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University Work &
Service
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Director of the University Honors
Program, 2003-present
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The UHP is a program based in the
general education, or university curriculum—allowing
students of all majors to take 7 special honors
seminars over the course of their four years at
SMU. Currently the program has approximately 650
students—accepting an average of 150 first year
students per year.
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Serve as Chair of the UHP Advisory
Council
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Direct and Coordinate the Richter
Fellowship Program—independent fellowships given to
University Honors Program students to conduct
research in the junior or senior year
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Direct and Coordinate the Gartner
Lecture Series—with 4 lectures per year designed to
directly engage SMU students with figures from
across academia, politics, and myriad cultural
institutions
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Director of the Dedman College
Scholars Program, 2009-present, a program offering
scholarships, events and programming, and
opportunities for independent research to the
college’s most academically promising students
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Currently serving as Chair of a
Committee Investigating Honors Programing and
Departmental Distinction Programs in Dedman College
(2011-2012 academic year).
Selected
Publications & Presentations
“Rediscovering Ogden
Codman & His World” Presentation given at the Society
for the Preservation of New England Antiquities,
Lincoln, Massachusetts, 6 November 2010
Review of John
Gilbert McCurdy’s “Citizen Bachelors: Manhood and the
Creation of the United States,” New England
Quarterly, March 2010, Vol. 83, No. 1, pg. 160
Review of William
Wright’s “Harvard’s Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge
of Campus Homosexuals,” The American Historical
Association on Lesbian & Gay History Newsletter,
Fall 2008
“Understanding Male
Friendship in Nineteenth Century America,” Presentation
given at the American Historical Association Annual
Conference, 9 January 2010, San Diego, California
Review of Jay
Hatheway’s “The Gilded Age Construction of Modern
American Homophobia,” The American Historical
Association on Lesbian & Gay History Newsletter,
Fall 2005
“A Very Proper
Bostonian: Rediscovering Ogden Codman & His Late
Nineteenth Century Queer World.” Journal of this
History of Sexuality, October 2004, Vol. 13, No. 4,
pg. 446
“Rethinking Manhood
and Intimacy,” Review of John Ibsen’s “Picturing Men: A
Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American
Photography.” Reviews in American History,
December 2004, Vol. 32, No. 4, pg. 526
Review of Howard
Chudacoff’s “The Age of the Bachelor,” The Journal of
the History of Sexuality, October 2002
“Clyde Fitch,
American Playwright,” in George E. Haggerty, Editor,
The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, Second Edition,
Volume II, Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000, pg.
327
Teaching
A History of Sex
in America—an
interdisciplinary study of the role gender and sexuality
have played in the United States—from the time of first
contact between Native Americans and Europeans, up
through our own time.
At the
Crossroads—Gender & Sexuality and the American Southwest—an
interdisciplinary course that focuses on this
distinctive region of the country—with a particular
emphasis on how gender and sexuality have emerged in
unique configurations over time.
Both sections of the
U.S. History surveys.
The Greater
Dallas Experience—an interdisciplinary study of the
city of Dallas. Through readings and discussions on
history, anthropology, and literature students learn not
only the specifics of our city, but how to conceptualize
and understand the city in general.
Current Research
Currently I am at work on an
interdisciplinary comparative class that examines past
and present attitudes on gender and sexuality in
different cultures across the globe. In addition,
I am
finishing my book manuscript examining male sexuality in
late nineteenth century America.
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