As of January 2021:
EDUCATION
Ph.D., History, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, 2013
Dissertation: “Making Connections in Viet Nam: U.S. Women’s Transnational Activism and the Meanings of Race, Gender, and Revolution, 1965-1975”
M.A., History, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, 2009
B.A.B.S., Mathematics and Spanish, Regis University, Denver, Colorado, 2003
Thesis: “The Feminist Movement in Spain: From the Beginning of the Second Republic to the Beginning of the Franco Regime”
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2020-Present Associate Professor, Joint in Departments of Gender and Women’s Studies and History, University of Rhode Island
2015-2020 Assistant Professor, Joint in Departments of History and Marine Affairs and the Gender and Women’s Studies Program, University of Rhode Island
2013-2015 Visiting Assistant Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies Program, University of Rhode Island
SELECT FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, & AWARDS
2020 Faculty Career Enhancement Grant, Research and Creative Activities Committee, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2019 Winnie Collaborative Research Grant, Center for the Humanities, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2019 Mini Grant, Rhode Island Center for the Humanities, Providence, Rhode Island
2018 Faculty Research Grant, Center for the Humanities, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2018 Women’s Antiwar Diplomacy during the Viet Nam War Era named Outstanding Academic Title for 2017 by CHOICE magazine
2016 Subvention Grant, Center for the Humanities, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2014 Lerner-Scott Prize Finalist for Best Dissertation in U.S. Women’s History, Organization of American Historians
2013-2014 Moore Fellowship, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
2013 Faculty Development Grant, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2012-2013 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies
2012-2013 American Dissertation Fellowship, American Association of University Women, (Declined)
2011-2012 Mary Lily Research Grant, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
2011-2012 Schlesinger Library Dissertation Grant, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2011-2012 Sophia Smith Travel-to-Collections Grant, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
“Creating Transnational Feminist Networks, 1940-2010,” (book manuscript in progress).
Women’s Antiwar Diplomacy during the Viet Nam War Era (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017).
Media Attention for Women’s Antiwar Diplomacy:
James Springer, “Women in combat, from World War II anti-Nazi Greek resistance to Viet Cong to Syrian Kurdish militia,” South China Morning Post, (May 22, 2020) <https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/3085401/world-war-ii-anti-nazi-greek-resistance-viet-cong-syrian-kurdish-militia>.
Sarah McConnell, Voices of Vietnam, Episode 3: Women of War, Part 6: War Wives & Resistance, With Good Reason (October 6, 2018) <https://www.withgoodreasonradio.org/vietnam/>.
“Networks, News, and Activism,” UNC Press Blog (March 22, 2017) <https://uncpressblog.com/2017/03/22/jessica-m-frazier-networks-news-activism/>.
Refereed Journal Articles:
“Collaborative Efforts to End the War in Viet Nam: The Interactions of Women Strike for Peace, the Vietnamese Women’s Union, and the Women’s Union of Liberation, 1965-1968,” Peace and Change, 37, no. 3 (July 2012): 339-365.
Chapters in Edited Collections:
“Women’s Migration and Transnational Solidarity in the Twentieth Century,” in The Cambridge History of Global Migration, Volume II, co-authored with Johanna Leinonen, eds. Marcelo Borges and Madeline Hsu (in progress, 2022).
“Whose Anti-War Movement?” in The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, Volume III: Endings & Legacies, eds. Lien-Hang T. Nguyen and Pierre Asselin (in progress, 2020).
“From the Classroom to the Public: Engaging Students in Human Rights History,” in The Routledge History of Human Rights, eds. Jean Quataert and Lora Wildenthal (New York: Routledge, 2019), 638-649.
Reviews:
Protest on Trial: The Seattle 7 Conspiracy, Kit Bakke, Western Historical Quarterly (May 2020).
The Girls next door: bringing the home front to the front lines, Kara Dixon Vuic, CHOICE, 56, no. 11 (July 2019).
American Girls and Global Responsibility: A New Relation to the World during the Early Cold War, Jennifer Helgren, American Historical Review (April 2018): 613-614.
The Draft and the Vietnam Generation, directed by Beth Sanders, The Sixties, 10, no. 2 (December 2017): 253–54.
Red Love Across the Pacific: Political and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century, eds. Ruth Barraclough, Heather Bowen-Struyk, and Paula Rabinowitz, The Journal of American History 103, no. 3 (December 2016): 800-801.
Reference Works:
“Women and the US War in Vietnam.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, June 25, 2018. <http://americanhistory.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-494>.
“Transnational Diplomacy.” Edited by Roger Peace. United States Foreign Policy History and Resource Guide, July 2017. <http://peacehistory-usfp.org/vietnam-war/>.
“Women Strike for Peace,” Encyclopedia of American Women’s History, ed. Hasia R. Diner, (New York: Facts on File, 2012).
News Articles and Commentaries:
“Perspective | Fights among Feminists Aren’t a Sign of the Movement’s Weakness. They’re a Sign of Its Strength.” Washington Post (January 15, 2018) sec. Made by History, <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/01/15/fights-among-feminists-arent-a-sign-of-the-movements-weakness-theyre-a-sign-of-its-strength/>.
