Amy C. Schneidhorst Curricula Vitae Department of History University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 913 University Hall, 601 S. Morgan Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7109 Department Phone: 312-996-3141 Email: aschne1@gmail.uic.edu EDUCATION: 2007 Ph.D., History, Concentration in Gender and Women s Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago 1993 M.A., Peace Studies, University of Bradford, England 1989 B.A., Art History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: 2013-2014 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago 2012-2013 Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, University of Texas- Brownsville 2009-2011 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Alma College, Alma, Michigan 2007-2009 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History and School of Continuing Education, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois Spring 2005 Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago FIELDS OF STUDY: 20 th - Century United States Women s History Gender and Women s Studies Social Political History Transnational Feminist Movements GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS: 2013 Travel Grant, University of Texas Brownsville 2011 Faculty Presentation Grant, Alma College 2011 Faculty Professional Development Funds Grant, Alma College
2010 Faculty Small Grant (competitive), Alma College 2003 Dean s Scholar Award, University of Illinois at Chicago 2002 Marion S. Miller Dissertation Fellowship, University of Illinois at Chicago 2001 Margaret W. & John M. Moore Fellowship, Swarthmore College, Peace Collection 2001 Provost Award for Graduate Research, University of Illinois at Chicago 2000 Gender and Women s Studies Graduate Prize, University of Illinois at Chicago PUBLISHED WORK: Monograph Building a Just and Secure World: Popular Front Women s Struggle for Peace and Justice in Chicago during the 1960s (Continuum Books, 2011) Edited Journal Editor, with David Hostetter, special theme issue of Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research, 38:3, (July 2013) Peer-reviewed Articles Little Old Ladies and Dangerous Women: Women s Peace and Social Justice Activism in Chicago, 1961-1973," Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research (July 2001) Book Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries Review: Charles F. Howlett and Robbie Lieberman, For the People: A Documentary History of the Struggle for Peace and Justice in the United States (Charlotte, North Carolina: Information Age Publishing, 2009) in Peace and Change, v. 38, n. 1 (July 2012) The Encyclopedia of American Reform Movements, John R. McKivigan and Heather L. Kaufman, Eds. (Facts on File, Inc.) Entries: Pacifism/Antiwar: Historical Developments: WILPF-US; Historical Developments: Women's Strike for Peace/Anti-Nuclear Weapons Testing. (forthcoming) Review: Anne Meis Knupfer, The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women s Activism (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006) Michigan Historical Review, v. 33 n. 2 (Spring 2007) Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary, Rima Lunin Schultz and Adele Hast, Eds. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, July 2001) Entries: "Bessie Potter Vonnoh" and " Lucy E. Parsons"
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS: Feminist Pacifism and Gendered Nonviolence in the Age of New Media, Memorial Conference to Honor Amy Swerdlow and Gerda Lerner, Sara Lawrence College, March, 2013 The Past is a Foreign Country: Tales of one historian s efforts to understand identity, motive, and ideology amongst 1960s Popular Front Activists, invited speaker, Southern Illinois University- Carbondale, Department of History, April 2012. "Women on the Other Side : The Impact of Women's International Activism on local peace movements, 1963-1965, Historians of the Twentieth-Century United States Annual Conference, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, July, 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X: Martin Luther King reconsidered, workshop for Martin Luther King Day commemoration, Alma College, January, 2010 Women Strike for Peace and CADRE: How Gender and Generation Impact Women Activists Strategies in the Anti-Draft Movement, 1965-1968, Peace History Society Conference, October 29-31, 2009. Women Strike for Peace travels to Geneva, 1962: A feminist international relations case study. Organizer and presenter for panel, Women, War and the Nation: Feminist Challenges to Gender Traditions and Militarism in Poland, the Philippines, and Britain, as part of Women s History and Awareness Month, EIU, March 5, 2009 We Did it Together : Chicago Women s Resistance to the Vietnam War, American Historical Association meeting, January 8-11, 2004. Freeing Ourselves, Women Mobilized for Change and Changing Consciousness in the Vietnam War Era, American Studies Association meeting, 2003. U.S. Women s International Activism and Local Peace Movements: the Case of Chicago, Peace History Society Conference, April 26, 2003. "Seeing Red: Women's Organizing, Anti-Communism and the Chicago Peace Council, 1969," Social Science History Association Conference, November 17, 2001. Little Old Ladies and Dangerous Women: Women's Peace and Social Justice Activism in Chicago 1961-1973, Peace History Society Conference, April 28-30, 2000.
