The Vitae

Christy Jo Snider

EDUCATION

  • Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Ph.D., American History, May 2000.
    Dissertation: “Patriotism and Peace: Gender and the Politics of Transnational Nongovernmental Organizations, 1920-1945.”  Advisor: Nancy F. Gabin.
  • Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. M.A., American History, May 1994.
    Master’s Thesis: “Gender and Professional Politics: Fannie Fern Andrews in the American Peace Movement, 1900-1945.”
  • Drury College, Springfield, Missouri. B.A., History, May 1992.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Department Chair: Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA, 2009-2015
  • Associate Professor: Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA, 2006-
  • Coordinator for National and International Fellowship and Scholarships: Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA, 2007-2009
  • Assistant Professor: Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA, 2000-2006
  • Visiting Lecturer (full-time): Behrend College, Penn State University – Erie, Erie, PA, 1999-2000
  • Instructor: Franklin College, Franklin, IN, Summer 1999
  • Instructor: Purdue University, Continuing Education, West Lafayette, IN, Spring 1997
  • Teaching Assistantship: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 1995-1999
  • Graduate Assistant: To the Editor of the Journal of the Early Republic, Purdue University, 1997-1999
  • Graduate Assistant: To the History Bibliographer, Humanities, Social Science and Education Library, Purdue University,
    1994-1995

PUBLICATIONS

Book Chapters:

  • “Creating an International Identity: The IFUW Confronts Racial and Religious Membership Restrictions in the 1930s,” in Women and Transnational Activism in Historical Perspective, ed. Erika Kuhlman and Kimberley Jensen. Netherlands: The Republic of Letters Publishing, 2010.

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

  • “Planning for Peace: Virginia Gildersleeve at the United Nations Conference on International Organization,” Peace & Change 32, no. 2 (April 2007): 168-185.
  • “Family History as Women’s History: A Variation on a Theme,” Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 30, no. 2 (Fall 2005):72-81.
  • “Patriots and Pacifists: The Rhetorical Debate about Peace, Patriotism, and Internationalism, 1914-1930,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 8, no. 2 (2005): 59-84.
  • “The Influence of Transnational Peace Groups on U. S. Decision Makers during the 1930s: Incorporating NGOs into the UN,” Diplomatic History 27, no. 3 (June 2003): 377-404.
  • “Peace and Politics: Fannie Fern Andrews, Professional Politics, and the American Peace Movement, 1900-1941,” Mid-America: An Historical Review 79, no. 1 (Winter 1997): 72-95.

Essays:

  • “Social History of the American Families: 1901 to 1920,” and “Social History of American Families: 1921 to 1940,” for The Social History of the American Family, eds. Lawrence Ganong, Marilyn Coleman, J. Geoffrey Golson. Thousands Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, forthcoming September 2015.
  • “Nicholas Murray Butler” and “John Boyd Orr” for Nobel Prize Winners, ed. R. Kent Rasmussen. Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press, forthcoming 2015.
  • “Dagmar Wilson,” for American National Biography, ed. Susan Ware, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
  • “College Equal Suffrage League,” and “The International Congress of Women,” for The Encyclopedia of American Women’s History, ed. Hasia Diner. New York: Facts on File – American Women’s History Online Database, 2013.
  • “Nineteenth Amendment,” for The Twenties in America, ed. Carl Rollyson. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2012.
  • “Crystal Eastman” and “Margaret Sanger” for Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World: A Global Sourcebook and History, ed. Tiffany K. Wayne. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
  • “Peace Movement,” for The Thirties in America, ed. Thomas Lewis. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2011.
  • “The Vietnam Oral History Project: A Corrective for Historical Analogies,” Passport: The Newsletter of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 39, No. 1 (April 2008): 29-34.
  • “Containment Doctrine,” “Ban the Bomb Movement,” “Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,” and “Peace and Freedom Party,” for Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History, ed. James Ciment. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007.
  • “Gershwin Brothers,” “Isolationism,” “Nicholas Murray Butler,” and “William E. Borah,” for The Home Front Encyclopedia: United States, Britain, and Canada in World Wars I and II, ed. James Ciment, Mary Hickey, and Thaddeus Russell. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2006.
  • “Anthony: Constitutional Argument,” “Putnam: Bowling Alone,” and “Stanton, et al.: Declaration of Sentiments,” for e pluribus unum: Readings for Humanities 200, ed. David McKenzie. Acton, MA: Copley Custom Publishing Group, 2002.
  • “Ira Gershwin,” for Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century, ed. Frank N. Magill. Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press, 1999.
  • “Sheppard-Towner Act,” for The Encyclopedia of North American History, ed. John C. Super. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 1998.
  • “The Red Scare (revision),” for Great Events from History: North American Series, Rev. ed., ed. Frank N. Magill. Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press, 1997.
  • “The Hague Women’s Peace Conference,” “International Council of Women,” “Women in Basketball,” “The Women’s Peace Party,” and “Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom,” for Ready Reference: Women’s Issues, ed. Margaret McFadden. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1997.

