SARA BROOKS SUNDBERG
Professor of History
ssundberg@ucmo.edu
620-543-8698
Wood 136K
Department of History, Anthropology, Africana Studies and Social Studies
University of Central Missouri
Warrensburg, MO. 64093
RESEARCH
Women in early America
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in history
EDUCATION
Ph. D. Louisiana State University 2001
M. A. University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire (History) 1984
M.A.T. College of St. Thomas (now University of St. Thomas) 1978
B. A. Earlham College (Political Science) 1973
Other Professional Training
Tulane University, Graduate Program in History
Certification
Certification from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Louisiana departments of elementary and
secondary education for Social Studies (grades 7-12).
HONORS AND AWARDS
2009 Sabbatical, Fall semester
2006 New Faculty Achievement Award, College of Arts and
Sciences, Central Missouri State University
2005 Faculty Research Days Award, first place, juried selection of paper in the category of Scholarship of Teaching and
Learning, Center for Teaching and Learning, Central Missouri
State University
2003 Faculty Fellow, Center for Teaching and Learning, Central
Missouri State University
2002 College of Arts and Sciences, Nominee, Distinguished
Dissertation Award, Louisiana State University
1988, 1989 Graduate Fellowship, Department of History, Tulane
University
1984 Honorary Fellowship, Department of History
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
1984 Election to Phi Kappa Phi, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
1983 Election to Phi Alpha Theta, University of Wisconsin-Eau
Claire
1969-1971 John and Laura Besselman Scholarship, Earlham College
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Present-2013 Professor, University of Central Missouri
2012-2007 Associate Professor, University of Central Missouri
2006-2002 Assistant Professor, University of Central Missouri
2002-1997 Lecturer, Emporia State University
1997-1991 & 1980-1977 Teacher, Social Studies and Advanced Placement U.S. history,
three high schools
NON-TEACHING PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2007 Member, Committee of Examiners, Major Field
Test in History, Educational Testing Service, Princeton,
New Jersey
2007 Advanced Placement Course Audit Review (Review
Course Syllabi), Educational Testing Service
2007-1994 Reader, Advanced Placement U.S. History Exam 8X
Educational Testing Service; Table Leader, 3X
1986-1985 Site/Shop Manager, Pentagon Barracks Historic Site
Foundation for Historical Louisiana, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana
1985-1984 Project Historian, Architectural Survey, Chippewa Falls,
Wisconsin, State Historical Society of Wisconsin
TEACHING AND STUDENT ADVISING
Courses
U.S. History survey to 1877 and 1877 to the present
Colonial America *
Revolution and Republic *
History of the Westward Movement
Women in America *
Writing in the Social Sciences
Colloquium (graduate, including online sections)
*Courses include sections that utilize Reacting to the Past critical thinking games.
Student Advising:
Thesis Advisor for three Master’s Theses:
2010 Tina Ellsworth, “Missouri Newspapers and the Equal Rights
Amendment 1972-1973”
2009 Peter Johnson, “The Origin and Nature of Indian Slavery in Colonial
St. Louis”
Society of Missouri, 2009
2007 Shannon Whetzel, “Mary Smiser, a ‘New Woman’ in the Historic
Preservation Movement”
Member of two MA thesis committees
Member of seventeen comprehensive exam committees for MA in history program
Project Advisor for three academic programs:
2013 MA in history public history project
2010 McNair Scholar
2009 Honors College
Advisor for two MA, public history internships:
Supervised twelve undergraduate and graduate research papers for conference presentations,
2002 - 2015.
Co-Faculty Evaluator for Social Studies Education majors seeking admission to the Teacher
Education Program (average 10 per semester) 2002-2013; 7X, 2013/2014
GRANTS
2015 Institutional Improvement Grant, Center for Teaching and Learning,
University of Central Missouri
2015- 2013 Co-Project Investigator, “Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle” part
of the “Bridging Cultures” initiative National Endowment for the
Humanities and Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
2009 Level II Research, University of Central Missouri
2008 Mini Grant for Research, University of Central Missouri
2005 Michael Kraus Research Grant in American Colonial History, American
Historical Association
2005 Creative Assistance Grant, University of Central Missouri
2005 Teaching Development Grant, University of Central Missouri
2004 Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society
1985 Travel to Collections Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities
1984 Phi Kappa Phi Research Grant, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
PUBLICATIONS REFEREED
Book
Farm Women on the Prairie Frontier: A Sourcebook for Canada and the United States with Carol Fairbanks (Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1983). -
reprinted a chapter as “Farmwomen on the Canadian Prairie Frontier: The Helpmate Image,” 95-107 in Rethinking Canada the Promise of Women’s History. eds. Veronica Strong Boag and Anita Fellman (Toronto: Copp, Clark Pitman, Ltd. 1986).
