Education:

Ph.D., History, Rutgers University, May 1997.
M.A., History, New Mexico State University, July 1989.
B.A., Government, Pomona College, May 1983.

Honors and Fellowships

• Post doctoral fellowship, William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 2002-2003.
  
• John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Faculty Fellowship for 2002. Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University, April 2002.
• State Faculty Support Grant,California Polytechnic State University. San Luis Obispo, CA, Spring 2002.
• Faculty Development Grant, California Polytechnic State University. San Luis Obispo, CA, Spring 2001.
• Gilberto Espinosa Prize for the best article published in 1999 in the New Mexico Historical Review.
• State Faculty Support Grant, reduced time. California Polytechnic State University. San Luis Obispo, CA, Fall 2000.
• State Faculty Support Grant, Summer Stipend. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA. Summer 2000.
• NEH Faculty Development Grant. Summer 1998. College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY. (research grant)
• NEH Curriculum Development Grant. Summer 1998. College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY. For the development of a study/travel course that explores Economic development and cultural innovation of American Indian communities in the Southwest.
• Resident Graduate Student Fellow. Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture. Rutgers University. New Brunswick, NJ. 1996-97.
• Walter Rundell Graduate Student Award, Western History Association, 1994.
• Excellence Fellowship, Rutgers University History Department, 1993-94.
• Ira C. Clark, Outstanding Graduate Student in History, New Mexico State University, Spring 1989.
• Steele-Jones Fellowship in History, New Mexico State University, 1988.
• Kaiser Foundation Travel Grant, Walter P. Ruether Labor Archives, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. Summer 1988.

Publications

Review of Kathleen P. Chamberlain, Under Sacred Ground: A History of Navajo Oil:1922-1982. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 2000. Western Historical Quarterly 33(Winter 2001), 518-519.

"The 'Making' of the Navajo Worker: Navajo Households, The Bureau of Indian Affairs and Off Reservation Wage Work, 1948-1960." New Mexico Historical Review 74(October 1999), 375-405.

Review of Martha Knack and Alice Littlefield, Native Americans and Wage Labor: Ethnohistorical Perspectives. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1996 in Labor History 38(Winter 1996-97), 98-99.

"Domesticity Deployed: Gender, Race, and the Construction of Class Struggle in the Bisbee Deportation," Labor History, 34(Spring-Summer 1993), 256-273.

Lisa Kannenberg and Michelle Brattain, "North American Labor History Conference: Men Women and Labor," International Labor and Working Class History 42(Fall 1992), 94-96.

Jeffrey P. Brown and Andrew Wigget. A Guide to Oral History Collections in New Mexico. New Mexico Heritage Center, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 1990.

Women of New Mexico State University: The First Fifty Years. (Video). New Mexico Women's Archives, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.

Teaching and Research Experience

Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies. California Polytechnic State University. San Luis Obispo, CA. Fall 1999 to the present.

Assistant Professor, History. College of New Rochelle. New Rochelle, NY. 1997-1999.

Instructor, Rutgers University--New Brunswick. Native American History, Part II. Summer Session 1997.

Instructor, Rutgers University -- New Brunswick. "Constructing Your Own Web Page for Teaching." Workshop for Prof. Rudolph Bell’s graduate course, The Teaching of History. February 1997.

Instructor, Rutgers University--New Brunswick. Expository Writing I. 1993-1995.

Instructor, Rutgers University--New Brunswick. The Development of United States to 1877. Summer session 1994.

Instructor, Rutgers University--Newark. U.S. Women's History; Images of Workers Through Film. Summer sessions, 1991-93.

Teaching Assistant, History Department, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 1990-1992; Temple University History Department, Philadelphia, PA. 1989-90; and New Mexico State University History Department, Las Cruces, NM 1988-90.

Research Assistant, for Prof. Alice Kessler-Harris, Rutgers University History Department, 1996-97, The Center for the History of Electrical Engineering, Rutgers University, 1992-93; and Prof. Joan M. Jensen, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 1987-1988.

Conference Papers

Commentator for "Negotiating Space," Western Historical Association 41st Annual Conference, October 4 - 7, 2001. San Diego, CA.

