Judith P. Zinsser

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Teaching, Insitutional Service and Administrative Experience:University and Secondary School


Miami University, Oxford OH, History Department

Professor, 1993-present
Courses:
  • World History Since 1500 [lecture survey and Honors section]
  • Human Rights: the Case of Indigenous Peoples [senior seminar]
  • Human Rights: the Case of Women [senior seminar and graduate colloquium]
  • Gender and Third World Film; Contemporary Women's World History
  • European Women in the Preindustrial Age
  • France in the Age of the Enlightenment
  • Gender and Reason in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment [graduate colloquium]
  • Theories of World History [graduate colloquium]
Conferences:
  • Co-coordinator for annual meeting, Women Historians of Western Ohio, 2 April 2004
  • Co-coordinator of conference for Miami University and University of Cincinnati on "Metaphysics into Science: Gender and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe," 6-8 April 2000 [speakers from North America, Eastern and Western Europe]
  • Co-coordinator of Ohio World History Association Fall Conference, "Films Around the World and the Teaching of History," 16 October 1999
University Committees:
  • Committee on Faculty Rights and Responsibilities [university-wide election], 2005-present
  • Women’s Studies Steering Committee, 2003-present
  • Honors Program Study in England Committee, 2005- present
  • Graduate Studies Council [university-wide election], 2001-04
  • Graduate Students Achievement Fund Committee, 1999-2000
  • Women's Studies Research Center Advisory Board, 1998-present
  • Selwyn College Committee, 1997-99; Film Studies Committee, 1996-present
  • European Area Studies Committee, 1993-98
Department Committees:
  • Governance Committee, 2005-present [Chair, 2005-06]
  • Advisory Committee, 1999-2000
  • Chair of Speakers' Committee, 1994-95
  • Graduate Studies Committee, 1993-present
  • Search Committee for Chair of History, 1993
  • Search Committees for Ancient History [Chair], Contemporary Europe, Islamic History Position, Colonial/Native American History Position, Russian Intellectual History Position, Early Modern Europe Position 1995-2007
Graduate Advising and Examining:
M.A. Advisor for 17 Students
M.A. Committees for 14 Students in departments of History, English, Political Science, Comparative Religion
Independent Studies with 12 students
Ph.D. Examining and/or Dissertation Committees for:
  • Irela Jusera
  • Griffith Aled Ganobcsik-Williams
  • Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams
  • Emily Detmar [English]
  • Hanna Siatka [Political Science]
  • Anita Burton
  • Sieg Johnson
  • Laura Dunn
  • David Glunt
  • Margaret DePalma
  • Corinna Hörst
  • Jennifer Morris [Chair]
  • Amy Gregg
  • Aaron Miller
  • Sarah Donelson [Chair]
Independent Studies for 12 students
Undergraduate Advising and Supervision:
  • Emily Power, winner of Miami University's Women's Studies Barbara E. Nicholson Essay Prize, 2000
  • Ron Lanton, Stars Scholar, 1999-2000
  • Emily Stimpson, winner of Miami University's Brandon Prize and Women's Studies Barbara E. Nicholson Essay Prize, 1997
  • Kyle Dugan, Summer Research Fellow, 1997
Independent Studies for 5 students

Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ, History Department

  • Adjunct instructor and teaching assistant, 1990-1993
  • Undergraduate seminars and courses on Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
  • Contemporary Europe since 1945
  • The Culture of Consumption

United Nations International School, New York NY, Humanities Department

  • Teacher, 1969-1993
  • Acting Head of Department, 1973-1974
  • Middle School Coordinator, 1970-1976
  • Committee on Evaluation and Recruitment, 1974-1976
  • Courses in World History grades VII-XII
  • Comparative History of the Americas [International Baccalaureate]

The Brearley School, New York NY, History Department

  • Teacher, 1964-68;
  • Courses in English, European and United States History [including Advanced Placement]