Reviews and Compilations:

  • Women and Social Movements, International – 1840 to Present, Katheryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin, eds., for Peace & Change 39, no. 4 (October 2014): 564-566.
  • Jeannette Rankin: America’s Conscience, Norma Smith, for H-Net, January 2006.
  • Anglo-American Relations since 1939: the Enduring Alliance, John Baylis; and The United Nations and International Politics, Stephen Ryan, for Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 27, No. 1 (Spring 2002): 51-53.
  • Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives, Cynthia Enloe, for H-Net, July 2001.
  • “Index,” Journal of the Early Republic, 18, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 775-785.
  • “Index,” Journal of the Early Republic, 17, no. 4 (Winter 1997): 705-715.

PRESENTATIONS

  • Paper, “Inter-American Women’s Cooperation at the 1936 Buenos Aires Conference for the Maintenance of Peace,”
    Southeast World History Association Conference, Boca Raton, FL, October 2014.
  • Paper, “Women’s Rights at the 1936 Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace,” Peace History Society Conference, Carbondale, IL, October 2013.
  • Paper, “Historical Consciousness: The Future of History in General Education,” American Historical Association
    Conference, New Orleans, LA, January 2013.
  • Respondent, “How to Think About Rock & Roll,” Pop Culture and Real Culture Conference, Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA, November 2012.
  • Paper, “Selected to Serve: U.S. Women’s Appointments to Transnational Governmental Conferences, 1920-1945,”
    Peace History Society Conference, Miami, FL, October 2011.
  • Paper, “Only a Question of Method: Sophonisba P. Breckinridge and the Push for Women’s Political Equality at the 1933 Pan-American Congress,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Amherst, MA, June 2011.
  • Paper, “American Women as Delegates at International Conferences: Sophonisba Breckinridge at the 1933 Pan-American Congress,” Peace History Society Conference, Rock Hill, SC, October 2009.
  • Invited Lecture, “The Gilded Age: The Making of Modern America, 1870-1900,” Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, GA, November, 2008.
  • Paper, “Virginia Gildersleeve and the Founding of the United Nations: Women Delegates at International Governmental Conferences,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference, Columbus, OH, June 2008.
  • Paper, “Mary Emma Woolley and the 1932 Geneva Disarmament Conference,” Peace History Society Conference, Lakewood, NJ, October 2007.
  • Paper, “Planning for Peace: Virginia Gildersleeve at the United Nations Conference on International Organization,” Peace History Society Conference, Rock Hill, SC, November 2005.
  • Paper, “Creating an International Identity: Transnational Peace NGOs in the 1930s,” American Historical Association Conference, Seattle, WA, January 2005.
  • Chair and Commentator, “Men Behaving Badly: Guardsmen and Outlaws,” Ohio Valley History Conference, Cookeville, TN, October 2004.
  • Paper, “The Role of Gender in Mixed and Single Sex Transnational Peace NGOs, 1920-1945,” American Historical Association Conference, Washington, DC, January 2004.
  • Paper, “Women’s History as Family History,” National Council for History Education Conference, Los Angeles, CA, October 2003.
  • Chair and Commentator, “Gender, Pacifism, and the World Wars,” Peace History Society Conference, Mt. Pleasant, MI, April 2003.
  • Paper, “NGOs at the United Nations Conference on International Organization,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference, Athens, GA, June 2002.
  • Chair and Commentator, “Empire, Immigration, and National Identity,” Georgia Association of Historians, Augusta, GA, April 2001.
  • Paper, “‘Peace is Largely a Racial Problem’: The Interwar Discourse about Race and the Peace Movement,” Peace
    History Society Conference, Bellingham, WA, April 2000.
  • Paper, “Gender and the Invention of Transnational Nongovernmental Organizations,” American Historical Association Conference, Washington, DC, January 1999.
  • Paper, “The Development of Transnational Nongovernmental Organizations: Gender and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1920-1945,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference, College Park, MD, June 1998.
  • Paper, “‘Far From the Original Purpose of the Organization’: The Work of the Chicago Branch of the AAUW for Peace,” Ohio Valley History Conference, Clarksville, TN, October 1997.
  • Paper, “Women and American Foreign Policy: Straddling the Border Between Gendered Organizations and Professional Politics,” Indiana Association of Historians, Franklin, IN, February 1997.
  • Paper, “‘America. . . An Aristocracy of Sex’: Gender, Democracy, and the American Peace Movement, 1900-1914,” Indiana Association of Historians, New Harmony, IN, February 1994.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

