UW-Stevens Point professor authors historical biography
A book about an ordinary person caught up in extraordinary experiences has been published by a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Theresa Kaminski is the author of “Citizen of Empire,” a story about Wisconsin native Ethel Thomas Herold, whose sense of patriotic duty took her from her small town of Potosi to the Philippines to teach in the ‘20s. She and her husband, Elmer Herold, raised their children there but their lives were changed when the Japanese attacked in 1941. The story relates both the history of the Philippines and how Herold’s experiences affected her life even after she left the islands.
“Marked most notably by her strongly held views on patriotism and citizenship, her transpacific life offers a remarkable instance of how the personal and political came together during the ‘American century,’ ” said Kaminski.
“Citizen of Empire” is part of the “Legacies of War” series published by the University of Tennessee Press and is available at utpress.org.
Kaminski has also published “Prisoners of Paradise: American Women in the Wartime South Pacific” through University Press of Kansas. A specialist in American women’s history, she has taught at UW-Stevens Point since 1992 and has degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois State University and Rosary College.
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