Publications

Selected publications.

Books, edited volumes, articles, and chapters across thirty-some years of work on women's history, the American West, and the pedagogy of digital history.

Books

  • No Step Backward: Women and Family on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier, Helena, Montana 1865–1900. Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 1987. The dissertation-derived first book — a community study of Helena's working-class and professional-class women across the territorial and early-statehood period.

Edited volumes & chapters

  • "If She Be Content: The Development of Montana Divorce Law, 1865–1907." Chapter in a collected volume on Western women's legal history.
  • Chapter contributions on women, family, and material culture in volumes on the Rocky Mountain West and on comparative frontier studies.
  • Contributing-editor work on edited collections in the history of the American West and on digital-history pedagogy through the Center for History and New Media.

Selected articles

  • "The Bonanza Town: Women and Family on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier." Western Historical Quarterly, foundational article from the dissertation research.
  • "Capitalists with Rooms: Prostitution in Helena, Montana, 1865–1900." Montana: The Magazine of Western History, on the political economy of the commercial sex trade in a Western mining town.
  • Articles on women's legal status, divorce, and property in Montana, the Western Legal History journal, and the Journal of the West.
  • Essays on academic publishing and pedagogy on the web in Common-Place, the journal of the American Antiquarian Society, and at the Center for History and New Media's working-papers series.

Digital projects

The four working projects on this site — the Electronic Researcher, the Footnote / Scholarship-on-the-Web series, the Picture This! OAH polling site, and Richest Hills DE — are part of the published record. Each has been cited in academic and professional venues over the years; the inbound link record to archiva.net surfaces the major ones.

Affiliations and service

  • Center for History and New Media (CHNM), George Mason University — affiliated faculty.
  • Western History Association — long-running participation in the annual meeting program and committee work.
  • Organization of American Historians — including the Picture This! session whose companion polling site lives on this archive.
  • American Historical Association.
  • Editorial-board and peer-review work for journals including Western Historical Quarterly, Montana: The Magazine of Western History, and digital-history venues affiliated with the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities.

Note on this list

This is a selected, working list. For a complete CV with full citations, dates, and venue volumes, please email me at the address on the contact page.