Academic Specialization

American Presidents , Religion

Education

1. Ph.D. (with Distinction) History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1979
2. M.A, History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1972
3. A.B., cum laude, American Studies, Smith College, 1970 (Honorary Prize Scholar)

Teaching, Administrative, and Professional Appointments

1. Associate Professor of History, Syracuse University, 1981-present
2. Assistant Professor, Syracuse University, 1981-86
3. Assistant Professor, Knox College, 1979-81
4. Instructor in History, Knox College, 1977-79

Selected and Recent Publications

1. "The Ministry of Women and the Transformation of Catholicism in 19th-Century America." History of European Ideas, 1995.
2. "Concentric Circles of Sisterhood." Introductory essay to Claiming Our Roots: Sesquecentennial History of the IHM Sisters (Monroe, MI), ed. Julie Wortman, 1995.
3. "Introduction to M. Pauline Grady, A.S.C., Joy in the Planting: The Life Story of Clementine (nee Barbara) Zerr, 1832-1906 [American Foundress of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ], 1994.
4. The "Spider Web": Congress and Lobbying in the Age of Grant (Cornell University Press, 1986).
5. "The New Nuns of Yesteryear." U.S.A. Today March 1989.
6. "Research on 19th Century Legislatures: Present Contours and Future Directions." Legislative Studies Quarterly, May 1984 (co- authored with Joel H. Silbey).
7. "Corruption—or Confusion? Lobbying and Congressional Government in the Early Gilded Age." Congress and the Presidency, Fall 1983.
8. "The Past in Practice versus the Past as Prologue: Toward an Historically Informed Political Model." Paper presented at the 1983 meeting of the American Political Science Association.
9. "American Legislatures in the Nineteenth Century: Toward a Research Agenda." Paper presented at the Legislative Research Conference, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Iowa City, Iowa, October 1982.
10. "Women's History is 'Real' History." Lecture before the History Forum, University of Florida-Gainesville, Women's History Week 1983.
11. "Ben Butler versus the Brahmins: Patronage and Politics in Early Gilded Age Massachusetts." The New England Quarterly, June 1982.
12. "The Decline of Electoral Influence: Political Participation in Modern America." Paper presented at the 1982 meeting of the Social Science History Association, Nashville.
13. "Outsiders on the Inside Track: Lobbying and Committee Construction in the Gilded Age House of Representatives." Paper presented at the 1981 meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Detroit.
14. "Corruption—or Competence? A New Look at Gilded Age Lobbying." J. Franklin Jameson Lecture, Library of Congress, December 1980.
15. "From Constituencies to Clienteles: The Gilded Age Redefinition of Representation." Paper presented at the 1980 meeting of the Social Science History Association, Rochester, New York.
16. "The Yoke of Grace: American Nuns and Social Change, 1808-1917." Book-length analysis of Catholic Sisterhoods, from the foundation of the first indigenous American community to the 1917 codification of canon law. Publication contract with Oxford University Press; prospectus available upon request.

Research Grants and Awards

1. Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellow, 1985-86
2. Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame, Research Grant, 1984
3. Russell Sage Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Social Sciences, 1983-84
4. J. Franklin Jameson Fellow of the American Historical Association, 1980-81
5. National Endowment for the Humanities Research Stipend, Summer 1980
6. American Philosophical Society Research Grant, 1980 (declined, in favor of NEH, above)
7. American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, 1975-76
8. Alice Smith Fellow, Wisconsin State Historical Society, 1975-76
9. Newberry Library (Chicago) Research Fellow, 1975
10. Ford Foundation Grant