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CURRICULUM VITAE
Natalie Marie Fousekis
ADDRESS:
Department of History
Telephone: (657) 278-2763
ACADEMIC TRAINING
Ph.D.
M.A.
B.A. With Honors.
ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS:
Assistant Professor,
Associate Director, Center for Oral and Public History,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Adjunct Faculty,
DISSERTATION:
Fighting for Our Children: Women’s Activism and the
PUBLICATIONS:
Articles:
“Experiencing History: A Journey from Oral History to Performance,” in Della Pollock ed.,
Remembering: Oral History Performance, Palgrave Macmillan (2005)
"Frank Church, the Senate, and the Emergence of Dissent on the Vietnam War," co-authored with
David F. Schmitz, Pacific Historical Review (November 1994).
Entry:
“Tarea Hall Pittman” in Gordon Bakken, ed., Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West, Sage Publications (forthcoming, 2006).
“Lois Meek Stolz” in Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume 5, 1976-2000,
Harvard University Press (2004).
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
American Council of Learned Societies/Oscar Handlin Fellow, 2005-2006.
Cal State Fullerton, State Special Fund for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity,
Summer Stipend, 2003.
Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center, Visiting Scholars Grant, 2002.
Archie K. Davis Fellow, Southern Oral History Program, 1998-99.
UNC-CH, History Department Large Mowry Graduate Research Award, 1998.
UNC-CH, History Department Small Mowry Graduate Research Award, 1997.
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS:
“We Must Have Your Help”: Mothers Demands for Child Care in Cold War California, Organization of
American Historians, April 2006
“Experiencing History, Grappling with Memory Loss,” Oral History Association, Portland, October 2004.
“‘We Are Conscientious Mothers’: Women’s Postwar Activism for Child Care in California, 1946-57,”
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, University of Connecticut, June 2002.
“Wearing Down the Legislature With ‘Persistence and Sincerity’: Women’s Activism for Child Care in Postwar California,” Southern Association for Women Historians, Richmond, June 2000.
“Private Matters Made Public: Women’s Struggles for Child Care in California, 1945-1951, American
Historical Association, Chicago, January 2000.
"Interviewing Women Activists," Southern Association for Women Historians, College of Charleston,
June, 1997.
“‘I Have No Alternative if the Center Closes but to Stop Eating': The Debate Over State-Funded Day Care in California, 1940-1957,” National Conference on Policy History, Bowling Green State University,
June 1997.
"Performing Women's Leadership: The Process and Politics of Oral History," Oral History Association,
Philadelphia, October 1996.
"Who Should Care for North Carolina's Children? Working Mothers and the Debate Over Day Care, 1961-1971," Marching Through Time: North Carolina Women from Suffrage to Civil Rights, Raleigh,
November 1995.
INVITED LECTURES:
“’We Are Conscientious Mothers’: Women’s Postwar Activism for Child Care in California,” Huntington Women’s Studies Seminar, January 29, 2005.
Keynote Speaker, Whitman College History Department, History Honors Conference, April 23, 2004.
“Postwar U.S. Women’s History,” Women’s History: the State of the Field, Duke Women’s History
Month, Duke University, March 26, 2001.
SERVICE:
Chair, Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, Organization of American Historians, May 2005- May 2006
Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, Organization of American Historians, 2003-2007.
Program Committee, Oral History Association, Annual Meeting, 2004.
Steering Committee, Women’s Studies Seminar, Huntington Library, 2003-present.
Program Council, Women’s Studies Program, California State University Fullerton, 2003-present.
Faculty Development Center Board, California State University, Fullerton, 2003-2005.
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Lead Scholar, Teaching American History Grant, Anaheim Union High School District, 2004-2007.
Project Coordinator, Women's Leadership and Grassroots Activism Project, Southern Oral History
Program, UNC-CH, Fall 1996.
Research Assistant, World War II and Coastal North Carolina Project, Southern Oral History Program,
UNC-CH, Fall 1995.
Interviewer, Southern Oral History Program, UNC-CH, 1994-1999.
Graduate Assistant, University Archives, Southern Historical Collection, UNC-CH, Summer 1993.
Legislative Correspondent, The Honorable Barbara Boxer, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington,
D.C., January-July 1992.
Conservation Associate, Grand Canyon Trust,
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Organization of American Historians
American Historical Association
Oral History Association
Western Association of Women Historians
Coordinating Council for Women in History
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