CURRICULUM VITAE
Rev. Summer 2007
NAMESandra Frances VanBurkleo
PRESENT EMPLOYERWayneStateUniversity, Department of History.
Lecturer, 1982-89; Assistant Professor, 1989-94; Associate Professor of History (with tenure), 1994- ; Adjunct Professor of Law, 1995- .
BIRTH DATE/PLACEOctober 6, 1944; St. Paul, MN -- U. S. Citizen
EDUCATION
High SchoolWorthingtonHigh School, WorthingtonMN, 1962
BaccalaureateB.A., History, Summa Cum Laude, HamlineUniversity, St. Paul, MN,1974
GraduateM.A., United States History, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
MN, 1978
Ph.D., United States History, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
MN, 1988-89
[Ph.D. Advisor: Paul L. Murphy]
APPOINTMENTS AT OTHER INSTITUTIONS
University of Minnesota (instructor, Criminal Justice Studies, 1978; Dept. of History, 1980)
United States Supreme Court, Documentary History of the U. S. Supreme Court (asst. editor,
1981-1983, with Maeva Marcus, et al.)
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIPS
Organization of American Historians (life membership)
American Historical Association (life membership)
American Society for Legal History (life membership)
Law and Society Association
National Women's Studies Association
Society for Historians of the Early AmericanRepublic
Institute of Early American History and Culture (Associate)
Ninth Federal Judicial Circuit Historical Society
Historical Society of Eastern District of Michigan
Southern Historical Association (life membership)
Michigan Women's Studies Association and Hall of Fame
Association for Documentary Editing (life membership)
American Studies Association
Folger Shakespeare Library, WashingtonDC (readership)
Friends of the Legal Papers of Abraham Lincoln
AAUW; AAUP; NOW; NAACP; MARAL; other community and civil rights groups
HONORS, AWARDS, and GRANTS:
Visiting Scholar, Public Policy Program, WoodrowWilsonInternationalCenter for Scholars,
Washington, DC, September-December 2006.
Choice “Outstanding Academic Book for 2002,” for Constitutionalism and American Culture.
WayneStateUniversity Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, 2002.
WayneStateUniversity Board of Governors Outstanding Faculty Recognition Award, 2002.
Wayne State University College of Liberal Arts teaching award, 2000.
Career Development Chair, Wayne State University, 1999-2000.
WayneStateUniversityCenter for the Humanities Research Grant, 1998-99, 1999-2000.
Nominated for US Professor of the Year (Carnegie Foundation), WayneStateUniversity (1997,
1998).
Richard Barber Legal Studies Research Grant, WSUCenter for Legal Studies (1997).
OAH-NCHS Pre-Collegiate Teaching Unit Grant (with two grad students) (1997).
Michigan Association of Governing Boards Distinguished Faculty Award (1993).
WSU President's Bonus Award for Service (1993).
WSU President's Award for Excellence in Teaching (1991-92).
Probus Club Award (1991).
Best Article Award, Journal of the Early Republic (1989).
Ford Family Fund Grant, $40,000 (to support WSU-Detroit Public Schools Teaching Alliance,
1989).
Gannett Foundation Grant, $1,000 (to support WSU-DPS Teaching Alliance, 1990).
Michigan Council for the Humanities Grant, $1,000 (to support WSU-DPS Teaching Alliance,
1989-90).
American Historical Association Littleton-Griswold Legal History Research Award (1989).
WSU Special and/or Small Research Grants (1989, 1990, 1993, 1995).
WSU Summer Research Grant (1989).
Wayne State Research Stimulation Grants (1989, 1995 -- the latter to support new history
teaching alliance with WSU College of Education ).
University of Minnesota Dissertation Fellowship (1980).
Thomas Wallace Dissertation Fellowship (University of Minnesota 1979).
University of Minnesota Special Research Grant (1979).
University of Minnesota McMillan Travel Grants (1979, 1980).
Tozer Foundation Fellowships (Stillwater, MN -- 1974, 1975).
St. Paul (MN) Chamber of Commerce Academic Excellence Award (1974).
Phi Beta Kappa (1974).
Summa Cum Laude (Hamline University, 1974).
