Emily Westkaemper

Education

Ph.D., Rutgers University

Fields and specialties

U.S. history, women’s and gender history, cultural history

Teaching areas

U.S. history; women’s history; historical research methods; women’s, gender, and sexuality studies

Research interests

Gender and consumer culture, working women’s activism, popular memory, twentieth-century feminisms, history of advertising

Selected publications

Selling Women's History: Packaging Feminism in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture (New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, 2017).

“Popular Cultures,” in A Companion to American Women’s History, 2^nd ed., Nancy A. Hewitt and Anne M. Valk, eds. (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2021), 223–39.

Editorial Assistant, The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, volume IV: When Clowns Make Laws for Queens, 1880 to 1887, ed. Ann D. Gordon (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006).

“Virginia Constitution 1971: Curriculum for Undergraduate Courses,” with Derrick Lanois, 2021.

Selected presentations

“The Career Woman as Consumer: Charm Magazine in the 1950s,” Business History Conference, April 7, 2018.

‘‘‘Not for a Little Cold Cream Editor to Write’: Editorial Boundaries between the Serious and the Trivial in Mademoiselle, 1945–1963,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, May 24, 2014.

“Gallant American Women on the Airwaves: Telling Women’s Histories in the 1930s,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 3, 2013.

“Adwomen and Feminism: Networking and Mentorship in Advertising Women’s Clubs, 1939–1970,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 6, 2012.

Selected fellowships and grants

Alvin Achenbaum Travel Grant, Duke University Special Collections, John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History, 2019

Smith College Travel-to-Collections Grant, 2006 and 2018

JMU Provost’s Faculty Diversity Curriculum Development Grant for “Women at Work in U.S. History” course, 2018

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar participant, “Gender, the State, and the 1977 International Women’s Year Conference,” Houston, TX, 2017

Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship, National Museum of American History, 2008

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 2007–2008

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard Schlesinger Library Dissertation Grant, 2006–2007

University of Wyoming American Heritage Center Travel Grant, 2006

Hagley Museum and Library Grant-in-Aid, 2006

Selected service activities

Personnel Advisory Committee, History Department, 2019–2022

JMU Faculty Senate (Committee on Academic Policies Chair, 2018–2019)

Cohen Center for the Humanities Advisory Board, 2017–2019

Lifelong Learning Institute instructor, 2017