GAYLE VERONICA FISCHER

Department of History

352 Lafayette Street

Salem State College

Salem, MA 01970-5353

978/542-6399

e-mail: gayle.fischer@salemstate.edu

webpage: www.salemstate.edu/~gfischer/

Education:

• Ph.D., United States History, Minors: Latin American History, American Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, December 1995; Dissertation: "Who Wears the Pants? Women, Dress Reform, and Power in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States"
• M.A., Women's History, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, 1987; Thesis: National Dress Reform Association
• B.A., Drama, University of Texas, Austin, TX, December 1983

Fields:

United States History; Women's History; Latin American History; American Studies

Awards/Grants:

• "Best" Faculty Paper, Graduate Research Day 2001, Salem State College
• Vice President's Faculty/Librarian Research Support Fund, Salem State College, Spring 2000
• Salem State College Teaching and Learning Council Grant, Summer 2000
• Grant-in-Aid of research, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE, Summer 2000.
• Salem State College Teaching and Learning Council Grant, Summer 1999
• Oscar O. Winther Dissertation Fellowship, Indiana University, 1993.
• Conference Travel Award, Indiana University, 1993.
• Grant-In-Aid-Of-Research, Indiana University Graduate School, 1992.
• Second place, Gunderson Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper, Indiana University, for "'The Daughters of Sion are Haughty': Clothing and Sexual Oppression in Puritan New England," 1991.

Books:

• Pantaloons and Power: A Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform in the United States, (Kent State University Press, March 2001).

Research Articles:

• "Long Hair: Students, Politics, and Power, 1964-1969." In The High School Age: Youth Culture and the American High School. Ronald Cohen, Alexander Urbiel, and Scott Walter, eds. (Forthcoming: Teacher's College Press, 2002)
• "National Identities," a photo and historiographical essay for the World History Resource Center (online), Gale Group, Fall 2000.
• "Cross-Dressing But Not Passing," Purple Ink, Foreign Paper (Forthcoming: University of Tennessee Press).
• "A Matter of Wardrobe? Mary Edwards Walker, a Nineteenth-Century American Cross-Dresser," Fashion Theory (Fall 1998).
• "The Obedient and Disobedient Daughters of the Church: Strangite Mormon Dress as a Mode of Control" a chapter in Linda Boynton Arthur, ed., Culture, Religion and Dress (Oxford, England: Berg Publishers, 1998).
• "'Pantalets' and 'Turkish Trowsers': Designing Freedom in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States," Feminist Studies, (Spring 1997).
• "Dressing to Please God: Pants-wearing Women in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Religious Communities." Communal Societies: Journal of the Communal Studies Association 15 (1995): 55-74.
• "'She Ought To Be a Female-man': Dress Reform in the Oneida Community, 1848-1879." Mid-America 77, 3 (Fall 1995).
• "Working Lives." Newsletter of the Conference Group on Women's History 25 (May/June 1994): 14-16.
• "'The Daughters of Sion are Haughty:' Clothing and Sexual Oppression in Puritan New England." Journal of Unconventional History 3 (Fall 1991): 27-50.

Pedagogical Articles:

• "Finding the Sources: A Historian and A Librarian Unite." Mia Morgan, co-author. Teaching History (forthcoming, 2002).
• "Theatre Across the Curriculum: In the History Classroom." Susan Spector, co-author. Teaching History (Fall, 2001).

Encyclopedia Articles and Bibliographic Guides

• "Sewing Machine," "Zipper," entries in Encyclopedia of American Industrial History (Forthcoming: M. E. Sharpe).
• "Women," historical essay in Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2000).
• "Mary Anne Bickerdyke," "Mary Seacole," biographical essays in Women in World History (Waterford, Conn.: Yorkin Publications).
• "Dorothea Dix," "Loreta Velazquez," and "Albert D. J. Cashier," biographical essays in Women in Military History (Greenwood Press, 1997).
• "Elaine Goodale Eastman," and "Helen Thomas Flexner," biographical entries in American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
• "Edited Collections of Primary Sources in United States Women's History: An Annotated Bibliography." Journal of Women's History (Winter 1995): 225-248. Kathryn W. Fuller, co-author.
• "The Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of Woman Suffrage in the United States: A Bibliographic Essay." Journal of Women's History 7 (Fall 1995): 173-199.
• Abstracts, Journal of Women's History, 5 (1993); 6 (1994); 7 (1995); 8 (1996).
• Compiler. Journal of Women's History Guide to Periodical Literature (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992).

Film Reviews:

• Step by Step, film review, American Historical Review (December 1999).
• Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, film review, American Historical Review

Miscellaneous Papers:

• “Delicately Balancing: First Ladies and War,” History News Network, February 2002
• “There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch (or is there?)” ASpect: A Publication of the School of Arts & Sciences (March 2002)
• "World Historians and World Geographers," co-authors Stephen Matchak, and Eric Martin, ASpect: A Publication of the School of Arts & Sciences (March 2001): 3.
• "'School as Usual': Salem State College," essay for Interdisciplinary Studies Program, Salem State College, Fall 1999.