"Accentuate the Positive: Towards a Feminist Peace History," Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development conference, June 1997. TEACHING: Teaching Interests Modern U.S. history, social and political reform movements, American social history, history of non-violence; women s studies and gender; oral history, documentary studies, and public history. Courses Taught United States History from 1492 United States History from 1865 History of 20 th Century Women s and Sexuality History History of Masculinity The Long Civil Rights Movement in America History of Chicago, United States Foreign Policy History of Immigration and Ethnicity in America Intellectual History of Dissent The Long Cold War (Spring 2014) Historic Research and Methods. ADMINISTRATIVE 2011-2013 Director of Religious Education, Unitarian Universalist Church of Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Administered a Life Span Religious Education program for a 350-member congregation. PUBLIC HISTORY Museum 1999 Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, University of Illinois at Chicago Prepared training curriculum for docents. Curatorial Experience 1999 Peace Museum, Chicago, "Transforming Community" Exhibit, Curatorial Consultant Participated on five-person exhibit team to develop core content. Organized exhibit thematically and chronologically, contributed historical and theoretical analysis, selected featured activists and organizations, wrote exhibit introductions and panels.
Documentary 2004 Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, North Carolina, Hearing is Believing Audio Documentary Workshop Instructor: John Biewen. Audio documentary on Chapel Hill Peace Vigil, co-produced with Stefani Fedor using ProTools digital editing software. COMMITTEE SERVICE 2009 Women s History Month committee, Eastern Illinois University 2000-2001 UIC Gender and Women s Studies Committee member RESEARCH COLLABORATION, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY AND SERVICE 2011-13 Peace History Society, Board member 2010-11 Peace History Society international annual meeting, Barry University, Program committee chair 2010 Alma College Alternative Spring Break, Cumberland Trails Conference, faculty co-leader 2009 EIU Women s History Month, committee member and panel organizer 2008-2010 Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research, reviewer 2008-2009 EIU Students United For World Change, faculty advisor, EIU 2003-2007 H-Net, H-Peace, founding co-editor, Book Review Editor 2001 UIC Responds, Dean of Student Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago 1996-1999 UIC Women in History Group, co-founder
REFERENCES Dr. John D'Emilio Professor, Gender and Women's Studies Program University of Illinois at Chicago (312) 996-2502 demilioj@aol.com Dr. Javier Martinez Dean, College of Liberal Arts The University of Texas Brownsville (956) 882-8843 Javier.a.martinez@utb.edu Dr. Mike Foley Senior Lecturer, Department of History University of Sheffield +44 (0)114 22 22558 m.foley@sheffield.ac.uk Dr. Edward Lorenz Reid-Knox Professor of History, Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs Director Alma College (989) 463-7203 lorenz@alma.edu Dr. Patrick Furlong Chair and Professor of History Alma College (989) 463-7254 furlong@alma.edu Dr. Berenice Carroll Professor Emerita Departments of Political Science and Women s Studies Purdue University (765) 494-876 bcarroll@purdue.edu Doug Bicknese Supervisory Archivist National Archives and Records Administration Great Lakes Region 7358 South Pulaski Road Chicago, Illinois 60629-5898 (773) 948-9009 dbicknese@comcast.net
Dr. Margaret Strobel Emerita Professor of Gender and Women s Studies and History h. (708) 386-1371 peg.strobel@sbcglobal.net