Curriculum Vitae

Nancy R. Reagin

Personal Data

• Born: January 6, 1960
• Citizenship: USA

Address

• Dr. Nancy Reagin
  Pace University
  41 Park Row, Room 1503
  New York, NY 10038

Contact Information

• Phone: 212-346-1676
• Fax: 212-346-1673
• Email: nreagin@aol.com

Education

• 1990 : Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, History
• 1985 : M.A., The Johns Hopkins University, History
• 1982 : B.A., University of California Berkeley, History and German Literature

Awards and Fellowships

• 2011 : Undergraduate Research Initiative Award
• 2010 : Dyson Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship
• 2009 : Verizon Thinkfinity Grant for educational resources development
• 2002–2003 – National Endowment for the Humanities: Research Fellowship
• 2001 : Pace NY Student Government Association: Special Service Award (given jointly to Prof. Reagin and Prof. William Offutt, for work with students after Sept. 11th)
• 1999–2001 : NEH Grant for Women's Studies Mentoring Program, Pace University
• 1995 : Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst: Summer Research Grant
• 1994 : Pace University: Dyson Fellow
• 1991 : National Endowment for the Humanities: Travel to Collections Grant
• 1985–1986 : Johns Hopkins University: Arthur Lovejoy Fellowship
• 1985–1986 : Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst: Fellowship for Research Abroad

Academic Employment

• 2010– ,2006–2007 : Chair, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Pace University
• 2007– : Professor of History and Women's & Gender Studies, Pace University (joint appointment)
• 2002–2007 : Professor of History
• 2001–2006 : Director, Women's and Gender Studies Program, Pace University
• 1996–2001 : Associate Professor of History, Pace University
• 1990–1996 : Assistant Professor of History, Pace University
• 1989–1990 : Lecturer, University of Texas, Austin

Publications

Monographs

• Sweeping the German Nation: Domesticity and National Identity in Germany, 1870-1945 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006) Paperback edition, 2008
• A German Women's Movement: Class and Gender in Hanover, 1880-1933 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995)

Edited Scholarly Collections

• The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness, anthology co-edited with Renate Bridenthal and Krista O'Donnell (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005)
• Transformative Works and Cultures 6 (2011), special historical issue :"Fan Works and Fan Communities in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," co-edited with Anne Rubenstein of York University. This collection in this special issue focused on the emergence of fan communities in the early to mid-20th century.

