1 ALISON CLARK EFFORD Department of History Marquette University Coughlin Hall 303A P.O. Box 1881 Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 Ph. 414-288-7817 Fax. 414-288-5099 alison.efford@marquette.edu EMPLOYMENT 2008- Assistant Professor, Department of History, Marquette University 2005-2006 Instructor, Department of History, The Ohio State University EDUCATION 2008 Ph.D. in History, The Ohio State University Dissertation: New Citizens: German Immigrants, African Americans, and the Reconstruction of Citizenship, 1865-1877 Committee: John L. Brooke, Mitchell Snay, Michael Les Benedict, and Kevin Boyle 2003 M.A. in History, The Ohio State University Thesis: Unswerving Honesty, Industry, and Frugality: Local Debt Litigation and German American Community, 1859-1877 2001 B.A. Honors in History, University of Texas at Arlington, Summa Cum Laude PUBLICATIONS AND PROJECTS German Immigrants and the Reconstruction of American Citizenship, 1848-1877. Book manuscript under review. Abraham Lincoln, German-Born Republicans, and American Citizenship, Marquette Law Review 93 (2010): 1375-82. German Immigrants and the Arc of Reconstruction Citizenship in the United States, 1865-1877, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 46 (2010): 61-76. Race Should be as Unimportant as Ancestry: German Radicals and African American Citizenship in the Missouri Constitution of 1865, Missouri Historical Review 104, no. 3 (2010): 138-58. Putting Down Roots: The New Immigrants Build Communities, 1880-1920, in Retrieving the American Past (Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2010). [Module for undergraduate
2 reader.] Unswerving Honesty, Industry, and Frugality : Local Debt Litigation and German-American Community in the Rural Midwest, 1859-1877, Proceedings of the Ohio Academy of History (2004): 19-29. SELECTED REVIEWS Review of We Are the Revolutionists: German-Speaking Immigrants and American Abolitionists after 1848 by Mischa Honeck, Journal of American History. In press. Review of Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South by Andrew Zimmerman, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. In press. Review of Emancipation s Diaspora: Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest by Leslie Schwalm, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 10 (2011): 120-22. A Substantial Collection in Need of Connections, review of Die deutsche Präsenz in den USA The German Presence in the U.S.A. edited by Josef Raab and Jan Wirrer, H- Transnational German Studies (May 2010), available online at http://www.hnet.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=26150. Review of American Pogrom: The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics by Charles L. Lumpkins, Ohio History 117 (2010): 141-43. Review of Lincolnites and Rebels: A Divided Town in the American Civil War by Robert T. McKenzie, The Historian 71 (2009): 132-33. Review of Friedrich Hecker: Two Lives for Liberty by Sabine Freitag, trans. and ed. Steven Rowan, Annals of Iowa 66 (2007): 322-24. Review of António de Mattos and the Protestant Portuguese Community in Antebellum Illinois by David J. Langum, Sr., Journal of Illinois History 9 (2006): 227-28. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Transnationalism and Principle in German-American Arguments for Black Suffrage, 1865-1870, Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, October 29, 2011. Beyond Forty-Eighters and Draft Rioters: Wisconsin Germans and the Politics of Race in the Civil War North, German and German-American Dimensions of the Civil War, Max Kade Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison, March 4, 2011. The German-American Democrats Who Supported African-American Suffrage: An Unusual Case of the Immigrant Paradigm at Work, Organization of American Historians
3 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Apr. 9, 2010. 1877: German St. Louisans, the Great Strike, and the End of Reconstruction, Labor and Working-Class History Association Conference, Chicago, May 29, 2009. A Revolution Felt Beyond the Ocean: German Unification and the Decline of Reconstruction, 1870-1872, Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, New York, March 29-31, 2008. Race Should Be As Unimportant As Ancestry: German Radicals and African American Citizenship in the Missouri Constitution of 1865, Ohio Valley History Conference, Bowling Green, Kentucky, Oct. 18-20, 2007. The Franco-Prussian War, German Immigrants, and American Citizenship during Reconstruction, German Historical Institute Fellows Seminar, Washington, D.C., July 13, 2006. German Immigrants and American Citizenship during Reconstruction, Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, Nov. 3-6, 2005. Unswerving Honesty, Industry, and Frugality : Local Debt Litigation and German-American Community in the Rural Midwest, 1859-1877, Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Nov. 18-21, 2004. Texas Through German Eyes: German Writing on Texas 1821-1845, Phi Alpha Theta North Central Texas Regional Conference, Wichita Falls, Texas, Apr. 21, 2001. INVITED TALKS The German-Speaking World of Nineteenth-Century Milwaukee, Doors Open Milwaukee, Historic Milwaukee Inc., Oct. 24, 2011. [Guided tour.] The Civil War and Reconstruction, Teaching American History Workshop, Milwaukee Public Schools, June 17, 2010. German Immigrants and American Reconstruction, Friends of the German Historical Institute Symposium, Washington, D.C., Nov. 13, 2009. SELECTED AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2009 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize, Friends of the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. 2002-2008 Dean s Distinguished University Fellowship, The Ohio State University 2007 Richard S. Brownlee Award, The State Historical Society of Missouri. Declined. 2006 German Historical Institute Doctoral Fellowship, Washington, D.C.
4 2006 Henry H. Simms Award in Southern History, Department of History, The Ohio State University 2005, 2004 Social Science History Association-Rockefeller Graduate Student Travel Award 2005 Grant for advanced German language study, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service) 1998-2001 Outstanding Freshman Scholarship, University of Texas at Arlington 2001 Jenkins Garrett Award for Research in Southwestern History, Department of History, University of Texas at Arlington PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2011- James Madison Foundation National Selection Committee [One of four professors on committee to select high school teachers for award] 2011- Executive Committee, Department of History, Marquette University 2010-2011 German Historian Search Committee, Department of History, Marquette University 2010- Phi Alpha Theta (history honor society), Marquette faculty co-adviser 2009-2010 Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of History, Marquette University 2007-2008 Chair, Graduate Student Advisory Committee, Department of History, The Ohio State University 2007-2008 Goldberg Program for Excellence in Teaching Committee, Department of History, The Ohio State University 2004-2005 Early American Search Committee, Department of History, The Ohio State University PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Organization of American Historians American Historical Association Immigration and Ethnic History Society Southern Historical Association Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Society of Civil War Historians CLASSES TAUGHT An Introduction to American History, 1492-1877 (and 1492-2000) World History to 1500
5 The Gilded Age and Progressive Era Undergraduate Seminar: American Identities, 1865-1900 Immigration to the United States Graduate Seminar in American Cultural and Intellectual History Graduate Colloquium in the Sectional Conflict, Civil War Era, and Gilded Age LANGUAGES German (excellent reading and aural comprehension; proficient speaking) 2006 Old German Script Reading Course, Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, Penn. 2005 Advanced German Language Course, Goethe Institute, Berlin, Germany