Invited Papers:

• "Long Pants and Long Hair: Women and Men Challenging Gender Symbols in the 1850s and 1960s," Emmerton House Woman’s Friend Society, Salem, MA, January 2002
• "George Sand and Women's Rights," St. Anslem College, Manchester, NH, January 2001.
• "Democratizing the Workplace? Casual Friday," Sarah Lawrence College, April 7, 2000.
• "George Sand," St. Anslem College, Manchester, NH, January 2000.
• "Fashion History," Daughters of Penelope, Peabody, Mass., October 1999.
• "Everyday Life in the New Republic," Summer Institute, Salem State College, August 1999.
• "Long Pants and Long Hair: Women and Men Challenging Gender Symbols in the 1850s and 1960s," keynote speaker for Women's History Month at Monmouth College, March 1999.
• "Long Pants and Long Hair: Women and Men Challenging Gender Symbols in the 1850s and 1960s," Salem State College Historical Association, March 1999.
• "Long Pants and Long Hair: Women and Men Challenging Gender Symbols in the 1850s and 1960s," Women's History Month Speaker, St. Anslem College, Manchester, NH, March 1999.
• "The Sociology of the Body: Religion, Culture, and Dress," The Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 16-19, 1998.
• "Dressing Up in Daddy's Clothes: Cross-Dressing Women Refashion Gender in the Nineteenth-Century United States," Emory University Women's Center, Women's History Month Lecture, March 1997.
• "Dr. Mary Edwards Walker: The 'Most Famous American Cross Dresser,'" University of Georgia Women's Studies Noon Talk Series, May, 1997.

Scholarly Papers Presented:

· “Relax, Its Friday: Dressing for Work,” Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 2002

• “Revolutions in Dress Codes and Hair Styles: High School Students, 1964-1969,” Youth, Popular Culture, and Everyday Life Conference, Bowling Green, Ohio, February 2002
• “Declaring Independence from France: Agitating for American Fashions and Campaigning for German Fashions in the Era of World War I,” NEPCA/ACA Conference, New Haven, CT, November 2001.
• “’Expressions of Dissent:’ Dress Codes and Student Activism at Salem State College in the 1960s,” History of Education Society's Annual Meeting in New Haven, Connecticut, October 2001.
• “Declaring Independence: Agitating for National Identity and Campaigning for National Costumes,” MAWHA's Global Interaction and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Conference, October 12-13, 2001, Mahwah, NJ.
• "Who Makes the Rules? Women Dressing for Work on Casual Friday," Women and Work: Holding Up "All" the Sky: Annual Women's History Month Conference, Lehman College, CUNY, March 28-29, 2001

• “From Fashionable Students to Dowdy Professors: Femininity and Education, Yesterday and Today,” AAUW-MA and Salem State College Symposium, April 28, 2001.
• Moderator/Commentator, "Men, Women, and the Negotiation of Religious Authority," Second Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 22-24, 2001.
• "Utilizing New Media in Small Public and Private Liberal Arts Colleges: A Roundtable Discussion," American Association for History and Computing Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, January 2001.
• "Fabric of Society: Clothing, Gender, and Teaching World History," World History Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, June 2000.

• "A Day (or Two) in the Life of…: A Research Assignment for the History Survey," OAH Conference (History Day Panel), St. Louis, Missouri, April 2000.
• "Nineteenth-Century Femininity and Pantaloons," Graduate Research Day 2000, Salem State College, April 2000.
• "Femininity and Nineteenth-Century Higher Education: School Dress Codes," SSHA Conference, Dallas, Texas, November 1999.
• "Challenging Gender Symbols," Semiotics Society of America Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 1999.
• "Behind Closed Doors and Drawn Drapes: The Daring Apparel of 19th-Century Women at Home," Hagley Fellows Conference, Wilmington, DE, February 1999.
• "'Freaks Are What You Make Them': Mary Edwards Walker, a Nineteenth-Century American Cross-Dresser," Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Philadelphia, PA, March 18-20, 1999.
• "Sexless Battleaxes, Bluestockings, and Beautiful Maidens: Nineteenth-Century School Dress Codes and Uniforms," 1998 OAH Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, April 1998.
• "'The Ladies Like the Trousers': Cross-Dressing Women in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States," 1997 AHA Annual Meeting, New York, January 1997.
• "Cross-Dressing and Passing: Negotiating the Boundaries of Gender Identification, a Nineteenth-Century Example," University of Georgia History Department Lecture Series, November 1996.
• "Whose Idea Was It? An Examination of the Origins of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Reform Dress in the United States," 1996 SENCSA Conference, April 11-13, 1996.
• "Pants and Power: Dress Reform in the Mid-Nineteenth Century United States." Poster Session. OAH Conference, Washington, D. C., March 30-April 2 1995.
• "Creating and Re-creating Female Identities: The Design Origins of Nineteenth-Century Reform Dress in the United States." HGSA Annual Symposium, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, March 25, 1995.
• "Dressing To Please God: Pants-Wearing Women In Communal Societies." Communal Studies Association Twenty-First Annual Conference, Oneida, NY, October 6-9, 1994.
• "'She Ought to be a Female-man': Women, Work, and Dress Reform in the Oneida Community." OAH Conference, Anaheim, CA, April 1993.
• "Men's Work and Women's Work: Dressing the Part." Phi Alpha Theta/HGSA lecture series, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, March 1993.
• "Women and Religious Identity in Early America." Annual Graduate Women's Studies Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, March 1991.
• "Material Culture, Gender, and Religion in the United States." Presented at American Studies Graduate Student Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Fall 1990.
• "'The Daughters of Sion are Haughty:' Clothing and Sexual Oppression in Puritan New England." History Graduate Student Brown Bag Series, Indiana University, Fall 1990.
• "Clothes Make the Woman: The National Dress Reform Association." Presented at the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, April 1989.
• "The National Dress Reform Association Redefines Femininity." Presented at the 5th Annual Graduate Women's Studies Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Spring 1988.

