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Dr. Virginia Boynton

Professor and Dept. Chair

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Fall 2009 History 301 Syllabus

College Outstanding Faculty Award Winner

Boynton

Dr. Ginny Boynton (Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1995) joined the Department in 1995 as its specialist in American women's history and the history of Interwar America (1914-1945). Her course offerings include the Department's upper-division/graduate course on U.S. History from 1914-1945 [History 418(G)], as well as its upper-division course on American women's history [History 317]. Her graduate seminars [History 510 and 511] deal with American women's history and twentieth-century U.S. social history. She also teaches sections of the Department's U.S. history survey courses [History 105 and 106] and the Department's research and writing seminar for undergraduate History majors [History 301].

Prof. Boynton's research examines women's involvement, through the Illinois Women's Committee, in the state's government-sponsored war effort during World War I. Her focus is on the gendered nature of women's political culture during that era.

Dr. Boynton has received several awards, including the WIU College of Arts and Sciences' Outstanding Faculty Award for Service and the WIU HOPE (Honoring Our Professors of Excellence) Award. She has also won the Illinois State Historical Society's Harry E. Pratt Memorial Award for outstanding scholarly publications in Illinois history. In addition, Dr. Boynton serves as the Department's Project Director for the current U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History grant, on which the Department partners with Regional Office of Education 26.

Dr. Boynton is a member of the WIU Faculty Senate, the University Teacher Education Committee, and the WIU Foundation Fellows Society. She represents the University on the state's Illinois Articulation Initiative History Major Panel, and has served in the past as Chair of the CAS Faculty Council, Chair of the CAS Curriculum Committee, Vice Chair of the University's Council of General Education, Chair of the Department's Personnel Committee, Chair of the Department of History Undergraduate Program Committee, and President of the Western Organization for Women.

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