Herndon CV, XXX
Curriculum Vitae
Ruth Wallis Herndon
Associate Professor
Department of History
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403
419-372-8445
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webpage: http://personal.bgsu.edu/~rwhernd
EDUCATION
PhD in History, The American University, 1992
Dissertation: “Governing the Affairs of the Town: Continuity and Change in Rhode Island, 1750-1800”; Dissertation Director: Roger H. Brown
MA in History, The American University, 1983
Professional Diploma in Education/History, University of Hawai’i, 1979
BA in History, University of Houston at Clear Lake, 1975
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Bowling Green State University, Department of History
Associate Professor (tenured), 2007-
University of Toledo, Department of History:
Associate Professor (tenured), 2001-2007
Assistant Professor, 1996-2001
University of Rhode Island, Department of History:
Lecturer and Instructor, 1992-94
AWARDS AND PRIZES
Ralph D. Gray Best Article Prize, Society for Historians of the Early Republic, 2013
Elected Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2012
Distinguished Dissertation Award for advisee Shirley Green, BGSU, 2012
Best Article Prize, Program in Early American Economy and Society, Library Company of Philadelphia, 2003
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, American Library Association, 2002
Writing Across the Curriculum Teaching Excellence Award, University of Toledo, 2002
Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Toledo, 1999
Robert F. Heizer Best Article Prize, American Society for Ethnohistory, 1998
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, Summer 2013
John Brockway Huntington Foundation Fellowship, The Huntington Library, June 2013
Scholar in Residence, Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, Bowling Green State University, Fall 2011
Long-Term Research Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities and Massachusetts Historical Society, 2006-07
Research Fellowships, Phillips Fund for Native American Research, American Philosophical Society, 2003, 1998
Major Research Grant, The Spencer Foundation, received jointly with John E. Murray, Department of Economics, University of Toledo (now at Rhodes College), 2001-2002
New England Regional Consortium Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2001-02
Research Fellowship, John Nicholas Brown Center for American Civilization, Brown University, 1998
Summer Institute for College Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities, University of Virginia, 1998
Research Fellowship, Mellon Foundation, Library Company of Philadelphia, 1997
Summer Research Fellowships (four summers), University of Toledo, 1997-2003
WORK IN PROGRESS
“What Kind of Un-Free Labor Was This?: The Indenture of Orson, 1764,” essay submitted to the William and Mary Quarterly; invited to revise and resubmit; under revision. Essay co-authored with Ella Wilcox Sekatau (The Narragansett Tribe) and Alice Nash (University of Massachusetts).
“Children of Misfortune: Growing up Poor in Early New England.” Book project, research supported by NEH grant in 2006-07, ICS fellowship in 2011, Huntington Fellowship in 2013, and Franklin Research Grant in 2013; book proposal solicited by Cornell University Press.
“Popular Reaction to the Constitution: The 1788 Referendum in Rhode Island.” Journal article, co-authored with John E. Murray (Rhodes College). To be submitted to Journal of Economic History for consideration in 2014.
“Absented from History: Discourses of Power in Early New England Town Records.” Journal article. To be submitted to Journal of American History for consideration in 2014.
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America (Cornell University Press, 2009). Anthology of essays co-edited with John E. Murray, Department of Economics, University of Toledo (now at Rhodes College).
Co-authored with John E. Murray: “‘A Proper and Instructive Education’: Raising Children in Pauper Apprenticeship,” 3-18 (Chapter 1);
Co-authored with Steve Hindle: “Recreating Proper Families in England and North America: Pauper Apprenticeship in Transatlantic Context,” 19-36 (Chapter 2);
Sole author: “‘Proper’ Magistrates and Masters: Binding out Poor Children in Southern New England, 1720-1820,” 39-51 (Chapter 3).
Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001). Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2002.
PUBLICATIONS: JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS
“Childhood,” in Oxford Bibliographies on Line: Atlantic History, ed. Trevor Burnard (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/.
“Mapping the Boston Poor: Inmates of the Boston Almshouse, 1795-1801,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 44:1 (Summer 2013), 63-83. Co-authored with Amilcar E. Challu, BGSU.
“Poor Women and the Boston Almshouse in the Early Republic,” Journal of the Early Republic 32:3 (Fall 2012), 349-81. Winner of the Ralph D. Gray prize for best article in 2012 by the Society for Historians of the Early Republic.
“Pauper Apprenticeship in Narragansett Country: A Different Name for Slavery in Early New England,” Slavery/Anti-Slavery in New England (2003 Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife), ed. Peter Benes (Boston University Scholarly Publications, 2005), 56-70. Co-authored with Ella Wilcox Sekatau, The Narragansett Tribe.