  • Course Technology Enhancement Grant, Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA, 2014
  • Vulcan Teaching Excellence Award, Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA, 2012
  • Faculty Development Grant, Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA, 2000-2001, 2002-2003, 2004-2005, 2008-2009, 2009-
    2010, 2012-2013
  • Phi Kappa Phi, Membership, Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA, April 2008
  • Evans School Summer Faculty Development Stipend, Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA, 2006
  • Writing Across the Curriculum Award, Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA 2006
  • Course Development Grant, Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA, 2005
  • Selected for inclusion in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2002
  • Dissertation Grant, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA, 1998-1999
  • Purdue Research Foundation Summer Research Grant, Purdue University, Summer 1996, 1997, and 1998
  • Woodman Graduate Research Award, Department of History, Purdue University, Spring 1998
  • Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Grant, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY, 1997-1998
  • Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association Research Grant, Hoover Library Association, West Branch, Iowa, 1997-1998
  • Departmental Nomination, Distinguished Master’s Thesis Awards Competition, Midwestern Association of
    Graduate Schools, 1994
  • Graduate School Fellowship, Department of History, Purdue University, 1994-1995
  • Flaningham Award for Best Graduate Student Research Paper, Department of History, Purdue University, 1994

SERVICE TO THE DISCIPLINE

  • Board Member, Peace History Society, 2015-
  • President, Peace History Society, 2013-2014
  • Vice-President, Peace History Society, 2011-2013
  • College Board AP Reading Scorer, AP US History Exam, Louisville, KY, Summer 2007-2008, 2010, 2012
  • Teaching American History Grant Evaluator, U.S. Department of Education, Spring 2009
  • Co-Founder and Discussion List Editor, H-Peace Discussion List, 2002-2007

SERVICE TO SCHOOL

  • Ad Hoc Committee, Annual Faculty Service Reports, Berry College, Spring 2015-
  • Ad Hoc Committee on Student Evaluations, Berry College, Fall 2013-2014
  • Institutional Effectiveness Committee, Berry College, Fall 2013-
  • Chair, Director of Athletics Search Committee, Berry College, Summer 2013
  • Lecture, “Educational Zombies and Other Foes of Academic Excellence,” Honor’s Convocation, Berry College, Spring 2013
  • Advisor, Model UN Club, Berry College, Spring 2013
  • Moral Leadership Center Development Committee, Berry College, 2012-2013
  • Academic Council, Berry College, 2012-2014
  • Women’s Basketball Faculty Liaison, Berry College, 2012-
  • Lecture, “Abraham Lincoln – An Advocate of Women’s Suffrage?” Constitution Day Roundtable, Berry College, September 2009
  • Planning Council, Berry College, 2009-2011
  • Secretary, Faculty Assembly Executive Committee, Berry College, 2009-2010
  • Honor’s Thesis Director, Dusty Dye – Museums and Historic Sites: A Reflection of American Values, Berry College, 2008
    Oak Hill Curator and Director Search Committee, Berry College, 2008
  • Faculty Sponsor, Dusty Dye’s Kirbo Scholarship Research, Berry College, 2007-2008
  • Faculty Hearing Committee, Berry College, 2007-2008
    Phi Kappa Phi Scholarship Chair, Berry College, 2007-
  • Promotion and Tenure Committee, Berry College, 2007-2013 (chair 2011-2012)
  • Writing Across the Curriculum Committee, Berry College, 2006-2008 (chair 2007-2008)
  • Faculty Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta – History Honor Society, Berry College, 2006-2009
  • Women’s Studies Committee, Berry College, 2005-2009
  • Interim Co-Chair, Faculty and Staff Benefits Committee, Berry College, Fall 2004
  • Latin American and Caribbean Studies Advisory Committee, Berry College, 2004-2011
  • Teacher Education Unit Committee, Berry College, 2003-2007
    Council on Student Scholarship, Berry College, 2003-2005
  • Information and Technology Committee, Berry College, 2001-2004 (chair 2003-2004)
  • Teaching Enhancement Committee, Berry College, 2001-2003

SERVICE TO COMMUNITY

  • Lecture, “Middle Class Women & Wage Work in the Mid-19th Century,” Alcott Extravaganza, September 2011
  • Judge, History Day – Rome High School, Rome, GA, February 2010 & February 2011
  • Judge, Student Essays for Oak Hill’s Roosevelt Day, Rome, GA, October 2010
  • Lecture, “It Was a Women’s War Too,” Bartow History Center, Cartersville, GA, July 2009
  • Lecture, “Rome and Berry College during the Great Depression,” Rome Area History Museum, Rome, GA, August 2008
  • Lecture, “Women and Work in World War II,” Rome Area History Museum – Ladies for Tea Series, Summer
    2007
  • Judge for Regional Division, Georgia Social Studies Fair, Rome, GA, February 2003-2006.
    Lecture, “Women’s World War II Efforts,” Bartow History Center, Cartersville, GA, September 2005
  • Lecture, “The Changing Roles of Women during World War II,” Rome Area History Museum, Rome, GA, June 2005
  • Lecture, “The Importance of the Home Front for Defeating the Axis Powers,” Rome Area History Museum, Rome, GA, December 2004
  • Lecture, “Writing Free Speech into the Constitution,” DAR Meeting, Cartersville, GA, September 2004
  • Lecture, “Women’s Suffrage,” Rome Area History Museum, Heritage Holidays Event, Rome, GA, October 2002

MEMBERSHIPS

  • American Historical Association
  • Organization of American Historians
  • Peace History Society (Lifetime Member)
  • Phi Kappa Phi (Lifetime Member)
  • Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations