Curriculum Vitae (cont'd)

Proceedings:

“American Women, Travel, and the ‘Far-Flung Fronts’ of World War II,” Tourism & Literature: Travel, Imagination & Myth Conference Proceedings,  2004.
 
“Introducing the Culture and Practices of American Business to Entrepreneurs from the Newly Independent States: Belarus as a Case Study,”  Northeast Business and Economics Association, 2000 Annual Conference Proceedings(co-authored with Joseph A . Ilacqua).

“A New Paradigm For Transforming Educational, Economic, and Civic Practices in Belarus:  A Collaborative Learning at a Distance Program,” 2000 Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Global Business & Economic Development, 2000.

“Using Technology to Foster Collaborative Learning at a Distance:  The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and Bryant University Connection,” 1999 International Conference on Technology and Education Proceedings.

“Using Distance Learning to Foster Collaborative Learning between the United States and the Newly Independent States,” 1999 Teaching Economics Proceedings (with Joseph A. Ilacqua).

“Cooperative Learning at a Distance: The Newly Independent States and the United States,” Northeast Business and Economics Association, 1998 Annual Conference Proceedings(co-authored with Joseph A. Ilacqua).

 “Innovative Collaboration:  Using the Internet to Foster Technology Transfer for Countries with Economies in Transition,” Proceedings of the 1998 Science and Innovation Policy Conference of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, on occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the National Academy of  Sciences of Belarus (co-authored with Joseph A. Ilacqua and Gaytha A. Langlois).

 “Introducing an Understanding of Western Business Practices and Culture to Students in the Former Soviet Union,” Northeast Business and Economics Association, 1997 Annual Conference Proceedings.

BOOK REVIEWS: 

IN PROGRESS:

A book, America’s Wartime Women, 1941-1945.

SCHOLARLY PAPERS:

“Challenges of Entrepreneurs and Managers as They Negotiate Competing Cultural Realities in the Newly Independent States,” SOYUZ 2006 Symposium, Bryant University, Smithfield, Rhode Island,  March 3-5, 2006 (co-authored with Gaytha A. Langlois and Joseph A. Ilacqua).

“`Over the radio yesterday, I heard the starting of another war’:  Women’s Wartime Correspondence, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the End of World War II,”  Atom Bomb and American Society Conference, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, July 15-17, 2005.

“American Women, Travel, and the ‘Far-Flung Fronts’ of World War II, “ International Conference on Tourism & Literature: Travel, Imagination & Myth, Sheffield Hallam University, Harrogate, England, July 22-26, 2004. 

“I Love Lucy  vs. The Feminine Mystique: Gender and Culture in the U.S. in the 1950s,” Fifth International Workshop of Women in the XXI Century,” University of Havana, Cuba, November 17-21, 2003.

“Letters from the Left: The World War II Correspondence of an American Veteran of the Spanish Civil War,” Society for Military History, Knoxville, Tennessee, May 1-4, 2003.

“Gunther’s Travels: The Odyssey of Metasequoia Seeds from the 1920s,” International Metasequoia  Symposium, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, August 5-7, 2002.

“United States Women in a World at War,” Women on the Threshold of the 21st Century International Conference, University of Havana, Cuba, November 12-16, 2001.

“Collaborative Learning at a Distance: The Bryant University-Belarus Connection,” Syllabus Fall   2001 Conference, Danvers, Massachusetts, November 29-December 2,  2001.

“Introducing the Culture and Practices of American Business to Entrepreneurs from the Newly     Independent States: Belarus as a Case Study,” Northeast Business and Economic Association, New York, New York, October 5-7, 2000.

“A New Paradigm For Transforming Educational, Economic, and Civic Practices in Belarus:  A Collaborative Learning at a Distance Program,” 5th International Conference on Global Business & Economic Development , Beijing, China, June 21-24, 2000.

“American Women in a World at War: U.S. Women and Post World War II Planning,” Women on the Eve of the 21st Century, 3rd  International Workshop of  Federation of Cuban Women, University of Havana, Havana, Cuba, October 25-29, 1999.

“Using Technology to Foster Collaborative Learning at a Distance:  The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and Bryant University Connection,” International Conference on Technology and Education, Tampa, Florida, October 10-13, 1999.

“Writing the History of Women and World War II,” Writing Women’s History and History of Gender in Countries in Transition Conference, Center for Gender Studies, European Humanities University,  Minsk, Belarus, September 30-October 2, 1999.

“Using Distant Learning to Foster Collaborative Learning Between the U.S. and the Newly Independent States” Teaching Economies Conference, Robert Morris College,  Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, February 11-13, 1999 (co-authored with Joseph A. Ilacqua).

“The Organizational and Philosophical Underpinnings of Bryant University’s Collaborative Learning at a Distance Project,” Annual Meeting, American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 2-4, 1999 (co-authored with Gaytha Langlois).

“A Progress Report on Teaching Cultures and Economies in Transition in the Post Soviet Era with Bryant University and EHU Students,” Annual Meeting, American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 2-4, 1999.

“Innovative Collaboration Using the Internet to Foster Technology Transfer for Countries with Economies in Transition,” Science and Innovation Policy International Conference, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus, December 1-4, 1998.

"Collaborative Distance Learning and Higher Education," Northeast Business and Economic Association Conference, Newport, Rhode Island, October 1998.

"Collaborative Learning at a Distance:  The US and NIS," Moscow 98, International Cooperation in Higher Education and Distance Learning, Moscow, Russia, June 18-21, 1998.

"Introducing an Understanding of Western Business Practices and Culture to Students in the Former Soviet Union," Northeast Business and Economics Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 26-27, 1997.

