Dr. Trisha Posey Associate Professor of History Director, Honors Scholars Program 12052 Cripps Road Department of History Gentry, AR 72734 (479) 524-7359 2000 West University tposey@jbu.edu Siloam Springs, AR 72761 Education University of Maryland, Ph.D. 2007 Dissertation Title: Poverty Encounters: Unitarians, the Poor and Poor Relief in Antebellum Boston and Philadelphia Dissertation Advisor: Dr. David Grimsted Minor Field: African History University of Kent at Canterbury, M.Phil., History 2001 Thesis Title: Attitudes of Boston Unitarians toward Race and Slavery between 1820 and 1860 Grand Canyon University, B.A., History, summa cum laude 1998 Fellowships and Awards Faculty Excellence Award, 2016 One of Fourteen Women to Watch, 2016 Summer Professional Development Grant, 2015 Faculty Development Grant, 2014 Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship Mentor Grant, State of Arkansas 2014 Finalist, Fulbright Teaching/Research Award (Uganda) 2013 Summer Professional Development Grant, 2013 Research Fellowship, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History 2008 Summer Professional Development Grant, 2008 Rookie of the Year Teaching Award, 2008 History Department Dissertation Award, University of Maryland 2006 History Department Travel Award, University of Maryland 2006 Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellowship, College of Arts and 2005-2006 Humanities, University of Maryland Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia/ 2005 Historical Society of Pennsylvania Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Award, Graduate School, University of Maryland 2005 Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Fellowship 2004 History Department Travel Award, University of Maryland 2004 Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, University of Maryland 2004 Ilene H. Nagel Travel Award, University of Maryland 2004 Overseas Student Scholarship, University of Kent at Canterbury 1999-2000 Pew Younger Scholar 1997
Teaching Experience Director, Honors Scholars Program, Associate Professor of History, 2012-Present 2013-Present Assistant Professor of History, 2007-2013 Instructor, Department of History, University of Maryland 2005 Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Maryland 2002-2003 Adjunct Instructor, Grand Canyon University 2001 Short Term Lecturer, Canterbury College (England) 2000 Teaching Assistant, University of Kent at Canterbury 2000 Courses Taught: Gateway Seminar in Christian Scholarship: The Good Life Poverty and Welfare in American History African Civilization to 1850 African Civilization since 1850 Honors Colloquium: Community Development Honors Western Civilization II Honors Colloquium: Slave Narratives Western Civilization I and II Study of History United States History to 1865 American Slavery in Comparative Perspective Slavery and Race in American History Introduction to Museum Studies Historical Research Methods Seminar: Antebellum Reform African Civilization to 1820 History of Women in the U.S. Since 1880 American History Since 1865 American History to 1865 The 1960s in the United States Peer Reviewed and Invited Publications Different Cultures Cause Me to Hesitate: Introducing Intergroup Dialogue in an Honors Great Texts Course, in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Honors Education (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming). Little Tanned Agriculturalists: The Boston Asylum and Farm School for Indigent Boys, Massachusetts Historical Review (Fall 2014). Crossing Boundaries: Christian Higher Education in Africa, Christian Scholar s Review (Summer 2014). Chapter Introduction, Religious Benevolence, Encyclopedia of American Reform Movements. Religious Benevolence Confronts Urban Poverty, Encyclopedia of American Reform Movements. Alive to the Cry of Distress : Joseph Sill and Poor Relief in Antebellum Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (July 2008).