Articles
with Adam Sundberg, “Happy Land: Women Land Owners in West Feliciana Parish,
Louisiana: 1813-1845” Agricultural History 90, (Winter 2016), 484-510
“Lucy Alston Pirrie: A Woman’s Life in Early Louisiana (1772-1833),” in Mary Farmer
Kaiser and Shannon Frystak eds., Louisiana Women Their Lives and Times, Volume 2,
a volume in the series Southern Women: Their Lives and Times (Athens: University of
Georgia Press, 2016), 85-100
“Women and Property in Early Louisiana: Legal Systems at Odds, Journal of the Early
Republic” 32 (Winter 2012), 633-665
“‘Picturing the Past:’ Farm Women on the Grasslands Frontier, 1850-1890,” Great
Plains Quarterly 30 (Summer 2010), 203-219
“An Investigation of Exam Essay Questions on Learning in United States History Survey
Classes” The History Teacher 40, no. 1 (November 2006), 59-68
“A Female Planter from West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana: The Letters of Rachel O’Connor”
Louisiana History 47 (Winter 2006), 39-62
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reprinted in Louisiana Legacies: Readings in the History of the Pelican State, 63 -77 eds. Janet Allured and Michael Martin (Cambridge: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2013).
"A Female Frontier: Manitoba Farm Women in 1922." Prairie Forum 16, no. 2 (1991), 185-
204
"A Farm Woman on the Minnesota Prairie: The Letters of Mary E. Carpenter, Minnesota
History 51 (Spring 1989), 186-193
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Book: Property and Place: Women and the Law of Property in Early Louisiana
Research “A Phenomenological Investigation of “Reacting to the Past” Pedagogy on History
Learning and Engagement in the Undergraduate Classroom”
PUBLICATIONS, OTHER
Books
Intensive Survey Report: Architectural and Historical Survey Project. Chippewa Falls,
Wisconsin with Joan Rausch (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1985)
Articles
“Lessons from Two Careers on the Value of Social Studies Education,” Renaissance: A
Magazine of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 7 (2014), 40-41.
“Finding History, Leaving a Legacy,” with Jon Taylor, Renaissance: A Magazine of the
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 6 (2013), 8-9.
Encyclopedia Entries
“Rachel O’Connor,” Know-LA encyclopedia of Louisiana, History, Culture and
Community, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, www.knowla.org
Book Reviews
Tennessee Women, Their Lives and Times-Volume 2 by Beverly Greene Bond and
Sarah Wilkerson Freeman in Journal of Southern History 82 no 3 (August 2016), 717-
718
Strangers on Their Native Soil: Opposition to United States’ Governance in Louisiana’s
Orleans Territory, 1805-1809, by Julien Vernet in Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta
Studies, 46 (April 2015), 66-67
Frontier Seaport: Detroit’s Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepȏt by Catherine Cangany
in Journal of the Early Republic 35 (Spring 2015), 141-143
Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana
by Sophie White in Missouri Historical Review 109 (October 2014), 70-71
Defiant Brides, The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men
They Married by Nancy Rubin Stuart in The History Teacher 47 (May 2014), 468-469
Dolley Madison: The Problem of National Unity by Catherine Allgor in The History
Teacher 47 (November 2013), 131-132
“Why Won’t You Just Tell Us the Answer?” Teaching Critical Thinking in Grades 7-12,
by Bruce Lesh, in The History Teacher 45 (August 2012), 636
Louisiana Women Their Lives and Times by Janet Allured and Judith K. Gentry eds.
H- SAWH (September 2010)
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/review_browse.php?list_id=66&page=1
Researching History Education, Theory, Method and Context by Linda S. Levstick and
Keith C. Barton in The History Teacher 42 (May 2009), 381-382
Civil War Films for Teachers and Historians by William Russell III in The History
Teacher 42 (November 2008), 125
American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State by
Stephen Aron in Ohio Valley History 7 (2007), 80-81
HERS, HIS AND THEIRS: Community Property in Spain & Early Texas, by Jean Stuntz
Louisiana History 68 (2007), 449-450
French, Cajun, Creole, Houma: A Primer on Francophone Louisiana by Carl Brasseaux in
Journal of Southern History 72 (2006), 449-450
Gardens of New Spain, How Mediterranean Plants and Foods Changed America by
William W. Dunmire in Plant Science Bulletin 52 (Fall 2006), 102-103
Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britain and the Improvement of the World by
Richard Drayton in Plant Science Bulletin 48 (Spring 2002), 29-30
Dust Bowl Diary by Ann Marie Low in Annals of Iowa, A Quarterly Journal of History 48,
(1985), 94
Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1825-1915 by Glenda Riley
Minnesota History, 49 (1985), 204-205
Book Notices:
Truman’s Grandview Farm by Jon Taylor Renaissance: A Magazine of the College of Arts,
Humanities and Social Sciences 5 (2012), 38
The Checkered Years: A Bonanza Farm Diary, 1884-1888, ed. by Mary Boynton Cowdry,
Annals of Iowa, A Quarterly Journal of History 50 (Fall 1990), 711
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND TALKS
Invited Talks
2010 “Property and Place: Women Landholders in West Feliciana, 1780-1835,: with Adam
Sundberg, Hemispheric Freedom Symposium, sponsored by the Baton Rouge Area
Foundation, Irene W. and C. B. Pennington Foundation and Louisiana State
University Law Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
2009 “All the Existing Property . . . Being the Product Mutual Duties and
Labors,” Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, Johnson County
Community College, Overland Park, Kansas
2002 “Teaching with Documents: Women in Early Louisiana,” Louisiana Endowment for
the Humanities, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1985 "Farm women on the Nineteenth-Century Agricultural Frontier: A Reassessment"
Berdhal-Rolvaag Lecture Series, Nordland Fest, Augustana College, Sioux
Falls, South Dakota
Select Conference Papers (Refereed)
2015 “Remembering Constance Rochon Duplantier of Historic Magnolia Mound Plantation
Baton Rouge, Louisiana,” Gulf South History and Humanities Conference,
Natchez, Mississippi
2012 “Lucy Alston Pirrie: A Woman’s Life in Early Louisiana,” Louisiana Historical
Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans
2009 “Property and Place: Women and the Land in Early West Feliciana Parish,
Louisiana,” Eighth Southern Conference on Women’s History, Southern
Association of Women Historians, University of South Carolina, Columbia
2008 “‘Picturing the Past’: Farmwomen on the Minnesota Prairie Frontier: 1850-1900,”
Women and Gender Historians of the Midwest, Mount St. Joseph College,
Cincinnati, Ohio
2007 “Under Her Authority: Women and Property in Early Louisiana,” Canadian
Historical Association Annual Meeting, University of Saskatchewan,
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
2007 “Women, the Law and Identity in Early Louisiana,” 121st Annual Meeting,
American Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia
2006 “Women in Mississippi and Louisiana, 1782-1835: A Comparison of Wealth-
Holding Under Civil and Common Law,” Annual Meeting, Organization of
American Historians/National Council on Public History, Washington, D.C.
2005 “An Investigation of the Effects of Exam Essay Questions on Learning in United
States History Survey Classes,” International Society for the Scholarship of
Teaching and Learning, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2005 “Legal Systems at Odds: Marriage Contracts, Wills and Women’s Property in
Spanish West Florida and Early Louisiana,” Louisiana Historical Society
Annual Meeting, Lafayette, Louisiana
2004 “Women and the Law of Property under Civil Law in Early Louisiana, 1782-
1835,” 50th Congrès Annuel, Society for French Historical Studies, Bibliothèque
Nationale de France, Paris, France.
2004 “Women and Wealth in Civil Law Louisiana and Selected Common Law
Jurisdictions,” Tenth Annual Conference, The Omohundro Institute of Early
American History and Culture, Northhampton, Massachusetts
2003 “Lives and Law: Case Studies of Three Women and the Law of Property in Early
Louisiana,” Sixth Southern Conference on Women’s History, Southern
Association of Women Historians, University of Georgia, Athens
2002 “Reassessing the Letters of Rachel O’Connor, A Female Planter in Early
Louisiana,” Louisiana Historical Association Annual Meeting, New Iberia,
Louisiana.
