Monica Fitzgerald  |  Interests  |  Scholarship  |  Service  

Education:

• PhD Early American History, UC Davis, 2005
  Dissertation, "Wicked Hearts & Wayward Walking: Gender, Religion & Identity in Early New England; Minor field Cross Cultural Women Studies
• MA US History, CSU East Bay, 1996
  Thesis, "Safely Delivered": Social Childbirth and Female Authority in Early New England
• BA Political Science, UC Berkeley, 1990

Professional Experience:

• Member - Bay Area Religous Seminar (2008 - Present)
• Member - Bay Area Early American Seminar (1995 - Present)

Teaching Experience:

• Assistant Professor - Saint Mary's College (2009 - Present)
• Instructor - University of the Pacific (2007 - 2009)
• Participant - Teaching American History (2006 - 2007)
  presented several times to 5th grade teachers on Salem Witch Trial, Puritanism, and Native American history
• Instructor - Diablo Valley College (2006 - 2008)
• Instructor - CSU East Bay (2003 - 2008)

Award:

• Nupur Chaudhuri First Article Prize - Coordinating Council for Women in History (January 2013)
  for “Fornicators, Drunkards, and a Great Hen Squabble: Censuring Practices and the Gendering of Puritanism,” Church History: A Study in Christianity and Culture (March 2011)

Grants:

• FTG Mobile Computing Grant - Saint Mary's College (August 2011)
• Faculty Technology Grant - Saint Mary's College of California (January 2011)
  grant to integrate technology into Janterm course.

Presentations:

Paper

• “Masculinity Redefined, a Contest of Puritanisms. Fitzgerald, Monica (paper)
  Western Association of Women Historians
  (May 2013)
• “Lascivious Harlots, Scandalous Rogues and a Female Historian: A Reflection on Gender, Identity and Writing Women’s History". Fitzgerald, Monica (talk, speech or lecture)
  Featured Speaker Women's History Month, CSU East Bay
  (April 2013)
• “Contested Masculinity in Early New England,”. Fitzgerald, Monica (paper)
  Southern American Studies Association
  (January 2013)
• “’Unmanly Blubbing’: Masculinity Redefined, the Case of Captain John Underhill, War Hero,”. Fitzgerald, Monica (paper)
  Front Range Early American Consortium
  (October 2012)
• The 'Skirts' are Coming: Going Co-ed During the Second Wave. Fitzgerald, Monica (paper, panel or forum member)
  Western Association of Women Historians
  (April 2011)
• The Art of Being a Modern Woman: How Hildreth Meiere Sculpted an Unconventional Life. Fitzgerald, Monica (panel or forum member)
  Western Association of Women Historians
  (May 2010)
• If They Build It, They Will Come: Utilizing faculty voice and Vision in Faculty Development Program. Fitzgerald, Monica (panel or forum member)
  Continuums of Service Conference
  (April 2010)
• Tawdry Jokes and Feminine Wiles: Gendered Humor and Female Power in Early America. Fitzgerald, Monica (paper, panel or forum member)
  Western Women's Historial Association
  (May 2009)
• Gender & Politics in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Fitzgerald, Monica (paper, panel or forum member)
  Berkshire Women's History Conference
  (June 2008)
• The Female Self & the Communal Brother: Gendered Speech & Religious Identity in Early New England. Fitzgerald, Monica (paper, panel or forum member)
  Women's and Gender Historians of the Midwest Conference
  (June 2006)
• Sin, Sex, Church and Court: Gender and Justice in Early America. Fitzgerald, Monica (paper, panel or forum member)
  Berkshire Women's Conference
  (June 2005)
• Drunkards & Fornicators on Meetinghouse Hill: Gender, Religion and Identity in an Early New England Town. Fitzgerald, Monica (invited, paper, primary presenter)
  Bay Area Early American Seminar
  (April 2003)
• Puritan Duty and the Pious Soul: Sin, Confession and the Gendering of Religion in the Seventeenth Century. Fitzgerald, Monica (paper, panel or forum member)
  Omohundro Institute of Early American History
  (June 2002)

Participant

• Lasallian Women's Conference. Fitzgerald, Monica (invited)
  Russian River
  (July 2013)
• Lasallian Research Symposium. Fitzgerald, Monica (invited, panel or forum member)
  Saint Mary's University
  (October 2012)
• International Association of Lasallian Universities. Fitzgerald, Monica (invited)
  Rome, Italy
  (June 2012)

Publications:

• Fitzgerald, Monica. April 2011. Fifteen Country Entries, The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World, Sage Publishing
• Fitzgerald, Monica. (2011). Review, Sarah Hand Meacham's Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake. (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2009). The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society.
• Fitzgerald, Monica. 2011. Seventeenth Century Women, American Centuries: The Ideas, Issues, and Trends that Made U.S. History, vol. II, Facts on File
• Fitzgerald, Monica. 2011. Fornicators, Drunkards, and a Great Hen Squabble: Censuring Practices and the Gendering of Puritanism, Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, issue March 2011
• Fitzgerald, Monica. 2010. Women in Politics, Celebrating Women in American History Series, vol. I: Beginnings to 1860, Facts on File
• Fitzgerald, Monica. 2010. Women in Politics, Celebrating Women in American History Series, vol. II: 1861 to 1899, Facts on File
• Fitzgerald, Monica. 2010. Women's Health, Celebrating Women in American History Series, vol. V: 1961 to the Present, Facts on File
• Fitzgerald, Monica. "Review, Cecilia Korchar Farr & Jaime Harker's The Oprah Affect: Critical Essays on Oprah's Book Club." Journal of Popular Culture October (2009): 944-946
• Fitzgerald, Monica. "Review Essay, Gender, Power, Identity & History in Early New England." Eighteenth-Century Studies 42.November (2008): 170-174
• Fitzgerald, Monica. "Review, John Mack Faragher's A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland." h-New England June (2008): online
• Fitzgerald, Monica.. Fornicators & Drunkards on Meeting House Hill: Gender, Religion & Early American Identity, in progress