Other Publications Review, From Every Tribe and Nation: A Historian s Discovery of the Global Christian Story, by Mark Noll, Journal of Anglican and Episcopal History (Forthcoming). Review, Race Patriotism: Protest and Print Culture in the AME Church, by Julius H. Bailey, Fides et Historia (Summer/Fall 2013). Review, Horace Greeley and the Politics of Reform in Nineteenth-Century America, by Mitchell Snay, Civil War History (June 2013). Review, Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants Across the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World, by Alexander X. Byrd, Journal of Anglican and Episcopal History (Forthcoming). Review, Radical Spiritual Motherhood: Autobiography and Empowerment in Nineteenth-Century African American Women, by Rosetta Haynes, Journal of Anglican and Episcopal History (June 2014). Review, Uneasy Allies: Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century Boston, by David Zonderman, History: Reviews of New Books (Fall 2013). Review, Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory, edited by James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, Fides et Historia (Summer/Fall 2009). Review, Her Heart Can See: The Life and Hymns of Fanny J. Crosby, by Edith Blumhofer, Fides et Historia (Summer/Fall 2005; Winter/Spring 2006). Review, America s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln, by Mark Noll, Maryland Historian (Winter 2005). Review, The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race, by John Stauffer, Fides et Historia (Summer/Fall 2003). Passion or Progress? Unitarian Clergy and Abolitionists in Antebellum Boston, Study Group on Christianity and History Newsletter (Spring 2001). Academic Presentations Panel participant, Is the Benedict Option the Best Option for Christian Universities? 2016 Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture. Panel chair, Telling the Truth about History: Race, the University, and Public History, 2016 Conference on Faith and History. Using the Race Card Project to Teach about Race in the History Classroom, 2016 Conference on Faith and History. Different Cultures Cause Me to Hesitate: Introducing Intergroup Dialogue in an Honors 2016 Great Texts Course, CCCU Diversity Conference. The Integration of Faith, Learning, and Service at Uganda Christian University, 2015 Faculty Colloquium. Developing Intercultural Competencies Through Facilitated Dialogue, 2015 CCCU Diversity Conference.
Academic Presentations, cont. Everyone Has a Story: Using the Race Card Project to Prepare Students for 2015 Intercultural Competencies, Christians on Diversity in the Academy. Listen to My Word : The Value of African History in Teaching Christian 2014 Approaches to the Past, Conference on Faith and History. Christian Higher Education in Africa, A Case Study: Uganda Christian University, 2013 Faculty Colloquium. Little Tanned Agriculturalists: The Boston Asylum and Farm School for Indigent 2013 Boys, Faculty Colloquium. Comments on panel, In the Aftermath of Conflict and Strife, Student Conference 2012 on Faith and History, Boston. Comments on panel, Intellectual Thought: Transcendentalism and Peace Theory, 2010 Mid-America Conference on History, Little Rock. Bonds of the Mind and Heart : Unitarian Organicism and Poor Relief in the Antebellum North, 2007 American Historical Association meeting, Atlanta. Comments on What is called the Enlightening of the Age : Evangelical Resistance to Eighteenth- 2006 Century Intellectual Culture, by Jonathan Yonan, University of Maryland History Graduate Student Colloquium. Comments on A Virtuous and Spirited Union: The Origins of American Federalism (1774-1777), 2006 by Christian Esh, University of Maryland Graduate Student Colloquium. An Entirely Different Conviction : Unitarians, the State, and Poor Relief in Early Nineteenth- 2005 Century Boston, Society for Historians of the Early AmericanRepublic Annual Conference, Philadelphia. A Liberal Theology of the State and Social Obligation: Unitarian Poor Relief in Antebellum Boston, 2005 University of Maryland History Graduate Student Colloquium. Theodore Parker, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and the Anglo-Saxon Race: Manly Approaches to 2001 Emancipation in the 1840s and 1850s, Power and Personality Conference, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Paradox of Theodore Parker, History Seminar, University of Kent at Canterbury. 2001 Are These People MEN? : Boston Unitarian Clergy and the Slavery Problem in the Antebellum 2001 United States, History Seminar, University of Kent at Canterbury. Professional Activities Editor, Kharis Publishing 2016 Review manuscripts for independent publishing company. Reviewer, Massachusetts Historical Review 2016 Reviewed article manuscript for the Massachusetts Historical Review. Leader, Writing Sessions on Picturing the Americas Exhibit at Crystal Bridges Museum of 2015 American Art Led three sessions on the history of landscape art and travel literature at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Organizer, Best Practice and Best Outcomes in Honours Education: A Workshop for Faith-based 2015 Colleges and Universities