"Mining Coal Like Herding Sheep: Kinship, Navajo Coal and the BIA 1930-1950." Invited lecture, University of California, Riverside, Department of Anthropology. June 1, 2001.

"The Significance of American Indians in U.S. Labor History," North American Labor History Conference. Detroit, MI, October 19, 2000.

"Rethinking Modernization Frameworks for American Indian History: Lessons from the Third World," Western History Association, San Antonio, TX, October 14, 2000.

Chair and Commentator for "Culture and Community: Gender, Race and Sexuality in California's Popular Front," Southwest Labor Studies Association Meeting, Long Beach, California. May 6, 2000.

""Workshop for Women (and Other) Historians: Getting and Keeping a Job," Western History Association, Portland Oregon, October 6, 1999.

"'Making a Living and Working Elsewhere': Navajo Workers and the Construction of the Traditional in an Industrial Landscape, 1948-1973." American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, January 9, 1998.

"The Making of a Navajo Wage-Worker: The Navajo Household and Wage-work, 1948-1972." Western History Association Annual Conference, St. Paul MI, October 18, 1997.

"Mining Coal Like Herding Sheep: Hozho and the Transformation of Navajo Household Ecologies, 1930-60." Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University, January 29, 1997.

"Navajo Workers and White Man's Ways: Race, Sovereignty and Organized Labor on the Navajo Reservation in the 1950s," American Studies Association Meeting, Kansas City, MO. October 31-November 2, 1996.

"Mining Coal the 'Navajo Way': Independent Navajo Coal Miners and their Struggle for Autonomy in New Mexico 1930 - 1960." Oral History Association Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. October 10-13, 1996.

"Maintaining `Harmony' in a Capitalist Economy: The Indigenous Coal Industry and the Transformation of the Navajo Household." North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. October 21-23, 1995.

"Womenfolk and Union Men: International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, 1947-1957." Berkshire Women's History Conference, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, June 12, 1993.

"Domestic Defiance: The Women of the Bisbee Deportation." Thirteenth Annual North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. October 17-19, 1991.

"Race and Class in Bisbee, Arizona, 1904-1917." Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM. April 1989.

"Protest and Process: A Case Study of The Livermore Action Group." Colorado Women's Studies Association Conference, Metropolitan State College, Denver, CO. May 1988.

Professional and Community Service

United States Cultural Pluralism Committee. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA. Fall 2000 to the present.

University Representative for the Morris K. Udall Fellowship. Fall 2000 to the present.

Curriculum Committee Chair, Ethnic Studies Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA. Fall 2000 to the present.

University Information Competency Committee. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA. Fall 1999 to 2001.

Chair, Irene Ledesma Prize Committee. Coalition for Western Women's History. Summer 1999 to 2001.

Program Committee Chair, Ethnic Studies Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA. Fall 1999 to Fall 2000.

Lyceum Committee, College of Liberal Arts, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA. Fall 1999 to Fall 2000.

"Lessons from the Salt of the Earth Strike: Implications for the Labor Movement." Workshop for the New Jersey Education Association Leadership Conference, Somerset, NJ. August 17, 1998.

Seminar Participant: NEH Faculty Development Seminar, "Making Connections: The New Media Classroom," July 6-10, 1998 . Manhattan Borough Community College.

Director of Internships and Cooperative Education in the Social Sciences Division. College of New Rochelle.

Freshman Studies Curriculum Development Committee, College of New Rochelle.

Skills Committee, Faculty Curriculum Review Committee, College of New Rochelle.

"Feminism in the Labor Movement: the 1950s." Lecture, Adult Institute of Metro-West, Morristown, NJ, April 19, 1992.

"Salt of the Earth as a Historical Document." Guest lecture, Women's Film Series, State University of New York, Binghamton. April 8, 1994.

Work in Progress

Making a Living and Working Elsewhere: Navajo Workers in the Twentieth Century. (University Press of Kansas, forthcoming).

Co-editing with Brian Hosmer, Native Pathways: Economic Development and American Indian Culture in the Twentieth Century, (University of Colorado, forthcoming).

Professional Associations

American Historical Association, Western History Association, Coalition of Western Women's History, Southwest Labor Studies Association.

Research and Teaching fields

Ethnic Studies, U.S. History, Native American History, environmental history, U.S. women's history, labor history, and U.S. Western History.