Curriculum Vitae
Kathleen (Kathi) Ann Nehls
Office:
Utah State University Eastern
451 E. 400 N.
Price UT 84501
West Instructional Building, 236
Phone: 435-613-5332
E-mail:
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Education:
Ph.D. History, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. May, 2015
Dissertation Title: “Red Tape Fraternities: State-building in the Age of Associationalism, 1870-1935”
Dissertation Advisor: Paul S. Sutter
B.A. History, Cum Laude, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma. May, 2005.
Teaching and Research Interests: Modern U.S., Women and Gender, U.S. West, Environmental, & Native American
Employment:
Aug., 2016 to Present Post-Doctoral Fellow, Utah State University Eastern
May 2014-Dec. 2015 Part-time Faculty Instructor, University of Georgia
Aug-May 2014 Graduate Teaching Assistant/Instructor of Record, University of Georgia
2013-2014 Visiting Lecturer, Oxford College of Emory University
2010-2013 Graduate Teaching Assistant/Instructor of Record, University of Georgia
2005-2010 Teaching Assistant, University of Georgia
Teaching Experience:
Courses Taught
Survey U.S. History to 1865
Survey U.S. History 1865 to present
Survey U.S. History 1865 to present Honors
American Institutions
Women of the American West
U.S. Women (one semester)
Survey U.S. Women’s History to 1865
Survey U.S. Women’s History since 1865
American West
American Indian History
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
U.S. History 1914-1945
U.S. Environmental History (Spring, 2017)
Student Advising
Undergraduate Academic Advisor, University of Georgia Department of History, 2009-2010
Undergraduate Thesis Committee, Tim de Wit, “Let My People Stay,” Undergraduate thesis, Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands, Spring, 2015.
Teaching Assistantships, University of Georgia
Teaching Assistant, Modern Western Civilization (2 semesters)
Teaching Assistant England Since 1660 (3 semesters)
Teaching Assistant, American History since 1865 (4 semesters)
Teaching Assistant American History to 1865 (2 semesters)
Research Assistantships
Research Assistant, Dr. Shane Hamilton, University of Georgia, (Spring 2009)
Research Assistant, Dr. Pamela Voekel, Dr. Bethany Moreton, (Summer 2009)
Research Assistant, Dr. Claudio Saunt, University of Georgia, (Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Summer 2008)
Research Assistant, Dr. Kenny Brown, Oral History Project, University of Central Oklahoma, (Spring, 2005)
Research Assistant, Dr. Patricia Loughlin, Oral History Project, University of Central Oklahoma, (Fall 2004)
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning/Workshops
Reacting to the Past, Regional Workshop, Athens, Georgia April, 2009
Digital Humanities: Getting started with Data, Tools and Platforms, Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching, Indianapolis, IN, July 2015
“Teaching the First Year Odyssey” August 2015
“Stem to Stern Plotting Experiential Learning Collaboration Adventures” August 2015
“Network Analysis Workshop, Atlanta, Georgia, January 2016
Grants, Scholarships, and Awards
· Early Career Scholarship HILT/Digital Humanities, 2016
· Sponsored Student Scholarship HILT/Digital Humanities, 2015
· Warner Fite Award 2011 presented annually to an outstanding student in American/U.S. History
· Graduate School Dean’s Award 2010-2011
· Graduate Student Research and Performance Grant, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, 2010-2011
· Hoover Presidential Library Travel Grant, 2010-2011
· Rockefeller Archive Center Research Grant, 2008-2009
· Carl Vipperman Teaching Assistant Award, 2007-2008
· Departmental Travel/Research Awards: 2006, 2009, 2010; 2011, 2013
· Gregory Graduate Travel Award, 2013
· 2004-2005 Grant Aguirre Award Outstanding Undergraduate Student, College of Liberal Arts, University of Central Oklahoma, April 2005.
· Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference Paper Award, First place, European History, “No Woman Left Behind: Maternity Services, Physicians, and State Intervention in Early Twentieth Century Britain.” February, 2005.
· Student Creative Research Grant, Joe Jackson College of Graduate Studies, University of Central Oklahoma, 2004-2005 and competitive travel grant for archival research in London. “Competing Interests: Problems of Gender, Class, and Control in the Decade following Passage of the Midwives Act of 1902”
Selected Publications
Review of Palmer, Steven, Launching Global Health: The Caribbean Odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation,
H-Environment, H-Net Reviews (January, 2011).
“Dean Joe C. Jackson,” in Loughlin, Patricia and Bob Burke, Building Traditions, Educating Generations: A History of the University of Central Oklahoma. Gini Campbell, ed. Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Heritage Association, 2007.
Selected Conference Presentations
American Historical Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 7, 2013. “Re-centering state power: Rockefeller Philanthropy in the American West and the Making of County-Based Health Policy.”
Western History Association Annual Conference, Oakland, California, October, 2011. “Appropriating the Maternalist State: Rockefeller Philanthropy and the Development of Administrative Capacities in the American West. (Panel Organizer)
Western History Association Annual Conference, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, October, 2007. “Red Tape, Rodeos and the Politics of Health Reform in the West: The Sheppard-Towner Act in Oklahoma.”
Western Social Science Association Annual Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, April, 2006. “Rounding Up Baby: Lucile Spire Blachly and the Construction of Maternal Health in Oklahoma, 1924-1929.
Western Social Science Association Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April, 2005. “Dallas Blachly’s War: A Doctor’s Life in the Home Front Medical Corps 1917-1918.”
Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Shawnee, Oklahoma, February, 2005. “No Woman Left Behind: Maternity Services, Physicians, and State Intervention in Early Twentieth Century Britain.”
Western Conference on British Studies, San Antonio Texas, October, 2004. “Unfunded Mandates: The Midwives Act and the Changing Role of Public Health Administration in Early Twentieth Century Britain.”
Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Norman, Oklahoma, March 2003. “ ‘I Can’t Catch the Polling Place’: The Anatomy of a Contested Oklahoma Election.”
Professional Activity
Western Social Science Association Annual Conference, Denver Colorado, April 11-13, 2012, (Panel Chair/Comment)
History Between the Hedges Conference, University of Georgia, 2007 (Panel Chair/Comment)
Service Projects
Graduate Student Association MA Rep, Department of History, University of Georgia, 2006-07
Student Worker, American Historical Association Conference (Atlanta, 2007)
Business History Conference, Athens, Georgia (2010)
Staff, Southern Historical Association Conference, (2009, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016)
Global Capitalism Initiative Conference, University of Georgia, (2015)
Franklin College of Arts and Science, Commencement 2015
Professional Affiliations
American Historical Association, Western History Association, Coalition of Western Women Historians, Coordinating Council of Women Historians, Southern Historical Association.
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