Journal Articles and Refereed Chapters

• “’I’m Buffy and You’re History’: Putting History Back Into Fan Studies,” review essay co-authored with Anne Rubenstein. Transformative Works and Cultures 6 (March, 2011).
• "Nationale Hausarbeit? Bürgerliche Hausfrauen und konservative Politik in der Weimarer Republik" in Eva Schöck-Quinteros und Christiane Streubel (eds.) "Ihrem Volk verantwortlich". Frauen der politischen Rechten (1890-1933). Organisationen - Agitationen - Ideologien (Bremen: Trafo Verlag, 2007).
• "German Brigadoon? Domesticity and Metropolitan Perceptions of Auslandsdeutschen in Southwest Africa and Eastern Europe" in Renate Bridenthal, Krista O'Donnell, and Nancy Reagin (eds.) The Heimat Abroad: the Boundaries of Germanness (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005)
• "Recent Work on German National Identity: Regional? Imperial? Gendered? Imaginary?" Central European History 37 (June 2004): 245-271
• "The Imagined Hausfrau: National Identity, Domesticity, and Colonialism in Imperial Germany," Journal of Modern History, 73 (March 2001): 54-86. A shorter, revised version of this article was published in Germany under the title, "Foreign Housewives and German Linen Cabinets: Gendered National Identity in Imperial Germany," in Ute Planert (ed.), Nation, Politik, und Geschlecht: Frauenbewegung und Nationalismus in der Moderne (Frankfurt a.M.: Campus Verlag, 2000)
• "Marktordnung and Autarkic Housekeeping: Private Households Under the Nazi Four Year Plan," German History 19 (May, 2001): 162-184
• "Comparing Apples and Oranges: Housewives and the Politics of Consumption in Weimar and Nazi Germany," in Charles McGovern, Susan Strasser, and Mathias Judt (eds.), Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
• "Zur bürgerlichen Frauenbewegung vor 1933," in Christiane Schröder and Monika Sonneck (eds.), Außer Haus-Frauengeschichte in Hannover, (Hanover: Reichold Verlag, 1994)
• "Die Werkstatt der Hausfrau: Bürgerliche Frauenbewegung und Wohnungspolitik im Hannover der Zwanziger Jahre" in Adelheid von Saldern and Sid Auffarth (eds.), Altes und neues Wohnen: Linden und Hannover im frühen 20 Jahrhundert, (Seelze-Velber: Kallmeyersche Verlag, 1992)
• "'A True Woman Can Take Care of Herself': The Debate Over Prostitution in Hanover, 1906," Central European History 24, (Winter, 1991): 347-380 (nominated for Berkshire Conference in Women's History, Award for Best Article, 1993)
• Articles on "Nationalist Women's Associations, 1890-1933" and "The Bourgeois Women's Movement, 1871-1933," in Dieter Buse and Jürgen Doerr (eds.), Encyclopedic History of Modern Germany (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998)
• "Domesticity and Separate Spheres," and "Louise Otto" articles in The Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Women in World History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).

Work in Progress

• Getting A Life: Early Fandoms In Late 19th and 20th Century Europe and America (a study of audiences and fan communities that developed around popular cultural phenomena such as Sherlock Holmes, Karl May's Westerns, and The Wizard of Oz, that examines how fans engaged with, appropriated, and reinterpreted serial fiction created by popular authors. My approach compares fans and spectatorship across cultures, paying particular attention to the dynamics of class and gender)

Popular History Anthologies (edited)

• Twilight and History (New York: Wiley & Sons, 2010).
• Harry Potter and History (New York: Wiley & Sons, 2011).
• Star Wars and History, co-edited with Janice Liedl (New York: Wiley & Sons, 2012).
• Star Trek and History (New York: Wiley & Sons, 2013).
• The Hobbit and History, co-edited with Janice Liedl (New York: Wiley & Sons, fothcoming 2014).

Book Reviews

• Review of Michelle Mouton, From Nurturing the Nation to Purifying the Volk in Central European History (June 2008)
• Review of Claudia Koonz, The Nazi Conscience, H-GERMAN (July 2005)
• Review of Jennifer Loehlin, From Rugs to Riches: Housework, Modernity, and Consumption in Germany in American Historical Review 108 (April, 2003)
• Review of Hans Medick and Anne-Charlott Trepp (eds.), Geschlechtergeschichte und Allgemeine Geschichte. Herausforderungen und Perspektiven in Neue Politische Literatur (June 2000)
• Review of Kathleen Canning, Languages of Labor and Gender. Female Factory Work in Germany, 1850-1914 in American Historical Review 103 (Oct. 1998)
• Review of Sabine Schmitt, Der Arbeiterinnenschutz im deutschen Kaiserreich. Zur Konstruktion der schutzbedürftigen Arbeiterin in American Historical Review 102 (April 1997)
• Review of Brigitte Kerchner, Beruf und Geschlecht: Frauenberufsverbände in Deutschland, 1848-1908 in Journal of Modern History 67 (June 1995)
• Review of Cornlie Usborne, The Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany: Women's Reproductive Rights and Duties in Journal of the History of Sexuality 3 (Fall 1993)

Invited Lectures and Papers Presented (partial list)