Teaching Experience:

• Assistant Professor, Department of History, Salem State College, 1998-
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Georgia, 1996-1998
• Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, Indiana University, Spring 1996
• Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, Indiana University, Spring 1994
• Assistant Instructor, Department of History, Indiana University, 1992
• Course Assistant, Department of History, Indiana University, 1991
• Tutor, Indiana University Upward Bound Program, Bloomington, IN, Summer 1990
• Instructor, Breadloaf School of English, Middlebury, VT, Summer 1987, 1988

Other Professional Experience:

• Editorial Assistant, American Historical Review, Michael Grossberg, editor, Indiana University, September 1994-January 1996
• Research Assistant, Dr. Joan Hoff--Twentieth-Century American Foreign Relations, Indiana University, Fall 1990-1996
• Editorial Assistant, Journal of Women's History, Joan Hoff and Christie Farnham, editors, Indiana University, Fall 1989-Fall 1992
• Special Collections Cataloging Assistant, Fashion Institute of Technology Library, New York, NY, Fall 1987-August 1989
• Research Assistant, Dr. Amy Swerdlow--Twentieth-Century Peace Movements, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, September 1986-April 1987

Other Professional Activities:

• Co-Coordinator of Women’s Studies Minor
• Graduate Coordinator of History MA Program, June 2001-
• Vice-President's Academic Writing Workshop Summer 2001, Salem State College
• "A Day or Two in the Life of…" and "Academic Avenues for Enlarging Students' Worldview," Opening Day 2000 Presentations, Salem State College
• Article Reviewer for Journal of American History
• Reviewer of World History texts for Houghton Mifflin Publishers

Service:

• Salem State College Representative, Armory Memorial Park Committee, Peabody Essex Museum
• Advisor, Women’s History Projects, Essex National Heritage Commission
• History Department Representative, Salem State College SOAS Strategic Planning Committee, 2000-
• Undergraduate Research Symposium Committee, Salem State College, 1999-2000
• Salem State College History Department Graduate Committee, 1998-
• Salem State College History Department Curriculum Committee, 1998-
• Salem State College Women's Studies Program, 1998-
• Editor of Salem State College History Department's Newsletter, "Past & Present," 1998-
• History Department Representative to the Women's History Month Committee, University of Georgia, 1997-1998
• Proseminar Leader, Honors Program, University of Georgia, Fall 1997
• Graduate Student Representative, History Department Search Committee, Indiana University, 1991-1992
• Elected Representative, Newsletter Editor, History Graduate Student Association (HGSA), Indiana University, 1991-1992
• Coordinator, Women History Graduate Students' Group, Indiana University, 1990-1994
• Co-coordinator, Graduate Student Steering Committee, Sarah Lawrence College, 1986-1987

Thesis Director:

• Kara Markey, "'To Thine Own Self Be True': The Construction of Homosexualities in England and America, 1890-1940," defended May 2000, (co-director with Avi Chomsky).
• Richard Howe, Jr., "Steady Men: Civil War Veterans in Postwar Lowell, Massachusetts, 1865-1900," defended August 2000
• John Dube, "'Our Motto Is We Yield to No One': New Hampshire Soldiers in the United States Civil War," defended November 2000

Other Courses of Study:

• Web Site Development, SSC Enrichment Program, summer and fall 2000
• Attended Costume History Graduate Program, New York University/Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987-1988
• Certificate, Technical Costuming, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1985

Professional Affiliations:

Organization of American Historians

American Historical Association

National Women's Studies Association

Costume Society of America

Conference Group on Women's History

Society for History Education