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