INVITED TALKS
2020 “Margaret Randall, Transnational Solidarity, and the Center for Southwest Research,” Retrieving the Real History: Exploring the Margaret Randall Archives at UNM Symposium, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 28
2019 “Establishing Feminist Perspectives on the Vietnam War,” Dana Shugar Lecture, Gender and Women’s Studies Program, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, September 26
2019 “Women and Peace Movements in the Twentieth Century,” Rhode Island College, North Providence, Rhode Island, March 28
2019 “Establishing Feminist Perspectives on the Vietnam War,” Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut, March 7
2012 “U.S. Women in North Viet Nam,” Brown Bag Lunch, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 5
SELECT CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Panels Organized:
2020 “Bringing Women’s and Gender History to the Public: Bridging Divides between Pedagogy, Scholarship, and Public Engagement,” Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, May 28-31, Co-organized with Shelley Rose and Sandra Sanchez-Lopez (accepted, conference canceled due to COVID-19)
2017 “Beyond Ecofeminism: Women and Their Environments,” Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Hofstra University, Long Island, New York, June 1-4, Co-organized with Kera Lovell
2016 “Thriving in the Doldrums: Complicating Women’s Political, Social, and Labor Organizing,” Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, April 7-10
Chair, Commentator, or Moderator:
2018 Moderator, “Intersectional Feminism,” Cocktails and Conversations, Women’s Fund of Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island, September 20
2018 Commentator, “Dr. Spock and Donna Reed: Parental Figures, Peace Groups, and Protest Against the Vietnam War,” Upstate Modern U.S. History Workshop, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, March 9
Papers Presented:
2020 “Taking Knowledge to the Public: Digital Assignments in Social Movements Courses,” Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, May 28-31 (accepted, conference canceled due to COVID-19)
2019 “International Inspiration for Local and National Activism: African American Loretta Ross and UN Conferences in the late 20th Century,” Women’s Leadership Symposium, Somerville College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, December 4-6
2019 “Contested Spaces in International Women’s Organizing,” URI Humanities Festival, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, April 4
2018 “The Kavanaugh-Ford Hearings: The Politics of Gender, #MeToo, and Justice,” Teach-In Participant, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, October 3
2018 “Equality, Development, and Peace: Women’s International Organizing after the UN Decade for Women,” Global Status of Women and Girls, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia, March 22-24
2017 “Appealing to American Publics during the Vietnam War,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference, Arlington, Virginia, June 22-25
2017 “Gender, the Environment, and International Development,” Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Hofstra University, Long Island, New York, June 1-4
2017 “Establishing People’s Diplomatic Ties,” Vietnam Center and Archive Conference, Lubbock, Texas, April 28-29
2016 “Community Solutions: Women Inside and Outside the Government,” Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, April 7-10
2015 “People’s Diplomacy, Gender, and the POW Issue during the Viet Nam War,” New England History Association Conference, New Haven, Connecticut, October 24
2014 “Cold War Solutions: Race and Gender during the Viet Nam War Era,” Capitalism & Socialism Conference, New Harmony, Indiana, November 6-8
2014 “Sharing the Burden of War: American Women in Hanoi during the Vietnam War Era,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, June 19-21
2014 “The Second Wave and the Cold War at an International Conference,” Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, April 10-13
2014 “From New York to Hanoi: Witnessing War to Garner Support,” Resisting War in the 20th Century International Conference, Lisboa, Portugal, February 27-March 1
2013 “Crossing Movement and National Borders: The Antiwar Efforts of Women’s Liberationists, 1969-1972,” Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, November 21-24
2013 “U.S. Women of Color, the ‘Third World,’ and the Viet Nam War,” Women’s History Month Conference, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, March 1-2
2013 “Looking for Camaraderie in Viet Nam: African American Women and the Freedom Movement,” Triangle African American History Colloquium, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, February 15-16
SELECT TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Rhode Island:
Environmental Justice
Gender, Race, and Human Rights
Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies
Transnational Feminism(s)
Women in International Social Movements
Binghamton University:
Instructor of Record:
Modern American Civilization
Teaching Assistant:
Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States
The Cold War: US/Soviet Views
Sexuality and the Body (Guest Lectured)
U.S. Women’s History Since 1874
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2009-2010 Research Assistant, Women and Social Movements – International Edition, 1840-2000, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
2020 Article Reviewer, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism
2019 Book Proposal Reviewer, Routledge
2018-2020 H-Women Network Editor
2018 Book Proposal Reviewer, MIT Press
2016-Present Article Reviewer, Peace and Change
2014-Present Article Reviewer, Journal of Women’s History
2011-2012 Editorial Hourly Employee, Journal of Women’s History, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York
GRADUATE COMMITTEE SERVICE
Advisor:
Katherine Canfield
Berenice Yang-Gonzalez
Committee Member:
Sussan Aguilar
Danielle Bilecki
Lauren Call
Alanna Casey
Adrian Cato
Jackson Cox
Rennie Meyers
Elizabeth Smith
Outside Member:
Sarah Bowen
Andrew Polta
Wesley Hale
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
2018 Graduate Certificate Committee, Gender and Women’s Studies Program, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2016 Department Chair Search Committee, Marine Affairs Department, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2015-Present Graduate Student Admissions Committee, Marine Affairs Department, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2015 Patricia Farnes Essay Contest Committee, Gender and Women’s Studies Program, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2014-2015 Coastal Tourism and Sustainability Search Committee, Marine Affairs Department, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2011-2012 Graduate Student Employee Union Representative, Graduate History Society, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York
2010-2011 Treasurer, Graduate History Society, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York
2009-2010 Professional Development Committee Representative, Graduate History Society, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2020 Long Rhode to the Vote, Suffrage Centennial Celebration Committee, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2019-2020 Chair, Bylaws and Review Committee, College of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2018 Undergraduate Fellows Poster Session Judge, College of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2018 Membership Committee, American Association of University Professors, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2017 Undergraduate Fellows Poster Session Judge, College of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2017 All-University Collective Bargaining Committee, American Association of University Professors, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2016-2017 Environmental Justice Speakers Series, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, Co-organized with Amelia Moore
2015-2019 Bylaws and Review Committee, College of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
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