Ginette Aley

History Dept.

3021 Lib Arts

University of Southern Indiana - Index

Evansville, IN 47712

Email: galey@usi.edu

Academic Background:	PhD (Spring 2005) Iowa State University R. Douglas Hurt, Dissertation Director Specializing in Early National U.S. including, Rural Life & Agrarianism, Westward Migration & Expansion, Social, Native-White Relations, Trans-Appalachian; other areas include Trans-Mississippi West, the American Midwest, the Civil War era, and U.S. Women’s and Gender history
Fall 1998-
May 1996	MA History Virginia Tech
August 1993	BA Magna Cum Laude with Honors – History Virginia Tech
Teaching Experience:
08/05 –	Assist. Professor / Early America-Early National / History Dept. / Univ. of Southern Indiana •Early National America •Colonial America •Revolutionary War Era •U.S. Civil War Era •Women and Gender in American History •U.S. History to 1865 •U.S. History to 1865—Web Course, Summer 2009 •Readings: Jacksonian Era •Readings: Jeffersonian Era •Historical Methods •American West
08/04 – 07/05	Visiting Instructor / History Dept. / Drake University •U.S. History to 1877 •Civil War and Reconstruction •Civil War and Reconstruction—Web Course, Summer 2005 •U.S. Women’s History •U.S. History Since 1877 •Rise of the New South—Independent Study
01/02 – Sum 2004	Instructor / History Dept. / Virginia Tech •U.S. History to Reconstruction •Introduction to U.S. History (1-semester survey) •Westward Expansion
Sum 2000 – 12/01	Instructor / History Dept. / Iowa State University •American Agricultural/Rural History •History of Women in America
08/98 – 05/00	Teaching Assist. / History Dept. / Iowa State University •U.S. History to 1877 •History of Women in America •American Social and Cultural History to 1900 •American Social and Cultural History Since 1900.
08/96 – 07/98	Software Trainer / Mt. Mercy College / Cedar Rapids, (IA) •Developed & taught workshops on software applications to faculty, staff, & students.
08/92 - 05/94	Graduate Assistant / History Dept. / Virginia Tech
Publications:
Books-in-Progress	-“Narrating an Early American Borderland: John Tipton and the West of the Early Republic,” a revision of my dissertation (under contract with Kent State University Press) -essay collection with Joe Anderson on the Midwest’s home front during the Civil War, title as yet undetermined, to be published by Kent State University Press (all essays are in, and we are now piecing the mss together for submission).
Articles	-“A Republic of Farm People: Women, Families, and Market-Minded Agrarianism in Ohio, 1820s - 1830s,” Ohio History 113 (Spring 2007): 28-45. -“Grist, Grit, and Rural Society in the Early Midwest: Insight Gleaned from Grain,” Ohio Valley History 5 (Summer 2005): 3-20. -“‘Knotted Together Like Roots in the Darkness’: Rural Midwestern Women and Region,” in Agricultural History 77 (Summer 2003): 453-81. -“More than Canawlers and Railroad Builders: the Imprint of the Rural Irish in Indiana,” in Indiana Canals: Journal of the Canal Society of Indiana, 12 no. 4 (Fall 2001): 1-13, 16, 18, 26.
Book Chapters Invited Chapters	-“Bringing About the Dawn: Agriculture, Internal Improvements, Indian Policy, and Euro-American Hegemony in the Old Northwest, 1800-1846,” in Daniel P. Barr, ed., The Boundaries Between Us: Natives and Newcomers along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest Territory, 1750-1850. (Kent State University Press, 2006), 196-218. -“‘Dwelling Within the Place Worth Seeking:’ The Midwest, Regional Identity, and Internal Histories,” in Timothy Mahoney, ed., Regionalism and the Humanities (University of Nebraska Press, 2008), 95-109. -(submitted): “Sheriff Tipton and Susan, a Woman of Color: Race and Gender Borderlands in the Early Nineteenth-Century Ohio Valley,” in Glenn Crothers, ed., Comparative North American Borderlands (Ohio University Press, expected Spring 2011). -(submitted): “Preserving Unions: Midwestern Women, the Civil War, and the Unorganized Home Front,” in Joe Anderson and Ginette Aley, eds., Title Undetermined ( Kent State University Press, expected Spring 2011). -“’We are all good Scavengers now’: the Crisis in Virginia Agriculture and Food Supply during the Civil War,” in William C. Davis, ed., Virginia at War: 1864 (University Press of Kentucky, 2009), 81-98. *A History Book Club selection. -(submitted): “’In the Midst of Uncertainties and Alarms’: Crises Facing Women and Families on Virginia’s Home Front during the Civil War,” in William C. Davis, ed., Virginia at War: 1865 (University Press of Kentucky, forthcoming Aug. 2010). *A History Book Club selection. -in progress: “Indiana during the Civil War,” for the Indiana Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission.
