Kathleen A. Brown, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
St. Edward's University
3001 South Congress Ave
Austin, TX 78704

How to contact me:
Office: Holy Cross Hall 207
Phone: (512) 416-5876
e-mail: kathyb@stedwards.edu

B.A., M.A. San Francisco State University
Ph.D., University of Washington

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Fall 2008 Courses

The Progressive Era, HIST 3332.01

Other Classes Taught:

  • US Since 1878
  • Rise of Modern America
  • Social History of Recent America
  • Women in American Society
  • World War II Through Film
  • Cold War Through Film
  • Historical Investigations

 

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Teaching Showcase:

Research Interests:

  • American Social History
  • Women's History
  • Labor History
  • Women on the American Left
  • Movements for Social Reform

Current Research Projects:

Currently I am working on popular cultural responses to the military in World War II and the early Cold War.

"Ella Reeve Bloor and the Politics of the Personal in the American Communist Party." I am working on a biography of "Mother" Bloor which emphasizes the history of the American left and women in politics. The manuscript focuses both on the use of friendship and kinship networks in political organizing and on the interplay of gender, generation, and ethnicity within the American left. It explores how Bloor as a radical woman maintained, created, and transmitted social, family, and cultural values in the political culture of the left.

Publications:

  • "The Politics of Reconciliation in John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy: Adapting James Warner Bellah's Short Stories," co-authored with Brett E. Westbrook, in Westerns: Movies From Hollywood and Paperback Westerns, edited by Paul Varner (Newcastle Upon Tyne, Great Britain: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007).
  • “’Vestments of Civil Life’ in Caine Mutiny and Attack,” Film and History Vol. 36, No. 2 (2006): 30-37.
  • "Revolutionary Desire: Redefining the Politics of Sexuality among American
    Radicals, 1919-1945,"; co-authored with Elizabeth Faue, in Sexual Borderlands:
    Essays in the History of Sexuality     ed. by Sharon Ullman and Kathleen Kennedy (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2003)
  • "Social Bonds, Sexual Politics, and Political Communities on the U.S. Left, 1920-1950," co-authored with Elizabeth Faue, Left History 7:1 (Spring 2000), 9-45.
  • "The 'Savagely Fathered and Un-Mothered World' of the Communist Party, U.S.A.: Feminism, Maternalism, and 'Mother Bloor'," Feminist Studies 25:3 (Fall 1999), 537-570.
  • "The Culture of Politics and the Politics of Culture," Labor History 39:3 (Summer 1998): 314-320.