Holly M. Karibo CURRENT POSITION Assistant Professor of History (2014-present) Graduate and Honors Faculty Department of Social Sciences Tarleton State University, Texas A & M University System Stephenville, Texas EDUCATION University of Toronto (2012) PhD, Collaborative Program in History and Women s Studies Dissertation: Ambassadors of Pleasure: Illicit Economies of the Detroit-Windsor Borderland, 1945-1960 Supervisor: Daniel Bender University of Toronto (2007) MA, Collaborative Program in History and Women s Studies University of Guelph (2006) BA, With Distinction Double major in History and Women's Studies FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION Borderlands; women, gender, and sexuality; urban history; transnationalism; social and cultural history; drug and alcohol history; race, ethnicity, and immigration; moral regulation. POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2012-2014) Comparative Border Studies Arizona State University Supervisor: Matt Garcia BOOKS Sin City North: Sex, Drugs, and Citizenship in the Detroit-Windsor Borderland. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Karibo 1
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES Swashbuckling Criminals and Border Bandits: Fighting Vice along the US-Mexico and US- Canada Borders. Histoire sociale/social History Vol. 47, no. 95 (November 2014), pp. 705-728. Mainlining Along the Line: Illegal Economies in the Great Lakes Border Region. 49 th Parallel 30 (December 2012), pp. 1-32. Detroit's Border Brothel: Sex Tourism in Windsor, Ontario, 1945-1960. American Review of Canadian Studies 40, no. 3 (September 2010), pp. 362-378. * Awarded the Prize for the Best Article Published on the History of Sexuality by the Canadian Historical Association. Now is the Time to Fight": Juvenile Delinquency, Drug Addiction, and the Construction of a Moral Program in Postwar Toronto. Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 22, no. 2 (Spring 2008), pp. 262-285. Constructing an Image: Pregnant Women, Crack Cocaine, and the Media in American History. Neoamericanist, 2, no. 1 (May 2006). http://www.neoamericanist.org/paper/constructing-image-karibo. OTHER PUBLICATIONS Women s Organization for National Prohibition Repeal. In Scott C. Martin and Geoffrey J. Golson, eds. Alcohol: Social, Cultural, and Historic Perspectives. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publication, 2015. Detroit's Border Brothel: Sex Tourism in Windsor, Ontario, 1945-1960. In Elaine Carey and Andrae Marak, eds. Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine: Historical Perspectives on Contraband and Vice in North America s Borderlands. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011. Female Reform Societies. In Christopher Bates, ed. The Encyclopedia of Early Republic and Antebellum United States. New York: Blackwell Publishing, 2010. Rape Institutionalized: The Development of the Comfort Women System in Imperial Japan. Intersexions 1 (May 2006), pp. 15-19. Karibo 2
HONORS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS A.A. Heckman Endowed Fellowship (2015-2016) Faculty Development Grant, Texas A & M University (2015) Canadian Historical Association, Prize for the Best Article Published on the History of Sexuality (2012) Social Science and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Award (2009-2011) School of Graduate Studies Travel Grant (2011) Canadian Embassy in Washington D.C. Doctoral Research Award (2010) Centre for the Study of the United States Research Grant (2010) University of Toronto Fellowship (2010) Bordin-Gillette Researcher Fellowship, University of Michigan (2009) Ontario Graduate Scholarship, declined (2009) Culture and the Canada-US Border Travel Grant (2009) Jeanne Armour Scholarship in Canadian History (2008) Barbara Frum Memorial Award in Canadian Scholarship (2008) University of Toronto Fellowship (2007) Agnes Varis Scholarship in Women s Studies (2006) Award for the best paper delivered at the Fourth Annual Tri-University History Colloquium (2005) COURSES DESIGNED/TAUGHT Tarleton State University Stephenville, Texas American History to 1877 Honors Course American History Since 1877 Honors Course History of the North American Borderlands Women and Gender in US History World War II and the Holocaust American Social History American History Since 1877 American History to 1877 American History to 1877 [online] Arizona State University Karibo 3
Tempe, Arizona American History Since 1865 American History to 1865 [Online] Women in US History, 1880-Present Women in US History, 1600-1880 Illegal Drugs and American Culture [Online] University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario Illegal Drugs and American Culture TEACHING ASSISTANT POSISTIONS University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario (2007-2011) The History of the Great Lakes Region Women, Community and Policy Change North American Consumer Culture: 1890-Present Canadian History to 1885 The History of Canadian Immigration Introduction to Canadian History American History Since 1607 The History of Women Since 1800 Slavery in the American South American History Since 1607 Karibo 4