2000 “Women of Means in Colonial and Early National Feliciana and Baton Rouge,
Louisiana 1782-1835, Fifth Southern Conference on Women’s History,
Southern Association of Women Historians, University of Richmond,
Virginia
1986 "A Quantitative Examination of the Homes Lives of Manitoba Farm Women in
1922" American Farm Women in Historical Perspective Conference,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
1985 "A Farmwoman on the Minnesota Prairie Frontier: The Letters of Mary E.
Carpenter, 1870-1889." 28th Annual Missouri Valley History Conference,
University of Nebraska-Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska
1982 "Farmwomen on the Canadian Prairie Frontier: The Helpmate Image." 17th
Annual Northern Great Plains History Conference, Bemidji State University,
Bemidji, Minnesota
Conference Participation
2014 Discussant, Roundtable, “Adventures in On-Line Courses, Distance Learning and
MOOCs,” Louisiana Historical Association Annual Meeting, Hammond,
Louisiana.
2014 Commentator and Chair, “The Empire of Liberty Realized: Economic and
Intellectual Development in the Age of Jefferson,” Conference on Missouri
History, Jefferson City, Missouri
2013 Commentator and Chair, “Women’s Agency in the Southern Mississippi Valley,”
Graduate History Conference, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana
2008 Discussant, Roundtable, “Women between Cultures in Early North
America,” The Fourteenth Berkshire Conference on Women in History,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2008 Commentator and Chair, “Gender and Law in the Early English, French and
Spanish South,” Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, New
Orleans, Louisiana
2006 Commentator, “A Landscape Portrait of Women’s Studies Programs in the
Midwest,” Mid-America Conference on History, Cincinnati, Ohio
2006 Commentator, “Missouri History and Biography,” Missouri Conference on
History, Sedalia, Missouri
2005 Commentator, “American Indians” Northern Great Plains History Conference,
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
SERVICE
Department:
Present-2016 Member, Social Studies Steering Committee
Present-2014 Advisor, Kappa-Lambda Chapter, Phi Alpha Theta
2016-2013 Co-Coordinator, M.A. Program in History
2016-2011 Assessment Committee
2016-2009 Co-Chair and Chair, Graduate Committee
2009-2007 Coordinator, M.A. Program in History
2005-2002 Coordinator, Department Speaker Series
Multiple job search committees
University
2016 Member, Constitution Week Planning Committee
2016-2014 Member, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Assessment
Committee
2015 International Affairs Committee
2013 Co-Chair, International Affairs Committee
2016-2013 Member, Graduate Council
2014-2013 Member, Sustainability Course Review Committee
2011 Member, Ad-Hoc Committee (University Reorganization)
2010-2007 Member, Graduate Council
2010-2007 Member, Honor’s College Advisory Board
2008-2005 Member, Carnegie Academy of Scholarship and Teaching (CASTL)
Committee
2010-2008 President, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
2008-2006 Vice President, Phi Kappa Phi
2008-2005 Member, Women’s Studies Program Advisory Board
2010 Presenter, “Reacting to the Past: Teaching with Critical Thinking
Games,” Center for Teaching and Learning
Professional
2016 Manuscript review, Truman University Press.
2015 Member, Membership Committee, Southern Historical Association
2014 Chair, A. Elizabeth Taylor Article Prize Committee, Southern
Association of Women Historians
2009 Member, Committee on Teaching, Southern Association of Women
Historians
2011 Member, Julia Cherry Spruill Book Prize Committee, Southern
Association of Women Historians
2011 Manuscript Review, Journal of Canadian Studies.
Organized multiple conference panels
Public Outreach
2016-2003 Judge, Senior Papers, National History Day in Missouri, seven times
2013-2012 Member, Archival Committee, Pioneer Bluffs (historic farm) Matfield
Green, Kansas
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Historical Association (continuous since 2001)
Louisiana Historical Association
Organization of American Historians (since 1984)
Society for Historians of the Early Republic
Southern Association of Women Historians (lifetime member)
Southern Historical Association
Updated: Fall 2016
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