Molly Marie Wood

Department of History

P.O. Box 720

Wittenberg University

Springfield, OH 45501

(937) 327-7844

email: mwood@wittenberg.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C., August 1998

M.A. University of Richmond, Richmond, V.A., 1992

B.A. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, V.A., 1988

EXPERIENCE:

Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio. Assistant Professor of History, August 1999 - present.

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. Post-Doctoral Appointment, History Department, 1998-1999; Graduate Instructor, 1996-1998; Graduate Teaching Assistant, 1993-1995

University of Richmond, Richmond, VA., Visiting Instructor, 1995

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/WORKS IN PROGRESS:

“A Diplomat’s Wife in Mexico: Creating Professional, Political and National Identities in the Early Twentieth Century,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies (forthcoming Winter 2005).

“American Women on the Homefront in World War I.” Forthcoming in Perspectives on World War I ed. Timothy Dowling. (NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004)

“Diplomatic Wives: The Politics of Domesticity and “the Social Game” in the U.S. Foreign Service, 1905-1941,” under review at Journal of Women’s History.

“Mapping a National Campaign Strategy: Partisan Women in the Presidential Election of 1916.” In We Have Come to Stay: American Women and Political Parties, 1880-1960, eds. Kristie Miller, Melanie Gustafson and Elizabeth Israels Perry. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS:

American Historical Association Annual Meeting. January 6-9, 2005 (paper has been accepted) “‘Representative of Our Way of Life’: American Foreign Service Wives at Work Overseas.”

Negotiating Identities in Latin American Cultures. University of Calgary, Canada. January 30-31, 2004. “Introducing Mexican Women to the U.S. Public: Travel Writing, Social History and Gender, 1839-1914.”

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C. June 16, 2001. “I Consider I had a Career in the Foreign Service.”

Ohio Academy of History, Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH. April 7, 2001. “Integrating Women into the Historical Mainstream: A Roundtable Discussion.”

Organization of American Historians, Annual Meeting. St. Louis, MO. March 30, 2000. “Unofficially Official: American Foreign Service Wives Between the Wars.”

AWARDS AND GRANTS:

Wittenberg University Faculty Grants, 1999 – 2003.

Charles W. Coolidge Post-Doctoral Appointment, History Dept., University of South Carolina, 1998-99.

American History Fellowship Award, The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1996.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Organization of American Historians

American Historical Association

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations