Social Sciences

______________________ Karen Manners Smith ________________________

Department of Social Sciences, Box 4032, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS 66801-5087

(620) 341-5570; Fax: (620) 341-5143 E-mail: smithkar@emporia.edu

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• MA: University of Massachusetts: American History

• BA: Brandeis University: English and American Literature

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• 1995- Present: Associate Professor of U.S. and Women's History, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas. Chair for History in the Department of Social Sciences, Emporia State University, 1997- present.

• Adjunct Appointments: Smith College, 1993; Western New England College, 1994

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• New Paths to Power: American Women 1890-1920, Volume VII in the Oxford University Press series: Young Oxford History of Women in the U.S. (Oxford University Press, July, 1994).Paperback edition issued March 1998.

• Ch. 7, "Women in the Progressive Era," No Small Courage: The History of Women in the United States, Nancy Cott, ed. Oxford, 2000.

• Under contract with Oxford University Press: The Gilded Age and Progressive Era, A Student Companion,coeditor with Elisabeth Israels Perry, expected publication date, 2003

• "Half My Heart in Dixie: Southern Identity and the Civil War in the Writings of Mary Virginia Terhune," Beyond Image and Convention: Explorations in Southern Women's History, Janet Coryell et al, eds. University of Missouri Press, 1998.

• Two chapters, "The Antebellum Novel," and "Southern Women Writers and their Responses to Uncle Tom's Cabin" in The History of Southern Women's Literature, Mary Louise Weaks, Carolyn Perry, eds. Louisiana State University Press, 2001.

• "The MacGilligan Family and the Great Hunger: Collaborative Strategies in an Irish History Course,"Article in:Ireland's Great Hunger: Silence Memory, and Commemoration, Christine Kinealy and David Valone, eds, University Press of America, 2002.

• "Harry Potter"s Schooldays: J.K. Rowling and the British Boarding School Novel," Article in: The Harry Potter Phenomenon, Giselle Anatol, ed. Greenwood, 2002.

• " Father, Son, and Country on the Eve of War:Isolationism in the Writings of William Allen White and William Lindsay White 1940-1941, Article in: Festchrift for Ramon Powers , Virgil Dean, ed.Kansas State Historical Society Press, 2002.

• "Mary Virginia Terhune:Author, Minister's Wife, and Domestic Expert," American Presbyterians, The Journal of Presbyterian History, Vol. 72, number 2, Summer 1994.

• "Remembering the Maine: Teaching the Spanish American War After 100 Years," The Social Science: A Journal of Social Science Education, May/June 1998, Vol 89, No. 3. Co-authored with Christopher Lovett and Harvey Foyle.

• Review Article: The Aesthetic Moment: The Feminization of Art in Late-Nineteenth-Century America:A Review of Oscar Wilde=s America: Counterculture in the Gilded AgeAReviews in American History,September 1999.

• Review of AAnna and the King,@ for Film Review Section, American Historical Review, June, 2000.

• Museum Exhibit Reviews: "Vice and Reform in Kansas,"Kansas State Historical Society Museum, June 2001. 2. "Civil War Flags," Kansas State Historical Society, September 2001.

• "Peter Pan Park: William Allen White and Olmsted Vernacular in the Heartland," for Kansas History.

• "At War with Each Other: Family Scandal and the Civil War Fiction of the Hawes Sisters of Richmond, Virginia," for Virginia Cavalcade

• "The MacGilligan Family and the Great Hunger" www.emporia.edu/socsci/famine/index

• "Women Writers Abroad: The Quest for Cultural Authority," presented at a conference entitled 19th Century American Women Writers in the 21st Century, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, May 30-June 2, 1996.

• "Recapturing Southern Identity: Mary Virginia Terhune and the Construction of the Mary Washington Monument," presented at the Second National Women and Historical Preservation Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, March 13-15, 1997.

• Re-presentation of Self: A Southern Writer in the North 1856-1922" Southern Women Writers Conference, Berry College, Berry, Georgia April 16-19, 1998.

• The Park and the Potentate: William Allen White and Olmsted Vernacular in the Heartland, Mid-America Conference, September 1998

• Six Decades of Anna and the King of Siam: A Historical Barometer in Film, Southwest and Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Conference, February 2000.

• Winning Hearts in the Heartland: Fire, Metaphor, and Anti-Neutrality in the War Correspondence of William Lindsay White, Siena College Conference on the Sixtieth Anniversary of World War II, June 1-2, 2000.

• At War With Each Other: The Civil War Fiction of The Hawes Sister of Richmond, Virginia, Fifth Conference of the Southern Association for Womens History, Richmond, VA June 15-18, 2000

• "Families of the Famine: Collaborative Strategies in an Irish History Course," An Gorta Mor: Ireland's Great Hunger, an Interdisciplinary Assessment, Quinnipiac University, Hamden CT, September 19-21, 2000

• "Harry Potter's Schooldays," Southwest and Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Conference, Albuquerque, March 2001.

• "Family Conflict: William Allen White and William Lindsay White On the Eve of World War II" Symposium in Honor of Ramon Powers, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, November 10, 2001.

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• Mellon Fellowship for study at the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia, 1996.

• Elected to Phi Kappa Phi, May 1997

• Research and Creativity Grant, Emporia State University Office for Research, 2000

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• Appointed Editor-in-Chief Emporia State Research Studies, a bi-annual interdisciplinary journal published at Emporia State University. 2001-present.

• Appointed to Editorial Board, University of Kansas Press, 1999-2003

• Appointed to Collegiate Press Editorial Advisory Board, 2001-2002.