Ginette Turner Aley—I am re-locating to the Univ. of Southern Indiana as of Fall 2005.

History Dept.

224 Meredith Hall

Drake University

Des Moines, IA 50311

Email: galey@usi.edu

(updated 09/30/2005)

Travel Notes 2005:

June: Henry Ford Museum, MI (06/02-3 & 06/20-22); Missouri State Archives (06/22-24); July: Philadelphia, Detroit, Lincoln, NE; Aug.: Detroit

Oct.: Terre Haute; Nov.: the Southern in Atlanta

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Academic Background:	PhD (Spring 2005) Iowa State University Specializing in U.S. 19th cen. Social; Westward Expansion; Trans-Appalachian & Trans-Mississippi West; Antebellum Racial Politics, and Women’s history Advisor: R. Douglas Hurt Dissertation Title: Westward Expansion, John Tipton, and the Emergence of the American Midwest, 1800-1839 (*currently under review at Indiana Univ. Press) -The Civil War and the Heartland: Civil War Iowa (Athens: Ohio University Press, in-progress)
Fall 1998
Book in Progress
May 1996	MA History Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
August 1993	BA Magna Cum Laude with Honors – History Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Teaching Experience:
08/05 –	Assistant Professor / History Dept. / University of Southern Indiana •Colonial America •Early National America •U.S. History to 1877
08/04 – 07/05	Visiting Instructor / History Dept. / Drake University •U.S. History to 1877 •Civil War and Reconstruction •Civil War and Reconstruction—Web Course, Summer 2005 •U.S. History Since 1877 •U.S. Women’s History •Rise of the New South—Independent Study
01/02 – Sum 2004	Instructor / History Dept. / Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University •U.S. History to Reconstruction •Introduction to U.S. History (1-semester survey) •Westward Expansion
Sum 2000 – 12/01	Instructor / History Dept. / Iowa State University •American Agricultural/Rural History •History of Women in America
08/98 – 05/00	Teaching Assist. / History Dept. / Iowa State University •U.S. Survey to 1870 •History of Women in America •American Social and Cultural History to 1900 •American Social and Cultural History Since 1900.
08/96 – 07/98	Software Trainer / Mt. Mercy College / Cedar Rapids, (IA) •Developed & taught workshops on software applications to faculty, staff, & students.
08/92 - 05/94	Graduate Assistant / History Dept. / Virginia Tech
Publications:
Articles	-“Grist, Grit, and Rural Society in the Early Midwest: Insight Gleaned from Grain,” Ohio Valley History 5 (Summer 2005): 3-20. -“‘Knotted Together Like Roots in the Darkness’: Rural Midwestern Women and Region,” in Agricultural History 77 (Summer 2003): 453-81. -“More than Canawlers and Railroad Builders: the Imprint of the Rural Irish in Indiana,” in Indiana Canals, Fall 2001. In progress, “When Dred Scott was a Woman” J
Book Chapters	-“Bringing About the Dawn: Agriculture, Internal Improvement, Indian Policy, and Euro-American Hegemony in the Old Northwest, 1800-1846,” in Daniel P. Barr, ed., The Boundaries Between Us: Natives, Newcomers, and the Struggle for the Old Northwest, 1740-1840. (Kent State University Press, 2005, forthcoming) -“Dwelling Within the Place Worth Seeking: Regional Identities and Internal Histories,” [under review for inclusion in Regionalism and the Humanities, Timothy Mahoney, ed.--ACCEPTED]