• “The Uses of History in Star Trek,” invited public lecture, Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, May 2013.
• “Teaching in the Liminal Classroom,” 11th Annual Reacting to the Past Institute at Barnard College, June 2011.
• "Reacting to the Past: Role Play, Persuasion, and Engagement in Undergraduate Teaching," at the annual conference of the American Historical Association, San Diego, Jan. 10, 2010
• "Cowboy and Indian Clubs: Gender, Identity, and Imaginary Worlds among German Fans of American Westerns," at the Columbia University Seminar on Women and Society, Columbia University, April 20, 2009
• "Alternate Realities, Alternate Identities: Class and Gender at Play in Early Twentieth Century Fan Communities," at the annual conference of the American Historical Association, New York City, January 2009
• "Getting a Life: Literary Fan Communities in Late 19th- and 20th-Century Europe and America," at the Berkshire Conference in Women's History, University of Minnesota, June 2008
• "What Comes Next? Closing a Canon in Historical Context: the closure of canon and the rise of a fan community in Sherlock Holmes," at the Prophecy Conference, Toronto, August 6, 2007
• "Gender and Nazi 'Germanization' Programs in Occupied Poland," at the Berkshire Conference in Women's History, Scripps College, June 2005
• "Shopping in German: Housewives, Fashions, and Furniture Under the Nazi Four Year Plan, 1936-1940," at the Berkshire Conference in Women's History, University of Connecticut, June, 2002
• "Marktordnung and Autarkic Housekeeping: Private Households Under the Nazi Four Year Plan," at annual conference of the German Studies Association, Houston, Oct. 6, 2000
• "German Brigadoon? Domesticity and Metropolitan Perceptions of Ethnic Germans in Eastern Europe During the Interwar Period," at conference on "The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness" (the German diaspora) held at Center for European Studies, New York University, November 19-20, 1999
• "The Imagined Hausfrau: Bourgeois Women and National Identity in Imperial Germany," at annual conference of the German Studies Association, Atlanta, Oct. 9, 1999
• "National Housekeeping? Bourgeois Housewives and Conservative Politics in the Weimar Republic," at conference on "Die Nationalisierung und Politisierung von Frauen der politischen Rechten (1890-1938)" held by the University of Bremen, June 25-26, 1999
• "The Imagined Hausfrau: German Women and National Identity in Africa and Eastern Europe," annual conference of the American Historical Association, Washington D.C., Jan. 8, 1999
• "Housewives and Gendered Nationalism in Germany, 1880-1914," conference on "National Identities" held by the Institute for Contemporary British History at the University of London, April 20, 1998
• "Authoritarian Mothers? Maternalism and Political Conservatism Within the First German Women's Movement," annual conference of the German Studies Association, Washington, D.C., Sept. 26, 1997
• "Through a Glass Darkly: The Prostitute and the Bourgeois Women's Movement in Fin-de-Siecle Germany," lecture at the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C., Oct. 2, 1996
• "Filling a Market Basket: Housewives and Consumption in Nazi Germany," Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, June 7, 1996
• "Rational Shoppers?: Housewives and Consumption Patterns in Interwar Germany," annual conference of the American Historical Association, Atlanta GA, January 6, 1996
• "Comparing Apples and Oranges: Housewives and the Politics of Consumption in Weimar and Nazi Germany," Smithsonian/German Historical Institute Conference on the Emergence of Twentieth Century Consumer Societies, Washington D.C., Oct. 19, 1995
• "Ambiguous Vices: The Flexible Use of 'Immorality' Within the German Women's Movement," German Studies Association Annual Conference, Oct. 8, 1993
• "Lucrative Differences: Class, Gender, and the Work of the Women's Movement in Wilhelmine Hanover," German Studies Association Annual Conference, Sept. 26, 1991

