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ANGELA BOSWELL
Henderson State University
Department of Social Sciences Box 7754
Arkadelphia, Arkansas 71999-0001
870/230-5249
boswela@hsu.edu

Ph.D. in History. Rice University. Houston, Texas. May 1998.
M.A. in History. Rice University. Houston, Texas. May 1995.
B.A. in History and English. Southwestern University. Georgetown, Texas. December 1987.

Professor of History, Henderson State University. Arkadelphia, Arkansas. 1997-present.

Undergraduate Courses: 
U.S. History to 1865; Colonial America; Early National U.S.; Civil War and Reconstruction; U.S. Women's History; Old South.  

Graduate Courses:
Historiography and Bibliography; U.S. Women's History; Old South; Co-instructor of Truth, Order, and Beauty.
Directed graduate student readings in Southern Women's History; Colonial South; American Revolution; Early Republic; Civil War; American slavery; American abolitionism; Puritans; American women's history; history of domestic violence; history of feminism; and Women in the West.  

Mentoring:
-Committee Chair Masters of Liberal Arts Thesis: Michelle Goss, 2007.
-Committee Chair Masters of Liberal Arts Thesis: Drew Bledsoe, 2007.
-Committee Chair Masters of Science in Education Thesis: Glenda Hayes, 2004.
-Committee Chair Masters of Liberal Arts Projects: Kristen Quarles, 2003.  
-Committee member Masters of Liberal Arts Theses and Projects: Mary Downey, 2007; Lacy Tedder, 2005; Mark Anderson 2005; Kelley Diemer, 2003; Thomas Copeland, 2002; Philip M. Clay, 2002; Paedra Mays, 1998.
-Mentor to undergraduate research presentations and publications of MacKinzy Chaney, Ashley Parker, David Sesser, Kathryn Zawisza, Jimmy Arnold, Ross Copeland, Matthew Daniel, James Hafley, Tiffany Blakley, Courtney Calhoun, and Randi Eskridge.
More details on the work these students performed.

Adjunct Instructor. Del Mar College. Corpus Christi, Texas. 1996.  

Graduate Editorial Assistant. Journal of Southern History. Houston, Texas. 1992-95.

Research Assistant. Linda Kerber, Professor of History. Center for Advanced Studies, University of Iowa. 1994-95.

Executive Director, Texas Women's Political Caucus. Austin, Texas. 1988-91.

PUBLICATIONS

Books:
Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837-73, Texas A&M University Press, October 2001.  (Winner of the Liz Carpenter Award.)  (H-Net Review.)

Co-editor with Judith McArthur, Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change, Sixth Volume of Southern Women Series, University of Missouri Press, January 2006. 

Co-editor with Thomas H. Appleton, Jr., Searching for Their Places:  Women in the South Across Four Centuries, Fifth Volume of Southern Women Series, University of Missouri Press, June 2003. 

Articles:
"The Civil War and the Lives of Texas Women," in The Fate of Texas: The Civil War and the Lone Star State, Charles D. Grear, editor, University of Arkansas Press, 2008.

"From Farm to Future: Women's Journey through Twentieth-Century Texas," in Twentieth-Century Texas:  A Social and Cultural History, John Storey and Mary Kelly, editors, University of North Texas Press, 2008.

"Black Women during Slavery to 1865," in Black Women in Texas History, Bruce A. Glasrud and Merline Pitre, editors, Texas A&M University Press, 2008.

"Married Women's Property Rights and the Challenge to the Patriarchal Order: Colorado County, Texas, 1837-73," Dealing with the Powers that Be: Negotiating the Boundaries of Southern Womanhood, Janet Coryell, Thomas H. Appleton, Jr., Sandra Gioia Treadway, and Anastasia Sims, eds., Southern Women Series, University of Missouri Press, 2000.

"Teresa E. Wooldridge Ivey: Constructing an Ideal Southern Lady," Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives: Women in American History, Kriste Lindenmeyer, ed.,  The Human Tradition in America Series, Scholarly Resources Inc., 2000.