"Science and Technology Collaboration Between the United States and the New Independent States:  A Uniform Cost Accounting and Financial Record Keeping System for the NIS-Initiatives in Proliferation Prevention Project," NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Budapest, Hungary, August 28-30, 1997 (co-authored with Joseph A. Ilacqua).

"Forging Economic Alliances Between Small and Medium Size Businesses in the New Independent States and the United States:  Estonia, A Case Study," Conversion of R. & D. Personnel in Belarus:  Problems and Prospects Conference, European Humanities University, Minsk, Belarus, November 14-15, 1996.

"The Letter as Historical Artifact:  The World War II Correspondence of U.S. Women," The Letter In History Conference, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, March 20-21, 1996. 

"Southern Women in a World At War," World War II and the American South Conference, the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, October 5-8, 1995.

"The Wartime History of the WAVES, SPARs, Women Marines, Army and Navy Nurses, and    WASPS," A Woman's War Too Conference,  National Archives, College Park, Maryland, March 3-4, 1996.

"`The Horrors of War and the Errors of Peace':  United States Women and Postwar Planning, 1940-1945,"  American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, January 5-8, 1995 (co-authored with David C. Smith).

"`We're in the Fight Too':  World War II Letters from U.S. Women in Uniform," Social Science History Association, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, October 13-16, 1994.

"`I've Got This Far So I Might As Well Go On':  The World War II Letters of U.S. Army Women in the Pacific,"  1994 Conference of Army Historians, U.S. Army Center of Military History, Arlington, Virginia, June 13-16, 1994 (co-authored with David C. Smith).

"`Today We Have Lived History':  The D-Day Letters of United States Women," 1994 D-Day Remembered Conference, Eisenhower Center, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 16-17, 1994(co-authored with David C. Smith).

"Dollars and Sense:  United States Housewives and the Economic Challenges of World War II," Annual Meeting, Eastern Economic Association, Washington, DC, March 19-21, 1993(co-authored with David C. Smith).

"Gender, War, and Imagined Geographies: United States Women and the `Far Flung' Fronts of World War II," International Conference of Historical Geographers, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, August 18, 1992 (co-authored with David C. Smith).

"To The Rescue of the Crops:  Women and American Agriculture During World War II," Rural/Farm Women in Historical Perspective Conference, University of California, Davis, June 27, 1992 (co-authored with David C. Smith).

"Writing Is Fighting Too:  The Wartime Correspondence of Southern Women," The Homefront in the South Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1, 1992 (co-authored with David C. Smith).

"Reconsidering the Home Front:  The World War II Letters of American Women," 1992 Eisenhower Center Annual Spring Conference, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 10-11, 1992 (co-authored with David C. Smith).

"`Will He Get My Letter?':  Popular Portrayals of Mail and Morale During World War II,"  1991 American Homefront Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, October 17-19, 1991 (co-authored with David C. Smith).

"The Historian as Detective:  The Case of the Missing Letters," 1991 Mid-America Conference on History, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, September 19-21, 1991.

"`A Date Which Will Live in Infamy':  Women's Response to Pearl Harbor and War," 1991 Siena College Conference on World War II, Loudonville, New York, May 30-31, 1991 (co-authored with David C. Smith).

"Understanding the Home Front:  The World War II Letters of American Women," 1991 Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Louisville, Kentucky, April 13, 1991 (co-authored with David C. Smith).

"Women and Letter Writing During World War II," 1990 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, June 7-10, 1990 (co-authored with David C. Smith).

"`Will He Get My Letter?':  Popular Portrayals of Mail and Morale During World War II," a slide/tape show presented at the 1989 biennial meeting of Phi Alpha Theta, St. Louis, Missouri, December 27,1989 (co-authored with David C. Smith).

"The Mail Goes Through:  Letter Carriers and World War II," National Association of Letter Carriers Centennial Celebration, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 28-29, 1989 (co-authored with David C. Smith).

"An Historical Overview of Midwifery," Fourth International Congress on Pre & Perinatal Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, August 4, 1989.

"Courtship By Mail:  The World War II Letters of Charles E. Taylor and Barbara Wooddall Taylor," 1988 Duquesne History Forum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1988 (co-authored with David C. Smith).

"Sustaining Each Other `For the Duration':  War Brides and World War II," 1988 Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, March 10, 1988 (co- authored with David C. Smith).

"`Since You Went Away':  The World War II Letters of Barbara Wooddall Taylor," 1987 Popular Culture Association Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 26, 1987 (co-authored with           David C. Smith).

"An Enduring Tradition:  American Midwives at the Twentieth Century," University of Arizona Conference, A Century of Women's Health, Tucson, Arizona, February 16, 1985.

"The Life and Times of Moses Brown," Moses Brown School Bicentennial Forum, Providence, Rhode Island, February 9. 1984.

"The History of Midwives," 1982 annual meeting of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, Lexington, Kentucky, April 29, 1982.   

"Researching the History of American Midwives," 1981 New England Historical Association Meeting, Mount Ida Junior College, Newton, Massachusetts, April 11, 1981.

"Future Directions in Researching the History of Midwifery," 1980 New England Women's Studies Association Meeting,          University of Rhode Island, Kingstown, Rhode Island, April 12, 1980.

"Forgotten Women:  American Midwives at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," 1976 Missouri Valley History Conference, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska, March 12, 1976.

"Problems in Researching Women's History," 1974 Conference for Research and College Librarians for the State of Maine, Orono, Maine, April 3, 1974.

"A Survey of American Attitudes Toward the Draft, 1943-1966," and "The Conscientious Objector in America," University of Chicago Conference on the Draft, Chicago, Illinois, December 4-7, 1966.

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