Bonnie Stepenoff

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Ph.D., American history, University of Missouri-Columbia, December 1992, specializing in women's history and labor history

M.L.S., library science, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1981, with emphasis on archives administration

M.A., history, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1978, with emphasis on recent American history

B.A., social science, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1971, summa cum laude and "with distinction in history"

Recipient of the 2007 Book Award from the Missouri Conference on History for From French Community to Missouri Town: Ste. Genevieve in the Nineteenth Century

Recipient of the first Missouri State Archives William E. Foley Fellowship for my research on homeless boys in St. Louis, Missouri, 1860-1960.

Selection for listing in the 26th edition of Who's Who of American Women (Marquis, 2007)

Listing in Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 1996 and 2005

Selection as Faculty Mentor from the College of Liberal Arts by the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, Southeast Missouri State University for the academic year 2004-2005

Historical Collections Project Grant of $15,000 from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources for assistance, utilizing student interns, in cataloging collections in the Missouri state system of historic sites

Southeast Missouri State University, College of Liberal Arts, Honors Award for Outstanding Scholarship, May 2000

Dr. Richard S. Brownlee Fund, 1997, grant-in-aid from the State Historical Society of Missouri for research on the life and career of Thad Snow

Dr. Richard S. Brownlee Fund, 1992, grant-in-aid from the State Historical Society of Missouri, for research on the topic of deforestation of the Missouri Bootheel

Bryant Spann Memorial Prize, 1991, Eugene V. Debs Foundation, for an article reflecting the spirit of social reform

Best Article award, Missouri Historical Review, 1991

Hagley Museum and Library, short-term grant for research in Hagley's collections, March 1991

Sullivan Fellowship for 1991, awarded by Museum of American Textile History, North Andover, Massachusetts, for dissertation research

Professional Experience

July 2003-present, professor of history, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO

August 1998-July 2003, associate professor, history, and coordinator, Historic Preservation Program, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO

August 1995-2003, coordinator, Historic Preservation Program, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO

August 1993-1998, assistant professor, history, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses including historic preservation, historic site administration, archives and special collections management, oral history, women's history, and United States history survey courses, with other duties including monitoring internship program, advising students, supervising a teaching assistant, curriculum development

1992-1993, sole proprietor, History and Archives Consulting, a private firm, offering public history services including research, historic/architectural survey, preservation planning, archival consultation, report writing, public presentations

1992-1993, adjunct assistant professor, School of Library and Informational Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, teaching courses in archives management and the history of books and printing

Jan.-May 1992, lecturer, University of Missouri-Columbia, teaching a survey course in U.S. History

1988-1992, adjunct instructor, School of Library and Informational Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, teaching courses in archives management

1984-1992, cultural resource preservationist, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, with duties including preparing and reviewing nominations of properties to the National Register of Historic Places, making field inspections of historic properties, historical research, writing, care of documentary collections, advising historic site administrators on the care of collections

1978-1984, acquisitions specialist, State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, MO, a position that required managing the Society's acquisitions department, overseeing the rare book collection

Books (Author)

Big Spring Autumn: A Journal, forthcoming from Truman State University Press, 2008

From French Community to Missouri Town: Ste. Genevieve in the Nineteenth Century, University of Missouri Press, 2006

Thad Snow: A Life of Social Reform in the Missouri Bootheel, University of Missouri Press, 2003

Their Fathers’ Daughters: Silk Mill Workers in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1880-1960, Susquehanna University Press, 1999

Books (Editor)

Movers and Shakers in the Missouri Bootheel: A Century of Scholarship in the Missouri Historical Review, co-edited by Bonnie Stepenoff and Joel Rhodes, forthcoming in 2010 from the State Historical Society of Missouri

"Disfranchised and Degraded: Virginia Minor's Case for Women's Suffrage," under contract with Ohio University Press for publication in History of Missouri Law, edited by Mark Carroll and Kenneth Winn, as part of the multi-volume series "Law, Society, and Politics in the Midwest"

"Wild Lands and Wonders: Preserving Nature and Culture," in Cultural Landscapes: Balancing Nature and Heritage in Preservation Practice, forthcoming in spring 2008 from the University of Minnesota Press

"St. Louis and the Sharecroppers: Urban Involvement in a Rural Protest Movement," Agricultural History January 2008, pp. 78-96

"I’m a Johnny Mitchell Man: Gender and Labor Protest in the Pennsylvania Hard Coal Uprising, 1900-1902," in Mining Women: Gender, Labor, Capital, and Community in a Global Perspective, edited by Laurie Mercier and Jaclyn Gier Viskavotoff, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006, pp. 181-194

"Survival Strategies of Farm Laborers in the Missouri Bootheel, 1900-1958," in The Other Missouri History: Populists, Prostitutes, and Regular Folk, edited by Thomas Spencer,  University of Missouri Press, 2005, pp. 142-164

