Sarah N. Roth 815 S. Providence Road Wallingford, PA 19086 Office Phone: (610) 499-1118 Email: [email protected]

Department of History Widener University One University Place Chester, PA 19013

Education University of Virginia, Ph.D. in American History; U.S. South; secondary field: African history Dissertation: “Rebels and Martyrs: The Debate Over Slavery in Popular Culture, 1822-1865”

2002

University of Virginia, Master of Arts in American History

1997

Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, Bachelor of Arts in History, Magna Cum Laude

1994

Academic Positions Widener University, History Department Chair Widener University, Associate Professor Widener University, Assistant Professor Widener University, Visiting Assistant Professor

2011-2014 2010-present 2003-2010 2002-2003

Courses Taught regularly U.S. History, General HIST 121: American Civilization I HIST 353: Colonial America HIST 354: Revolutionary America HIST 355: Antebellum America

African American History HIST 364: Race, Violence, and Memory HIST 376: Slavery and Abolition HIST 378: The Segregated South HIST 383: The Civil Rights Movement

U.S. Women’s History HIST 351: American Women to 1870 HIST 352: American Women Since 1870

Specialty Courses for History Majors HIST 401: Research Methods HIST 409: Senior Seminar

Publications Book Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Articles “The Politics of the Page: Black Disfranchisement and the Image of the Savage Slave” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 134 (July 2010): 209-233. “‘How a Slave Was Made a Man’: Negotiating Black Violence and Masculinity in Antebellum Slave Narratives” Slavery and Abolition 28 (August 2007): 255-275. “‘The Blade Was in My Own Breast’: Slave Infanticide in 1850s Fiction” American Nineteenth-Century History 8 (June 2007): 167-183. “The Mind of a Child: Images of African Americans in Early Juvenile Fiction” Journal of the Early Republic 25 (Spring 2005): 71-109. – One of 20 runners-up for Organization of American Historians’ ten best American history essays of 2005-6 Encyclopedia Entries “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” in Peter P. Hinks and John R. McKivigan, eds., The World Encyclopedia of Antislavery, Abolition, and Emancipation (Greenwood Press, 2007), vol. 2, 691-692.

“Mandingo,” in Junius Rodriguez, ed., The Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion (Greenwood Press, 2007), vol. 1, 308-310. Book Reviews H. Robert Baker, Prigg v. Pennsylvania: Slavery, the Supreme Court, and the Ambivalent Constitution – Slavery and Abolition 35 (2014): 183-184.

Lara Langer Cohen and Jordan Alexander Stein, eds., Early African American Print Culture – Journal of American History 100 (2013): 198-199. Stanley Harrold, Border War: Fighting over Slavery before the Civil War – Slavery and Abolition (March 2013) Jeannine Marie DeLombard, Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture – Law and History Review (Fall 2008) Henrice Altink, Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780-1839 – Journal of American History (June 2008) Leigh Fought, Southern Womanhood and Slavery: A Biography of Louisa S. McCord, 1810-1879 – Civil War Book Review (Spring 2004) Presentations Conference Papers Society for the History of the Early Republic (SHEAR) annual meeting, Raleigh, NC July 2015 Pecha-Kucha Session; Presentation: “The Nat Turner Project: The Southampton Revolt in the Digital Age” American Studies Association annual meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico Nov 2012 Panel Organizer: “Violence, Politics, & Cultural Expression: The Legacy of Haiti in the 19th-Century U.S.” Paper: Sensational Savagery: Images of Haitian Rebels & Black Disfranchisement in Early America” American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association annual meeting, Boston “Race, Gender, and the Malleable Cultural Legacy of Patty Cannon” (Gender Studies)

April 2012

Society for the History of the Early Republic (SHEAR) annual meeting, Philadelphia Paper: “Black Savages, White Citizens: Race, Violence, and Contests of Masculinity in Abolitionist and Proslavery Narratives of the 1830s”