Professional Service

• Program Co-Chair, 10th Annual Conference of the Northeast Workshop on German History and Culture (sponsored annually by the German government's German Academic Exchange Service), at Vassar College, March 2001. The topic of 2001 conference was "Daily Life, Race, and Gender in Nazi Germany."
• Seminar Co-Chair of Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Seminar at Humboldt University, Berlin; chosen by German Historical Institute (German government think tank) to serve as mentor for 15 German Ph.D. candidates, who presented their prospectuses to the seminar for review, April 2000.
• Program Co-Chair, Conference on "The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness" (the German diaspora) held at Center for European Studies, New York University, November 19-20, 1999 (conference sponsored by NYU and the German Academic Exchange Service).
• Outside manuscript referee/reader for: American Historical Review, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Journal of Women's History, Gender & History, the University of North Carolina Press, and the University of California Press

Pace University Service

• 2013– : Chair, New York Faculty Council
• 2012–2013 : Member, University Handbook Negotiation Committee
• 2011–2013 : Vice-Chair, Dyson Faculty Assembly
• 2010– : Member, NYFC Faculty Affairs Committee
• 2010– : Member, NYFC Curriculum Committee
• 2007–2009 : Secretary, New York Faculty Council
• 2007–2009 : Member, University Council Commission (university-wide faculty governance body)
• 2006–2007: Chair, Faculty Council Ad Hoc Committee on Non-Academic Programs
• 2006–2007: Member, Provost Search Committee
• 2005–2006: Member, Dyson College Ad Hoc Committee For Creation of College Tenure and Promotion Process
• 2004–2006: Chair, Dyson College Committee on Student Evaluations
• 2004–2005 : Member, University Committee on Faculty Promotions and Tenure
• 2003– : Member, Board of Dyson Fellows
• 2002–2004 : Member, Dyson Assembly Nominations Committee
• 2001–2007 : Member, Dyson Curriculum Committee
• 2000–2001 : Member, Dyson Assembly Curriculum Committee
• 1999 : Lecturer, "Comparing the American and British Women's Suffrage Movements," Honors Lecture
• 1998 : Lecturer, "German Jews and Social Death in Nazi Germany," Honors Lecture
• 1996 : Speaker, Dyson Day
• 1995–1996 : Member, NY Faculty Council Curriculum Committee
• 1990–1995 : Dyson College Senator in Pace University Senate

Pace History Department Service

• 1998–2001 Department Information Management Officer (provide computer technical support for colleagues, and maintain department computers)
• 1999–2001 Member, History Department Hiring Committee
• 1996–2001 Member, History Department Promotions Committee; I serve as dept. Student Recruitment Officer, working with Enrollment Management to attract new freshmen
• 1995–1996 Member, History Department Bylaws Committee
• 1993–1996 Member, History Department Curriculum Committee
• 1990–1993 Member, History Faculty Development Committee

Women's and Gender Studies Program Service

• 2006–2007, 2010– : Chair, Department of Women's and Gender Studies
• 2001–2006 : Director, Women's and Gender Studies Program
• 1997–2001 : Member, Women's Studies Curriculum Committee
• 1994–2001 : Member, Women's Studies Executive Committee
• 1990–2001 : Member, Women's Studies Programming Committee; I chaired this committee twice, organizing Women's History Month events in particular
• 1990–2001 : Member, Women's Studies Advisory Board
• 1994–1997 : Member, Women's Studies Bylaws Committee; I chaired this committee in 1996-97, and oversaw the production of a new set of bylaws
• 1990–1996 : Member, Feminist Research Group; I served as group coordinator 1994-95
• 1995 : Acting Director, Women's Studies Program (while Director was on sabbatical)

References (additional references available on request)

• Dr. Nira Herrmann, Dean, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Pace University. Email: nherrmann@pace.edu
• Dr. Marion Kaplan, Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History, New York University. Email: marionkaplan@yahoo.com
• Dr. Belinda Davis, Professor of History, Rutgers University. Email: bedavis@rci.rutgers.edu
• Dr. Anne Rubenstein, Assoc. Professor of History, York University. Email: arubenst@yorku.ca

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