Pi Gamma Mu (National Social Studies Honor Society, 1973); Hamline Honor Society (1973).
RESEARCH
Research in Progress
Gender Remade: Citizenship and Statehood in Frontier Washington, 1879-1912 , a book in progress (to be completed in early 2008; informal contract negotiations underway with editors of two series at university presses).
“Breaking Promises: Legislative Divorce, Marital Contracts, and Constitutional Limitations in Nineteenth-Century America,” article to be published in legal history journal.
Next project [RAs presently working on newspaper research]: a study of Americans’ experiences of liberty of speech across race, gender, and class boundaries, roughly from the 1620s into the second quarter of the 20th century. Working title: “‘Words as Hard as Cannon-Balls’: Gender, Race, and Public Speech in American History.”
PUBLICATIONS
Books
‘Belonging to the World': Women's Rights and American Constitutional Culture (Oxford University Press, 2001, cloth and paperback).
Sandra F. VanBurkleo, Kermit Hall, and Robert Kaczorowski, eds., Constitutionalism and American Culture: Writing the New Constitutional History (2002, University Press of Kansas, cloth and paper), served as organizer and senior editor.
Articles
“In Defense of ‘Public Reason’: Supreme Court Justice William Johnson,” Journal ofSupreme Court History (in press) – revision of Leon Silverman lecture, 2006.
“Response”, Symposium on Brown v. Board of Education, Wayne Law Review, Winter 2005.
“The Human Subject in American Constitutional History,” article published electronically on H-LAW website ( 1999; originally read at conference at University of Maryland, March 1999 (see “Conferences”).
"The History Standards Crisis and the Culture Wars of Our Time," Michigan Historical Review (Fall 1996): 150-180.
"’Instruments of Seduction': A Tale of Two Women," Magazine of History (Winter 1995): 8-18 (part of the National History Day Issue for 1995-96).
"’No Rights But Human Rights': The Emancipation of American Women," Constitution (Spring-Summer 1990): 4-19.
"’The Paws of Banks': The Origins and Significance of Kentucky's Decision to Tax Federal Bankers, 1818-1820," Journal of the Early Republic (Vol. IX, No. 4, 1989): 457-487 (winner of the 1989 "Best Article" Award, JER).
"’Honour, Justice, and Interest': John Jay's Republican Politics and Statesmanship on the Federal Bench," Journal of the Early Republic (Vol. IV, No. 3, 1984): 239-274.
Chapters
"‘Words as Hard as Cannon-Balls: Women’s Rights Agitation and Liberty of Speech in Nineteenth-Century America,” in VanBurkleo, et al., eds., Constitutionalism and American Culture… (see above), 307-358.
"’Honour, Justice, and Interest': John Jay's Republican Politics and Statesmanship on the Federal Bench," in Scott Gerber, ed., Seriatim: The Supreme Court Before John Marshall (NYU Press, 1998) (a substantially revised and expanded version of 1984 JER article): 26-69.
"’To Bee Rooted Out of Her Station': The Ordeal of Anne Hutchinson," in Michal Belknap, ed.,
American Political Trials, 2nd ed. (Greenwood/Praeger, 1994): 1-24.
"The Right to Privacy," in Kermit Hall, ed., By and For the People: Constitutional Rights in American History (Harlan Davidson 1991): 113-131 (volume sponsored by Organization of Amer. Historians Ad Hoc Committee for the Bicentennial).
"’Desperate Deeds, Desperate Motives': Legal Politics in Kentucky after 1818," in W. P. Shively, ed., The Research Process in Political Science (Peacock 1984): 67-116.
Editorships
Co-editor, with Heidi Gottfried and Mary Garrett, Re-Mapping the Humanities (in press, Wayne State University Press, scheduled for late 2007).
Associate Editor, American National Biography (Oxford, 1999; ed. for 19th c. jurists).
Assistant Editor, Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, with Maeva Marcus, et al. (Columbia University Press 1984), Volume One.
Entries
For M. Urofsky, ed., [volume about famous litigants in American History], three long essays (Myra Bradwell, Norma McCorvey, Virginia Minor), 2004, CQ Press.
For Oxford Companion to American Law, entries on John Jay (1500 words) and the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, 1000 words (2002), 27, 433-434.
For Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century , genl. ed. Paul Finkelman (Scribners, 2001):
Gender and the Law (3,500 words) — sole authorship
Abortion and Contraception (1,500 words) — with Debra Viles
Republican Motherhood (1,000 words) — with Erika Hansinger
For American National Biography, ed. John Garraty (Oxford, 1997-98): Major Essay (4,000 words): Roger Taney; Minor Essays (900-1,500 words): Grace Abbott, Mary Anderson, Henry Brown Blackwell, Sarah Moore Grimke, Lucy Bagby Johnson, Julia Ward Howe, and others (many co-written with graduate students).
In Melvin Urofsky, ed., Biographical Dictionary of U. S. Supreme Court Justices (Garland Press, 1994):
Chief Justice John Jay, pp. 263-269.
Associate Justice William Johnson, pp. 273-276.
Associate Justice Thomas Todd, pp. 479-482.
In Kermit Hall, ed., Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court (Oxford University Press 1992):
President John Quincy Adams, pp. 8-9.
John Jordan Crittenden, pp. 207-208.
Fletcher v. Peck, pp. 304-305.
Green v. Biddle, pp. 346-347.
Chief Justice John Jay, pp. 446-447.
Associate Justice Thomas Johnson, pp. 448-449.
Associate Justice William Johnson, pp. 449-450.
New York v. Miln, p. 589.
[Many of these essays are reprinted in the abridged version].
In John E. Kleber, ed., The Kentucky Encyclopedia (University Press of Kentucky 1992):
William T. Barry, pp. 55-56.
Green v. Biddle, p. 390.
Amos Kendall, p. 486.
Old Court-New Court Controversy, pp. 693-694.
Relief Crisis, pp. 762-763.
Associate Justice Robert Trimble, p. 900.
In Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement V (1977), with Paul L. Murphy:
Arthur Garfield Hayes, pp. 279-280.
Review Essays
Essay reviewing Gretchen Ritter, The Constitution as Social Design…,” in Women’s Review of Books (in press as of July 2007, tentatively scheduled for August/September issue).
Review of Lawrence Friedman, American Law in the 20th Century, for Law and History Review (in progress).
“The Devil’s Snare,” essay reviewing Mary Beth Norton, In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692, in Women’s Review of Books, Nov. 2002, 14-16.
Review essay, biography of Elizabeth Murray, Women’s Review of Books, May 2001.
“Movers and Quakers,” an essay reviewing Rebecca Larson, Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700-1775, in Women’s Review of Books, January 2000: 8-10.
“A Delusion of Women,” an essay reviewing Frances Hill, A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials, and Elizabeth Reis, Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England, in Women’s Review of Books, May 1998: 16-18.
"Little Monarchies," an essay reviewing Mary Beth Norton, Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society, in Women's Review of Books (Sept. 1996): 22-23.
"Broken Promises," an essay reviewing Susan Juster, Disorderly Women, in Women's Review of Books (June 1995): 25-26.
"Was Life a ‘Pic Nick'?" an essay reviewing Karen Hansen, A Very Social Time: Crafting Community in Antebellum New England, in Women's Review of Books (January 1995): 6-7.
Review of Stephen Presser, The Original Misunderstanding (1991), for Law and History Review (Winter 1994): 409-415.
Essay reviewing John Phillip Reid, Constitutional History of the American Revolution: The Authority to Legislate (1992), for American Journal of Legal History (July 1994): 79-90.
Essay reviewing John Phillip Reid, Concept of Liberty (1988), Constitutional History of the American Revolution: The Authority of Rights (1986) and Constitutional History of the American Revolution: The Authority to Tax (1987), in Amer. Journal of Legal Hist. (Oct. 1989): 378-385.
"Denaturing Count Fosco's Crocodile: The Limits of Critical Documentary Editions," reviewing Charlene Bickford, et al., eds., Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, Vols. 4-6 (1986), in Documentary Editing (Sept. 1987) (bulletin of Assn. for Documentary Editing), 11-15.
Essay reviewing R. Kent Newmyer, Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic, in Constitutional Commentary (Winter 1986), pp. 244-254.
