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History Department- San Francisco State University |
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BARBARA LOOMIS
San Francisco State University
History Department
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94123
415-338-1604
5185 Miles Avenue
Oakland, CA 94618
(510) 658-9271
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION:
Ph.D University of California, Berkeley 1988 (History)
M.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison 1974 (History)
B.A.
Lewis and Clark College, Portland 1973 (History)
TEACHING FIELDS:
The United States, 1607 to the Present
American Women’s History
Religion in America
CLASSES TAUGHT AT SFSU:
Hist. 120: History of the U.S. to 1865
Hist. 300: Seminar in Historical Analysis
Hist. 420: American Colonial History
Hist. 424: History of the U.S., 1827-1877
Hist. 450: History of California
Hist. 467: Women in the U.S.
Hist. 482: Religion in America
Hist. 642: Proseminar: Documenting 19th-Century Social Change
Hist. 677: Special Topics: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual History
Hist. 780: Seminar in American History to 1877
Antebellum Reform
U.S., The Middle Period
Hist. 805: American Women: Recent Research
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS:
San Francisco State University, 1996 --, Assoc. Professor;
1989-1996, Assistant Professor
U.C. Berkeley, Summer 1988, Instructor
Mills College, 1987-1988, Visiting Assistant Professor
San Francisco State University, 1985-1987,
Lecturer
PROFESSIONAL GROWTH AND ACHIEVEMENT:
Co-Editor, with William Bonds, of The Journal
of the History of Sexuality
(The first number under our auspices is Vol. 9, nos. 1 & 2, a special double
issue appearing in February 2000.)
"Adela Rogers St. Johns," American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 20: 801-03.
Member, Interview team, for the O.A.H. newsletter.
"What Pleasures Can Compare": Pastimes and Piety in Young Women’s Lives, 1780-1840 (forthcoming).
Lecture, "Female Sexuality in the Nineteenth-Century U.S.," for HMSX 300: Introduction to Human Sexuality, Oct. 29, 1999.
Researcher and consultant, "The Odyssey of Captain Healy," Directed by Maria Brooks; video premiered in San Francisco, April 17, 1999.
Lecture, "When the Puritans Learned to Dance," San Francisco Towers, July 8, 1998.
Lecture, "Women in Victorian San Francisco: A Look Inside the Houses," presented for the San Francisco Architectural Heritage Association, Mar. 26, 1998.
Lecture, "’In Defense of Universal Emancipation and the Equality of the Sexes’: New Bedford Abolitionists and ‘the Woman Question,’" presented for the History Students’ Association, Feb 26, 1998.
Chair and Commentator, Panel on "Powers of Political Persuasion," Pacific Coast Branch of the A.H.A., San Francisco, August 11, 1996.
Comment, Panel on "Sexual Myths," Pacific Coast Branch of the A.H.A., Los Angeles, August 13, 1993.
Review, "Reclaiming the Past," Women’s Heritage Museum Newsletter IX: 2 (May 29, 1993).
Lecture, "Dancing Masters and Hinkumboobies: Evangelical Religion and the Emergence of Middle-Class Culture, 1790-1840," presented for the History Students’ Association, May 6, 1993.
"’Old Times and New’: A Research Note," Origins 8: 2 (Spring 1992).
"Political Correctness and Pedagogy: The Challenge in California’s Classrooms," Panel presentation at the California Historical Society conference, Sacramento, Sept. 18, 1992.
Chair and Commentator for panel, "A Century in the Mines and Smelters: Gender, Family and Community in the Rocky Mountains," Pacific Coast Branch of the A.H.A., Corvallis, August 15, 1992.
Paper, "Between Faith and Frivolity: Young Women’s Leisure in an Era of Evangelical Religion,’ Conference for Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Portland, April 7, 1989.
"Piety and Play: Young Women’s Leisure in an Era of Evangelical Religion, 1790-1840," Ph.D. dissertation, written under the direction of Professor Samuel Haber, completed May 1988.
"Laboring Lives: Workers in the Machine Age" (a
multi-media presentation, available on videocassette).
REVIEWS OF MANUSCRIPTS:
For St. Martin’s Press; HarperCollins; Worth
Publishers; Addison, Wesley; Longman; Blackwell Publishers, and for the
Radical History Review.
RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Docent training, San Francisco Architectural Heritage Association, 1995-1999.
Faculty supervisor, History of the San Francisco Unitarian/Universalist Church for the last Fifty Years; research undertaken by S.F.S.U. Graduate Students.
Consultant, Haas-Lilienthal House Exhibit on Deco-Design, opened July 2, 1996.
Consultant, Women’s Heritage Museum’s efforts to develop a walking tour of San Francisco that focuses on women’s history and contributions to the Area.
Consultant, Decision Development Corporation, History 2000 unit on water. The unit, an experimental, computer interactive plan for teaching fifth-grade science, has a historical component. I provided advice, research, and editorial assistance for the project.
Consultant, for Ava F. Kahn’s
manuscript-in-progress,
The Gold Rush Decades: The Jewish Community Documents Itself, a collection of
documents being prepared under the auspices of the Western Jewish History Center
of the Judah L. Magnes Museum.
COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Referee for Newberry Library Fellowship Awards, 1991-2000.
Pacific Coast Branch of the A.H.A. Local Arrangements Committee, 1996.
Program Committee, 1992.
Member, Jeanne McDonnell Prize Committee, 1994-1995. Prize to be awarded to best book on women’s history in past two years. In conjunction with the S.F. Women’s History Museum.
American Historical Association. Local Arrangements Committee, 1989.
Western Association of Women Historians: Member,
Standing Committee on K-12 education, 1989-1991.
UNIVERSITY NON-TEACHING ACTIVITIES:
Graduate Committee, History Department, 1990-2000.
Graduate Coordinator, 1992-93; 1999--.
Associate Graduate Coordinator, 1993-99.
RTP Committee, 1997--.
Hiring Committee (appointed), 1998-99; 1991-92.
Curriculum Committee, History Department, 1989-1993.
Segment III Cluster Coordinator: "Women: Half the World," 1991--.
Representative, American Studies Council.
Usually in collaboration with Professor Robert Cherny, I have sponsored a two-part workshop about applying to Ph.D. programs. The sessions have taken place annually since 1992, in late October and early November.
With Robert Cherny and Jerry Combs, I organized Professor Linda Kerber’s Phi Beta Kappa lecture on campus, October 26-27, 1998.
Lecture, "Women and History," for International Women’s Day Conference, SFSU, March 6, 1995.
Provided assistance for Joe L. Moore’s M.A. Thesis/Art Exhibition: "Black Power, Black Arts," September-October 1994.
Provided assistance for Women’s Studies Department’s exhibit in Leonard Library for International Women’s Day, 1994.
Organized party to welcome new graduate students to History Department, September 1993.
Consultant, "Women as Healers," historical exhibit at the Student Health Center for Women’s History Month, March 1990; revised and updated exhibit and bibliography for the American Association of Women in Medicine convention, San Francisco, November 6-8, 1992.
History faculty representative, Roundtable on Careers in the Behavioral and Social Sciences, sponsored by the SFSU Career Center, March 14, 1990.
History department liaison, SFSU Alumni
Association.
HONORS:
Nominated as an "outstanding teacher at SFSU," Feb. 4, 1998.
Nominated for Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award, American Historical Association, 1995.
Newberry Library Research Fellowship, Summer 1991.
SFSU Affirmative Action Award, Spring 1991.
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