JACQUELINE R. deVRIES

Department of History
Augsburg College
2211 Riverside Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55454

Phone: 612-330-1199
e-mail: devries@augsburg.edu

Ph.D., History, 1996
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(Fields: Modern British, Modern European, Comparative Women’s History)

M.A., History, 1989
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

B.A., History, 1987
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI

Germanic American Institute, Minneapolis, MN (Goethe Certificate, in progress)
Institut d’Etudes Françaises de Touraine, Tours, France (Summer 1986)

Associate Professor of History and Department Chair, Augsburg College (August 2000 – present)

Visiting Instructor, Department of History, Carleton College, Northfield, MN (1993-94)

Instructor, Department of History, University of Illinois-Urbana (Spring 1993)

Wiener Research Fellow, University of Tel Aviv, Israel (1991-92)

I.    Books

Living Faith: Stories from the First 150 Years of Westminster Presbyterian Church (Shearson Publishing, 2007) - I was commissioned to research and write a book on this venerable Minneapolis institution, placing it within the broad context of scholarship on the history of religion.  The topics in the book range from the 19th-century women's foreign mission movement, to early 20th-century revivalism and "muscular Christianity," to the church's responses to the world wars.

II.     Books in Progress

Women, Gender, and Religious Cultures in Modern Britain (co-edited with Sue Morgan, under contract with Routledge)

Josephine Butler (Lives of Victorian Spiriual Leaders Series, Pickering and Chatto, forthcoming)


III.     Articles

“Women’s Religious Organisations” and “Women’s Charity Organisations,” introductory essays to the microfilm collection A Change in Attitude:  Women, War and Society, 1914-1918, edited by Susan Grayzel (Woodbridge, CT:  Thomson Gale, forthcoming 2005)

“Rediscovering Christianity After the Postmodern Turn,” Feminist Studies 30:4  (Winter 2004)

 “Celebrating Women’s History Month” in Lutheran Woman Today, March 2001.

"Transforming the Pulpit: Preaching and Prophesying in the British Women's Suffrage Movement," in Women Preachers and Prophets in Christian Traditions, ed. Beverly Kienzle and Pamela Walker (Berkeley:  University of California, 1998)

"'Challenging Traditions:  Denominational Feminism in Britain, 1900-1920" in Borderlines: Gender Identities in Peace and War, ed. Billie Melman (London:  Routledge, 1998)

"Gendering Patriotism:  Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and World War I," in This Working-Day World:  Women in British Culture and Society, 1914-1945, ed. Sybil Oldfield (UK:  Taylor and Francis, 1994) 

IV.    Encyclopedia Entries

“Women’s Suffrage Movement,” “Women’s Movements in the 20th century,” and “Millicent Garrett Fawcett,” for Reader’s Guide to British History, ed. David Loades (London:  Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2003)

V.    Book Reviews

Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement in  Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey, in Victorian Studies 49:1 (Autumn 2006)

Laura E. Nym Mayhall, The Militant Suffrage Movement in Journal of British Studies (forthcoming)

Sandra Peacock, The Theological and Ethical Writings of Frances Power Cobbe, 1822-1904 in Albion 35: 4 (Winter 2004)

Norma Smith, Jeannette Rankin:  America’s Conscience in South Dakota History  33:4 (Winter 2003)

Keith Jenkins, Why History?  Ethics and Postmodernity and Howard Marchitello, What Happens to History:
 The Renewal of Ethics in Contemporary Thought in Clio:  A Journal of Literature, History and
Philosophy 32:2 (Winter 2003)

Claire Culleton, Working-Class Culture, Women, and Britain, 1914-1921 in History 65:3 (2003)

Martin Pugh, The March of the Women:  A Revisionist Analysis of the Campaign for Women’s Suffrage,
1866-1914 in Victorian Studies (Spring 2002)

Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith, Children on the Frontier in North Dakota History 68:4 (Winter 2002)

Sandra Stanley Holton, Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Victorian Studies 42:3 (Spring 1999/2000)

Keith Jenkins, ed., The Postmodern History Reader in Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 29:1 (Fall 1999)

I.    Papers Presented

Panel Organizer and Presenter, "Religious Metaphor and the Public Sphere: Conflicts and Contradictions in the Women's Suffrage Movement," North American Conference on British Studies, Boston, November 2006

"Religious Metaphor and the Public Sphere: Re-interpreting the British Women's Suffrage Movement," Conference on the History of Religion, Boston College, March 2006

“New Women, New Religion:  Feminism and the Victorian Crisis of Faith,” American Historical Association, Seattle, WA, January 2005.

