Curriculum Vitae
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Kate Sampsell-Willmann, J.D., Ph.D.
Orta Lojmanlar 104/8
Bilkent University
Ankara 06800 Turkey
(mobile) +90.(0)534.633.1247
(home) +90.312.290.3289
(email) kswillmann@mac.com
Summary
Positions Sought: Permanent assistant or associate professor (lecturer or
senior lecturer) of American history or American studies; curator, editor, or
senior writer involved with art in the 20th century or complete history of
photography (transnational). Any location worldwide.
Book Title: Lewis Hine as Social Critic. Foreword by Alan Trachtenberg.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009.
Academic Degrees:
Ph.D. with Distinction, U.S. History, Georgetown University, May 2002
J.D., University of Baltimore School of Law, May 1991
B.A. Summa Cum Laude, U.S. History, McDaniel College, May 1987
Teaching Specialties:
I identify myself as an intellectual, social, and cultural historian of twentieth
century America but feel comfortable teaching in the full range of American
history, especially in the subfields of intellectual history, immigration history,
art history, history of Atlantic slavery, visual and material culture, the built
environment, Native American history, African American history, history of
the American South, history of violence in America, religion in America, and
American studies. I also teach Medieval and Modern Europe and Nazi
Germany. I have a strong background in teaching writing through content.
Teaching/Research Experience
Visiting Scholar ~ January 2011–present
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Visiting Assistant Professor ~ Aug. 2006–June 2009
Georgetown University, Walsh School of Foreign Service-Qatar
Courses Designed and Taught
HIST 180-70 US History Prehistory to 1865
HIST 181-70 US History from 1865
HIST 184-70 Understanding American Individualism
HIST 189-70 Photography in American History, 1839–1975
HIST 283-70 American Diplomatic History II: 20th Century
HIST 291-70 Depression and War in the US and Europe
HIST 482-70 Social History of American Music
INAF 100-73 Proseminar: Dissent and Dissenters in 20th Cent. US
Visiting Professor, International Affairs ~ Feb. 2008–June 2009
Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
Courses Designed and Taught
INTA 213 History of Photography in the West
Assistant Professor of History ~ Aug. 2005–July 2006
United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, UAE
Courses Designed and Taught:
HSR 210-51/54 Introduction to Culture and Heritage
HSR 230-59 Introduction to Society and Behavior
HSR 260-59/62/63 Introduction to Careers 1 and 2
HIST 4332-01/5 Modern European History
Assistant Professor of American History ~ Aug. 2004–Aug. 2005
Advisor, Administration of Criminal Justice Program
Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
Courses Designed and Taught:
HIS 203-01 Survey of American History to 1877
HIS 204-01 Survey of American History after 1877
HIS 201-01 Violence in American History
HIS 301-01 Topics in American History: Intellectual
HIS 308-01 Topics in American History: Political
HIS 309-01 History of Law Enforcement in America
Visiting Assistant Professor of American History ~ Sept. 2002–July 2004
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Courses Designed and Taught:
AMER 293 U.S. History to 1865
AMER 301-01 American Social Texts Before 1900
AMER 302-01/-02 American Social Texts Since 1900
AMER 393-01/-02 Intellectuals and Public Culture, 1620-1965
AMER 459-01/-02 Race and Ethnicity in American Culture
AMER 432-01 Photography in American History
Adjunct Faculty Member ~ 1994–1999
Community Colleges of Baltimore County
Courses Designed and Taught:
Core Studies: Shaping of the Modern World, 1994–1999
English/Writing Center, 1996-1999
Constitutional Law, 1996-1998
Introduction to Sociology, 1998
Introduction to Journalism, 1997
American History to 1865, 1997-1998
Faculty Advisor to Student Newspaper ~ 1995–1998
Dundalk Community College
Other Professional Experience
Copy Editor ~ 1999–present
Johns Hopkins University Press and Georgetown University, American Quarterly; Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era;
Bilkent University Office of Publications, Rector’s Office, Faculty of Business Administration, and Department of Industrial Engineering (Turkey);
Freelance: Chicago, APA, MLA, AP.
