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CV – Jennifer M. Lynn
Jennifer M. Lynn, PhD
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CV – Jennifer M. Lynn
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CV – Jennifer M. Lynn
Associate Professor
Montana State University Billings ~ Department of History
Director, Women’s and Gender Studies Center
Billings, Montana 59101~ 406.657.2922
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CV – Jennifer M. Lynn
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION:
· Ph.D., History at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, August 2012
Concentrations: Modern Europe, Modern Germany, Women’s and Gender History
Dissertation: “Contested Femininities: Representations of Modern
Women in the German Illustrated Press, 1920-1945”
Advisor: Dr. Karen Hagemann, James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History
· M.A., History at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, September 2006 – May 2008
Master’s Thesis: “Imagining Women: Representations of the ‘Modern Woman’ in
the German Illustrated Press, 1924-1933”
Advisor: Dr. Karen Hagemann, James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History
· B.A., History (Honors) at Montana State University-Billings, May 2005
Concentrations: European History, Women’s History
· A.A., History and Journalism, Northwest College, Powell, WY, May 2001
AWARDS AND HONORS:
· Zonta Grant – Women’s and Gender Studies Center, 2017
· AAUW Grant – Women’s and Gender Studies Center, 2017
· Research and Creative Endeavors Grant, 2016 - 2017
· Winston and Helen Cox Fellowship, MSU Billings, 2015
· Nomination for Distinguished Alumni, Northwest College, 2014
· Faculty Development Funds, MSU Billings, 2011 - 2016
· Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, 2009-2010
· Fulbright Fellowship, 2009-2010 (unable to accept)
· Peter Filene Award for Excellence in Teaching, Spring 2009
· Foreign Language Area Study Fellowship, 2009-2010 (unable to accept)
· Foreign Language Area Study Fellowship, for German language study, Center for European Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring 2007.
· Outstanding Senior in History, Montana State University, Spring 2005
· First Place Literary Prize, “The Rook,” Montana State University, Spring 2004
· Honors Scholar, Montana State University, Spring 2004
· Outstanding Student in the Social Sciences, Northwest College, Spring 2001
· Gene Hull Fellowship Award, Northwest College, Spring 2001
· Wyoming Collegiate Press Association Awards, Northwest College, Spring 2001
LANGUAGES:
· German: reading, writing, speaking
· French: reading
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
· Assistant Professor, Montana State University Billings, Fall 2011 – Present
Courses Taught
HSTR 101: Western Civilization I
HSTR 102: Western Civilization II
HSTR 318: Enlightenment and Revolution in Europe, 1648 – 1815
HSTR 322: 19th Century Europe
HSTR 324: 20th Century Europe
HSTR 462: Holocaust in Nazi Occupied Europe
HSTR 326: Contemporary Europe
HSTR 473: Gender, War and Film, Europe, 1648 – 1945
HSTA 200: Historian as Detective
HSTR 499: Senior Thesis/Capstone Course
HSTR 487: Monsters in Modern European History: Witches, Vampires, and Zombies
HSTR 491: Women in European History, 1750 – Present
· Graduate Research Consultant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, History Department
Fall 2010 HIST/HONORS 253: War and Gender in Movies
· Teaching Assistant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, History Department
Spring 2011 HIST 259: Women and Gender in European History, 1750-1950
Fall 2010 HIST 159: 20th Century European History
Spring 2009 HIST 140: The World Since 1945
Fall 2008 HIST: 151: Western Civilizations I
Spring 2008 HIST 259: Women and Gender in European History, 1750-1950
Fall 2007 HIST 140: The World Since 1945
· Apprentice Teaching Assistant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill History Department
Spring 2007 HIST 259: Women and Gender in European History, 1750-1950
Fall 2006 HIST 312: History of Air Power
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
· Women’s and Gender Studies Center, Montana State University Billings, 2103 – present
Director of Women’s and Gender Studies Center
· MSUB Women’s Faculty Caucus, Montana State University Billings, 2015 – present
Steering committee
· Rosa Luxemburg International Working Group in German History, 2016 - present
· Sexual Violence Prevention Task Force, Montana State University Billings, 2014 – present
· Phi Alpha Theta, Northwest Regional Conference, Program Organizer, 2014 – 2015
· Gender Studies Club Advisor, MSU Billings, Fall 2014 – Present
· MSUB – Rocky Mountain College, Interdisciplinary Working Group, Montana State University Billings, 2013 – present
· Advanced Placement Table Leader: European History, Kansas City, MO, June 2016, 2017
· Advanced Placement Reader: European History, Kansas City, MO, 2014, 2015
· Phi Alpha Theta, Northwest Region, Faculty Committee for awarding prize papers, 2013
· Phi Alpha Theta/History Club Co-Advisor, Montana State University Billings, 2011 – Present
· Committee on Teaching, Department of History, UNC – Chapel Hill, 2010 - 2011
· History Working Group, Freie Universität, Berlin Fall 2009 – Summer 2010
Co-founder and bi-weekly planning committee
· UNC Graduate Working Group in Gender History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fall 2006-Spring 2011
o April 2011: Women, Gender and the Human Rights Legal Revolution: Historical Perspectives, with Jean H. Quataert (Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Binghampton University, SUNY).
o April 2011: The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: Race, Gender and Property – The experience of Nazi Occupation at the Local Level.
