Kathryn Tomasek
Associate Professor of History
Office: Knapton 323
Office Hours: Fridays, 10:30-noon, and by appointment
Phone: 508-286-3674
Fax: 508-286-3640
Email: ktomasek@wheatoncollege.edu
Degrees
Ph.D., M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A., Rice University
Main Interests
U.S. Women's History, 19th-century United States, Women's Studies
Research Interests
Women in utopian and communitarian societies; gender and work; historical constructions of race, class and gender; the wives and daughters of ministers; travel in the nineteenth century; Eliza B. Wheaton and her role as a woman of means in nineteenth-century New England
Teaching Interests
19th-century United States; History of Women in North America; Gender and Work; Sex and Culture in the Nineteenth-Century U.S; Gender and Community in the Nineteenth-Century U.S.; Women's Studies; Utopian Studies; American Studies
Other Interests
Intersections of Race, Gender, Class and Sexual Orientation; Louisa May Alcott; Women in Maine; Lydia Maria Child; Uses of Technology to Enhance Learning; The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) in Teaching History to Undergraduates; The History Engine
Student Projects
Since 2004, students have worked with me to digitize the diaries of Eliza B. Wheaton. These diaries will be available through DSpace in fall 2008.
During summer 2008, students began work on digitizing account books in the Wheaton Family Collection.
During the 2008-2009 academic year, I will direct an honors thesis in History focused on the U.S. Civil War.
Selected Publications, Creative Work or Performances
Encoding Text, Revealing Meaning: Pedagogical Implications of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for Teaching History at Small Liberal Arts Colleges, with Scott Hamlin, Zephorene L. Stickney, and Kathleen Ebert Zawasky, _International Journal of Knowledge, Technology, and Society_, 1/3 (2006):157-164.
Duaterra's Tattooing: Marking Bodies in Lydia Maria Child's "Mary Howard" and _The Girl's Own Book_, _Letterature d' America_ (Italy), 25, no. 106 (2005): 5-27.
Not a Nervous Man: Gender Anxiety and Women's Rights in Antebellum Bangor, Maine, in _Of Place and Gender: Essays on Women in Maine History_, ed. Marli F. Weiner (Orono, Maine: University of Maine Press, 2005), 27-50.
A Greater Happiness: Searching for Feminist Utopia in _Little Women_, in _Little Women and the Feminist Imagination_, ed. Jan Alberghene and Beverly Lyon Clark (New York: Garland, 1999, 237-259.
Children and Family in Fourierist Communities, _Connecticut History_, 37, No. 2 (Fall 1996-Spring 1997): 159-173.