July 2008

Civil War & Emancipation Studies Forum at Temple Feb 2007 “Race and Gender in the Era of Emancipation” conference, Philadelphia Paper: “The Elusive Patty Cannon: Femininity, Racial Violence, and American Cultural Memory” Southern Historical Association annual meeting, Birmingham, Alabama Nov 2006 Paper: “Empowered White Femininity and the Sacrifice of the Black Rebel in Antebellum Slavery Texts” Society for the History of the Early Republic (SHEAR) annual meeting, Philadelphia July 2005 Panel Organizer: “Northern Women, Antislavery, and the Negotiation of Gender and Racial Identities” Paper: “Slave Infanticide and Images of Womanhood in Antislavery Fiction” Frederick Douglass/Herman Melville, Sesquicentennial Celebration, New Bedford, MA June 2005 Paper: “A Fate Worse Than Death: The Emasculating Impact of Slave Violence in ‘Benito Cereno’”

American Culture Association, Annual Meeting, San Diego Panel Chair: “Men’s Studies: Cultural Images of Males and Masculinities” Paper: “Man on Fire: Militant Black Manhood in Contemporary American Film”

March 2005

American Culture Association, Annual Meeting, San Antonio Apr 2004 Paper: “Negotiating Black Violence and Masculinity in Fugitive Slave Narratives of the 1840s” American Studies Association, Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. Nov 2001 Paper: “Rebels, Martyrs, Heroes: Antislavery Representations of African Americans in the Civil War” Invited Talks Women’s History Month Speaker, Widener University March 2015 “The White Heroine and the Black Rebel: Slavery, Race, and Gender in American Popular Culture” Swarthmore Senior Citizens Association Intergenerational Program, Swarthmore, PA “The Long Struggle: Civil Rights Activism before Martin Luther King, Jr.”

Jan 2015

Crozer Public Library, Chester, PA, Discussion Leader, The Abolitionists (documentary) July 2014 Crozer Public Library, Chester, PA, Discussion Leader, Freedom Riders (documentary) March 2014 Humanities Colloquium, Widener University March 2012 “Crossing the Line: Slave Catchers and Kidnapping in 1850s Maryland and Pennsylvania” Humanities Colloquium, Widener University “Representations of African Americans in Children’s Fiction, 1822-1831”

Oct 2003

Awards Faculty Development Grant, Widener University – Funding for Research Provost Grant, Widener University – African American New Orleans Travel Course Sabbatical Award, Widener University Faculty Development Options Award, Widener University – Funding for Research Faculty Development Grant, Widener University – Course Release for Research Provost Grant, Widener University – Funding for Research Faculty Development Grant, Widener University – Funding for Research Assistants Faculty Development Grant, Widener University – Course Release for Research “Drawn to Art” Fellow, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts

2011-2012 2011 2009 2009-2010 2008-2009 2007-2008 2005-2006 2004 2000

Professional Development Anti-Slavery and Politics, The Graduate Center, CUNY (attended conference)

Oct 2014

NEH Summer Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Seminar Participant (selective) “Slaves, Soldiers, Rebels: Currents of Resistance in the Tropical Atlantic”

July 2009

Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the Web of Culture, Hartford, CT (attended conference)

June 2007

Gilder-Lehrman/Council of Indep. Colleges, Seminar Participant, Columbia University June 2003 “New Interpretations of the Political History of the Early Republic,” led by Joyce Appleby

Other Professional Activities    

Project Opus Films, Interviewed on film as History expert, 2014 Delaware County Times, Interviewed for article on John F. Kennedy and Civil Rights, 2013 Reader/reviewer for African American Review, 2008, 2011 Academic Advisory Board, Taking Sides: Clashing Views in U.S. History, vol. 1 (McGraw-Hill), 2008

Academic Service at Widener University Associate Professor: University Level Faculty Council Faculty Affairs, A&S Representative (resigned to be A&S Vice-Chair) Bridge Week Session Organizer/Panel Moderator: “The Scholarship of Diversity” Digital Communications Advisory Committee Bridge Week Session Organizer/Presenter: “Experiences, Issues, and Encounters in African and African American Studies” Exploratory Studies advisor Widener Speakers Series Study Guide, Ron Chernow visit Geography of Academic Success Orientation Leader Admissions and Financial Aid Committee, A&S Representative Faculty Marshal