"The Social Acceptability of Nineteenth-Century Domestic Violence," The Southern Albatross: Race and Ethnicity in the American South, Randal L. Hall and Philip D. Dillard, eds., Mercer University Press, 1999.

"The Meaning of Participation: White Protestant Women in Antebellum Houston Churches," Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 99 (July 1995).

Reviews:

Redeeming the Southern Family: Evangelical Women & Domestic Devotion in the Antebellum South by Scott Stephan, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, forthcoming.

Petra’s Legacy: The South Texas Ranching Empire of Petra Vela and Mifflin Kenedy, by Jane Clements Monday and Frances Brannen Vick, Western Historical Quarterly, forthcoming.

Texas Women on the Cattle Trails, edited by Sara R. Massey, Journal of Southern History, February 2008.

Southern Single Blessedness: Unmarried Women in the Urban South, 1800–1865, by Christine Jacobson Carter, Journal of American History, December 2006.

Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South, by Stephanie M. H. Camp, Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Autumn 2005.

“Lives Full of Struggle and Triumph”: Southern Women, Their Institutions, and Their Communities edited by Bruce L. Clayton and John A. Salmond, Journal of American History, March 2005.

Genteel Rebel: The Life of Mary Greenhow Lee by Sheila R. Phipps, Civil War Book Review, Spring 2004.

Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood 1865-1895 by Jane Turner Censer, Arkansas Review, April 2004.

Las Tejanas:  300 Years of History, by Teresa Palomo Acosta and Ruthe Winegarten, Western Historical Quarterly, Summer 2004. 

The War Was You and Me:  Civilians in the American Civil War, edited by Joan E. Cashin, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 2003.

Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South, by Lu Ann Jones, Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Summer 2003.

Southern Families at War: Loyalty and Conflict in the Civil War South edited by Catherine Clinton, Journal of Southern History, February 2003.

A Rebel Wife in Texas:  The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864, edited by Erika L. Murr, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, January 2003.

Neither Lady Nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South, edited by Susanna Delfino & Michele Gillespie, Register of the Kentucky Historical, Autumn 2002.

Homesteads Ungovernable:  Families, Sex, Race, and the Law in Frontier Texas, 1823-1860, by Mark M. Carroll, Journal of Southern History, November 2002.

Angie Debo:  Pioneering Historian, by Shirley A. Leckie, Western Historical Quarterly, Winter 2001.

Born in Bondage:  Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South, by Marie Jenkins Schwartz, H-South Reviews, February 2001. 

Arkansas, 1800-1860: Remote and Restless, by S. Charles Bolton, Journal of Southern History, November 2000.

Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893, by Kent Anderson Leslie, Southern Historian, 17 (Spring 1996).

Other Publications:
Entry, "Mary Greenhow Lee," in Women in the American Civil War: An Encyclopedia, forthcoming.

Entry, "The Founding of St. Scholastica," in The Encyclopedia of State and Local Women's History, forthcoming.

Book Note of The Women and Children of the Alamo, by Crystal Sasse Ragsdale, Journal of Southern History, 61 (November 1995).

Book Note of Legendary Ladies of Texas, edited by Francis Edward Abernethy, Journal of Southern History, 61 (November 1995).

Book Note of Women and Texas History: An Archival Bibliography, Distributed by the Texas State Historical Association, in Journal of Southern History, 60 (August 1994).

Panelist, “The History of African-American Women in Texas: The State of the Field,” Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, March 2007.

Chair of Panel, "Women Venturing into the Public through Building Community," Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, March 2005.

Chair of Panel, "Pioneers of Another Kind: The Internet and Texas Women's History," Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, March 2004.

"Slave Women in the Frontier South," Arkansas Association of College History Teachers Annual Meeting, October 2003.  Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Commentator for Panel, “Gender, Citizenship, and the Civil War,” Mid-America Conference on History, September 20, 2002.  Fayetteville, Arkansas.

"Black Women during Slavery," Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, March 2001. Houston, Texas.