“Representations of Faith and Doubt by Three Fin-De-Siècle Feminists, International Federation for Research in Women’s History, Belfast, Northern Ireland, August 2003

“There are no ‘Men’ or ‘Women’ in Urania: Christian Sex Radicals in 1920s Britain” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Connecticut, June 2002.

“’The Right to Labour, Love and Pray’: The Girls’ Friendly Society and the Shaping of Working-Class Girls’
Activism, 1875-1914,”  North American Conference on British Studies, Toronto, November 2001.

“Intercessors for the Nation: Women and the National Mission for Repentance and Hope in World War I,” Northern Great Plains History Conference, October 1999, St. Cloud, MN 

"Insiders or Outsiders?  Anglican and Catholic Women's Strategies for Social and Political Emancipation in Britain," North American Conference on British Studies, Chicago, IL, October 18-20, 1996

Invited Speaker, "Transforming the Pulpit:  The Preachers and Prophets of the British Women's Suffrage Movement," colloquium on Women's Preaching and Prophecy in Christian Traditions, sponsored by the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, November 1995

"Feminism, Religion and the Politics of Identity:  Explorations in Women's Suffrage Autobiographies,"  Annual Conference of the Women's Studies Network (UK), Stirling, Scotland, June 1995

"Feminism, Religion and Identity in England, 1900-1930," Women's History Outreach Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 1994

"Feminism and the Politics of Religion in Early Twentieth-Century Great Britain," Midwest Conference on British Studies, Kent State University, November 1993 

"Mrs. Pankhurst and the War:  Feminism, Nationalism, and the Struggle for Citizenship," conference on "Women in Britain, 1914-1945:  A Different Cultural History?"  Sussex University (UK), April 1992

"Feminism Confronts Nationalism:  The Women's Social and Political Union and World War I," Program in Comparative European History, Tel Aviv University, Israel, November 1991


II.    Panel Participation

Invited commentator, "Religion, History, and Other Awkward Subjects," American Historical Association Meeting, Atlanta, GA, January 2007

Discussant, “A Comparative and Transnational Approach to Women Religious,” Comparative Women’s History Reading Group, University of Minnesota, October 2003

Commentator, “Women and Autobiography in the 19th c.,” Northern Great Plains History Conference, Minneapolis, September 2002.

Commentator, “Home and Away:  New Perspectives on Religion in Imperial Britain,” Middle Atlantic
Conference of British Studies, April 5-6, 2002, New York City

Chair, “Telling War Stories:  History, Literature, and World War I,” North American Conference on British Studies, October 13-15, 2000, Pasadena, CA

Commentator, “Ladies, Leaders, and Politics: The Power of Gender in Women’s Political Activism in Mexico, France and the United States,” Fifth Southern Conference on Women’s History, June 15-17, 2000, Richmond, VA

Chair, “The Future of Women’s Studies: Changing Paradigms,” Women’s Lives, Voices and Solutions: Shaping a National Agenda for Women in Higher Education, March 27-29, 2000, University of Minnesota

Commentator, “Homefront and Battlefield: Collapsing the Boundaries in Women’s History,” Thirty-fourth annual meeting of the Northern Great Plains History Conference, October 1999, St. Cloud, MN 

Discussant, “Planting on Hallowed Ground: Women’s Studies at Religiously Affiliated Colleges,” Nineteenth annual meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association, June 1998, Oswego, NY

Commentator, “Women and Work in Comparative Perspective,” Thirty-second annual meeting of the Northern Great Plains History Conference, September 1997, Bismarck, ND

Commentator, "Gender and Class; Violence and the Vote," Twenty-Ninth Annual Northern Great Plains History Conference, Minneapolis, October 1994

Chapel Speaker, "Was Calvin Crazy?" Reformation Week, October 2006

Presenter, "Comedy, Tragedy, Paradox, and Beauty: Historical Imagination and Civic Education," delivered as part of "Teach for Democracy" panel during President Pribbenow's innaugural week, October 2006

Keynote Speaker, "Exploring Our Past: 150 Years of Westminster in the City," Westminster Presbyterian Fall Women's Retreat, October 2006

Chapel Speaker, "My Journey Through Calvinism," Reformation Week, October 2005

“Leading from the Heart:  Lessons from the Life of Maude Royden,” Saturday Forum, Westminster Presbyterian Church, April 2004.

