1043 Racebrook Road

Woodbridge, CT  06525

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”