JAMALIN R. HARP CONTACT Department of History University of Texas Rio Grande Valley jamalin.harp@utrgv.edu EDUCATION PhD, Texas Christian University, May 2017 History Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Stevens Dissertation: The Capital s Children: The Washington City Orphan Asylum, 1815-1890 M.A., Texas Christian University, May 2012 History B.A., Abilene Christian University, May 2010 Major: History Major: English Summa Cum Laude TEACHING AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Lecturer, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Department of History Fall 2017 HIST 1301: United States History I HIST 1301: United States History I with Mathematics and Science Academy HIST 1301: United States History I with Brownsville Early College High School HIST 1301: United States History I with Brownsville Early Collage High School Adjunct, Texas Christian University, Department of History January 2016 May 2016 HIST 10603: United States Before 1877 Teaching Assistant, Texas Christian University, Department of History January 2015 May 2015 HIST 10613: United States After 1877 August 2014 December 2014 HIST 10603: United States Before 1877
Graduate Assistant, Texas Christian University, Department of History and Geography Dr. Benjamin Tillman, Associate Professor, Geography August 2015 May 2016 Dr. Todd M. Kerstetter, Associate Professor, U.S. History January 2014 May 2014 Dr. Rebecca Sharpless, Professor, U.S. History August 2013 December 2013 Dr. Kenneth Stevens, Professor, U.S. History August 2012 December 2012 Dr. Juan Carlos Sola-Corbacho, Lecturer, European History August 2011 May 2012 Tarrant County Archive Assistant Archivist, September 2015 August 2016 Texas Christian University, New Media Writing Studio Graduate Assistant, January 2013 May 2013 Chronicles of History, journal of the Southwest Historical Association, Abilene, TX Chief Editorial Assistant, August 2009 May 2010 Abilene Christian University: Department of History, Abilene, TX Teacher Assistant for Dr. Tracy Shilcutt, Associate Professor, American History, Spring 2010 306 th Bombardment Group, Abilene, TX Chief Intern, Spring 2010 PUBLICATIONS Harold Eastman in Desperados: Stories from the Fort Worth Police Department Wanted Posters, 1894-1903 (TCU Press, 2017), expected. Review of Child Care in Black and White: Working Parents and the History of Orphanages. By Jessie B. Ramey (Urbana: The University of Illinois, 2012). Published in The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Volume 6, Number 3, Fall 2013.
Review of The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature: Estate, Blood, and Body. By Cheryl L. Nixon (Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011). Published in Essays in History, 2012 CERTIFICATES Certificate in Women and Gender Studies, Texas Christian University, completed Spring 2014 Graduate Student Pedagogy Certificate, Texas Christian University, Koehler Center for Teaching Excellence, completed Summer 2014. FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Department Dissertation Fellowship, Texas Christian University Department of History, 2016-2017 Friends of the Princeton University Library Research Grant, 2015-2016 Boller Dissertation Fellowship, Texas Christian University Department of History, Spring 2014 Boller-Worcester Travel Grant, Texas Christian University Department of History, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014 Graduate Student Travel Grant, Texas Christian University, Spring 2012 and Spring 2014 PRESENTATIONS Grown Up Children of the Orphanage: Lasting Relationships in the Washington City Orphan Asylum, Society for the History of Childhood and Youth Biennial Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 26, 2015 Shaping Social Welfare: The Washington City Orphan Asylum and the Development of Dependent Child Care in the District of Columbia, Annual Conference on DC Historical Studies, Washington, D.C., November 21, 2014
Circus Diplomacy: The Moroccan Lions, Washington Politics, and the United States Constitution in the Age of Jackson, Fall Research Workshop, Department of History and Geography, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, November 15, 2013 The Washington City Orphan Asylum and the Cholera Epidemic of 1832, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, July 21, 2013. Information Visualization, Workshop with New Media Writing Studio, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth Texas, April 19, 2013, presented with Dr. Curt Rode and Dr. Jason Helms. Dolley Madison and the Legacy of the Female Orphan Asylum of Washington, The Double Lives of First Ladies: Power, Paradox, and Pageantry, Texas State University, March 1, 2013. Founding an Orphanage: The Beginnings of the Female Orphan Asylum of Washington, Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Louisiana State University, February 23-26, 2012 Over Here: Cynthia Boyd and Her Journey as a British War Bride, Phi Alpha Theta Conference, Denton, TX, April 4, 2009 HONORS AND AWARDS Graduate Teaching Award, Department of History and Geography, Texas Christian University, Spring 2015 University Scholar, Abilene Christian University, Spring 2010 Abilene Christian University Honors College Graduate General Honors, Spring 2010 MEMBERSHIPS American Historical Association Phi Alpha Theta Sigma Tau Delta
Phi Eta Sigma SERVICE Editor, Spectrum: The TCU Women and Gender Studies Newsletter, vol. 5, 2016-2017. Creator and organizer, Academic Service in the Twenty-First Century: A Dialogue on the Purpose, Nature, and Difficulties of Service. Texas Christian University, March 29, 2017. Hosted by the Department of History and Women and Gender Studies. Symposium Organizing Committee, Women and Graduate Studies Graduate Symposium, Fall 2016 Volunteer judge, Texas History Quiz Bowl, Texas Christian University, April 20, 2013. Teacher, high school classes in video and presentation production, New Media Writing Studio, Texas Christian University, March - April 2013. Volunteer, Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, TX, March, 2013 Teacher, extended education courses in social media, New Media Writing Studio, Texas Christian University, February, 2013