoenix, AZ, November 2018.

“Abortion before Roe v. Wade,” Opening Talk at WFU Law Symposium, “Thinking about the

Future of Reproductive Freedom on the 45th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, October 19, 2018.

Chair of session: "Physiological Freedoms: Constructing Therapeutic Practices and Expertise,

1840s-1930s,” Social Science History Association, Montreal, November 2017.

Panelist for Roundtable: The Implications of Aaron Panofsky's Misbehaving Science, Social

Science History Association, Montreal, November 2017.

“‘Women Helping Women’: Domestic-skills Training for Unwed Mothers.” Berkshire Conference

on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities, June 2017, Hofstra University.

“Domestic-skills Training as Moral Therapy for Unwed Mothers.” Social Science History

Association, November 2016, Chicago.

Chair and Discussant, “Medical Experimentation.” Social Science History Association, November

2016, Chicago.

Chair, “Psychotherapy, the Unconscious, Labor, and Welfare.” Social Science History Association,

November 2016, Chicago.

“Putting aside ‘Professional Pride’: The Medical Debate over Adoption, 1905-1960.” Social Science

History Association, November 2015, Baltimore.

“‘Endeavoring to Carry on their Work’: Regulating Midwifery in Rhode Island, 1890-1940,” Social

Science History Association, November 6, 2014, Toronto.

“‘[J]ust as proud and anxious to show her baby off as any mother’: Medical Care for Unwed Mothers

and Adoption at the Sophia Little Home, 1905-1936,” Social Science History Association, November

21, 2013, Chicago.

Commentator, Session: Historical Perspectives on Health Professionals, Social Science History

Association, November 23, 2013, Chicago.

“Doctors, Nurses and Unwed Mothers: A Case Study of the Sophia Little Home in Rhode Island,”

American Association of the History of Medicine, May 16-20, 2013, Atlanta, GE.

Commentator for Session on Politics of Choice at Southeast Women’s History Conference, April 18,

2013, UNC-Greensboro.

“‘It’s Been a Long Road to Acceptance’: Midwives in Rhode Island, 1890-1990,” Social Science

History Association, November 1, 2012, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Chair and Commentator, Session: Bolstering Community Support for Veterans: Early Approaches

to Caring for Those Who Sacrificed for Others. Social Science History Association, November 18,

2012, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Chair and Commentator, Session: The Politics of Abortion in the 1970s. Policy History Conference,

June 8, 2012, Richmond, VA.

“‘It’s Been a Long Road’: Midwives in Rhode Island, 1940-1990,” American Association of the

History of Medicine, April 27, 2012, Baltimore, MD.

“Midwives in Urban New England, 1890-1940,” Social Science History Association, November 18,

2011, Boston, MA.

Chair and Commentator, Session: Health Issues 1880--1920, Social Science History Association,

November 19, 2011, Boston, MA.

“Illegitimacy and the Impact of Roe v. Wade,” Southern Association for the History of Medicine

and Science, March 2011, Memphis, TN.

“Unwed Mothers and Abortion, 1960 – 1974,” Social Science History Association, November

2010, Chicago, Il.

Chair and Commentator, Session: Parenthood and Policy Session, Social Science History

Association, November 2010, Chicago, Il.

“Medical Discourse on Alcoholic Women,” Social Science History Association, October 2009,

Long Beach, CA.

“Physicians, Alcoholics, and the Sophia Little Home,” Southern Association for the History of

Medicine and Science, March 2009, Birmingham, AL.

“Medical Professionals’ Reaction to Deaths from Abortion, 1820-1938,” Social Science History

Association, October 2008, Miami, FL.

Chair and Commentator, Session: Violence in Late Nineteenth Century US, Social Science History

Association, October 2008, Miami, FL.

“‘I have done it and I have got to die’: Coroners’ Inquests of Abortion Deaths,” American

Association of the History of Medicine, May 2007, Quebec.

“Infanticide and Coroners,” Social Science Historical Association, November 2006, Minneapolis,

MN.

“Unwed Motherhood and Adoption at the Sophia Little Home, 1905-1936,” Organization of

American Historians Southern Regional Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, July 2004.

Chair and Commentator, Session: Natural Family Planning in the Twentieth Century, Southwest

Historical Association, Corpus Christi, TX, March 2004.

“Mothers, Doctors, and Neonaticide in Rhode Island, 1874 to 1938,” New England Historical

Association, Worcester, MA, October 2003.

“‘Killed by Its Mother’: Neonaticide in Rhode Island, 1804 to 1938,” Social Science Research

Seminar, Wake Forest University, September 2003.

“‘Killed by its Mother’: Infanticide in Rhode Island, 1830 to 1940,” American Association for the

History of Medicine, Boston, MA, April 30 to May 4, 2003.