INVITED LECTURES Our Lives, Our Stories: America s Greatest Generation. National Endowment for the Humanities Exhibition. Hooligans and Patriotutes: Juvenile Delinquency during the Second World War." Eastland, Texas (2015). CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION Alcohol and Drugs History Society Annual Conference. "Vice in the North American Borderlands: The Case of Public Rhetoric." Bowling Green, Ohio (2015). Excellence in Teaching Conference. New Methods of Historical Pedagogy. Tarleton State University. Stephenville, Texas (2015). HGSO/PAT Texas A&M History Conference. Gender, Colonialism, and Culture. Session Commentator and Chair. Texas A&M University. College Station, Texas (2015). Analyzing the 1950s: Media, Politics, and Culture. "Swashbuckling Criminals and Border Bandits: Fighting Vice along the US-Canada and US-Mexico Borders." Texas Christian University. Fort Worth, Texas (2014). Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference. The Border Spirit: Cross-Border Tourism and the Limits of Friendship in the Detroit-Windsor Border Region, 1945-1960. Washington, D.C. (2013). Comparative Border Studies Colloquium. Ambassadors of Pleasure. Tempe, Arizona (2012). Women and Gender Studies Institute Symposium. Selling Sex, Making Work. University of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario (2012). Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. Blurring the Line: Race, Sex, and Labor in the Detroit-Windsor Borderlands, 1945-1965. Amherst, Massachusetts (2011). Centre for the Study of the United States Speaker Series. Illicit Leisure and the Consumption of Pleasure in the Detroit-Windsor Border Region. Toronto, Ontario (2011). American Historical Association Annual Conference. Using Communities: Illicit Drug Use Along the Canada-US Border, 1945-1965. Boston, Massachusetts (2011). The Great Plains, the Prairies, and the US/Canadian Border. Mainlining Along the Line: Illegal Drug Use in the Detroit-Windsor Border Region, 1925-1965. Grand Forks, North Dakota (2010). Canadian Historical Association Annual Conference. Motor City Memoirs: Sex Work, Race, and Memory in McGowan's Motor City Madam. Montreal, QC. (2010). Karibo 5
Culture and the Canada-US Border. Greener Pastures: Cross-Border Prostitution in Windsor, Ontario. Canterbury, UK (2009). Canadian Historical Association Annual Conference. Detroit s Border Brothel: Sex Tourism in Windsor, Ontario 1945-1960. Vancouver, B.C. (2008). The 4 th International Conference on Alcohol and Drug History. "Juvenile Junkies": Media Portrayals of Toronto's Youth, 1945-1960. Guelph, Ontario (2007). The 4 th International Conference on Alcohol and Drug History. Session Chair, Drug Consumption and Drug Policy in Post-World War II America. (2007). After the Fall: Sex, Gender, & Power Graduate Symposium, University of Toronto. Now is the Time to Fight : Juvenile Delinquency, Drug Addiction, and the Construction of a Moral Problem in Postwar Canada, 1945-1960. Toronto, Ontario (2007). Violence, Memory, Power GCWS Symposium, University of Toronto. Rape Institutionalized: the Development of the Comfort Women System in Imperial Japan. Toronto, Ontario (2006). Fourth Annual Tri-University Undergraduate History Colloquium. Means To an End: Victorian Prostitution and the Politics of Objectification. Guelph, Ontario (2005). DEPARTMENT, PROFESSIONAL, AND COMMUNITY SERVICE Curriculum Committee Member, College of Liberal and Fine Arts (2015-present) Gender and Sexuality Studies Minor Coordinator (2015-present) Latin Americanist Search Committee Member (2015-present) Co-Chair, European Hire Search Committee (Current). Applied Learning Experience, Faculty Sponsor (2015) ISD History Fair, Faculty Judge, Granbury, Texas (2015) Peer-Reviewer: Social History of Alcohol and Drugs Michigan Historical Review Nano: New American Notes Planning Committee, Alcohol and Drug History Society Annual Meeting, (2014-Current) Renaissance Scholars Faculty Mentor, Tarleton State University (2014-Current) Gender and Sexuality Studies Minor Subcommittee, Tarleton State University (2014) Undergraduate Service Committee, Arizona State University (2013-2014) Steering Committee, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians (2012) Divisional Steward Humanities, CUPE 3902 (2009-2012) History Department Steward, CUPE 3902 (2008-2012) Toronto Democracy Initiative, Board member (2009-2010) Interdisciplinarity in Feminist State Theory Conference, Coordinator Toronto, ON (March 6-7, 2009) Globalizing Labor Conference, Organizing Committee Member Karibo 6
Toronto, ON (June 9-15, 2008) Women s Resource Centre Guelph, ON (2003-2006) RELATED EMPLOYMENT Campus Coordinator, Bargaining Support Committee (2011-2012) Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 3902 Graduate Research Assistant (Fall 2008) Supervisor: Elspeth Brown (University of Toronto) Graduate Research Assistant (2007-2008) Supervisor: Daniel Bender (University of Toronto). Project: Imperial Lands. Conference Organizer (Spring 2008) Decamp: A Toronto Public Feelings Project Supervisor: Elspeth Brown Graduate Research Assistant (June 2006-May 2007) Supervisor: Norman Smith (University of Guelph) Project: Addictions on the Northern Frontier. Editing Assistant (Fall 2005) Karen Racine s and Beatriz G. Mamigonian s undergraduate history reader, The Human Tradition in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP American Historical Association Association for Borderland Studies Alcohol and Drug History Society Canadian Committee on Women s History Canadian Historical Association LANGUAGES English: Native French: Reading Proficiency Karibo 7