Associate Professor

• U.S. Social and Cultural
   

Education

• Ph.D., History of American Civilization,  Harvard University, 1995

• A.M., History, Harvard University, 1990

• B.A., History,  Carleton College, 1989
• Diploma,  West Mesa High School (Albuquerque, NM), 1984
   

Major Awards, Prizes, Fellowships and Grants
 

• Research about history of Sunday in U.S. supported by Whiting Dissertation Fellowship (1994-5); Louisville Institute Summer Fellowship (1996); American Historical Association’s Littleton-Griswold Research Grant (1997).

• Holy Day, Holiday selected for Choice Outstanding scholarly publication (2001) and Annual SMU Godbey Author’s Award (2001).
• Research about history of time-keeping and time consciousness in U.S. supported by National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers (1999-2000); Non-stipendary Warren Center Fellowship (Harvard University) (1999-2000); Hagley Museum and Library Fellowship (Summer 2002); Lemelson Center Research Grant (National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution) (Summer 2002).

• Research about consumer culture and capitalism in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands supported by Clements Center for Southwest Studies Symposium Fund (SMU) and William Clements Department of History (SMU).
  
   

 Major Publications
 

• Marking Modern Times:  Keeping Time in the U.S., 1840-1940 (under contract with University of Chicago Press)

• Disrupted Boundaries:  Consumer Culture and Capitalism in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Editor and Contributor, (at press, Duke University Press)
• Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday (Cornell University Press, 2000)
   

Courses 
 

• Undergraduate instruction: History of Consumer Culture; History of Cultural Institutions; U.S. History Since 1877 Survey; Looking at the U.S. in the 1970s; U.S. Cultural History

• Graduate seminar:  U.S. History, 1787-1877; U.S. History, 1877-1932; Comparative History of Consumer Culture

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