Encyclopedia Articles	-“Republican Farmers,” (5-6,000 words) for Andrew Frank, ed., Encyclopedia of the Social History of the Early American Republic (in progress) -“Land Policies,” (2500 words) for Encyclopedia of the New American Nation (Charles Scribner’s Sons, forthcoming) -“American Agriculture Movement” (2500 words) for Immanuel Ness, ed., Encyclopedia of American Social Movements, pp. 835-39. -“Midwestern Canals,” (2000-word thematic essay) for The Encyclopedia of the Midwest (submitted). -“Illinois Canals” (1000 words) for The Encyclopedia of the Midwest (submitted). -“Stage and Freight” (750 words) for The Encyclopedia of the Midwest (submitted). -“Farm-Labor Party” for The Encyclopedia of the Midwest (submitted). -"The Populist Party," (700 words) for Paul Finkelman and Peter Wallenstein, eds.,The Encyclopedia of American Political History, 2001, pp. 300-01. -“The American Agriculture Movement” (1000 words) for David Wishart, ed., The Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, 2004, p. 704-05. -“Agriculture: The Golden Age of Agriculture" (1500 words) for Paul S. Boyer, ed., The Oxford Companion to United States History, 2001, pp. 19-20. -"The History of Grain Processing/Milling" for Paul S. Boyer, ed., The Oxford Companion to United States History, 2001, p. 316. -“Judge Benjamin Lindsey” for American National Biography, Jan. 1999; Vol. 13, pp. 699-700.
Book Reviews	-H-Net, H-Indiana -Indiana Magazine of History (in progress) -Journal of Illinois History (submitted) -Nebraska History-(submitted) -Western Historical Quarterly vol. 35, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 99-100. -Ohio History, vol. 113, (Winter-Spring 2004): 47-48. -Indiana Magazine of History, vol. 100, no. 1 (March 2004): 74-76. -Northwest Ohio Quarterly, vol. 75, no. 1 (2003): 92-94. -Great Plains Research, vol. 12, no. 2 (Fall 2002): 395-97. -Nebraska History, vol. 83, no. 3 & 4 (Fall/Winter 2002): 168. -Journal of Illinois History, vol. 5, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 332-34.
Other, including Editorial	-Co-author of "Smart Student's Guide to Writing History Papers" for Kappa Iota, the Iowa State University chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, Sept. 1999. -Performed responsibilities of interim editorial assistant for Prof. Doug Hurt, Editor, Agricultural History, 1999-2000, on an as-needed basis (i.e. galley reading, coordinating the book review process, correspondence, etc.) -Coordinated the article review process for Xenobiotica, Fall. 1994, (under Prof. Neil Castagnoli, Virginia Tech) -Staff Editor (guest), The Journal of East Tennessee History, No. 65, 1993. -Copyediting, published acknowledgements for work on Frederic J. Baumgartner, France in the Sixteenth Century (NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1995). -Current ABC-Clio Abstractor for Journal of Southern History (since 07/2001) and Journal of the Early Republic (backlog, since 07/2004). I was also the abstractor for the Journal of Illinois History (01/2000 to 08/2001) and Panhandle Plains Historical Review 10/2000 to 05/2001).
Conference Papers and Presentations:
	-in progress: panel on Civil War Midwest (with Joe Anderson and) for OAH Regional, 2006. -“Westward Expansion’s Agents of Influence: Agriculture, Internal Improvements, and Federal Indian Agent John Tipton,” presented at the SHEAR (Society for the Historians of the Early American Republic) Annual Mtg., Philadelphia, July 2005. -“Crops Promising, Money Scarce, Counterfeit Plenty”: The West during the Era of the 1819 Panic,” presented at the Western Social Sciences Assoc., Albuquerque, April 2005. -“Considering Regional Self-Definition” selected for presentation at the NEH’s Regionalism and the Humanities Conference, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nov. 2003. -“‘The Game, too, Fly Before Our Improvements’: The Commercial Nexus of Federal Indian Policy, Internal Improvements, and Agriculture in Indiana and the Making of the American Midwest,” presented at the Western Historians Assoc., Ft. Worth, Oct. 2003. -“‘The Agreeable Appearance of Industry’: Producers, Processors, and the Measure of Prosperity in the Early Midwest;” 1 of 3 presenters selected for the Newberry Library’s 2003 Great Lakes Rural History Seminar, Chicago, May 2003. -“’This Productive Country:’ Hospitality, Pioneer Agriculture, and the Germ of Plenty in the Early Middle West,” History Dept. Faculty Research Seminar, Virginia Tech, Jan. 2003. -Chair of “Rural America” Session at the Northern Great Plains History Conference, St. Paul, Oct. 2002. -“The Rural Irish in the Old Northwest: The Indiana Perspective” presented at the Organization of American Historians, Los Angeles, May 2001. (Panel Coordinator) -"The Rural Irish in Nineteenth-Century Indiana," presented at the Organization of American Historians, Midwest Regional, Ames, IA, Aug. 2000. (Panel Coordinator) -"Newcomers All: York County, Nebraska, and the Convergence of Culture in Plains Communities, 1870-1890," presented at the Northern Great Plains History Conference, St. Cloud, MN, Oct. 1999. -"Time Marches Through: York, Nebraska, as an Historical Crossroads of the American West, 1855-90," presented at the Mid-American Conference, Sept. 1999. -"'The Right of Good Neighborhood': Banding Together on the Eastern Iowa Frontier, 1830-1840," at the Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, March 1999. -Co-presented "Experience Counts!" for Iowa State University’s Center for Teaching Excellence College Teaching Seminar, Aug. 1999; Invited to present "Experience Counts…Again!" for Aug. 2000 Seminar.
Awards:
	-Recipient of USI College of Liberal Arts Faculty Research Award, Fall 2005 (for 2006-07). -Certificate of Recognition, 5 Years, ABC-CLIO, abstractor of several journals, currently Journal of the Early Republic & The Journal of Southern History (both class-1 journals), Feb. 2005. -Recipient of ISU History Dept.’s Roswell Garst Fellowship, Fall 2003. -Recipient of ISU History Dept.’s 2001 Teaching Assistant of the Year Award. -Conference Prize, Best Graduate Paper for "'The Right of Good Neighborhood': Banding Together on the Eastern Iowa Frontier, 1830-1840," at the Missouri Valley History Conference, March 1999. -Exceptional Support Recognition for Teaching from Iowa State University's Student Scholars and Leaders Program, March 1999. -ABD Scholarship, Iowa State University, 2001. -Pace Award Scholarship, Iowa State University, 1998-2000. -Voted into Phi Beta Kappa, March 1994.
Professional Activity:
	Committees: -USI History Dept., Search Committee, Fall 2005. -AHS Annual Meeting Sites Committee, apt’d by Don Pisani, April 2005 -AHS 2007 Annual Meeting ISU Program Committee, June 2005 -Appointed Graduate Liaison for the Agricultural History Society, Fall 2001. -Reviewer (textbook),Thomson Publ., for Edward Ayers, et al, American Passages: A History of the United States, Vol. 1, Oct. 2004.  -Reviewer (textbook), Houghton-Mifflin Publ., for John Hollitz & James Fuller, Contending Voices: Biographical Explorations of the American Past, Vols. 1 & 2, Sept. 2004. -Reviewer (textbook), Longman Publishers, for Gary B. Nash, et al, Retracing the Past Vol. 1, 6^th Ed., Feb. 2004. -Reviewer (textbook), Bedford/St. Martin’s Publishers, for James A. Henretta, et al., America: A Concise History, vols. 1 & 2, Summer 2003. -Blackboard Workshop on Web Course Design, Drake University, week of Jan. 10^th, 2005. -Co-Author, “Historians’ Report: Institute of Ulster Scots Studies in the U.S.,” Institute of Ulster Scots Research Agenda mtg., Virginia Tech, Feb. 15-16, 2002. -Appointed Graduate Representative on ISU’s Graduate Council, Fall 2001; Assigned as only Graduate Representative on the Graduate Handbook Subcommittee with object of developing a new Termination Policy, Fall 2001. -Appointed Graduate Representative on ISU’s Graduate Curriculum and Catalog Committee, 2000-2001. -Conference Coordinator, Phi Alpha Theta Iowa Regional Conference, Spring 2000. -Web Page Designer, Agricultural History Society, Fall 2003 (http://agriculturalhistory.ualr.edu/ ) -ISU History Department WebMaster, Spring 1999-Dec. 2001.