o January 2011: Roundtable: Gender, Politics and Culture in Europe and Beyond: Breaking Barriers – Making History: UNC Women in the Humanities and Social Sciences since the 1960s.
o February 2008: Workshop: Gender, Politics and Culture in Europe and Beyond: What is the Future of Feminist/Gender History?
o May 2007 Workshop: Gender, War and Politics: The Wars of Revolution and Liberation, Transatlantic Comparisons, 117-1820.
o Fall 2006 Workshop: Family, Work, and Welfare in Past and Present: A Transatlantic
Workshop
· North Carolina German Studies Seminar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring 2011, Graduate Representative
· Working Group in Feminism and History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fall 2008-Spring 2011
Fall 2008 - January 2009, Gender and Visual History, planning committee and presenter
· UNC Graduate Committee, Social Chair, Fall 2007-Spring 2008.
· Museum Assistant, Homesteader Museum, Powell Wyoming 2000-2002
Oral history interviews, transcriptions, press releases, archival processes,
museum displays, research, acquisitions
· Newspaper Editor, Northwest Trail, Powell Wyoming 1999-2000
Editing, reporting, photography, layout and design for weekly
campus newspaper at Northwest College
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
· American Historical Association
· American Association of University Women, Billings Montana Chapter
· Coordinating Council for Women in History
· German Studies Association
· Gender in German History Working Group, UNC – CH
· Working Group in Feminism and History, UNC – CH
· North Carolina German Studies Seminar, UNC - CH
PUBLICATIONS
· “Entangled Femininities: Representations of Women in the East and West German
Illustrated Press of the 1950s” in Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements (Berghahn Books, forthcoming)
· Contested Femininities: Representations of Modern Women in the German Illustrated Press, 1920 – 1960, manuscript in progress
· “Imagining the Neue Frau: Images of the Modern Women in the Weimar Germany Illustrated Press,” Latchkey: The Journal of New Woman Studies, (Spring 2016)
· “The Reorientation of the Women of Germany”: Constructing Ideal Femininities
in the German Illustrated Press, 1945 – 1946, Connections v. 10 (Spring 2014)
PRESENTATIONS
· University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley, March 2017
Lecture and Workshop: “Pitfalls and Opportunities: Establishing a Women’s and Gender Studies Center”
· German Studies Association, San Diego, CA, October 2016
“Women in Gasmasks: Propaganda, the Illustrated Press and Germany during WWII”
· MSUB Extended Campus ~ Westpark, Billings, Montana, 18 February 2016
“Women in World War II: Employment and Military Service”
· Billings Universalist Church, Billings, Montana, 21 February 2016
“Moral and Spiritual Resistance during the Holocaust”
· German Studies Association (panel series), Washington D.C, Fall 2015
“Entanglement(s) in Germany: Gender in the German Press, 1950 – 1960”
Session Organizer: Media Representations of Gender in post-1945 Germany
· MSU Billings World War I Lecture Series, Fall 2014
“Visualizing Conflict: Memory and the Great War”
· German Studies Association, Kansas City, MO, Fall 2014 (co-organized panel)
“Representations of Women under Occupation in Germany, 1945 – 1950”
· Billings Public Library, Spring 2014
“Civil War Photographic Technology: Stereoscopes and Visiting Cards”
· MSU Library and Women’s Studies Lecture, March 2014
· “Equal Rights and Suffrage!: The History of International Women’s Day”
· MSU Billings Power of 1 Week, January 2014
“Women and Equality: The Status of Women in Montana” (with Dr. Jennifer Scroggins)
· MSU Billings Foundation Lecture, November 2013, invited lecture
“Our Boss is a Woman: Images of Female Work in the German and American Illustrated Press, 1920 – 1960.”
· Rocky Mountain European Scholars Consortium, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, October 2012
“The Reorientation of the Women of Germany”: Constructing Female Citizens
in the German Illustrated Press, 1945 – 1949
· Civil War 150, Montana State University Billings, September 2013
Photographs of the Civil War Era
· Nürtingen–Geislingen, Germany, June 2013
The ‘Modern Woman’ as Working Woman: Representations of Female Work in the German and American Illustrated Press, 1920 - 1960
· Rocky Mountain European Scholars Consortium, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, October 2012
“Modern Women in the German Illustrated Press, 1920 – 1939”
· Department Research Colloquium, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Dept. of History, January 2011
“From Weimar to the Third Reich: The Modern Woman in the Illustrated Press.”
· Popular Sex: Media and Sexuality in Germany in the Early 20th Century, University of Calgary, January 2011
“Contested Femininities: Bodies, Sexuality and Modern Women in the German Illustrated Press in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich. “
· Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin, July 2010
“Frauen in Gasmasken: Gender in der deutschen illustrierten Presse während des Zweiten Weltkriegs.“
· WGFH Visual Panel, UNC-Chapel Hill, January 2009
“Contested Femininities and Approaches to Gender and Visual History.”
PUBLISHED REVIEWS:
H-Soz-U-Kult Review of Stibbe, Matthew. Germany, 1914 – 1933: Politics, Society and Culture, Harlow: Pearson, 2010.
H-Soz-U-Kult Review of Usborne, Cornelie. Cultures of Abortion in Weimar Germany, New York: Berghahn Books, 2007.
MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS:
The Devil's Wheels: Men, Motorcycles and Modernity, Berghahn Books (Spring 2013)