curriculum vitaepaula@humfrey.ca

• RESEARCH INTERESTS



• the labour, economic, and social history of early modern London

• historical and metaphysical concepts of the western frontier

• cultural histories of the long decades of the Great Depression and the 1960s

• developing ways of understanding higher education in the online environment

• RECENT WRITING

• Paula Humfrey, Review of Michelle M. Dowd and Natasha Korda, Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama. Journal of British Studies, Vol. 51, No. 2 (April 2012), pp. 448-449.

• Humfrey, Paula, The Experience of Domestic Service for Women in Early Modern England (Ashgate Publishing, March 2011)

• Creator and editor, Online Enlightenment Project

• Humfrey, Paula, The Bandit Guide to Teaching Online: Prospering as a Contract Knowledge Worker in a Time of Academic Revolution (Next Level Press, November 2010)

• Paula Humfrey, "Digital 'deviants' and the spirit of '68", Times Higher Education magazine (THE) 18 November 2010

• Paula Humfrey, "Household Servants in Early Modern England", Times Higher Education magazine (THE) 2 September 2010

• Paula Humfrey, "The Canon: The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868. By V.A.C. Gatrell", Times Higher Education magazine (THE) 12 August 2010

• Pre-publication external reviewer for Oxford University Press

• TEACHING EXPERIENCE: ONLINE AND DISTANCE EDUCATION COURSES

• History of the Modern World

• Western Civilization I: Prehistory to Renaissance

• Western Civilization II: Renaissance to Present

• The Development of Western Civilization

• History of Women and the Family in the Pre-Industrial Era

• History of Women and the Women's Movement in the Modern Era

• United States History I: 1607-1865

• Colonial New England

• Early American Intellectual History

• Comparing Frontier Cultures in the American and Canadian West

• History of the Canadian Family

• The Rise of Christianity in the West

• The Renaissance in Italy and Northern Europe

• The Struggle for Power: Britain 1450-1689

• The Sixties

• The Great Depression

• The European Holocaust

• Introduction to Literature

• Leadership, Ethics, and Decision Making

• Freedom and Responsibility

• Understandings of Morality

• Life and Death

• CURRENT AND FORMER ONLINE AND DISTANCE EDUCATION TEACHING

• Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, Oregon

• Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario

• Lakeland College, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

• Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, New Hampshire

• BOOK CHAPTERS

• Humfrey, P.M., Female servants and women's criminality in early modern London in S. Devereaux, A. May and G. Smith, (eds.), Crime and Society in the Old World and the New (Toronto: Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto, 1997).

• Humfrey, P.M., What the Servants Knew, in V. Frith (ed.), Women and History: Voices of Early Modern England, 1600-1800 (Toronto: Irwin Publishing, 1995). Second printing.

• INVITED PAPERS

• Humfrey, P.M., "'Sustained by a folklore of hope': Small farmer migrants and the shaping of frontier rhetoric". paper to be presented at Royal Historical Society, NACBS conference, Crosstown Traffic: Anglo American Cultural Exchange Since 1865, July 2004.

• Humfrey, P.M., "The emergence of domestic labour for London women", paper presented at the Economic History Association 57th Annual Meeting, Rutgers University, September 1997.

• Humfrey, P.M., "The importance of mobility and invisibility to female servants' agency in early modern London", paper presented at inter-disciplinary conference on "Anonymity", Harvard University, March 1997.

• Humfrey, P.M., "Female servants in the metropolis of Queen Anne's London", paper presented to Bennington College Women's Issues Study Group, Spring Lecture Series, April 1991.

• Humfrey, P.M., "Women in seventeenth-century England: a review of the literature", paper presented to University of Toronto Women's Studies History Group, October 1988.

• DISTINCTIONS

• 2003 - 04: Formby Research Fellow, Texas Tech University

• 2003 - 04: By Faculty, For Faculty' Workshop Grant Recipient, Institute for Online Education, Southern New Hampshire University

• 1986 - 1987: University of Toronto Open Fellowship

• 1984: Rhodes Scholarship finalist, Province of Ontario

• EDUCATION

• 2000: Ph.D. History, University of Toronto

• 1988: M.A. History, University of Toronto

• 1986: B.A. (History and Literature), Bennington College

• 1984: Summer student, University of New Hampshire program, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University

• THESES

• Humfrey, P.M. (2000) "Domestic service for women in London, 1660-1745", unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Toronto. (Abstract)

• Humfrey, P.M. (1988) "Women and violence in London, 1720-25", unpublished Master's major paper, University of Toronto.

• Humfrey, P.M. (1986) "Strange Bedfellowes: Moll Flanders, Roxana, and the problem of morality in Augustan London", unpublished undergraduate thesis, Bennington College.

• LANGUAGE COMPETENCIES

• Written and conversational French