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parker

Office: 132 Albert W. Brown Building
Phone: 585.395.5694
E-Mail: aparker@brockport.edu

Specialization

  • 19th and 20th Century U.S. History

Education

  • PhD  The Johns Hopkins University, History, 1993.
  • MA  The Johns Hopkins University, History, 1990. 
  • BA  University of California, Berkeley,  History and the History of Art, Phi Beta Kappa, 1988.

 

Awards and Honors

  • NEH Summer Seminar, "Motherhood and the Nation-State in Western Societies Times," Directed by Karen Offen & Marilyn Boxer, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University, Summer 2002.
  • Dissertation Research Grant, the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College, 1991.
  • Ford Foundation Travel Grants for Women's Studies Projects, Johns Hopkins University, Summer 1993 and 1991, and Spring 1990. 

 

Courses Taught

  • American History Survey
  • American Women's History & Family History
  • American Legal History
  • Race and Gender in American History
  • London Study Abroad Program, Summer 2010: "British Perspectives on the American Revolution"

 

Publications

    Books:

    • Purifying America: Women, Cultural Reform, and Pro-Censorship Activism, 1873-1933, University of Illinois Press, 1997.
    • Articulating Rights: Nineteenth-Century American Women on Race, Reform, and the State,(forthcoming February 2010, Northern Illinois University Press).

    Edited Books:

    • Women and the Unstable State in Nineteenth-Century America, edited by Alison M. Parker and  Stephanie Cole, Texas A&M University Press, 2000.
    • Beyond Black and White: Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the U.S. South and Southwest, edited by  Stephanie Cole and Alison M. Parker, Texas A&M University Press, 2004.

    Book Series Editor:

    • Co-editor, with Carol Faulkner (Syracuse University), of a new series, Gender and Race in American History, for the University of Rochester Press, Fall 2008-.

    Articles:

    • "Clubwomen, Reformers, Workers, and Feminists of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era," in Women's Rights: Perspectives in American Social History, edited by Crista DeLuzio (New York: ABC-CLIO, forthcoming).
    • "Women Activists and the US Congress, 1870s-1920s," in The American Congress: Building of Democacy, edited by Julian Zelizer, (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004).
    • "Women's Rights and 'Speech Communities' in American Legal History," Review essay of Sandra Van Burkleo, Belonging to the World: Women's Rights and American Constitutional Culture, in Reviews in American History, Vol. 31, N.1 (March 2003).
    • "The Case for Reform Antecedents to the Woman Suffrage Movement," in Votes for Women: A  Concise History of the Suffrage Movement, Oxford University Press, 2002.
    • "'What We Do Expect the People Legislatively to Effect': Frances Wright, Moral Reform, and  State Legislation" in Women and the Unstable State in Nineteenth-Century America, edited by Alison M. Parker and Stephanie Cole, Texas A&M University Press, 2000.
    • "'Hearts Uplifted and Minds Refreshed': The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the  Production of Pure Culture," in Journal of Women’s History, Summer 1999.
    • "Mothering the Movies: Women Reformers and the Censorship of Popular Culture," in Movie Censorship and American Culture, edited by Francis Couvares, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.

 

Papers

  • “Possibilities and Limits of Biography in Comparative Perspective,” Roundtable Participant, American Historical Association, January 2010.
  • "Re-Envisioning Mary Church Terrell: From Self-Help to a Critique of 'White Lawlessness,'" Seminar on Women’s Biographies, led by Judith Zinsser, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Summer 2008.
  • "Frances Watkins Harper: Anti-Slavery, Public Advocacy, and 'Christian Affiliation' in the United States," American Historical Association, January 2008.
  • "Justice is Not Fulfilled So Long as Woman is Unequal Before the Law: Women's Rights, Race and Activism in the Writings of Frances Watkins Harper," Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Summer 2005.
  • "Sarah Grimke's Theory of Women's Political Co-Equality," Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), Summer 2002.
  •  “Culture Wars and Censorship,” Organization of American Historians, April, 2000.

 

  • I have recently begun research for a biography on Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954), the first president of the National Association of Colored Women and a co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.