"The Doctor’s Wife: Fannie Cook and Social Protest in Missouri, 1938-1949," in Women in Missouri History: In Search of Power and Influence, edited by Mary Neth, Gary Kremer, and LeeAnn Whites, University of Missouri Press, 2004, pp. 236-252

"Family Ties and Labor Activism Among Silk Workers in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1900-1920," in Rebellious Families, edited by Jan Kok, New York: Berghahn, 2002, pp. 125-139

"Cotton Comes to the Bootheel: Thad Snow and Social Change in Southeast Missouri, 1923-1939," Red River Valley Historical Journal 2 (Fall 2001): 37-57

"Keeping it in the Family: Mother Jones and the Pennsylvania Silk Strike of 1900-1901," Labor History (Fall 1997): 432-449

"Papa on Parade: Pennsylvania Coal Miners' Daughters and the Great Silk Strike of 1913," Labor's Heritage (Winter 1996): 4-21

"The Last Tree Cut Down: The End of the Bootheel Frontier," Missouri Historical Review (October 1995): 61-78

"Child Labor in Pennsylvania's Silk Mills: Protest and Change, 1900-1910," Pennsylvania History (April 1992): 101-121

"Mother and Teacher: Emma Goldman and Kate O'Hare among Women Inmates in the Missouri State Penitentiary, 1918-1920," Missouri Historical Review (July 1991): 402-421

"The CCC's Camp Sherwood Forest: Incubator of Democracy," Gateway Heritage 11 #3 (Summer 1990): 52-59

"Kate Chopin in `Out-at-the-Elbows' St. Louis," Gateway Heritage 11 (1990) #1: 62-67.

"Archives and Historic Preservation: The Case of the CCC," Midwestern Archivist 13 (December 1987): 77-83

"Freedom and Regret: The Dilemma of Kate Chopin," Missouri Historical Review (July 1987): 447-466

"This Perpetual Shadow-Taking: The Lively Art of John Fitzgibbon," Missouri Historical Review (October 1981): 22-30

"Julius Strauss and the Art of Photography," Missouri Historical Review (July 1979): 451-462

"The M.A.C. Fire in St. Louis, 1914)," Missouri Historical Review (July 1978): 424-433

"Three Mothers of Racially Blended Families in Ste. Genevieve, 1780-1890," (co-author with Debbie Bibb and Carla Jordan), forthcoming in Gateway 2008

"Nature and History: Experiencing the Group Camps," Missouri Resources, fall 2008, pp. 2-5

"A Style Fit for a Queen: Queen Anne," in the Society of Architectural Historians Missouri Valley Chapter Newsletter Spring 2007

"Conscience of the People: Progressivism and the 1904 Election," in the Official Manual of the State of Missouri 2005-2006, published in fall 2005 by the Office of the Secretary of State

"A Tree in Paradise," Missouri Conservationist, May 2000

Kit Wesler, Bonnie Stepenoff, N. Renae Farris, and Carol A. Morrow, "Archaeological Test Excavations at the Delassus-Kern House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri," Ohio Valley Historical Archaeology 14 (1999): 67-88

"Kate Chopin" and "William McKendree" in Dictionary of Missouri Biography (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999)

"Rose Cecil O'Neill" and "Vinnie Ream Hoxie" in American National Biography (Oxford University Press, 1999)

"Child Labor," in American Cities and Suburbs: An Encyclopedia (ABC-Clio, 1998)

(Co-author, with Jane Stephens), "Style and Meaning: The Spanish Revival in Cape Girardeau, 1924-1937," Society of Architectural Historians Missouri Valley Chapter Newsletter Fall 1998

"Landscapes Remember," Missouri Conservationist February 1998

"Preservation Studies and Public Service at Southeast Missouri State University," CRM: Cultural Resource Management (National Park Service), February 1998

"Are You Pretty Enough?" in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 27, 1997.

"Undergraduate Internship Program at Southeast Missouri State University," NCPE (National Council for Preservation Education) News Fall 1994

"The Tree Soldiers," Missouri Resource Review Fall 1993

"Understanding Louisa," Missouri Preservation Issues March/April 1993

"Seventy-Five Years of Priceless Returns," Missouri Resource Review Summer 1992.

