Department of History

Dr. Streeter's research focuses on U.S. cultural history of gender, race, and health. Her dissertation, “Wings to Their Heels: Self-Expression and Health and the Rise of the New Woman” (University of California San Diego, 2023), examines the development and influence of elocution and dance curricula during the Reconstruction Era, a period when many citizens recognized the precarity and possibility of creating more equitable opportunities for self-expression. In addition to analyzing how these curricula strategically amplified women’s voices, Dr. Streeter’s work also registers the historical and historiographical impact of segregationist politics. 

Education

• PhD, University of California, San Diego
• MA, Appalachian State University

Areas of Study

U.S. History, 1700s-1940s; Cultural History of Health, Gender, and Race; Entertainment and Popular Culture of the Long Nineteenth Century; History of Dance and Physical Education; U.S. National Parks

Courses

• HIS 1110: Society and History
• HIS 2201: Survey of American Civilization to 1876
• HIS 2525: The Americans: A Cultural History
• HIS 3238: America's National Parks
• HIS 5206: Readings Seminar in American History

Publications

• “Moving Away from Delsarte: Conversations on the History and Practice of Psycho-Physical Culture,” Co-authored with Kelly Jean Lynch, Magdalena Kraler, Maria Meindl, Selma Landen Odom, and Libby Smigel for Women’s Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance, edited by Colleen Kim Daniher and Marlis Schweitzer, under advance contract with Bloomsbury. 
• “Exhibiting (Scientific) Grace: American Delsartism, Black Citizenship, and the Staging of the New South,” for The Articulate Body: Science and Dance in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Lynne Matluck Brooks, Sariel Golumb, and Garth Grimball, under advance contract with University Press of Florida.
• “Breathing Power and Poise: Black Women’s Movements for Self-Expression and Health, 1880s-1900s,” Australasian Journal of American Studies, December 2020.
• “Biographical Sketch of Amanda V. Gray,” and “Biographical Sketch of Maude B. Coleman,” Biographical Database of Black Woman Suffragists. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2020.
• “‘The Spirit of Appreciation’: Seeing Two Sister’s Visions,” in Modern Visions, Modern Art: The Cone Sisters in North Carolina, Blowing Rock Art & History Museum. 2019. Co-authored with Dianna Cameron.
• “Picturing the Cones: A Family Album from Baltimore to Asheville (and back again),” in Modern Visions, Modern Art: The Cone Sisters in North Carolina, Blowing Rock Art & History Museum, 2019. Co-authored with Neva J. Specht.

Public History Scholarship

• 2019: Co-Curator of Modern Visions, Modern Art: The Cone Sisters in North Carolina, an exhibition at the Blowing Rock Art and History Museum.

• 2018: Author of an Interpretive Resource Manual for the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park, a project commissioned by the National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway.

• 2012: Flat Top Manor Historic Furnishings Report, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, co-authored with Dr. Neva Specht and Jo Otto.