American Quarterly Editorial Fellow ~ 1998–2002
English Department, Georgetown University
Fine Art Photographer ~ 1993–present
Internationally
Attorney: Criminal and Administrative Law ~ 1991–1994
Baltimore, Maryland
Assistant Reference Librarian, Manuscripts Asst. ~ 1986–1988
Maryland Historical Society, Library
Significant Academic Administrative Experience
Accreditation Consultant ~ August 2010-present
Faculty of Business Administration, Faculty of Industrial Engineering
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Member: Faculty Senate ~ June 2008–June 2009
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Georgetown University SFSQ ~ Aug. 2006–June 2009
Committee Memberships:
Academic Merit Review
Academic Advisory Board to the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Faculty Governance and Grievance
Faculty Research Grant Awards
Culture and Politics Major Advisory Board
American Studies Certificate Program
Chair: American Arts Festival, Qatar ~ 2006–2007
Georgetown University, SFS-Q
Organized the chaired committee to plan and execute a 3-week, international
exhibition of American art.
Curated major photographic exhibition titled “The Emerging American City,
1880–1950.”
Member: Academic Standards Evaluation Committee ~ 2005–2006
UAE University, Al Ain, UAE
Acting Chair, Department of American Culture and Literature ~ 2003–2004
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Member, Faculty Executive Board ~ 2003–2004
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Chair, Search Committee, Dept. of Amer. Culture and Literature ~ 2003
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Publications and Works in Progress
Original Scholarship for the World Wide Web
Forum Moderator: “Using Lewis Hine's Child Labor Photographs” and “A Guide to Analyzing Lewis Hine's Child Labor Photographs,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (http://www.jgape.org/forum/3). Ongoing.
Refereed Publications and Works in Progress for Refereed Publication
Books:
Lewis Hine as Social Critic (book)
Foreword by Alan Trachtenberg. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2009.
Lewis Hine’s Modernism (book)
Contract under negotiation with the Univ. of Mississippi Press. Expected completion date: 2013.
Papers:
“Waiting for Hasan: Photography, Service Learning, and the Utility of American Studies” in Eileen Lundy and Ed Lundy, eds., The American Question: American Studies in the Middle East, 1998–2008. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, forthcoming.
Lewis Hine, Ellis Island, and Pragmatism: Photographs as Lived Experience
Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 7.2 (Apr. 2008).
“Three Generations of Grass”: Photography, Liberalism, and the American Yeoman”
History of Photography [St. Andrews, Scotland] (winter 2003).
“Making Human Junk”: American Political Photomontage in the 1910s
For submission to Oxford Art Journal or American Quarterly
“Work Song”: Unfree Labor and the Second Bill of Rights
Under revision for the Journal of Southern History
“Democracy is Radical”: Internationalism, Spain, and Dissent Within the American Left
In revision for Comparative American Studies
The Long Arm of the Job: American Memory and Work
The premise of the project is to mine the Farm Security Administration photograph archive at the Library of Congress for relatively unknown images and then construct a 10,000-word essay about the image selection. I am using the archive to help redefine the history of “work” in the Great Depression as a more fundamental human institution than it has been considered in traditional labor history.
Book Chapters and Selected Encyclopedia Entries
“The United States as Regulatory State: 1880–1940”: 2008
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (Oxford Univ. Press)
“Cloning: The Future Is Burdened By Its Past”: 2003
In History Behind the Headlines: Origins of Conflicts Worldwide, ed. Sonia Benson (vol. 6). Detroit: Gale Group, 2003, 76–85.
Selected Review Essays
“Broken Land: The Dust Bowl as Moral Failure”
American Quarterly 55 (Dec. 2003).
Book review essay of Dust Bowl USA: Depression America and the Ecological Imagination, 1929-1941. By Brad D. Lookingbill. Ohio University Press, 2001.
