Jennifer L. Altenhofel

9001 Stockdale Highway

Bakersfield, CA 93311

661.654.6292

jaltenhofel@csub.edu

education

2004 Ph.D., The American University, Washington, DC.

1990 Master of Arts in History, California State University, Bakersfield.

1989 Bachelor of Arts in History, California State University, Bakersfield.

publications

“Irish Women and Catholic Charity in Washington, DC 1850-1900,” The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America,” University of Notre Dame Press, 1999.

“The Irish in Washington, DC to 1900,” The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America,” University of Notre Dame Press, 1999 .

“Keeping House: Irish and Irish Immigrant Women’s Labor in Nineteenth-Century Washington, DC,” Catholic Historical Society Newsletter, April-June 1997.

“Charity in Education for Irish Women in Nineteenth-Century Washington,” Catholic Historical Society Newsletter, April-June 1997.

work experience

1995-2005 Adjunct Faculty, Social Sciences Department, Taft Community College, Taft, CA.

1991-2005 Lecturer, Sociology/Anthropology Department, California State University, Bakersfield.

1996 Adjunct Faculty, General Education Division, San Joaquin Valley College, Bakersfield, CA.

1994 Lecturer, Department of American Studies, The American University, Washington, DC.

1993 Adjunct Faculty, Department of History/Political Science, Montgomery County Community College, Rockville, Maryland.

1992-1993 Editor, The American University Graduate Review, American University, Washington, DC.

1991-1994 Researcher, Frederick Law Olmsted Papers, Washington, DC.

teaching experience

Visions and Methods of Historical Sociology, California State University, Bakersfield.

Race and Ethnic Relations, California State University, Bakersfield.

Demography and Population Movements, California State University, Bakersfield.

Sociology of Knowledge, California State University, Bakersfield.

Social Services and Social Problems, California State University, Bakersfield.

Introduction to Sociology, Taft Community College and California State University, Bakersfield.

Critical Thinking and Social Problems, California State University, Bakersfield.

Childhood and Society, California State University, Bakersfield.

Family and Society, California State University, Bakersfield.

Society and Technology, California State University, Bakersfield.

Asian Experience in the United States, California State University, Bakersfield.

United States History, Taft Community College.

Immigrant Experience in the United States, The American University.

Women in the Western World, Montgomery County Community College.

Images of Native Americans, The American University.

Civil War and Reconstruction, The American University.

Cultural Geography, Taft Community College and California State University, Bakersfield.

Social Problems, Taft Community College.

Ethics in the Workplace, San Joaquin Valley College.

specialties

American History, Historical Sociology and Research, Immigration History, American and European Women’s History, Family and Childhood Studies, History/Sociology of Technology and Inter-Disciplinary Courses.

conferences

1998 “So They May Never Stray”: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Lives of Irish Women in Washington, DC, 1850-1890, American Conference for Irish Studies, American Historical Association Annual Conference.

1994 Broom and Board: Means of Subsistence for Irish Immigrant Women in the District of Columbia, 1840-1880, DC/Chesapeake Area Women Historians Annual Conference.

1994 Keeping House: Irish Immigrant Women in the District of Columbia, 1800-1880, District of Columbia Historical Society.

1993 Keeping House: Irish Immigrant Women and Social Mobility in the District of Columbia, 1840-1880, Social Science History Association Regional Conference.

1993 Is There a Backlash? An Examination of Internal Contradictions and External Forces, College of Arts and Sciences, The American University Research Conference, Washington, DC.

grants, achievements and awards

1996 Research Grant Recipient, Irish Research Fund, The Irish-American Cultural Institute, St. Paul, MN.

1994 Dorothy Gondos Service Award, The American University, Washington, DC.

1992-1993 Editor, The American University Graduate Review, Washington, DC.

1991-1993 Andrew Mellon Fellow, Frederick Law Olmsted Papers, The American University, Washington, DC.

1990 University College Cork, Ireland, Scholarship to attend summer semester.

1990 Betty Nesvold Award for the Best Graduate Paper, California State University Social Science Research and Instructional Council Conference, “The Migration Myth: A Comparative Analysis of the Migrations of the Nineteenth-Century Irish and the Twentieth-Century Oklahomans.”

community service

2002-2004 Discipleship Group Leader, RiverLakes Community Church High School Staff, Bakersfield, CA.

Spring 2003 Oakland/San Francisco Rescue Mission Volunteer, RiverLakes Community Church High School Staff, Bakersfield, CA.

2002-2003 Liberty High School Parent Volunteer, Varsity Football Team, Bakersfield, CA