Professional Activities, cont. Organized add-on workshop for faith-based colleges at the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference. Team Leader, Uganda Christian University Workshop Series 2015 Led a team of faculty to participate in workshops on the integration of faith and learning at Uganda Christian University. Childhood Poverty Summit 2015 Learned about and discussed strategies to eradicate childhood poverty in Northwest Arkansas. National Collegiate Honors Council 2014 Participated in panel discussion on cost-saving measures for honors programs. Faculty Institute 2014 Participated in a panel discussion on the future of higher education. Concurrent Enrollment Training 2014 Directed high school history teachers in a workshop on the integration of faith and learning. Faculty Institute 2013 Led workshop on engaged learning practices. Busara: A Workshop on Integrating Faith, Learning, and Service 2013 Led workshop for faculty and staff at Uganda Christian University in Uganda. Great Plains Honors Conference 2013 Served as panel chair for student papers. National Collegiate Honors Council 2012 Participated in panel discussion on preparing students to transition from college. National Conference on Undergraduate Research 2011 Reviewed student paper submitted for publication in Proceedings of the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (2011). Bedford/St. Martin s Press 2011 Reviewed manuscript of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad: A Brief History with Documents, by Lois Horton. Bedford/St. Martin s Press 2010 Reviewed Western Civilization text, A History of Western Society, 10 th ed. Jack Miller Institute Invited participant in a seminar that addressed the teaching of America s founding principles and 2009 history. Gilder Lehrman Slave Narrative Seminar 2008 Invited participant in an exploration of slave narratives from historical and literary perspectives with Professor David Blight. Instructor and Assistant, Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminar 2004-2006 Coordinated on-site logistics for one-week seminar for elementary and secondary school history teachers and public historians led by Ira Berlin. Taught section onslavery and race in the Revolutionary Era. Research Assistant, Professor Ira Berlin 2004-2005 Conducted research for current book project; edited chapter drafts, copy-edited Slavery in New York.
Professional Activities, cont. Researcher, United States Constitution Project 2002-2006 Located and organized state constitutions and amendments for comprehensive project documenting complete histories of state constitutions. Reviewer, American Journey Online 2003 Reviewed content of online textbook supplement for Wadsworth s Liberty, Equality, Power textbook. Student Research Supervised Elyse Partee, Law, Order Emapthy: Civil Rights Done The Dallas Way and Expressions of Texan Identity McKenzie Raub, Valiant is the Word For Jacqueline: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the American Magazine Jeff Trott, Direct Ugandan Involvement in Zaire during the First Congo War: Extent and Motive James Cooke, The Creation of Third Culture by Missionaries in the Early 1900s: An Examination of the Work of Mabel Ewald Brittany Jurica, Russian Constructivism: The Political Art of Soviet Russia" Amanda Sorensen, A Chosen Nation: The Use of Exilic Imagery in African American Slave Narratives and Slave Spirituals Service Advisory Board Member, CCCU Scholar s Semester in Oxford 2013-Present Committee Chair, Honors Committee 2012-Present Committee Member, Diversity Committee, 2009-Present Faculty Representative, Bible Search Committee, 2015-2016 Committee Member, Strategic Planning Committee, 2014-2015 Tutoring Assistant, Watts Junior High Tutoring Program 2013-2014 Engaged Learning Task Force, 2012-2013 Residence Hall Sponsor 2012-2013 Department Chair, History, 2010-2012 Coordinator of Prestigious Fellowships, 2010-2012 Associate Director, Honors Scholars Program, 2009-2012 Faculty Representative, Communications Faculty Search Committee, 2012 Chapel Speaker, 2011 Committee Member, Strategic Planning Committee, 2009 Committee Member, Faculty Development Committee, 2008-2011 Coordinator of Prestigious Fellowships and Undergraduate Research, 2008-2010 Faculty Representative, Visual Arts Faculty Search Committee, 2008 Committee Member, Honors Scholars Program Scholarship Committee, 2008, 2011 Community Engagement Elder, First Presbyterian Church of Siloam Springs President, Siloam Springs Museum Board of Directors 2014-Present 2013-Present Professional Association Memberships Conference on Faith and History National Collegiate Honors Council Great Plains Honors Council
References Dr. Robert Moore Assistant Professor of History Department Chair, History 2000 West University 2000 West University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 Siloam Springs, AR 72761 (479) 524-8688 (479) 524-7357 rmoore@jbu.edu jstratman@jbu.edu Dr. Jacob Stratman Associate Professor of English Division Chair, Humanities and Social Sciences Dr. Rick Ostrander Dr. Ed Ericson VP for Academic Affairs and VP for Academic Affairs Professional Programs Council for Christian Colleges and 2000 West University Universities Siloam Springs, AR 72761 321 Eighth Street NE (479) 238-8669 Washington, DC 20002 eericson@jbu.edu (202) 546-8713 rostrander@cccu.org