“The Testifying Eye: Ben Shahn in New York”
American Quarterly 53 (Mar. 2001).
**Reviews and review essays also published (or forthcoming) in: American Historical Review, Journal of Agricultural History, Michigan Historical Review, History of Photography, and Reviews in American History.
Selected Conference Presentations and Guest Appearances
“‘Making Human Junk’: Lewis Hine’s Photomontage”
Fifth Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics: “Art, Emotion, and Value”
Cartagena, Spain, Jul. 2011, Abstract submitted.
“Lewis Hine and the Birth of Social Documentary Photography: The Pittsburgh Survey”
Conference paper: British Association of American Studies
University of Nottingham, England, Apr. 2009
“Secular Sinners: Lewis Hine and Photographing the Social Gospel”
Conference paper: Organization of American Historians
Washington, D.C., Apr. 2006
“‘Still Living in the Old Slave-Days’: Investigation, Persuasion, and Chain Gangs in the Depression-Era South”
Conference paper: Organization of American Historians
Boston, Mar. 2004
“Photography in America: Picturing a Republic”
Guest Lecturer: Turkish American Association
Ankara, Turkey, Mar. 2003
“Lewis W. Hine and the Social Documentary Aesthetic”
Guest Lecturer: Department of Art History and Archaeology
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, Dec. 2002
“Lewis Hine and ‘The Moral Equivalent of War’: Photography as Toil”
Conference paper: American Studies Association
Houston, Texas, Nov. 2002
“‘Three Generations of Grass’: Photography, Liberalism, and the American Yeoman”
Conference paper: Organization of American Historians
Washington, D.C., Apr. 2002
“‘Democracy is Radical’: Internationalism, Spain, and the Intellectual Evolution of the American Left”
Conference paper: Soc. of Historians of American Foreign Relations
American University, Washington, D.C., Jun. 2001
“Who’s Afraid of Henry R. Luce?: Photography and The Cultural Front” Conference paper: Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, First Prize
University of Maryland Baltimore County, Apr. 2000
Education
Georgetown University: Distinguished Ph.D., U.S. History, May 2002
Dissertation Title: “‘To Grab a Hunk of Lightning’: An Intellectual History of Depression-Era American Photography”
Writing Center Fellow (Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum)
American Quarterly Fellow
Univ. of Baltimore Law School: Juris Doctor 1991
National Moot Court Team
American Jurisprudence Prize for Academic Excellence in Commercial Transactions
McDaniel College: B.A. History 1987, Summa Cum Laude
Phi Beta Kappa
U.S. History Award (highest GPA in field)
Professional Affiliations
Member: Organization of American Historians
Member: Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (Great Britain)
Member: British Association for American Studies (Great Britain)
Admitted to practice: Maryland Court of Appeals 1992
Admitted to practice: U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland 1992
Selected Grants, Awards, and Honors Societies
Recipient: Undergrad. Research Experience Prog. Grant (Qatar Foundation) 2007
Recipient: Competitive Faculty Research Grant, AY: 2006–2007, 2007–2008, 2008–2009
Recipient: Distinguished Ph.D. Georgetown University, 2002
Recipient: Writing Center Fellowship, Georgetown University, 2001
Recipient: AQ Fellowship, American Studies Association and History Department, Georgetown University 1998
Member: National Moot Court Team 1991
Recipient: American Jurisprudence Award for Academic Excellence in Commercial Transactions (Highest Grade in Class) 1990-1991
Member: Phi Beta Kappa 1987
Recipient: U.S. History Award (Highest GPA in Major) 1987
Member: Pi Gamma Mu (Social Sciences) 1986
Member: Phi Alpha Theta (History) 1986
Languages
English (Native)
French (Beginner-Intermediate, literate)
German (Beginner-Intermediate, semi-literate)
Turkish (Beginner-Intermediate)
Spanish (Literate)
Medieval Latin (Semi-literate)
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