Introduction and Discussion Leader, “Deutschland, Bleiche Mutter,” International Women’s Film Festival, Augsburg College, March 2004.

“Grief:  A Historical Perspective,” Minneapolis Women’s Club, September 2003

“Blonde Venus:  Devoted Mother or Femme Fatale?”  Presentation to the Augsburg History Club, March 2003

“Teaching Bibliographic Skills to History Students,” at “Creating Partnerships, Creating Scholarship”
conference sponsored by the Minnesota Private College Foundation, Golden Valley, MN, October
2001

“Women’s Music: Past and Present,” Introduction to the WomanVoice Concert, Augsburg College, March 14, 2000.

“The Great Famine and the Shaping of Anglo-Irish Relations,” Nobel Peace Prize Forum, St. Olaf College, February 19, 2000

“The Northern Ireland Peace Process in Historical Perspective,” Augsburg College Honors Program,
Feb. 7, 2000

“The Past, Present and Future of Women’s Rights in America,” Panel discussion on the United Nations CEDAW Treaty, hosted by MPIRG and Amnesty International, April 21, 1999

“Visions of the Spirit: Maude Royden, 1876-1956” Augsburg Chapel Talk,  March 12, 1999

“A Calvinist Alternative to Augsburg’s Lutheran Model of Education,” Panel Presentation on Augsburg’s Vision Process, Sept. 15, 1998   

“Spirituality and Citizenship: Examples from the Women’s Suffrage Movement”, Augsburg Chapel Talk, March 13, 1998

“Women’s Activism and the Origins of the Modern Welfare State,”  Ed Skarnulis’s MSW class, March 13, 1998

“Feminism and Religion in Historical Perspective,” three -part series, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, November 1997

“Recovering Women’s Lives Through Oral History,” Dinner Talk, Phi Alpha Theta  Annual Banquet, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, May 2, 1997

“‘The Sword and the Spirit’:  The Origins of the Movement for Women’s Ordination to the Anglican Church,” Faculty Scholarship Fair, October 29, 1997
 
“Religion and the ‘New Woman’ in Britain, 1880-1920” Augsburg Faculty Lecture Series, Nov. 29, 1995

International Travel Award, Augburg College, Summer 2003

Faculty-Librarian Collaboration Grant, Minnesota Private Colleges Foundation, Summer 2001

Technology Development Grant, Augsburg College, Summer 2001

Faculty-Student Research Collaboration, Augsburg College, 2000

Summer Research Award, Augsburg College, 2000, 2005

ELCA Summer Stipend, 2000

NEH Summer Stipend, University of Michigan, 1996

Abigail Q. McCarthy Research Grant in Women's Studies, College of
St. Catherine, 1993

Dissertation Research Grant, University of Illinois, 1993

Wiener Research Fellow, Program for Comparative European History,
Tel Aviv University, Israel, 1991-92

Graduate Fellow, University of Illinois, 1992

Phi Alpha Theta, 1988-

National Merit Scholar, 1983-87

Presidential Scholar, Calvin College, 1983-84

The Shaping of the Modern World, 1300-1815
The Modern World, 1815 - present
Modern Britain and Ireland 
Modern Germany
History of Women to 1870
History of Women since 1870
Gender, Race and Empire (senior seminar)
1940 (senior seminar)
1945 (senior seminar)
Europe on the Eve of World War I (first-year seminar)
Remembering the Twentieth Century (interim course)
History of Economic Thought (co-taught, Honors interim course)
Women, Activism and Social Change (women’s studies senior seminar)
Women's Grassroot Movements in Latin America (short-term study abroad in Nicaragua)
The Victorians:  Faith, Biography and History
The Aftermath of World War II (short-term study abroad in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic)

Manuscript Reader, Indiana University Press
Manuscript Reader, Social Politics
Manuscript Reader, Journal of British Studies
Manuscript Reader,  Gender and History
Board Member, Women’s Historians of the Midwest (WHOM), 1996 - 2000
Outside reviewer for tenure and promotion
Local Planning Committee, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 2008
Coordinator of Summer Institute for Teachers of Advanced Placement History, 2006-present

Administrative Leadership

Committee Work

American Historical Association
North American Conference on British Studies
Midwest Conference on British Studies
Coordinating Committee on Women in the History Profession
Women Historians of the Midwest
Germanic American Institute, St. Paul, MN