Chair of Symposium, and opening remarks, “History of Women in American Medicine,” History of

Women in Medicine Symposium, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem,

NC, October 2002.

"Surviving A Turbulent Decade in Reproductive Health: Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island,

1965-1975," American Association for the History of Medicine, Charleston, SC, May 2001.

"The Rhode Island Birth Control League vs. Planned Parenthood Federation of America,"

Berkshire Conference on Women's History, Rochester, NY, June 6, 1999.

"Birth Control and the Black Community: Two Case Studies, Pittsburgh and Providence, 1930-

1965," Sigerist Circle of Scholars, American Association of the History of Medicine, New

Brunswick, NJ, May 6, 1999.

"The Rhode Island Maternal Health Association: Comprehensive Health Care, 1931-1965,"

Organization of American Historians, Toronto, April 22, 1999.

"Women and the Law: From Myra Bradwell to Ruth Ginsburg," North Carolina Association of

Women Attorneys Conference, October 10, 1998.

"Reproductive Policy in Nineteenth Century Rhode Island," The John Nicholas Brown Center for

the Study of American Civilization Symposium, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island,

November 14-15, 1997.

"Birth Control in the 1960s: Black Male Militants versus Black Women in Pittsburgh," Oral

History Association, September 24-28, 1997, New Orleans, Louisiana.

"The 1960s Pittsburgh Birth Control Controversy: Genocide or Reproductive Freedom?" Southern

Conference on Women's History, June 12-14, 1997, The College of Charleston in South Carolina.

"Birth Control, Sterilization and the Black Community during the Great Depression." Northeast

Popular Culture Association, Worcester, MA, October, 1995.

"Reproductive Policies during the Great Depression." New England Historical Association,

Hartford, CT, October 1994.

"Richard Nixon and `The Problem of Population'." Southwestern Social Science Association, New

Orleans, March 1993.

Discussant on Panel, "Women and Social Change." Southwestern Social

Science Association, New Orleans, March 1993.

"Reproductive Policy and the Welfare State: Birth Control, 1960-1970." Social Science Research

Seminar, Wake Forest University,

February 1993.

"Strange Bedfellows: Black Power, the Catholic Church and the Anti-

Birth Control Campaign in Pittsburgh during the 1960s." Southwestern

Social Science Association, Austin, March 1992.

"Birth Control and Social Policy during the 1960s." New England

Historical Association, American Antiquarian Society, April 1991.

"Birth Control, Abortion, and Sterilization in the United States, 1850-1973." Worcester Area

History Seminar, Clark University, November 1988.

PRESENTATIONS ON CAMPUS:

“The History of Eugenics in the U.S., Introductory Speaker for Eugenic Symposium, Wake Forest

University Reynolda Campus,

“The History of Breast Cancer,” Introductory Speaker for “Herstories: Breast Cancer Narratives”

Symposium, Wake Forest University Medical School, March 1, 2013.

Keynote Speaker for “Women in Medicine” Symposium, Wake Forest University Medical School,

March 8, 2012.

Panelist on Dr. Deacon Radio Show, “NC and Eugenic Sterilization,” February 25, 2009.

“The Medical Profession and Abortion since 1800,” Physician Assistants Program, Wake Forest

University Medical School, April 23, 2004.

“History of Domestic Violence,” WISE, October 15, 2001.

“Women in Contemporary Asia,” ASIA, April 19, 2000.

“History of Birth Control,” WIN, March 31, 1999.

“Impact of the Car on American Culture in the 1920s,” Euzelian Society, March 23, 1999.

“Civil Rights: Can We Do the Right Thing?” Benson Discovery Series, October 20, 1998.

“The Rape of Nanking,” Panel Discussant for Phi Alpha Theta, April 23, 1998.

“The Historical Roots of the Gay Rights Movement,” GALBA, March 30, 1998.

“Has the Feminist Movement Helped or Hindered Women’s Progress?” WIN, March 17, 1998.

"The Raft Debate," October 17, 1997.

"The History B.A. as Preparation for Law School," History Department

Open House, February 19, 1996.

"The Rhetoric of the STOP-ERA Movement," Huffman Lecture Series, October

26, 1995.

"Seventy-Five Years of Women's Suffrage," Women's Issues Network,

November 1995.

"Women and the Struggle for Abortion Rights in the Twentieth Century,"

Philomathesian Society, November 14, 1994.

History and Pre-Law," History Department Open House, February 1994.

"Women in the United States and Asia: Exploring the Myth of

Liberalism and Patriarchy," WorldNet, The Professors' Lecture

Series, November 10, 1993.

"The National Woman's Party and the Equal Rights Amendment," Women's

Issues Network, October 21, 1993.