“Colonial Period through the Early Republic” (overview essay), Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy, eds. Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O’Connor (ABC-CLIO, 2004), 1-8.
“‘Who died an expence to this town’: Poor Relief in Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island,” Down and Out in Early America, ed. Billy G. Smith (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004), 135-62.
“Colonizing the Children: Indian Youngsters in Early Rhode Island,” Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience, eds. Colin G. Calloway and Neal Salisbury (Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2003), 137-73. Co-authored with Ella Wilcox Sekatau, The Narragansett Tribe.
“Markets for Children in Early America: A Political Economy of Pauper Apprenticeship,” Journal of Economic History 62:2 (June 2002), 356-82. Co-authored with John E. Murray, Department of Economics, The University of Toledo (now at Rhodes College). Winner of the best article prize for 2003 from the Program in Early American Economy and Society.
“Women as Symbols of Disorder in Early Rhode Island,” Women and the Colonial Gaze, eds. Tamara L. Hunt and Micheline R. Lessard (Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave, 2002), 79-90.
“Racialisation and feminisation of poverty in early America: Indian women as poor of the town in eighteenth-century Rhode Island,” Empire and others: British encounters with indigenous peoples, 1600-1850, eds. R. Halpern and M.J. Daunton (London: University College London Press, 1999), 186-203.
“The Right to a Name: Narragansett People and Rhode Island Officials in the Revolutionary Era,” Ethnohistory 44:3 (Summer 1997), 433-62. Co-authored with Ella Wilcox Sekatau, The Narragansett Tribe. Reprinted as chapter in After King Philip’s War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England, ed. Colin G. Calloway (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1997), 114-43. Reprinted as chapter in American Encounters: Natives and Newcomers From European Contact to Indian Removal, 1500-1850, eds. Peter C. Mancall and James H. Merrell (New York: Routledge, 2000), 426-51. Reprinted as selection in Major Problems in American Indian History, 2nd ed., eds. Albert L. Hurtado and Peter Iverson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001), 182-97. Winner of the 1998 Heizer Prize from the American Society for Ethnohistory.
“Women of ‘no particular home’: Town Leaders and Female Transients in Rhode Island, 1750-1800,” Women and Freedom in Early America, ed. Larry D. Eldridge (New York University Press, 1997), 269-89.
“Literacy among New England’s Transient Poor, 1750-1800,” Research Note, Journal of Social History, 29:4 (Summer 1996), 963-65.
“The Domestic Cost of Seafaring: Town Leaders and Seamen’s Families in Rhode Island, 1750-1800,” Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920, eds. Margaret S. Creighton and Lisa Norling (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 55-69.
“‘Breachy’ Sheep and Mad Dogs: Troublesome Domestic Animals in Rhode Island, 1750-1800,” New England’s Creatures, 1400-1900, Annual Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife for 1993 (Boston: Boston University Press, 1995), 61-72.
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America by E. Jennifer Monagahan, in Journal of American History (September 2006), 496-97.
Review of American Childhoods by Joseph E. Illick, in Journal of American History (December 2003), 984-85.
Review of The Healer’s Calling: Women and Medicine in Early New England by Rebecca J. Tannenbaum, in American Historical Review (December 2003), 1439-40.
Review of Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed by Stephen O’Connor, in New York Times Book Review, June 10, 2001, 26.
Review of The Colonial Metamorphoses in Rhode Island: A Study of Institutions in Change by Sydney V. James, ed. by Sheila L. Skemp and Bruce C. Daniels, in William and Mary Quarterly (April 2001), 526-28.
Review of Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia by Woody Holton, in Reviews in American History 29 (March 2001), 23-28.
Review of The Age of the Child: Children in America, 1890-1920 by David I. Macleod, in Journal of American History (March 2000), 1804-05.
Review of Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey by Edna G. Bay, in Women’s Studies International Forum 22:4 (1999), 454-55.
Review of Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolution by Lloyd Kramer, in H-Net Reviews (June 1998), http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=5304896826718.
Review of From Virtue to Character: American Childhood, 1775-1850 by Jacqueline S. Reinier, in Journal of American History 84:2 (September 1997), 633-34.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“From Slavery to Poverty: Mothers and Children during Gradual Emancipation in Southern New England,” paper to be presented to the Sixteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women (Big Berks), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 22-25 May 2014.
“Mapping the Boston Poor: Inmates of the Boston Almshouse, 1795-1811,” paper to be presented to the “On the Anvil of Labor History in the Revolutionary Era: Billy G. Smith and Fellow Artisans” conference, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 7 November 2013. Co-authored with Amilcar E. Challu, BGSU.