Invited participant TSHA Women's Forum panel: "Texas Women and the Realm of Legal and Constitutional Rights," Texas State Historical Association Meeting, March 2000. Austin, Texas.

"African American Women and the Public Exercise of Freedom in Colorado County, Texas, 1865-1873," Texas State Historical Association Meeting, March 1999. Dallas, Texas.

"Married Women's Chance for Legal Autonomy: The Civil War and Reconstruction in a Rural Texas County," Fourth Southern Conference on Women's History, June 13, 1997. Charleston, South Carolina.

"Only protected by the interposition of others": Public and Private Responses to Domestic Violence in Nineteenth-Century Texas," Rice Graduate Student Symposium on Southern History, May 31, 1997. Houston, Texas.

"'Forbearance ceases to be a virtue': Divorce in Colorado County, Texas, 1837-1873," Houston Area Southern Historians Meeting, March 13, 1996. Houston, Texas.

"Legal Abilities of Married Women in Antebellum Texas," Texas State Historical Association Annual Conference, March 1, 1996. Austin, Texas.

"'Excess and Outrages': Cruelty in Texas Divorce, 1840-1850," Southwest Social Science Association, March 24, 1995. Dallas, Texas.

OTHER FORMAL PRESENTATIONS

"Incorporating American Women's History into Social Studies and History Classes," Sixth Annual P-12 Regional Social Studies and Science Professional Development Conference, Henderson State University. August 7, 2009.

“Women in pre-Civil War Arkansas” guest lecture to Seminar: Arkansas History and Culture. Henderson State University. December 13, 2008.

“Reflections on the Value of an Education” speech at Alpha Chi initiation ceremony.  Henderson State University. April 8, 2008.

"Women's Club Movements" presentation to Lotus Club of Hot Springs, Arkansas, May 21, 2008.

Presentation, Arkansas Association of Alternative Educators Annual Conference, Hot Springs, Arkansas, June 17, 2007.

“Texas Women during the Civil War” presentation to The University Historians of Texas A&M University-Texarkana, April 20, 2007.

Presentation at Faculty Research Colloquium, Henderson State University, February 28, 2005.

Community Class Presentation, "Beyond Scarlett and Mammy: Women in Southern History," Henderson State University, February 16, 2005.

Guest Speaker to Honors College, "Beyond Scarlett and Mammy: Women in Southern History," in conjunction with the National Women's History Month Celebration, Sturgis Hall, Henderson State University. March 19, 2003.

Guest Speaker for Women's History Month. Virginia Clinton Kelley Democratic Women's Club.  Hot Springs, Arkansas.  March 25, 2003.

Guest Speaker to U.S. History Class.  "Women in the Nineteenth Century."  Garland County Community College. October 25, 2002.

Presentation: "The Importance of Women in a Rural County to the Study of History," International P.E.O. Houston Chapter Meeting, October 1, 1996. Houston, Texas.

Guest speaker: "Women and the Law in Texas History," Texas Legal History Seminar, South Texas College of Law, September 17, 1996. Houston, Texas.

Presentation: "Women of Colorado County, Texas," Columbus Docent League Meeting, January 27, 1996. Columbus, Texas.

Faculty Excellence Award for Service.  Henderson State University.  2005.

Faculty Excellence Award for Scholarship.  Henderson State University.  2004.

Liz Carpenter Award for the Best Scholarly Book on the History of Women and Texas for the Year 2001. Texas State Historical Association.  March 7, 2002.

Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching.  Henderson State University.  2001.

Multimedia Curriculum Development Grant. Fall 2000.

Recipient, International P.E.O. Scholarship. 1996-97.

Recipient, Rice University Academic Fellowship. 1992-96.

Recipient, Southwestern University Academic and Leadership Scholarship. 1984-87.

ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

COMMITTEES AT HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY:

Women's and Gender Studies Council, 2007-present.
Standard 2:  Assessment System and Unit Evaluation Committee, Teachers' College Henderson, 2008-2009.
Interviewer, Teacher Intern Portfolio/Exit Interview Day, Teachers College Henderson, December 12, 2008.
President-elect, Faculty Senate. 2007.
Summer School Committee. 2007.
Search Committee for Assistant Professor of History. 2006-2007.
Chair, Faculty Excellence Awards Committee.  2007.
Co-Chair, Department of Social Sciences Assessment Committee.  2003-present
Bachelor of General Studies Committee. 2006-2007.
Ellis College Curriculum Committee. 2006-2007.
Ellis College Awards Committee. 2006-2007.
Search Committee for Assistant Professor of History. 2005.
Facilitator, "Telling Our Story" Strategic Planning Taskforce, Henderson State University, 2005.
Group Facilitator, University Strategic Planning Retreat, Queen Wilhelmina Park, 2004.
Search Committee for Temporary Assistant Professor of History. 2004.
Secretary, Faculty Senate.  2004.
Judicial Committee. 2003-2004.
General Education Committee. 2002-2004.
Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Political Science.   2002-2003.
Department of Nursing Faculty Search Committee.   Summer 2002.
Masters of Liberal Arts Director Search Committee.    Summer 2002.
Masters of Liberal Arts Advisory Committee.   2001-2003.
Campus Planning Committee. 2001-2002.
Faculty Excellence Awards Committee.  2001-2002. 
Ellis College Planning and Advisory Council. 2001- 2003.
Search Committee for Assistant Professor of History. 2001.
Ellis College Curriculum Committee. 1999-2001.
Faculty Senate Alternate. 1999-2000; 2001-2003.
Member, North Central Association Self Study Workshop Team, Fall 2000.
Judicial Committee. 1999-2001.
Search Committee for Visiting History Professor. 1998.
Learning Resources Committee. Henderson State University. 1998-2001.
Masters of Liberal Arts Committee. Henderson State University. 1997-1999.

OTHER SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY:
Chair, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Search Committee. 2008.

President, Faculty Senate. 2008.
 

Presidential Search Committee. 2007.

Faculty advisor. Women's History Organization, 2003-present; and National Women's History Month Celebration Committee, 2001-2003. Henderson State University.

Honors College Faculty.  Henderson State University.  2002-2005.

Coordinator, Faculty/Staff Women's Studies Reading Group. Henderson State University.  1999-present.

OTHER ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY SERVICE:

Taylor Prize Committee, Southern Association for Women Historians. 2008-2009.

Founding member, Texas Women’s History Network. 2008-present.

Editorial Board, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 2007- .

Chair, Social Science Session, Arkansas Undergraduate Research Conference, April 23, 2005, Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

Editorial Board, Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South. 2004-present.

Panelist for Panel about Online Delivery of Courses and Course Materials, October 16, 2003, Henderson State University.

Chair, History/Art History Session, Arkansas Undergraduate Research Conference, April 19, 2003, Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

Session Chair, "Women and Issues of Identity." Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Ouachita Baptist University, April 12, 2003. 

Membership Committee.  Southern Historical Association.  2001-2002.

Chair, Art and History Session, Arkansas Undergraduate Research Conference, April 20, 2001, Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

Membership Chair, Southern Association for Women Historians, 2000-2001; Membership Committee 2001-2002.

Chair, Social Science Session, Arkansas Undergraduate Research Conference, April 28, 2000, Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

Moderator. C. Vann Woodward Lecture Series. Henderson State University. April 18, 2000.

Board of Directors, Courage House (for Abused Women and Children). Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Secretary/Treasurer 1997-2000; Chair of Membership Committee 2000-2001.

Volunteer. "History and the Limits of Interpretation: An Interdisciplinary Symposium." Rice University. 1996.

Coordinator. Rice University Graduate Student Seminar Series. Rice University. 1994-95.

Assistant Coordinator. Graduate Student Reception. Third Southern Conference in Women's History, June 2. Rice University. 1994.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Southern Association for Women Historians

Texas State Historical Association

Texas Women’s History Network

Southern Historical Association

Arkansas Council for Women in Higher Education

Arkansas Association of College History Teachers

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