Swinth, Page 1 KIRSTEN SWINTH Department of History, Chair & Associate Professor of History and American Studies Associate Dean for Curriculum and Planning in Arts & Sciences Fordham University 441 East Fordham Road Bronx, NY 10458 718-817-3995 Swinth@Fordham.edu AWARDS and HONORS Faculty Research Grant, Fordham University, March 2015, March 2013 Public Voices Fellowship, The OpEd Project, 2011-2012 Research Support Grant, Arthur & Elizabeth Schlesinger Library, May 2008 Travel Grant, Sophia Smith Collection, April 2008 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, April 2007 Magis Distinguished Professorship, Fordham University, 2005-2008 Faculty Research Grant, Fordham University, March 2003 Fulbright Scholarship to Mozambique, 2001 (declined) Summer Faculty Fellowship, Fordham University, 2000 Ames Fund Grant for Junior Faculty, 1998-2000 John Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in Art and the Humanities, 1997-1998 Special Dissertation Fellowship, Alumni Fund, Yale University, 1992-1993 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1987-1992 John F. Enders Research Assistance Grant, 1992 Harry S. Truman Scholarship, 1989-1991 Yale University Fellowship, 1988-1991 Phi Beta Kappa, 1985 BOOKS and EDITED COLLECTIONS Having it All : A Real Feminist History (under contract, Harvard University Press) Care and Competition in Postindustrial America: The Rise of the Working Family (in progress) How Did Settlement Workers at Greenwich House Promote the Arts as Integral to a Shared Social Life? Edited document collection for Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Alexander Street Press, June 2006). Painting Professionals: Women Artists and the Development of Modern American Art, 1870-1930 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001). ESSAYS Reframing Postindustrialism: The Working Mother and the Making of the New Economy in Reagan s America (under submission, Journal of American History).
Swinth, Page 2 Anna Richards Brewster Among Her Peers, in Anna Richards Brewster, American Impressionist, ed. Judith Kafka Maxwell (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008), 89-110. Catalogue essay for traveling exhibition, Anna Richards Brewster, American Impressionist. (2008-2009). The Square Deal: Theodore Roosevelt and the Themes of Progressive Reform, History Now 17 (September 2008). http://www.historynow.org/09_2008/historian.html "Emily Sartain and Harriet Judd Sartain, M.D.: Female Influence and A Community of Women Professionals," in Philadelphia's Cultural Landscape, ed. Katharine Martinez and Page Talbott (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000), 138-148. EXHIBITION "The Progressive Era: Creating Modern America, 1900-1917." Traveling exhibition for the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. (2007). REVIEW ESSAYS Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America: Migration Stories for the Twenty-First Century, American Quarterly 57 (June 2005): 507-521. Categorizing the Female Type: Images of Women as Symbols of Historical Change, Reviews in American History 30 (December 2002): 604-613. The American Century at the Whitney Museum of American Art, American Quarterly 52 (December 2000): 720-741. The Life Cycle of Buildings: Structures in Social and Cultural History, Reviews in American History 28 (June 2000): 263-269. PAPERS and INVITED LECTURES A Mother s Choice : The Long Reach of Neoliberalism into the World of Work and Family in the 1980s, American Studies Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, November 2014. Symposium: Families and Work Institute at 25: Looking Back at a Quarter Century of Work and Family Activism, Organizer and Panelist, Work and Family Researchers Network Conference, New York, NY, June 2014. Founding Work and Family : Paradigm Shifts in Reagan s America and the History of the Work and Family Ideal, Work and Family Researchers Network Conference, New York, NY, June 2014 Co-Facilitator, Session on Care Labor and Social Rights, Seminar on Social Rights After the Welfare State, Columbia University, New York, NY, April 2014.
Swinth, Page 3 Reinterpreting the ERA s Failure: Debating the Fate of the Housewife in the New Postindustrial Order, The Equal Rights Amendment in the 21st Century: Where Have We Come From, and Where Will We Go?, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, November 2013. Theresa Bernstein's Art World: Women's Art Groups, Female Networks, and Women Artists' Careers, Symposium: Theresa Bernstein, A Century in Art, Baruch College, CUNY, New York, November 2013. Caring is Not a Free Resource : The Literature of Care and the Invention of a New Politics of the Working Family, Work and Family Researchers Network, First Annual Conference, New York, June 2012. Women's Struggle for Civil Rights, Junior Historians Forum, Milwaukee, WI, May 2012. How Can We Care in a Competitive Society?, Fordham University, Growing Research at Fordham, Fordham University, New York, November 2011. The Unraveling of the Family Wage: Working Mothers on the Frontiers of Cultural Change, Catalyst, Inc., New York, February 2010. Rights and Responsibilities in American History: Women Have They Come a Long Way?, Teaching American History, New York, January 2009. Debating Day Care in the 1980s: Working Motherhood and Threats to the Nation, Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, New York, NY, March 2008. Women and the American Dream, Teaching American History Evening Lecture Series, New York Public Library, New York, NY, January 2008. Deconstructing the Mommy Wars: Working vs. Stay-at-Home Mothers, Communitas Alumni Reunion, Fordham University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York, NY, March 2007. Displacing the Global Nanny: Caring Dads on TV and Film, 1983-1993, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Oakland, CA, October 2006. American Women in Paris: The Female Artist s Experience, 1860-1900, invited lecture, National Gallery of Art, London, England, April 2006. Before the 'Problem of the Working Mother': Early Second Wave Feminism and Mothers Working, British Association for American Studies Annual Conference, Canterbury, England, April 2006.
Swinth, Page 4 Situating Jane Addams and the Arts: Hull-House, Social Democracy, and Public Culture in America, Richard R. Baker Philosophy Colloquium, Exploring Jane Addams, Dayton, OH, November 2002. Integrating Images of the American West in U.S. History, NEH Learning to Look Seminar, City University of New York, Graduate Center, New York, NY (Invited lecture), July 2002. Theorizing Visual Literacy, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 2001. Modernism in the High Sierra: Marguerite Zorach and the Invention of a New Western Landscape Tradition, Western History Association, San Diego, CA, October 2001. A Thousand Dollars a Piece : Women Artists Strategies on the Art Market, Symposium for the Museum of Fine Arts, Choosing the Arts: Creative Boston Women, 1900-2000, Boston, MA, September 2001. Reassessing Jane Addams: Art, Hull-House, and Social Democracy, Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April 2001. Illustrious Men, Noble Examples, Friendly Words and True Companionship : American Women Art Students in Paris, Symposium for the Dahesh Museum exhibition Overcoming All Obstacles: The Women of the Académie Julian, New York, NY, April 2000. Visual Literacy and the Politics of Studying American Art, Invited session of the Association of Historians of American Art, College Art Association Meeting, New York, NY, February 2000. Modernism, Women Artists and the Break With the Past, Twentieth-Century Matters: History, Memory, Knowledge, East Lansing, MI, November 1999. Modernism in the High Sierra: Marguerite Zorach's Shaping of a Female Landscape Tradition, Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 1997. Emily Sartain and Harriet Judd Sartain: Female Influence and A Community of Women Professionals, Moore College of Art conference on The Sartain Family and Philadelphia's Cultural Landscape, Philadelphia, PA, April 1997. Thousands Upon Thousands of Girl Art Students: Gender and the Professionalization of American Art Schools, 1865-1900, Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 1995.
Swinth, Page 5 OTHER PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS Opinion pieces and media appearances CNN.com, Huffington Post, Christian Science Monitor, CNN International, To the Point, radio stations WFUV and WNYC. Invited lecturer on U.S. Progressive Era, American West, U.S. Women, & Immigration for the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013. PUBLIC & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Vice Chair, School Board, American International School of Mozambique, 2009-2011. EXPERIENCE Associate Dean for Curriculum and Planning in Arts & Sciences, Fordham University. (August 2014-present) Chair, History Department, Fordham University. (July 2012-present). Associate Professor of History and American Studies, Fordham University. American cultural and social history and U.S. women's and gender history. (2002-present). Magis Distinguished Professor, History Department, Fordham University (2005-2008). Director, American Studies Program, Fordham University. (2002-2007). Assistant Professor, History Department, Fordham University. (1997-2002). Visiting Assistant Professor, American Studies Department, George Washington University. American cultural history, visual culture, and gender history (1995-1997). Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland, College Park. History of women and the family (Fall 1992). EDUCATION Ph.D., American Studies, Yale University, May 1995 B.A., cum laude, Individually Designed Major, "Modernism and Culture," Stanford University, 1986