Discussant, book session on John E. Murray, The Charleston Orphan House: Children’s Lives in the First Public Orphanage in America (Chicago, 2013), Social Science History Association conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1 November 2012.
“Mapping the Boston Poor: Inmates of the Boston Almshouse, 1795-1801,” paper presented to the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture conference, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 15 June 2012; earlier version presented to the Social Science History Association conference, Boston, Massachusetts, 17 November 2011. Co-authored with Amilcar E. Challu, BGSU.
“Poor Mothers and the Boston Almshouse, 1795-1817,” paper presented to Society for Historians of the Early Republic conference, Rochester, New York, 25 July 2010.
“Not Slaves, Not Free: Children of Color in Revolutionary New England,” paper presented to the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture conference, University of Mississippi, 11 June 2010.
“Birth Mothers and Substitute Mothers: Women Raising Poor Children in Old and New England,” paper presented at the 14th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Minnesota, 15 June 2008.
Session Comment, “New Directions in the Study of the American Apprentice,” Joint conference of the Society of Early Americanists and the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, College of William and Mary, 9 June 2007.
Chaired and commented at session, “Equal Rights and Criminal Justice in Early Republican Massachusetts,” New England Historical Association, Southern New Hampshire University, 7 May 2007.
“Another Face of Slavery: Indentured Servitude of Native Americans in Southern New England,” paper presented to the “Slavery and Slave Trade in New England” conference, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Boston, 21-23 April 2004. Co-authored with Ella Wilcox Sekatau, The Narragansett Tribe.
“Pauper Apprenticeship in Narragansett Country: A Different Name for Slavery in Early New England,” paper presented to the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife conference, Deerfield, Massachusetts, 21 June 2003. Co-authored with Ella Wilcox Sekatau, The Narragansett Tribe.
“Hard Labor in Tender Years: Children of Color as Servant Apprentices in Early America,” invited paper presented to the “Race, Globalization, and the New Ethnic Studies” conference, Brown University, 8 March 2003.
“‘Proper and Instructive Education’: Children Bound to Labor in Early America,” paper presented to the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, at the opening session of the “‘Proper and Instructive Education’: Children Bound to Labor in Early America” conference, University of Pennsylvania, 1 November 2002. Co-authored with John E. Murray, Department of Economics, University of Toledo (now at Rhodes College).
“A Better Bargain than Poor Relief: Servant Apprenticeship in Southern New England,” paper presented to the “‘Proper and Instructive Education’: Children Bound to Labor in Early America” conference, University of Pennsylvania, 2 November 2002.
Organized and facilitated mini-conference on “Pauper Apprenticeship in Early America,” University of Toledo, 7-9 September 2001. With John E. Murray, Department of Economics, The University of Toledo (now at Rhodes College).
“Orphan Apprenticeship in Early Rhode Island,” paper presented to the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic conference, Baltimore, 21 July 2001.
Panel Member, “Transforming Classroom Culture: Revisiting the Successful Tutor-Linked Class,” Writing Across the Curriculum conference, The University of Indiana (Bloomington), 31 May 2001.
“Colonizing the Children: Narragansett Youngsters in Servitude in Early Rhode Island,” paper presented to the “Reinterpreting New England Indian History and the Colonial Experience” conference, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Old Sturbridge Village, 21-22 April 2001. Co-authored with Ella Wilcox Sekatau, The Narragansett Tribe.
“Servants of the Community: Black Children as Bound Laborers in Eighteenth-Century New England,” paper presented to American Historical Association conference, Chicago, 9 January 2000.
“Indian-Black Relations and Race, Religion, and Ideology in America, 1780-1880,” session comment presented to American Society for Ethnohistory conference, Meshantucket, Connecticut, 22 October 1999.
“The Power of the Clerk: Rethinking Eighteenth-Century Town Records,” paper presented to the Microhistory Conference, University of Connecticut, 16 October 1999.
“Indentured Servitude of Children as a Community Strategy in Early New England,” paper presented to the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture conference, Austin, Texas, 13 June 1999.
“‘Bastards,’ Orphans, and Servants: ‘Mulatto’ and ‘Mustee’ Children in Early Rhode Island,” paper presented to the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture conference, Worcester, Massachusetts, 6 June 1998.
“Native Americans and the Poor Laws in Early New England,” paper presented to the American Historical Association conference, Seattle, 9 January 1998.
“Twice Buried in Obscurity: Poor and Female in Early Rhode Island,” paper presented to the “Rhode Island Reconsidered” conference, Brown University, 14 November 1997.