Employment history: 1996-Present, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Associate Professor,
Department of History, 1995 -1996 Georgetown University, Professorial Lecturer, Department of History Spring 1992, Yale University, Instructor, American Studies Program Spring 1991 and Wesleyan University, Instructor, Department of History. Professional papers presented: 2009 “The Lost Cuisine: The Politics of Domestic Life in the Post-Civil War South” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, Toronto, Canada 2009, “’The Land of Pumpkin Pies’: The Political Culture of Nostalgia in New England, 1820-1860” Far Western Popular Culture Conference, Las Vegas NV 2006, “The Lost Cuisine: Preserving Culinary Traditions in the Post-Civil War South” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Oakland, CA 2005, “Sustaining Nourishment: Images and Artifacts of Nineteenth-Century Domestic Economy” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC 1999 and “Labors of Love: Hair Jewelry, Mourning Practices and the Sentimental Market in Nineteenth-Century America” Far Western Popular Culture Association, Las Vegas.
