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1043 Racebrook Road Woodbridge, CT
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Jennifer
Turner |
(203) 387-7377 jlturner@wisc.edu |
Education & Selected Honors
University
of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison,
Wisconsin
Ph.D.
Candidate in American History, May 2000.
Thesis advisor: William Cronon
Dissertation: “Creating Missouri:
Ethnicity, Class, and Land in the Transformation of Upper Louisiana”
Minor:
Comparative Colonialisms in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
2004 B. Ruth Barton Memorial Scholarship
in History, University of Wisconsin-Madison History Dept.
2003 Non-Clinical Fellow, New York
University Psychoanalytic Institute
2003 Research Fellowship, Mary McEwen
Schimke, Wellesley College
2002 Research Fellowship, Colonial Dames
of Wisconsin
2001 Research Fellowship, Missouri
Historical Society
2001 Teaching Award, University of
Wisconsin Department of History
2000 Research Travel Award, University of
Wisconsin Graduate Council
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
M.A., August 1996
Articles: For Want of a Nail, the Kingdom
was Lost: Agriculture and the American Revolution; Indian Slavery in Detroit,
1701-1796
1994-1995
University Fellow, University of Wisconsin
Yale
University, New Haven,
Connecticut
B.A.,
History, May 1994, cum laude with distinction in History
1993 American History Essay Prize, Colonial Period. Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati and Sons of the American Revolution
Presentations
2003 McNeil Center for Early American Studies Brown Bag series,
Philadelphia, PA
“Being Creole, Becoming
American: St. Louis and the Louisiana Purchase”
2002 Lewis and Clark
Bicentennial Symposium, St. Louis, MO
“Imposing
Decency Upon the Land: the Americanization of Colonial St. Louis”
2001 SHAFR, Washington, DC
“French, Indians, Spaniards, and Americans in the Making of
St. Louis”
1999 Breakfast Forum for Western and Environmental History,
Madison, WI
“Population Displacement in Colonial and
Early American St. Louis”
Publications
Turner, Jenny, “The Dissolution of the Play-off System: Indian Diplomacy
in the Spanish and American Periods” Gateway Heritage (solicited with MHS fellowship, in preparation
from chapter one).
2003 Turner, Jenny, “Great Plains
Indians” and “Métis” in Billy G. Smith, editor,
Encyclopedia of American History: Colonization and Settlement, 1608-1760,
volume 2 of Gary B. Nash, series editor, Encyclopedia of American
History (New York: Facts on File).
Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University,
New York, New York
1999 Girod, R., Crabtree, G., Ernstrom,
G., Ramirez-Latorre, J., McGehee, D., Turner, J., and L. Role. “Heteromeric
complexes of alpha 5 and/or alpha 7 subunits. Effects of calcium and potential
role in nicotine-induced presynaptic facilitation” in Annals of the New York
Academy of Sciences 868:578-90.
1998 Ramirez-Latorre, J., Crabtree, G.,
Turner, J., and L. Role. “Molecular Composition and Biophysical Characteristics
of Nicotinic Receptors,” in Neuronal Nicotinic Receptors: Pharmacology and
Therapeutic Opportunities. Ed. Arneric, S., Brioni, J., (New York: John
Wiley & Sons Press).
Teaching
Experience
University
of Wisconsin-Madison,
Madison, Wisconsin
2001 Teaching Award, University of
Wisconsin Department of History
2000
Teaching Assistant, “Native American History, pre-1492 - 2000”
2000 Guest lecturer, “Plains Diplomacy
and Sioux Supremacy in the 19th Century”
1999 Teaching
Assistant, “American History, 1492 - 1865”