Book Reviews
Review of Nancy Cott, Broken Vows, in Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2002).
Review of David Richards, Women, Gays, and the Constitution, in Journal of American History (1999).
Review of Maeva Marcus, et al., eds., Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800, Vol. 2, in Journal of Southern History (February 1991), pp. 95-97.
Review of Kermit Hall, The Magic Mirror, in Western Legal Histo. (Winter-Spr. 1991), 118-19.
Review of William Pencak and C. Wright, eds., New York and the Rise of American Capitalism, in History (Winter 1990), 55-56.
Review of Michael Kammen, Sovereignty and Liberty, in North Carolina Historical Review (January 1990), 115-116.
Review of David Narrett and Joyce Goldberg, eds., Essays on Liberty and Federalism: The Shaping of the U.S. Constitution, in Journal of the Early Republic (Fall 1989), 388-390.
Review of M. Marcus, et al., eds., Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, Vol. 1, Parts 1 and 2, in Journal of Southern History (May 1987), 318-320.
Review of David Currie, Constitution in the Supreme Court, in Journal of the Early Republic (Fall 1986), 304-306.
Review of Ronald Satz, Tennessee's Indian Peoples, in Journal of the Early Republic (Vol.I, No. 1, Spring 1981), pp. .
Review of Pauline Maier, The Old Revolutionaries, in Minnesota Daily (January 13, 1981).
Conference and Symposium Activities
Presenter, Symposium on Critical Legal Studies, University of Alabama Law School, October 2005 (with Chris Tomlins, M. Horwitz, et al.) – honoring the career of Prof. Wythe Holt.
Commentator, Panel on citizenship and nationalism, annual meeting of the American Historical Assn. in Seattle (January 2005).
Presenter, “Breaking Promises: Legislative Divorce, the Marital Contract, and Constitutional Limitation in 19th Century America,” meetings of the American Society for Legal History, Austin, Texas (October 28-30, 2004).
Chair/Commentator, session on policing the west, “Regionalism and the Humanities,” a conference at University of Nebraska, Lincoln, November 2003.
Chair and Commentator, session on Race and Law, American Society for Legal History meetings, Nov. 2003.
Chair, session on “The Bill of Rights and Problems of Interpretation,” annual meeting of American Society for Legal History, October 2000, Princeton, NJ.
Chair and Commentator, session on “The Market and 19th Century Culture,” Society for Historians of the EarlyAmericanRepublic meeting, July 2000, Buffalo, NY.
Panelist and Presenter, symposium at University of Sussex, UK, January 14, 2000 (on women’s rights in the United Kingdom); organizer, Prof. Vivien Hart, University of Sussex.
Chair and Commentator, “Lochnerism Redux,” American Society for Legal History, Toronto, Oct. 23, 1999.
Presenter, “‘Padlocks on My Lips’: Speech Freedom and Suffragism in Antebellum American Culture,” a paper read at the Comparative Literature Conference (topic: “Cultural Citizenship”) at MichiganStateUniversity, October 22, 1999.
Presenter, “The Human Subject in American Constitutional History,” paper read at conference at University of Maryland, March 1999, sponsored by Supreme Court Historical Society and University of South Carolina School of Law, to assess the state of undergraduate teaching in the field of American constitutional history.
Presenter, “‘A Double Head Is A Monstrosity of Nature’: ‘Re-Covering’ the Married Woman in Frontier Washington Territory, 1879-1893,” a paper presented at annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History, Seattle, October 21-24,1998.
Presenter, “‘Padlocks on My Lips’: Women’s Experiences of Speech Freedom in the United States,” a paper read at the Conference of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History, June 30-July 2, 1998, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Panelist, “Should Constitutional Historians Move Beyond the History of the Supreme Court?” annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History, Minneapolis, MN, October 15-18, 1997.
Chair and Commentator, "Gender, Class, and Federal Policy in the Emancipation Era," a conference held at Bowling GreenStateUniversity, June 5-7, 1997 (The Unintended Consequences of Policy Decisions: A National Policy History Conference).
Chair, "Law and Sexual Identity in the 20th Century," annual meeting of American Society for Legal History, Richmond, VA, October 1996.
