My Current Position is Visiting Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of History, where I began teaching in the spring of 2001. My primary responsibilities are associated with the Public History Program, where I am available for special presentations and projects and for providing assistance to students on public policy issues and background on federal cultural institutions.

Areas Of Interest. My areas of expertise include archives and information policy, historic preservation, women's history, and cultural institutions. In the spring 2001 I taught a course on "Public Policy, Research, and Information," and I will be teaching a course in the spring of 2002 titled "Cultural Institutions, Memory, and the American Experience." I am currently involved in Beaufort County with a project to preserve and interpret sites associated with Reconstruction.

Previous Employment Experience. For twenty years (1980 - 2000), I served as Director of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History (NCC), which is the central advocacy office in Washington for the historical and archival professions. This provided me with valuable experience in influencing policies and understanding trends that affect the research, teaching, and public presentation of history. In addition to writing extensively on legislative issues, I testified frequently before congressional committees on federal information policy, access to federal records of historic value, preservation and interpretation of culture resources, and support of the National Archives and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Degrees: PhD, University of Maryland, American History, 1979; MA, University of Maryland, History, 1974; BA, Mary Baldwin College, History, 1963

Honors and Awards: Received from the Third National Conference on Women and Historic Preservation an Award for outstanding contribution to public policy and practice, 2000; Outstanding Service Award from the Organization of American Historians, 2000; Troyer Steele Anderson Prize from the American Historical Association, 2000; Franklin D. Roosevelt Award from the Society for History in the Federal Government, May, 1999; Robert Kelley Memorial Award from the National Council on Public History, 1997.

My Work As A Historian. Member of the Executive Board of the Organization of American Historians, 2001 to present; Member of the Department of Energy's Openness Panel, 1993 to present; Advisor to the National Park Service's Women's Trail Initiative 1999 to present; Secretary, Sea Islands Reconstruction Heritage Area Partnership (Beaufort County, SC) 2001 to present; Project Director, Women's History Landmark Project, a cooperative project of the National Park Service, the Organization of American Historians, and the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History, 1988-1993; Member of the CIA Historical Review Panel, 1995 to 1998; Member of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission's Blue Ribbon Committee that made recommendations about its historic sites and museums, 1997.

Publications: From January, 1995 to June, 2000 I wrote "NCC Washington Update," published weekly by H-Net on the Internet; wrote regular columns on federal policies affecting historians for the newsletters of the American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, National Council on Public History, Society for History in the Federal Government, Society of American Archivists, and American Association for State and Local History; edited and wrote the first chapter for Reclaiming The Past: Landmarks of Women's History, Indiana University Press, 1992; Coordinated the preparation of two National Park Service publications - "History In the National Park Service: Themes and Concepts" and "Exploring A Common Past: Interpreting Women's History in the National Park Service;" Developing A Premier National Institution: A Report From the User Community to the National Archives, NCC, 1989; A Claim to New Roles, Scarecrow Press, 1985; See vita for a full list of articles