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JOY M. GIGUERE

Penn State York

1031 Edgecomb Ave

York, PA 17405

(717) 771-8449

jmg66@psu.edu

Education:     

Ph.D., History, University of Maine, 2009

M.A., History/Historical Archaeology, University of Maine, 2005

B.A., Anthropology and Music (minor in French), Bowdoin College, 2003

Teaching Experience:

2020-Present, Associate Professor of History, Penn State York

2014-2020, Assistant Professor of History, Penn State York

2011-2014, Assistant Professor of History, Ivy Tech Community College

2009-2011, History Instructor, Ivy Tech Community College

2009, Visiting Online Instructor, Framingham State College

2008-2009, Adjunct Instructor, Southern Maine Community College

2008, Department Lecturer, University of Maine, Department of History

2004-2007, Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Maine, Department of History

Book:

Characteristically American: Memorial Architecture, National Identity, and the Egyptian Revival (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2014)

Characteristically American

Available through the University of Tennessee Press website:

http://utpress.org/bookdetail-2/?jobno=T01742

And also through Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Characteristically-American-Memorial-Architecture-National/dp/1621900398/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411171638&sr=8-1&keywords=giguere+characteristically+american

Articles:

“Bowing to the God of Progress: Automobiles, Urban Planning, & Greenville, South Carolina’s Confederate Monument,” Material Culture 52, No. 1 (Spring 2020), 26-42.

“Flaunting the Evidence of Treason in the Face of Loyalty: Funerals, Grave Decoration, and the Fashioning of Kentucky’s Civil War Identity,” Ohio Valley History 19, No. 4 (December 2019), 19-44.

“The (Im)Movable Monument: Identity, Space, & The Louisville Confederate Monument,” The Public Historian 41, No. 4 (November 2019), 56-82.

“Localism & Nationalism in the City of the Dead: The Rural Cemetery Movement in the Antebellum South,” The Journal of Southern History 84:4 (November 2018), 845-882.

““Too mean to live, and certainly in no fit condition to die”: Vandalism, Public Misbehavior, and the Rural Cemetery Movement,” Journal of the Early Republic 38:2 (Summer 2018), 293-324.

“Variety there must be”: Eclecticism, Taste, and the Nineteenth-Century Rural Cemetery Landscape, Markers XXXIII: The Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies (2017), 82-104.

“Young and Littlefield’s Folly”: Fundraising, Confederate Memorialization, and the Construction of the Jefferson Davis Monument in Fairview, Kentucky, 1907–1924, Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 115:1 (Winter 2017), 39-73.

“The Americanized Sphinx: Civil War Commemoration, Jacob Bigelow, and the Sphinx at Mount Auburn Cemetery,” The Journal of the Civil War Era (March 2013), 62-84.

“Virtuous Women, Useful Men, & Loving Children: Epitaph Language and the Construction of Gender and Class in Cumberland County, Maine, 1720-1820,” Markers XXIV: The Annual Journal for the Association for Gravestone Studies (2007), 1-23.

Book Reviews, Conference Proceedings, & Professional Service Publications:

Review of Aberration of Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War-Era South by Diane Sommerville. Journal of Arizona History 60, No. 2 (Spring 2019), 221-224.

Review of The Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Cultural History by Peter B. Dedek. The Journal of Southern History 84:3 (Summer 2018), 706-707.

Review of Death and the American South, edited by Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 115:2 (Spring 2017), 295-297.

“Bennett H. Young and the Rhetoric of Reconciliation,” Proceedings of the Third Conference on Veterans in Society (2015).

Review of Mount Hope Cemetery of Bangor, Maine: The Complete History, by Trudy Irene Scee. Maine History 49, No. 1 (January 2015), 113-115.

“The Year’s Work in Cemetery and Gravemarker Studies: An International Bibliography,” Markers XXX-XXXI: The Annual Journal for the Association for Gravestone Studies (combined volume) (2015), 97-117.

“The Year’s Work in Cemetery and Gravemarker Studies: An International Bibliography,” Markers XXIX: The Annual Journal for the Association for Gravestone Studies (2014), 124-148.

Review of Mainers in the Civil War, by Harry Gratwick. Maine History 48, No. 1 (January 2014), 213-214.