Invited Lectures	-“’We are all Good Scavengers Now’: Virginia’s Food and Agricultural Crisis during the Civil War,” Campaigning with General Lee Symposium, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA June, 2008. -On-camera interviews for Blue Ridge Public Television documentary, “Virginia in the Civil War: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance,” on the topic of the Agricultural Crisis in Civil War Virginia, in June 2008 (documentary completed Oct. 2009).
Encyclopedia and short Articles	-“The Homestead Act,” (5,000 words) for Paul Finkelman, ed., Milestone Documents in American History , Vol. 2: 1824-1887, 2008, pp. 791-800. -“Land Policies of the Early Republic,” (2,500 words) for Paul Finkelman, ed., Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, Vol. 2, 2005, pp. 268-71. -“American Agriculture Movement” (2,500 words) for Immanuel Ness, ed., Encyclopedia of American Social Movements, pp. 835-39. -“Midwestern Canals,” (2,000-word thematic essay) for Richard Sisson, et al, eds.,The American Midwest: an Interpretive Encyclopedia, 2007, pp. 1377-79. -“Illinois Canals” (1,000 words) for Richard Sisson, et al, eds., The American Midwest: an Interpretive Encyclopedia, 2007, pp. 1382-83. -“Stage Freighting” (750 words) for Richard Sisson, et al, eds.,The American Midwest: an Interpretive Encyclopedia, 2007, pp. 1404-05. -“Farmer-Labor Party” for Richard Sisson, et al, eds., The American Midwest: an Interpretive Encyclopedia, 2007, pp. 1057-58. -"The Populist Party," (700 words) for Paul Finkelman and Peter Wallenstein, eds.,The Encyclopedia of American Political History, 2001, pp. 300-01. -“The American Agriculture Movement” (1000 words) for David Wishart, ed., The Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, 2004, pp. 704-05. -“Agriculture: The Golden Age of Agriculture" (1500 words) for Paul S. Boyer, ed., The Oxford Companion to United States History, 2001, pp. 19-20. -"The History of Grain Processing/Milling" for Paul S. Boyer, ed., The Oxford Companion to United States History, 2001, p. 316. -“Judge Benjamin Lindsey” for American National Biography, 1999, Vol. 13, pp. 699-700.
Book Reviews	-Indiana Magazine of History (in progress) -Nebraska History 90 (Fall 2009): 164-65. -Western Historical Quarterly (submitted) -Montana: The Magazine of Western History 59 (Autumn 2009): 77-78. -North Carolina Historical Review 86 (April 2009): 231-32. -Alabama Review 62 (July 2009):229-31. -Indiana Magazine of History 104 (Sept. 2008): 301-02. -Northeast Ohio Journal of History 5 (2008): http://www3.uakron.edu/nojh/issues/Fall_2008/reviews/Aley01.html -Montana: The Magazine of Western History 57 (Summer 2007): 87-88. -Ohio History 115 (2008): 141-42. -Journal of Southern History 73 (Nov. 2007): 947-48. -Indiana Magazine of History 103 (June 2007): 201-203 -Western Historical Quarterly 38 (Winter 2007): 538-39 -Journal of Southern History 73 (Feb. 2007): 161-62. -Annals of Iowa 65(Winter 2006): 63-64. -Kansas History 29(Winter 2006-07): 291. -Journal of Illinois History 9 (Spring 2006): 63-64. -H-Net, H-Indiana, Posted 22 May 2006. -Indiana Magazine of History 102 (June 2006): 160-61. -Journal of Illinois History, vol. 8, no. 3 (Autumn 2005): 242-44. -Nebraska History, vol. 86 (Winter 2005): 148-49. -Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 99-100. -Ohio History, vol. 113, (Winter-Spring 2004): 47-48. -Indiana Magazine of History, vol. 100, no. 1 (March 2004): 74-76. -Northwest Ohio Quarterly, vol. 75, no. 1 (2003): 92-94. -Great Plains Research, vol. 12, no. 2 (Fall 2002): 395-97. -Nebraska History, vol. 83, no. 3 & 4 (Fall/Winter 2002): 168. -Journal of Illinois History, vol. 5, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 332-34.