Keynote Speaker, "Culture Wars and the History Standards Crisis," a convocation held at Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, 22 March 1996; funded in part by a grant from the Organization of American Historians.
Presenter, "Integrating American Constitutional History Into the History Curriculum" (paired with a paper by Michael Grossberg on the integration of legal history), annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Atlanta, GA, January, 1996.
Chair, "Women and the Law," Northern Great Plains History Conference, Brandon, Manitoba, October, 1995 (session featured a paper by graduate advisee, Debra Viles).
Presenter, "’Man is the Race and Woman His Dependent': Gender and the Master Narrative in American Constitutional History," meeting of Law and Society Assn., Toronto, June 1995.
Commentator, "Murphy's Law Revisited," annual meeting of American Society for Legal History, Washington, DC, Oct. 1994.
Discussant, "Race, Gender, and the Supreme Court in Antebellum Texas," annual meeting of the Law and Society Assn., Phoenix, AZ, June 1994.
Commentator, "Free Labor and Citizenship under the Law," 15th Annual North American Labor History Conference, WSU, Detroit, MI, October 14-17, 1993.
Commentator, "What Did Medieval English Villagers Mean by ‘Customary Law'?", annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History, Memphis, TN, October 1993.
Panelist, "Working Lives," annual mtg. of Organization of American Historians, AnaheimCA, April 1993.
Chair/Discussant, "Legal Constructions of Dependence: Divorce and Conservatorship," Law and Society Association, Chicago, IL, June 1993.
Presenter, "Women and Constitutionalism: Re-Thinking the State Action/Private Action Construct in American Constitutional History," Law and Society Assn., Philadelphia, May 1992.
Presenter, "Toward an ‘Equality of Chances': Women's Conceptions of Equality in Antebellum America," 22nd Annual Leadership Conf., Center for Study of the Presidency, Richmond, VA, Nov. 1991.
Commentator/Chair, "John Marshall, Henry Clay, and the Law," Society for Historians of the Early AmericanRepublic, Madison, WI, July 1991.
Panelist/Presenter, "The Right of Privacy," Organ. of Amer. Hist., Louisville, KY, April 1991.
Presenter, "Women's Rights Consciousness in Antebellum America: Re-Reading the History of Woman Suffrage," at U. of Minn., Minneapolis, "200 Years of Liberty," celebrating the career of Paul Murphy, May 2-4, 1991 [with Kermit Hall and Robert Kaczorowski, co-organizer].
Commentator, "Comparative Perspectives on Early Constitutional Culture," Society for Historians of Early AmericanRepublic, North York, Ontario, Canada, August 1990.
Commentator, "Federal Jurisdiction in the Early Republic," American Society for Legal History, Atlanta, GA, February 1990.
Commentator, "Louisiana and the Law," Society for Historians of Early AmericanRepublic, Charlottesville, VA, July 1989.
Presenter, "’The Paws of Banks': Kentucky's Campaign Against the Second Bank of the United States, 1818-1820," Society for Hist. of the Early Amer.Republic, Worcester, MA, July 1988.
Presenter, "’The Spirit of Seven and Six-Pence': Disorganized, Organized, and Re-Organized Relief Agitation in Kentucky, 1818-1824," Amer. Hist. Assn., WashingtonDC, December 1987.
Chair/commentator, "Michigan and the Law," 29th annual Michigan Local History Conference, WSU, Detroit, April 1987.
Commentator, "Federal Response to Southern Dissent," Southern Historical Association, Charlotte, NC, November 1986.
Chair/Commentator, "Fifty Years of the Wagner Act," 7th annual North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, MI, October 1985.
Organizer/Commentator, "Federalism and the Common Law," Society for Historians of the Early AmericanRepublic, Washington, DC, July 1985.
Presenter, "Possibilities and Pitfalls: Historical Editing and the Writing of American Constitutional History,” Association for Documentary Editing, Nashville, TN, October 1985.
Chair, "The History of Law Enforcement in Michigan: The Case of Bail," 25th Mich. Local Hist. Conf., Detroit, MI, April 1983.
Organizer, "Labor at the Bar," 5th North Amer. Labor History Conference, Detroit, Oct. 1983.