Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D. History and Women’s Studies (joint program), University of Michigan, 2020
M.A. Cultural Heritage Studies, University College London, 2011
B.A. History, Macalester College, 2009


Professional Appointments

Assistant Professor, joint appointment in History and Women’s and Gender Studies, The University of the South (familiarly known as Sewanee), 2020-present


Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Brookfield, Molly. “From American Girls into American Women: A Discussion of American Girl Doll Nostalgia.” Girlhood Studies 5, no. 1 (Summer 2012): 57-75.

Book Chapters

Brookfield, Molly. “From American Girls into American Women: A Discussion of American Girl Doll Nostalgia.” In Deconstructing Dolls: Girlhoods and the Meanings of Play, edited by Miriam Forman-Brunell, 55-73. New York: Berghahn Books, 2021.

Book Reviews

Brookfield, Molly M. “Beyond Urban Reform: Women’s Activism in the City before and after Suffrage” (review essay). Journal of Urban History 48, no. 6 (November 1, 2022): 1431–38.

—. Review of The Wages of History: Emotional Labor on Public History’s Front Lines by Amy M. Tyson. Public Archaeology 14, no. 1 (February 2015): 75-77.


Awards

2020ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Michigan
2020Rackham Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of Michigan
2016Dorothy McGuigan Prize for Best Graduate Essay on Women, University of Michigan

Grants and Fellowships

2022Summer Writing Stipend, Associated Colleges of the South
2021Faculty Summer Research Grant, The University of the South
2020Samuel and Marion Merrill Travel Grant, Organization of American Historians (awarded, not used – OAH canceled due to COVID-19)
2019-20Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan
2019Community of Scholars Fellowship, Institute for Research on Women & Gender and Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan
2018Margaret Storrs Grierson Fellowship, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College
2018Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowship, Newberry Library in Chicago
2018Mary Lily Research Grant, Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, Duke University
2017-18Rackham Humanities Research Dissertation Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan
2017-18Research/Study/Travel Grant, History Department, University of Michigan
2016Rackham Doctoral Pre-Candidate Research Grant, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan
2015Mellon Public Humanities Fellowship, University of Michigan
2014-16J. Frederick Hoffman Award, History Department, University of Michigan
2010Institute of Archaeology Masters Award, University College London

Conference Participation

Panels Organized

2023“New Scholarship in Histories of Sexual Harassment and Violence,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities, June 28-July 2
2022Making and Policing Masculinity in Public Space,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, March 31-April 3
2020“Historicizing Sexual Harassment in the Age of #MeToo: Emerging Scholarship and Methodological Questions,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities, May 28-31 (canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic)
2020Women and Public Space in the Urban United States,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, April 2-5
(Endorsed by Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000 journal and digital archive)

Papers Presented

2023Roundtable panelist, “The Future of History at Liberal Arts Colleges, Part 2: Creating an Inclusive Classroom,” American Historical Association, January 5-8
2021“‘Girl-Watching’ as Street Harassment in Mid-Twentieth-Century California,” Western History Association Annual Conference, October 27-30
2021“‘I Was Obliged to Walk All the Way Home’: Sexual Harassment and Women’s Mobility in the Urban United States, 1860-1880,” Urban History Association Conference, October 21-24 (canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic)
2020Roundtable panelist, “Whither the Spinster? Sexuality, Labor, and Race in Defining and Locating Women Alone,” Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History affiliate session, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 3-6
2019“The Stranger in the Street: Street Harassment in Feminist Anti-Rape Activism, 1968-1980,” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, November 14-17
2019“Watching the Girls Go By,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, April 4-6
2017Goo-Goo Eyes Not Permitted: Discourses of Street Harassment and Unwanted Looking in 20th-Century United States,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities, June 1-4
2017“Street Harassment as Surveillance: From Mashers to YouTube,” University of Michigan Graduate Student Conference in United States History, May 5-6
2016“Furtive Leers: Girl Watching as Pastime, Sport, and Site of Gendered Power in Cold War America,” Midwest Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference, October 6-9
2016“Bold Glances: Etiquette and Harassment in the Twentieth-Century American Street,” University of Illinois Women’s and Gender History Symposium, March 11-12
2015“Ogling the Girls: Street Harassment and Unwanted Looking in Detroit, 1910-1946,” Upstate New York Women’s History Organization Conference, September 19

virtual conference due to COVID-19 pandemic

Campus Talks

2021“From the Streets to the Sheets” event on the history of rape culture, Bairnwick Women’s Center, The University of the South, April 9
2019“Wolves, Sailors, and the Normalization of Street Harassment, 1930-1950,” Community of Scholars Symposium, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, October 25

Teaching

The University of the South

History

Before #MeToo: Sex, Power, and Work in the Modern U.S.
History of U.S. Popular Culture
Sex and the City
U.S. History II, since 1865
Women in U.S. History, 1870 to the Present

Women’s and Gender Studies

Classic and Contemporary Feminist Thought
Feminist Theory, Method, Praxis
Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies

Certifications and Awards

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of Michigan, 2020
Graduate Teacher Certificate, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan, 2019

Teaching Interests

United States post-1865
U.S. Women’s and Gender History
Cultural History
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies


Selected Service

  • President, Phi Beta Kappa, Beta of Tennessee chapter, The University of the South, 2022-present
  • Member, Committee on Committees, The University of the South, 2022-present
  • Member, Coordinated Community Response Team for Campus Sexual Assault Prevention, The University of the South, 2021-present
  • Organizer, Anita S. Goodstein Lectureship in Women’s History, History Department, The University of the South, 2021-present
  • Peer reviewer, Museums and Social Issues, 2022
  • Member, VAP faculty search committee, History department, The University of the South, 2021
  • Bargaining Team Coordinator, Graduate Employees’ Organization, AFT-MI Local 3550, 2019-2020
  • Vice President, Graduate Employees’ Organization, AFT-MI Local 3550, 2017-2019
  • Peer reviewer, Public Archaeology, 2019
  • Workshop facilitator, Graduate Student Instructor Orientation, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan, 2019
  • Member, faculty search committee, Departments of History and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan, 2018-19
  • Member, graduate admissions committee, Department of Women’s Studies, University of Michigan, 2017-18
  • Mentor to incoming graduate students, Department of Women’s Studies, University of Michigan, 2017-18
  • Co-Coordinator, Historical Approaches to Gender and Sexuality, Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop, University of Michigan, 2015-16

Professional Affiliations

American Historical Association
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
Organization of American Historians
Urban History Association