“The Year’s Work in Cemetery and Gravemarker Studies: An International Bibliography,” Markers XXVIII: The Annual Journal for the Association for Gravestone Studies (2013), 134-164.

Review of Fifteen Florida Cemeteries: Strange Tales Unearthed, by Lola Haskins. The Florida Historical Quarterly 90, No. 2 (Fall 2011), 241-244.

“The Year’s Work in Cemetery and Gravemarker Studies: An International Bibliography,” Markers XXVII: The Annual Journal for the Association for Gravestone Studies (2010), 155-178.

Academic Presentations & Invited Lectures:

“Movable Monuments: Automobiles, Urban Development, & Confederate Monument Relocation,” International Society for Landscape, Place & Material Culture Annual Conference, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 24-27, 2018

“Rational, Progressive, Intelligent, Sanitary, Economical: Marketing the Community Mausoleum in Progressive America,” The American Historical Association 132nd Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 4-7, 2018

“Removed, Not Gone: The Louisville Confederate Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument and the Politics of Confederate Monument Removals,” The Historical Dialogues, Justice, and Memory Network 7th Annual Conference, Columbia University, December 7-9, 2017

“’Making Treason Respectable’: Louisville’s Cave Hill Cemetery and the Performance of Confederate Identity,” New England Historical Association Spring Conference, Salem State University, Salem, Massachusetts, April 22, 2017

“People seem to go there to enjoy themselves: Public (Mis)behavior & the Rural Cemetery Movement in America,” Robert H. Babcock Lecture, University of Maine, Orono, March 27, 2017

“Conflict in God’s Acre: Louisville’s Cave Hill Cemetery and Kentucky’s Contested Civil War Identity,” International Society for Landscape, Place & Material Culture Annual Conference, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, September 14-17, 2016

“All persons are prohibited from discharging fire-arms in the Cemetery”: Public Behavior in the Rural Cemetery, New England Historical Association, Middlebury College, April 23, 2016

“Bennett H. Young and the Rhetoric of Reconciliation,” 3rd Annual Veterans in Society (ViS) Conference, Roanoke, Virginia, November 12-14, 2015

“From Hammer and Chisel to QR Codes: The Interrelationship Between Technology and How We Memorialize Our Dead,” Keynote Address, Association for Gravestone Studies 37th Annual Conference, Franklin College, Franklin, Indiana, June 17-22, 2014

“Egypt at the Fair: Antiquity and Exoticism at the 1893 Columbian Exposition,” Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio, October 12-14, 2012

“The Rise of the 18th Century Portrait Gravestone: A Study of the Works of Noah Pratt, Jr. and Joseph Sikes in Cumberland County, Maine,” Association for Gravestone Studies 34th Annual Conference, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, June 14-19, 2011

“Characteristically American: Cultural Hegemony, Public Memory and the Monumental Obelisks to the American Revolution,” Social Science History Association 35th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, November 18-21, 2010

“From Transi Tombs to Winged Death’s Heads: The Medieval Origins of New England Memento Mori Culture,” Association for Gravestone Studies 33rd Annual Conference, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, June 22-27, 2010

“The Mummy’s Foot: Mummymania and Nineteenth Century American Culture,” 10th Annual University of Maine/University of New Brunswick Graduate Student Conference, October 17-19, 2008

““The Dead Shall Be Raised”: The Egyptianization of the Rural Cemetery Movement,” Association for Gravestone Studies 31st Annual Conference, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, June 17-22, 2008

““This Our Infant Metropolis of the Dead”: The Application of Ancient Language and Imagery in the ‘Modern’ Nineteenth Century Rural Cemetery Landscape,” New England Historical Association Spring Conference, Northeast University, April 26, 2008

“Making the American Sphinx: Jacob Bigelow, the Egyptian Revival and Civil War Commemoration,” 9th Annual University of Maine/University of New Brunswick Graduate Student Conference, September 28-30, 2007

““It Might Give Fright to the Horses”: Jacob Bigelow, the Egyptian Revival and the Sphinx at Mount Auburn Cemetery,” Association for Gravestone Studies 30th Annual Conference, Rivier College, Nashua, New Hampshire, June 20-24, 2007

