Theresa Kaminski
Title: Professor
Office: CCC 466
Phone: (715) 346-4695
Fax: (715) 346-4489
Education
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A., Illinois State University
B.A., Rosary College
Specialty
American Women's History
Courses
HIST 176 - United States to 1877
HIST 177 - United States since 1877
HIST 284 - United States and the World
HIST 285 - American Environmental History
HIST 300 - Methods and Skills of History
HIST 384 - War and Propaganda in the 20th Century
HIST 385 - U.S. Foreign Relations 1750-1914
HIST 395 - U.S. Foreign Topics in United States History:
- The Narratives of History (WE)
HIST 490 - Selected Historical Problems:
- America in the 1960s
- American Women and Sexuality
Recent Publications
- Citizen of Empire: Ethel Thomas Herold, An American in the Philippines, forthcoming, University of Tennessee Press (Legacies of War Series), 2011
- Prisoners in Paradise: American Women in the Wartime South Pacific, University Press of Kansas, 2000.
- Enduring What Cannot be Endured: Memoir of a Woman Medical Aide in the Philippines in World War II, by Dorothy Dore Dowlen, Edited and with an introduction by Theresa Kaminski, McFarland Press, 2001.
- "Joyce Johnson" entry in William T. Lawlor, ed., Beat Culture: Lifestyles, Icons, and Impact, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005.
- "Ethel Thomas Herold: Doing Women's Work in a Philippines at War," in Kriste Lindenmeyer, ed., Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives. Scholarly Resources, 2000.
- Sweet Dreams: An American POW Longs for Home
Recent Presentations
- “’Time Out, Ladies!’: Dale Evans on Women and
Families in 1960s America,” paper presentation at the Western
Association of Women Historians Conference, Santa Clara, California, May
2009
- “Sentimental Imperialist: Ethel Thomas Herold and the Philippines,”
presentation in the “Biography as Women’s History” workshop at the
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, June 12-15, 2008, University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- “Prisoners in Paradise: American Women in the Wartime South
Pacific,” Charles W. Johnson Lecture on War and Society, Center for the
Study of War and Society, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, March 2008
- “’The Americans Come’: Ethel Thomas Herold’s Experiences in the Two
World Wars,” paper presentation at the Varieties of Experience
Conference, November 30, 2007, Caen, France
Works in Progress
- Dale Evans: Her Life and Times
A biography of the popular
entertainer, this book focuses on the relationship between Evans’s
Christian faith and her career to illuminate key issues of
twentieth-century American women’s history.
Honors and Awards
| 2005-2006 |
Bordin/Gillette Researcher Travel Fellowship Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor for Sentimental Imperialist: Ethel Thomas Herold and the Philippines |
| 2003 |
OAH-JAAS Short-Term Residency in Japan, Chiba University |
| 2001 |
University Scholar Award, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point |
| 2001 |
Outstanding Achievement Recognition Wisconsin Library Association for Prisoners in Paradise: American Women in the Wartime South Pacific |
| 1996-1997 |
Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 1996 |
American Summer Faculty Fellowship, American Association of University Women |
Professional Affiliations
- Organization of American Historians (OAH)
- Women Historians of the Midwest (WGHOM)
- Western Association of Women Historians (WAWH)
Scholarship
Prisoners in Paradise: American Women in the Wartime South Pacific
University Press of Kansas, 2000.
By Theresa Kaminski, Ph.D.
Buy This Book
Prisoners in Paradise: American Women in the Wartime South Pacific
McFarland Press, 2001.
By Dorothy Dore Dowlen
Introduction and Edited by Theresa Kaminski, Ph.D.
Citizen of Empire: Ethel Thomas Herold, An American in the Philippines
University of Tennessee Press, 2011
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By Theresa Kaminski, Ph.D.
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