Assistant Professor
Department of History
Augustana College
2001 S. Summit Ave.
Sioux Falls, SD 57197

605-274-5325 

margaret_preston@augie.edu

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., BOSTON COLLEGE, History; May 1999

Dissertation: "Gentlewomen, Social Control and the Language of Charity in Nineteenth-Century Dublin”Supervisor: Dr. Kevin O’Neill, Boston College

M.A., UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, History, Summa Cum Laude; July 1991

B.A., LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS, May 1990 

Major: History; Minor: Women’s Studies

Loyola University New Orleans Outstanding History Graduate, 1990

ACADEMIC HONORS:

Janet Wilson James Dissertation Research Grant in Women's Studies, 1996

International PEO Sisterhood-Scholar Award, 1995

Meave O'Reilly Finley Fellowship-Dissertation Research Grant, 1995

Boston College Dissertation Research Incentive Grant, 1995

O’Brien-Vrba Academic Scholarship, 1992-1994

Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society Member and Vice-President, 1988-1990

Dean’s List, 1986-1990

PUBLICATIONS: 

“Letters From an Empty House: The Famine in Mayo” Boston College McMullen Museum of Art(To Be Published 2003)

"The Good Nurse: Women Philanthropists and the Evolution of Nursing in Nineteenth-Century Dublin," New Hibernian Review (Spring, 1998), pp. 91-110.

"Discourse and Hegemony: The Language of Charity in Nineteenth Century Dublin," Ideology and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century(eds.) Sean Ryder and Tadhg Foley (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1998),pp. 100-112.

"Women and Philanthropy: Two Charities of Nineteenth Century Dublin," The Historian (Summer, 1996), pp. 763-776.

“Lay Women and Philanthropy in Dublin 1860-1880,” Eire-Ireland (Winter, 1993), pp. 74-85.

Reviews

James Donnelly, The Great Irish Potato Famine (Sutton Publishing, 2001) Irish Literary Supplement, Spring 2002

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS:

Assistant Professor, Augustana College, 2001-present

Visiting Assistant Professor, History Department, Boston College, 2000-2001

Part-Time Assistant Professor, History Department, Boston College 1999-2000

Teaching Assistant, Boston College 1994-1996

Courses:

Ireland: From the Revolution of 1798 through the Fight for Independence 

Northern Ireland: 1922-Present

Nineteenth Century Ireland: A Political and Social History

The Great Irish Famine

Early Modern Europe: Political and Social History of Europe

Modern European History: From the 1789 to the End of the Cold War

Western Civilization I: Ancient Civilization to the Wars of Religion

Western Civilization II: From the Age of Absolutism to the Present Day

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

“Poor Slaves of Cruel Rome”Soupers, Philanthropists and the Destitute of Dublin’s Slums 1850-1900, American Historical Association, Boston, Massachusetts, Winter 2001

"Margaret Huxley: A Force for Change in Nursing in Nineteenth-Century Ireland"

ACIS, National Conference, Limerick Ireland, Summer 2000

“An Irish Quaker’s Conundrum: A Shift in Radical Ideology” Midwest Conference on British Studies, University of Chicago, Fall 1999

“Conversion Amidst Compassion: Two Charities and the Fight for the Souls of Dublin's Poor” ACIS, National Conference, Roanoke, Virginia, Spring 1998

"The Unobtrusive Classes and the Meritorious Poor: Charity to the Poor in Nineteenth-Century Dublin" NCSA National Conference, Davidson College, Spring 1997

"Gender, Class and Nursing in Nineteenth-Century Ireland" ACIS National Conference, Albany, New York, Spring 1997

"Hegemony and Discourse: The Language of Charity in Late Victorian Dublin" SSNCI National Conference, Galway, Ireland, Summer 1996

"Memsahibs and Ladies Bountiful: Philanthropy and Social Control in Nineteenth-Century India and Ireland" ACIS National Conference, Southern Illinois University, Spring 1996

"Famine Relief?The Administration of Famine in India and Ireland During the Nineteenth Century" Graduate Irish Studies Conference, University of Notre Dame, Spring 1995

"Lay Women and Philanthropy: Two Charities in Nineteenth-Century Dublin" ACIS New England Regional Conference, Westfield State University, Fall 1993

Invited Lectures:
“Modern Irish Women’s History” 6^th Byrne Perry Summer School, Wexford Ireland, Summer 2000

“Quaker Charity in Nineteenth Century Dublin” National University of Ireland, Maynooth, April 1998

"The Great Famine as Watershed: the Socio-Economic History of Modern Ireland" City Hall, Newton, Massachusetts, April 1997

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

Judge: American Conference for Irish Studies, James Donnelly Sr. Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences, 2002

Local Area Committee Member, American Historical Association, Boston, 2001.

RESEARCH/TEACHING INTERESTS:

Modern Irish History

Modern British History

Modern Indian History 

British Women’s History

Gender and Empire

Colonial Studies

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies

Nineteenth Century Studies Association

National Women's Studies Association

The Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland

American Conference for Irish Studies

Victorian Studies Association

Irish American Cultural Institute

ADMINISTRATIVE EMPLOYMENT:

Assistant to the Academic Vice President and Dean of Faculties

Aug. 1997-August 2000:Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA

Office of the Academic Vice President and Dean of Faculties

Faculty development; co-ordinator of university calendar; co-ordinator of annual faculty grant awards; administer extensive budget and purchase of major computer equipment for faculty, research laboratories and support staff; AVP webmaster; administer faculty center; administer database of confidential faculty employment information; administer annual faculty contract renewal; create annual fact book of faculty information

Admissions Counselor

Aug. 1991-Aug. 1992:Illinois Benedictine College, Lisle, IL

Admissions Office