Other, including Editorial	-Editorial Advisor for Amalgam: A Multidisciplinary Research Journal, a Univ. of Southern Indiana student publication, 2005 to the present. -Interim Editorial Assistant for Prof. Doug Hurt, Editor, Agricultural History, 1999-2000, (i.e. galley reading, coordinating the book review process, correspondence, etc.) -Coordinated the article review process for Xenobiotica, Fall. 1994, (under Prof. Neil Castagnoli, Virginia Tech) -Staff Editor (guest), The Journal of East Tennessee History, No. 65, 1993. -Copyediting, published acknowledgements for work on Frederic J. Baumgartner, France in the Sixteenth Century (NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1995). -ABC-Clio Abstractor for Journal of Southern History (since 07/2001) and Journal of the Early Republic (backlog, since 07/2004). I was also the abstractor for the Journal of Illinois History (01/2000 to 08/2001) and Panhandle Plains Historical Review 10/2000 to 05/2001). As of 04/2009, ABC-CLIO let go of its volunteer abstractors. -Co-author of "Smart Student's Guide to Writing History Papers" for Kappa Iota, the Iowa State University chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, Sept. 1999.
Conference Papers, Presentations, and Invited Lectures:	“’Well, You’re Gone’: Midwestern Women and Their Home Front Strategies During the Civil War,” USI Liberal Arts Faculty Colloquium, Jan. 2007. -Participant in Roundtable on Northern Women in the Civil War Era, Indiana Association of Historians Annual Meeting, Bloomington, IN Feb. 2007. -“Sheriff Tipton and ‘the Negress Susan’: Racial Borderlands in the Ohio Valley during the Early Republic,” Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on North American Borderlands Conference, the Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Oct. 2006. -“Preserving Unions: Midwestern Women, the Civil War, and the Un-Organized Home Front,” presented at the OAH Regional, Lincoln, Neb., July 2006. -“Westward Expansion’s Agents of Influence: Agriculture, Internal Improvements, and Federal Indian Agent John Tipton,” presented at the SHEAR (Society for the Historians of the Early American Republic) Annual Mtg., Philadelphia, July 2005. -“Crops Promising, Money Scarce, Counterfeit Plenty”: The West during the Era of the 1819 Panic,” presented at the Western Social Sciences Assoc., Albuquerque, April 2005. -“Considering Regional Self-Definition” selected for presentation at the NEH’s Regionalism and the Humanities Conference, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nov. 2003. -“‘The Game, too, Fly Before Our Improvements’: The Commercial Nexus of Federal Indian Policy, Internal Improvements, and Agriculture in Indiana and the Making of the American Midwest,” presented at the Western Historians Assoc. (WHA), Ft. Worth, Oct. 2003. -“‘The Agreeable Appearance of Industry’: Producers, Processors, and the Measure of Prosperity in the Early Midwest;” 1 of 3 presenters selected for the Newberry Library’s 2003 Great Lakes Rural History Seminar, Chicago, May 2003. -“’This Productive Country:’ Hospitality, Pioneer Agriculture, and Foodways in the Early Middle West,” History Dept. Faculty Research Seminar, Virginia Tech, Jan. 2003. -Chair of “Rural America” Session at the Northern Great Plains History Conference, St. Paul, Oct. 2002. -“The Rural Irish in the Old Northwest: The Indiana Perspective” presented at the Organization of American Historians, Los Angeles, May 2001. (Panel Coordinator) -"The Rural Irish in Nineteenth-Century Indiana," presented at the Organization of American Historians, Midwest Regional, Ames, IA, Aug. 2000. (Panel Coordinator) -"Newcomers All: York County, Nebraska, and the Convergence of Culture in Plains Communities, 1870-1890," presented at the Northern Great Plains History Conference, St. Cloud, MN, Oct. 1999. -"Time Marches Through: York, Nebraska, as an Historical Crossroads of the American West, 1855-90," presented at the Mid-American Conference, Sept. 1999. -"'The Right of Good Neighborhood': Banding Together on the Eastern Iowa Frontier, 1830-1840," at the Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, March 1999. -Co-presented "Experience Counts!" for Iowa State University’s Center for Teaching Excellence College Teaching Seminar, Aug. 1999; Invited to present "Experience Counts…Again!" for Aug. 2000 Seminar.