Fall 2014 2014 2013-2014 2012 2012 2011 2011 2010-2012 2010, 2013

Arts & Sciences Level Vice-Chair, College of Arts & Sciences New Faculty Mentor A&S Faculty Affairs Committee Member (by virtue of Vice-Chair Position) Executive Committee, A&S (by virtue of Vice-Chair Position) A&S Academic Assessment/GenEd Committee member (by virtue of Vice-Chair Position) Dean of Arts and Sciences Search Committee Member Accepted Students’ Day participant Promotion, Tenure, and Academic Freedom, Humanities Representative African and African American Studies Program Coordinator Diversity Committee Web Content Manager Women’s Studies Committee (ad hoc member)

2014-2015 2014-2015 2014-2015 2014-2015 2014-2015 2013-2014 2011, 2012 2010 2009-present 2007-present 2006-2011 2002-present

Humanities Level Search Committee Chair, History Department, Western European History position Recruitment and Retention Committee Recruitment and Retention Committee, Chair History Department Chair Search Committee, Modern Languages, Chinese Language and Literature position Search Committee, Chair, History Department, East Asian History position Curriculum and Planning Committee Ad Hoc Committee on Recruitment and Retention Ad Hoc Committee on Humanities By-Laws Michael Clark Prize in American Life and Culture Selection Committee Phi Alpha Theta advisor

2013-2014 2012-present 2012-2014 2011-2014 2011-2012 2011-2012 2011-2014 2011-2012 2009-2011 2003-present 2003-2011

Other University Service Panel Participant: Common Reading, The Beautiful Struggle – Black Consciousness Coordinated and led New Orleans trip with students (AfAms in New Orleans course) Academic Citizenship and Leadership Training participant Guest Speaker, “Love During Slavery,” Women on the Verge, Student Organization “The Poor People’s Campaign,” NAACP (provided historical context to video) Faculty Advisor, Student Chapter of NAACP Guest Speaker, Humanities and Medicine Session on Yellow Fever in Philadelphia Diversity Forum speaker: “Issues of Resistance, Victimization, and Agency in the Teaching of African and African American Studies” Panel Participant: “Making Sense of the Haitian Earthquake”

2013 2011 2011 2011 2011 2010-2012 2010 2010 2010

Community Service Crozer Public Library, Chester, PA, Discussion Leader, The Abolitionists (documentary) Crozer Public Library, Chester, PA, Discussion Leader, Freedom Riders (documentary) Historical Consultant, Delaware County Veterans Memorial

2014 2014 2011-12

Assistant Professor: University Level Budget and Planning Committee, Alternate Web Governance Committee Cultural Planning Committee Career Advising and Planning Services Advisory Board Faculty Marshall Honors Council Academic advisor for Exploratory Studies Orientation discussion leader

2007-2008 2006-2007 2006-2007 2004-2005 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 2003-2011 2003-present 2003

Faculty Development Academic Citizenship and Leadership Training

2011

Arts & Sciences Level Ad Hoc Committee on Diversity Accepted Students’ Day participant Academic Council Web Content Manager Panelist, Arts and Sciences Faculty, Accepted Students’ Day Promotion, Tenure, and Academic Freedom Committee Pew Lecture Series Committee Women’s History Month Planning Committee (Women’s Studies subcommittee) Women’s Studies Committee (ad hoc member)

2007-present 2007, 2008 2006-2008 2006-2011 2005 2004 2003-2005 2003-2008 2002-present

Humanities Level Ad Hoc Committee on Humanities By-Laws Promotion, Tenure, and Academic Freedom Michael Clark Prize in American Life and Culture Selection Committee Phi Alpha Theta advisor Humanities Scholarship Committee

2009 2007-2008 2003-present 2003-2011 2003

Other University Service Going Paperless Workshop, Co-Presenter Martin Luther King Jr. Day Community Workshop Leader “Remembering the Integration of Central High 50 Years Later”

2008 2007

Guest Speaker, Comp Over Lunch: “Building Skills Through Staged Assignments” Guest Speaker, Brownbag Book Club: Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea

2004 2004