"The Possibilities of Graduate Study for History Majors," Phi Alpha

Theta, April 1992

"Alice Paul and the March on Washington," Pi Omicron Chapter of Delta

Sigma Theta and WFU Pro Choice Committee, March 1991.

STUDENT RECOGNITIONS:

Omicron Delta Kappa Student Award, February, 1994.

Old Gold and Black mention in "Best Professor or Class" category,

February 1994.

Luter Hall recognition as "one of W.F.U.'s Most Outstanding Professors

for 1993-1994."

Omicron Delta Kappa Salute for constant dedication and commitment to

the students of Wake Forest, February 18, 1993.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

Chair of WGSS, 2018-.

Chair of History Department, 2005-2013.

Chair of Chairs, 2008-09.

Judicial Council, 2004- .

Senate, 2016- .

President of University Senate 2020-21.

Chair of College Senators 2017-2018.

Chair Fringe Benefits Committee, 2017-2019.

Co-Chair Conflict of Interest and Gift Acceptance Committee, 2018-2019.

College Senate Representative to the Board of Trustees, 2017-2018.

Chair Poverty Free Campus 2016-2017 [raised minimum wage for all workers, including

contract workers to $11.00/hour]

Eudomina Institute Subcommittee 2016-2017

Committee on Academic Planning, 2014- 2018.

Chair of CAP 2015-16.

CAP Faculty Representative to the Board of Trustees, 2015-2017.

Nominations Committee, 2014-2018.

Steering Committee, Bioethics, Humanities and Medicine Minor, 2016-.

Co-founding member of this minor.

Faculty Council for Entrepreneurial Studies Minor, 2018 - .

Executive Committee of WFU-AAUP, 2008- .

President WFU-AAUP, 2000-2001

President WFU-AAUP, 2006-07

Women and Gender Studies Curriculum Committee, 2009- .

Co-Director of the Social Science Research Seminar, Spring 1994 – Spring 2017.

Internal Review Committees:

Majors: Anthropology, Math, Economics, Sociology, and Education

Minors: WGS, African Studies (Chair)

Faculty Education Network, Fall 2011-15.

Dean’s Advisory Committee, Spring 2009.

Dean’s Search Committee, Fall 2008.

Women’s Studies Steering Committee, 2001-2006.

Committee on Academic Affairs, 1998-2002

Chair 1999-2001, and 2001-2002.

Pre-Law Advisor, August 1993-1999.

Lower Division Advisor, August 1992-.

Truman Scholarship Committee, October 1993-2006.

American Ethnic Studies Advisory Committee, Fall 1996—2001.

Urban Studies Advisory Committee, Fall 1997—2012.

Faculty Facilitator for Drink Think Alcohol Symposium, Spring 1996.

Provost Brown's Co-Interview Committee, 1995-1996.

Participant in President's Leadership Conference, Fall 1995.

Department Representative at Sexual Harassment Workshop, Fall 1995.

Steering Committee for Faculty Writing Workshop, Summer 1994.

Faculty Judge for Senior Colloquium, May 1993.

History Subcommittee for President Hearn meetings, Spring 1992

COMMUNITY SERVICE:

Volunteer at Samaritan Ministries Soup Kitchen, 2009-.

Volunteer for Meals on Wheels, 2017-.

Consultant at Old Salem for Medical Exhibit, 2015-2017.

Volunteer at Hanes Middle School, 2006-2011.

Volunteer at Brunson Elementary School, 2004-2008.

Volunteer at Jefferson Elementary School, 2000-2005.

Co-Leader of Girl Scout Troop: 2003-2007

Friendship Family:

To Swedish Student, 1998-2003.

To Japanese Student, 2006-2007.

To French Student, 2008-2009.

To two Chilean Students, summer 2017.

To two Ben Franklin Scholars, summer 2018.

WFDD Interview, Women Who Choose to Remain Childless, October 24, 2013.

Interviewed by Winston-Salem Journal for two articles: one on birth control, and one on

housework. 2000-01.

TV Interview with ABC-45 on Historical Memory and Americans’ Sense of History, November 18,

1998.

“Historical Analysis of the Woman’s Movement,” Family Services & United Way Sponsored Talk

at the Family Services Building, W-S, March 5, 1998.

Member of the Democratic Women of Forsyth County, 1994-.

"The Fight for Reproductive Freedom," presentation to National

Organization of Women, Winston-Salem Chapter, March 1994

Fundraising Cookout for Battered Women's Shelter of Winston-Salem,

April 1993

"Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice," presentation to National

Organization of Women, W-S Chapter, March 1992

March of Dimes Consultant for Birth Defects and Birth Control Policy

Display, December 1992