Resume
Sharlene S. Sayegh

Teaching Fields:

Britain (early modern and modern)
Western Civilization
Women's History
World History
Theory and Methodology
Critical Thinking

 Education:

1995-2004   University of California, Irvine
            Ph.D., History / Critical Theory, 2004
            "London's Material Representations: Women's Millinery and Economic Activity in Literary         
                      Imagination and Lived Experience, 1720-1785" (directed by Douglas M. Haynes [History], Robert 
             Moeller [History] and John Smith [German and Critical Theory])

1991-1994   University of Nevada, Las Vegas
            M.A. History, August 1994
            "'For the Continuance of Their Favours': Women, The Public Sphere and
            the Print Culture in England, 1750-1760." (directed by Lawrence E.
            Klein [History], Colin Loader [History], Jay Coughtry [History] and
            Robert Parker [sociology])

1987-1990   University of Nevada, Las Vegas
            B.A., History, December 1990

Professional Memberships:

American Historical Association
North American Conference for British Studies
Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
Social Science History Association
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women

Employment:

1998-date   History Department, California State University, Long Beach
            Lecturer

1999-2001   Humanities Core Course, University of California, Irvine
            Teaching Associate

1999        History Department, University of California, Irvine
            Instructor: Europe, 1914 to the Present

1996-1999   History Department, University of California, Irvine
            Teaching Assistant

1995-1996   Graduate Studies, University of California, Irvine
            Intern to Fellowship Coordinator

1993-1994   History Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
            Instructor: Western Civilization to 1648

1991-1993   History Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
            Teaching Assistant

1992        Upward Bound of Las Vegas, Tutor

Related Work:

Workshop Facilitator, "The IRIS and Community of Science Databases: A Guide for Humanities and Social Science Students." For the Social Science Research Council Summer Fellowship Residency Program, 1998-1999

Workshop Consultant, "Funding Your Way through Graduate School: The IRIS Fellowship Database" with UCI Office of Graduate Studies (1996-1998)

Cofounder and Organizer, University of California, Irvine Graduate Student Conference in History and Theory (1997)

Awards/Distinctions:

2001—UC Regents' Dissertation Fellowship
2001-UCI Humanities Center Dissertation Research Grant
2001-UCI Humanities' Dissertation Fellowship
2000—UCI Department of History Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2000—UCI Humanities Research Grant
2000—UCI Humanities Center Dissertation Research Grant
1995-UCI Regents' Fellowship
1994—UCCSN, Board of Regents’ Outstanding Graduate Student
1994—Research Assistant, UNLV History Department
1994—UNLV Graduate College, Student Financial Support Research Grant
1993—UNLV Graduate College, Student Financial Support Research Grant
1991—John S. Wright Award, Outstanding Work by a Graduating History Major
1991—UNLV Alumni Association Certificate
1990—PHI KAPPA PHI (Honor Society, Interdisciplinary
1989—PHI ALPHA THETA (Honor Society, History
1988—Ralph Roske Award, Outstanding Work in Introductory History

Service in Community:

Curriculum Tutor:  Upward Bound of Las Vegas (History & English), 1992
Committee Member:  AIDS Quilt Liaison Committee, 1994

Service in University:

Committee Member: Middle East/Near East Sub-Committee, CSULB
Graduate Student Association (UNLV):
    President, 1993-1994
  Secretary, 1992-1993
    Representative, 1991-92
Committee Member: Tuition Advisory Committee, University and Community College System of Nevada, 1994

Service in Department:

Committee Coordinator: CSULB Core Curriculum, 2005 – date
Committee Member: World History Curriculum, 2006 - date
Committee Member: History & Theory Standards, 2004
Commitee Member: QUE World History Standards, CSULB, 2001
Committee Member: Middle East History Position, History Dept. UC Irvine, 2000-2001
Committee Member: Awards/Merits, History Dept. UC Irvine, 1999-2000
Committee Member: Executive Committee, History Dept. UC Irvine, 1995-1996, Spring 1997
President: PHI ALPHA THETA, UNLV, 1991-1993
Voting Representative: UNLV Department of History Faculty Meetings, 1992-1993
Committee Member: Modern European Diplomatic History Position, UNLV Dept. of History, 1991-1992

Papers and Presentations:  

"Capital Lies: Women's Business and Familial Roles in Eighteenth-Century England's Court of Chancery." At the Economic and Business Historical Society Annual Meeting, April 2005 (High Point, NC)

"Defining and Defending Female Business Roles in the Court of Chancery, 1773-1785." At the British Society of Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Meeting, January 2004 (Oxford, England, UK)

"Stuck in the Middle: A Woman's Struggle to Construct an Independent Business Identity in the Eighteenth-Century Courts."  At the Pacific Coast Conference for British Studies Annual Meeting, April 2002 (Claremont, CA)

"Fickle Females and Effeminate Males: The Rhetoric of Gender in English Pamphlet Literature about the South Sea Bubble, 1720-1721." At the Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, October 2000 (Pittsburgh, PA)

"Recovering Women's Working Lives in Early Modern England: Some Problems on Method." At the Huntington Library Graduate Seminar, November 1999

"Historians and the World Wide Web." At The Huntington Library Graduate Seminar, February 1999

"'Spinsters,' 'Ladies' and 'Gossips:' Women's Editorial Letters to 'Ladies'' Periodicals in Eighteenth-Century England."  At the South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Spring, 1995

"'For The Continuance of Their Favours': The Reconstruction of Women's Working Lives in the Advertising Pages of The Ipswich Journal, 1750- 1760."  At the Western Association of Women Historians’ Annual Meeting, June 1995.

Publications:

"Letters and Correspondence" in The Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History (January 2005, information at http://www.berkshireworldhistory.com)

Book Reviews:

Matt Houlbrook, Queer London : Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 ( University of Chicago Press , 2005), for The History Teacher (forthcoming)

Maxine Berg, Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Oxford University Press, 2005), for Canadian Journal of History (in progress)