SHEILA NOWINSKI, Ph.D.

1247 E. Siena Heights Drive

Adrian, MI 49221
tel: (517) 264-7633
fax: (517) 264-7710
snowinsk@sienaheights.edu


EDUCATION
2012 Ph.D. History, University of Notre Dame
2008 M.A. History, University of Notre Dame
2003 D.E.C. Philosophy, Universit catholique de Louvain
2002 B.A. Boston College

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2012 Assistant Professor of History, Siena Heights University

PUBLICATIONS
2013 French Catholic Activism in Algeria between Colonization and Development,
193065, French History (2013) 27 (3): 371-393.

2008 Creating Rouaults Legacy: 1945-1965. Commander in the Lgion dhonneur, Artist
of Catholic Modernity in Mystic Masque: Semblance and Reality in Georges
Rouault, 1871-1958. Stephen Schloesser, ed. Chestnut Hill, MA: McMullen Museum
of Art, Boston College, 2008.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2013 Fellow, Holocaust Education Foundation Summer Institute
2011 Presidential Graduate Fellowship, American Catholic Historical Association.
2008 Bourse Marandon, Socit des professeurs franais et francophones de l'Amrique
2008 Zahm Dissertation Research Award, Graduate School, University of Notre Dame
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2007 Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship
2007 Kellogg Institute Seed Money Grant, University of Notre Dame
2007 Nanovic Institute Graduate Research and Travel Grant, University of Notre Dame
2005 Eli Lilly Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Notre Dame
2002 Fulbright Scholar, Belgium

PRESENTATIONS
2014 The Catholic Priest and the Redemption of Postwar France: Images of Clerical
Masculinity, 1945-1950. American Catholic Historical Association Winter Meeting,
Washington, D.C.
2011 The Catholic Family in Postwar Rural France: L'Exposition de la maison rurale,
194750. American Historical Association Annual Meeting/American Catholic
Historical Association Winter Meeting, Boston, MA.
2009 Catholic and Rural Internationalism at the Jeunesse agricole catholique, 1935-
1965. Western Society for French History Annual Conference, Boulder, CO.
2008 Postwar French Catholic Nationalism, 1944-1946. American Catholic Historical
Association Spring Meeting, St. Marys College, Notre Dame, IN.
2008 French Catholics and the National Community: The Semaines sociales de France
in 1946. 16th International Conference of the Council for European Studies,
Chicago, IL.
2007 French Catholic Political Culture between Vichy and the Fourth Republic: The
Journalism of Franois Mauriac, 1944-1946, Conference for the Society for the
Study of French History, St. Andrews University, UK.

CAMPUS TALKS
2014 Approaches to African History, Siena Heights Black History Month Brown Bag
Series
2013 The Haitian Revolution, Siena Heights Black History Month presentation

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TEACHING
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Siena Heights University
World Civilizations before 1500 (Spring 2013, Spring 2014)
World Civilizations since 1500 (Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014)
Turning Points in History (Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Fall 2014)
War in History: French Revolution & Napoleon (Spring 2013)
Historical Cases: Nationalism in Modern Europe (Fall 2012, Fall 2013)
Historical Cases: Imperialism (Spring 2014)
Middle East History (Spring 2013, Fall 2014)
Biography as History: George Orwell (Fall 2013)
Special Topics: Youth in Europe since 1945 (Fall 2012)
Liberal Arts Core: Diversity & Community (Spring 2014, Fall 2014)

Instructor, Department of History, University of Notre Dame
Youth in Europe since 1945 (Summer 2009)

Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Notre Dame
Modern Middle East (Spring 2008)
African History to 1800 (Spring 2007)
Modern France (Fall 2006)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Siena Heights University
Academic Standards Committee, 2013-present
Ethnic and Gender Studies Minor Steering Committee, 2013-present
Search Committee: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Spring 2014
Search Committee: Library Director, Fall 2013
Common Dialogue Day Committee, 2013
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Liberal Arts Core Curriculum Sub-Committee, Spring 2013
Black History Month Committee, Spring 2013
Womens History Month Committee, Spring 2014

Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame
Graduate Assistant, Africa Working Group, 2007-2008, 2009-2010

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
2014 Online Teacher Training, Siena Heights University
2010 Advanced Teaching Scholar, Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning, University
of Notre Dame
2009 Teaching Film across the Humanities Seminar, University of Notre Dame
2008 International Summer School on Religion, Culture, and Society in Europe.
KADOC: Documentation and Research Center for Religion, Culture and Society,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2009 Western Society for French History
2008 American Catholic Historical Association
2008 American Historical Association