“From the Graveyard to the Upper West Side: Habitations of the Undead and the Changing Cemetery Landscape,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association 37th Annual Conference, Boston Marriott, April 4-7, 2007

“The Monster of the Masses: The Rise of Zombie Cinema in the United States,” 8th Annual University of Maine/University of New Brunswick Graduate Student Conference, October 20-22, 2006

“The Site of All Our Fears: Cemetery Imagery in Western Popular Culture,” Association for Gravestone Studies 29th Annual Conference, Delaware Valley Conference, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, June 25-29, 2006

“The Parsons’ Papers: The Archival Records of a Prominent Maine Family,” 7th Annual University of Maine/University of New Brunswick Graduate Student Conference, October 21-23, 2005

“‘Useful, Wise & Just’: Epitaph Language and Gender Construction in Cumberland County, Maine 1720-1820,” Association for Gravestone Studies 28th Annual Conference, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 23-26, 2005

“‘A Pattern of Amiableness’: New England Gravestones & The Construction of Gender From The 17th To The 19th Century,” 38th Annual Conference for Historic and Underwater Archaeology, York, England, January 6, 2005

“An Archaeological Investigation of the Cultural and Natural Formation Processes of the Coastal Shell Middens in Brewer Cove, Orr’s Island, Harpswell, Maine,” Poster Presentation, Bowdoin College, September 18, 2002

Public Lectures, Symposia and Colloquia:

“Monuments to a Lost Mythology: The History and Current Debates concerning Confederate Monuments,” Penn State York Faculty Colloquium Series, November 29, 2017

“A tabernacle for the dead: The rural cemetery in the American South,” Penn State York Faculty Colloquium, October 8, 2015

“Set in Stone: A Brief Intro to Gravestone Style & Symbolism,” Steuben County Genealogical Society, July 15, 2013

“Set in Stone: A Brief Intro to Gravestone Style & Symbolism,” Allen County Genealogical Society, October 10, 2012

“The Monster of the Masses: Zombies in American Culture,” Ivy Tech Community College, September 21, 2012

“Cemetery Style: 19th Century Debates,” Ivy Tech Community College Interfaith Forum, March 22, 2011

“Adventures in Above-Ground Archaeology: Gravestones as Archaeological Artifacts,” Archaeology Month Symposium Lecture Series, Ivy Tech Community College, September 30, 2010

“Death & Commemoration on the Frontier: An Analysis of Early Gravestones in Cumberland County, Maine, 1720-1820,” Spirits Alive! Winter Lecture Series, Portland, Maine, January 26, 2008

Stranger, Stop and Cast an Eye: An Introduction to New England Gravestones and Cemeteries,” Lecture and Cemetery Tour for the Windham Historical Society, Windham, Maine, October 27, 2006

Professional Organizations/Activities:

New England Historical Association (2017-Present)

International Society for Landscape, Place & Material Culture (2016-Present)

The Society of Civil War Historians, Member (2014-Present)

Society for the History of Technology, Member (2014-Present)

American Historical Association, Member (2010-Present)

Association for Gravestone Studies, Member (2004-Present)

  • 2014 National Conference Chair
  • Indiana State Chapter Chair (2010-2014)
  • Markers Editorial Board Member (2012-Present)
  • Chair, State Chapters Committee (2010-2014)
  • Chair, Membership & Development Committee (2009-2010)
  • Board of Trustees (2008-2014)

Awards, Scholarships, Honors:

Penn State York Advisory Board Grant, 2018

Penn State York Teaching Development Grant, 2017

Penn State York Advisory Board Grant, 2016

Penn State York Teaching Development Grant, 2016

Kentucky Historical Society Research Fellowship, 2014

NEH Landmarks in American History (Pullman, Chicago) Workshop Fellow, 2011

Chase Distinguished Research Assistantship, University of Maine Graduate School, 2008-09

Barbara Rotundo Memorial Scholarship, Association for Gravestone Studies, 2008

Nolde Lectureship in American History, University of Maine, Department of History, Spring 2008

University of Maine, Summer Graduate Research Fellowship, 2007

Association for Gravestone Studies, Student Conference Scholarship, June 2006

Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society, 2005 (inducted)

University of Maine, Graduate Teaching Assistantship, 2004-2007

 

 

 

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