Awards and Recognition:
	-Lilly Endowment/Univ. of Southern Indiana, Summer Research Fellowship, $7,000 (Excellence through Engagement), Jan. 2006. -Univ. of Southern Indiana, College of Liberal Arts, Faculty Research Award, Oct. 2005 (for Fall 2006). -Certificate of Recognition, 5 Years, ABC-CLIO, abstractor of several journals, currently The Journal of Southern History & Journal of the Early Republic (backlog), both class-1 journals, Feb. 2005. -Recipient of ISU History Dept.’s Roswell Garst Fellowship, Fall 2003. -Recipient of ISU History Dept.’s 2001 Teaching Assistant of the Year Award. -Conference Prize, Best Graduate Paper for "'The Right of Good Neighborhood': Banding Together on the Eastern Iowa Frontier, 1830-1840," at the Missouri Valley History Conference, March 1999. -Exceptional Support Recognition for Teaching from Iowa State University's Student Scholars and Leaders Program, March 1999. -ABD Scholarship, Iowa State University, 2001. -Pace Award Scholarship, Iowa State University, 1998-2000. -Voted into Phi Beta Kappa, March 1994.
Professional & Service Activities:
	-Reader, Masters Theses for Midwestern Assoc. of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Award, Council of Graduate Schools, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2009. Invited Manuscript Reader: -Reviewer, article mss for Indiana Magazine of History, topic: slavery, politics, and Indians in early Indiana, Sept. 2009. -Reviewer, book mss. for Bedford/St. Martin’s, topic: John Brown’s Raid, Sept. 2006. Invited Textbook Reviews: -Reviewer, Houghton Mifflin, for Hollitz, Contending Voices, 2d ed., Vol. 1, May 2009. -Reviewer (textbook), Bedford/St. Martin’s, for Roark, et al, The American Promise, 4^th ed., Vol. 1, March 2008. -Reviewer (textbook), Houghton Mifflin, for Hollitz, Thinking Through the Past, Vol. 2, Nov. 2007. -Reviewer (prospective textbook), Routledge, for new Colonial America textbook, Aug. 2006. -Reviewer (textbook), Houghton Mifflin, for Binder/Reimers, The Way We Lived, Vols. 1 & 2, May 2006. -Reviewer (textbook),Thomson Publ., for Voices of the American Past, Vol. 1, Nov. 2005.  -Reviewer (textbook),Thomson Publ., for Edward Ayers, et al, American Passages: A History of the United States, Vol. 1, Oct. 2004.  -Reviewer (textbook), Houghton-Mifflin Publ., for Hollitz/Fuller, Contending Voices: Biographical Explorations of the American Past, Vols. 1 & 2, Sept. 2004; and, again for Vol. 2, Sept. 2005. -Reviewer (textbook), Longman Publishers, for Gary B. Nash, et al, Retracing the Past Vol. 1, 6^th Ed., Feb. 2004. -Reviewer (textbook), Bedford/St. Martin’s Publishers, for James A. Henretta, et al., America: A Concise History, vols. 1 & 2, Summer 2003. Committees and other service—Selected: -Member, Rice Library Search Committee (USI), Ref. & ILL Librarian, Summer 2009. -Member, History Dept. Search Committee (USI), Islamic World, Fall 2008. -Acting Dept. Chair, Summer 1 term, 2008. -Member, History Dept. Search Committees (USI), 2 Americanist positions, Fall 2007. -Member, History Dept. Search Committee (USI), Americanist, Post 1865-1 yr. apt., Spring 2007. -Chair, William McGucken History Award Committee (USI), Spring 2007. -Member, Gender Studies Advisory Council, Univ. of Southern Indiana, Fall 2006 to present. -History Committee, Evansville Science and History Museum, Fall 2005 to present. -Member, History Dept. Search Committee (USI), Latin Americanist, Fall 2005 -Blackboard Workshop on Web Course Design, Drake University, week of Jan. 10^th, 2005. -Co-Author, “Historians’ Report: Institute of Ulster Scots Studies in the U.S.,” Institute of Ulster Scots Research Agenda mtg., Virginia Tech, Feb. 15-16, 2002. -Appointed Graduate Representative on ISU’s Graduate Council, Fall 2001; Assigned as only Graduate Representative on the Graduate Handbook Subcommittee with object of developing a new Termination Policy, Fall 2001. -Appointed Graduate Representative on ISU’s Graduate Curriculum and Catalog Committee, 2000-2001. -Conference Coordinator, Phi Alpha Theta Iowa Regional Conference, Spring 2000.