"Preserving the Character of Historic Camps," Camping Magazine September/October 1991

"Partners in Parks," Missouri Resource Review Summer 1991

"The CCC Dining Lodge at Bennett Spring State Park," Ozarks Watch January 1991

"Battle of Athens State Historic Site, " Missouri Resource Review Summer 1990

"Kate Chopin," "M. Mahnkey," and "Rose O'Neill," in Mary K. Dains, ed., Show-Me Missouri Women: Selected Biographies (Kirksville, MO: Thomas Jefferson Press, 1989)

"Kate Chopin's Bayou Home," McCall's December 1987

"Preserving the New Deal Spirit," Preservation News (National Trust for Historic Preservation), June 1987

"Pacesetting Nomination of State Park Architecture," Missouri Preservation News Summer 1986

I have reviewed books for:

Indiana Magazine of History September 2004

Missouri Historical Review July 2004

Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies April 2004

Journal of American History December 2003

Red River Valley Historical Journal September 2000

Missouri Historical Review July 1997, April 1999

Labor History Winter 1994

Pennsylvania History January 1993

American Archivist Winter 1991

Keynote address, First Biennial Regional Conference on Women and History in Northeastern Pennsylvania, sponsored by the University of Scranton and six local historical societies, Scranton, Pennsylvania, March 3, 2007

"St. Louis and the Sharecroppers," presented at the 46th Annual Conference of the Western History Association, St. Louis, Missouri, October 14, 2006

"Wild Lands and Wonders: Preserving the Confluence Between Nature and Culture," presented at the Fourth National Form on Historic Preservation Practice, Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland, March 18-20, 2004. This paper has been selected for publication in an anthology on the preservation of cultural landscapes.

"I’m a Johnny Mitchell Man: Gender and Labor Protest in the Pennsylvania Hard Coal Uprising, 1900-1902," presented at the European Social Science History Conference, The Hague, Netherlands, March 1, 2002

Mother Jones and Pennsylvania Silk Workers," presented at a conference "In Celebration of Pennsylvania’s Women, with Special Recognition of Pennsylvania’s Women in the Labor Movement," sponsored by Marywood University in collaboration with Matthew J. Ryan, Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania," at Marywood University, Scranton, Pennsylvania, November 15, 2000

"Family Ties and Labor Activism among Silk Workers in Northeastern Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 1897-1920," presented by invitation at a workshop that is part of a five-year research program, "Living Strategies" (1998-2002), sponsored by the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 28-29, 1999

"Privilege and Protest: Thad Snow, Fannie Cook, and the Sharecroppers’ Demonstration of 1939," presented at the Missouri Conference on History, Columbia, MO, April 17, 1998

"A Planter Crosses the Class Line and a Submerged People Emerges: Environmental Change and Farm Labor Protest in Southeastern Missouri, 1910-1939," presented at the 10th Southern Labor Studies Conference, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, September 26, 1997

Greer Mill, Oregon County, MO, with Kim Leazenby and Pamela Watson, approved by the Missouri Advisory Council on Historic Preservation in February 2005, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in January 2006.

Bond's Chapel United Methodist Church, Boone County, MO, 1993

Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge #2, 3615-3619 Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd., St. Louis, MO, 1993

Meramec State Park Beach Area Historic District, vicinity of Sullivan, MO, 1991

First Christian Church, Columbia, MO, 1991, with Mary K. Dains

Kate Chopin Home, St. Louis, MO., 1986

E.C.W. Architecture in Missouri State Parks, 1933-1942, Thematic Nomination, 1985, with James M. Denny

"Ste. Genevieve Historic Preservation Field School 2000 and 2001: The Delassus-Kern House," by Bonnie Stepenoff and Debbie Bibb.  Jefferson City: Missouri Department of Natural Resources: Division of State Parks, 2004.

"The Big Spring Historic District: The Civilian Conservation Corps Builds a State Park to Last," published as a commemorative booklet by the National Park Service Ozark National Scenic Riverways, 2003

Archaeological Test Excavations at the Delassus-Kern House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, by Kit W. Wesler, Bonnie Stepenoff, N. Renae Farris, and Carol A. Morrow, September 1998

Records Preservation Plan for Gasconade County, Missouri, completed under the auspices of the Missouri Local Records Program, 1992

Ozark Rock Masonry Architecture Survey, Phase II, Report, completed for South Central Ozark Council of Governments, Summer 1993

Report on the Dade County, Missouri, Local Records Preservation Program, completed under the auspices of the Missouri Local Records Program, Summer 1993.

Editorial Board, Missouri Historical Review, 2005-

State Historical Society of Missouri, Board of Trustees, 2004-2007

Southeast Missouri State University Faculty Senate, 2004-

Missouri Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 2003-

Member, Board of Directors, Missouri Parks Association, 2001-2003

Treasurer, National Council for Preservation Education, 1998-2004

Missouri State Historical Records Advisory Board, 1996-2001

Cape River Heritage Museum Advisory Board, 1993-present

Southeast Missouri State University Museum Advisory Committee, 1993-1998 (secretary of the committee, 1994-95, president, 1997-98)

Missouri Governor's Conference on Library and Information Services, November 1990

Editorial Review board, Missouri Resource Review, Department of Natural Resources, 1990-1991

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