Dr. Leslie Madsen-Brooks joined the Department of History at Boise State University in 2010 as an Assistant Professor. She came to Boise State with a broad background including work in American, museum, and technocultural studies, culminating with a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from the University of California, Davis. Her designated emphasis for her doctoral studies was Feminist Theory, and her dissertation concerned the role of women scientists in American natural history institutions from 1880-1950. Dr. Madsen-Brooks has also made several presentations on the role of social media in American culture.
Dissertation
To Study, to Control, and to Love: Women Scientists in American Natural History Institutions, 1880--1950 (2006)
Between 1880 and 1950, women entered American natural history institutions significant numbers. In herbaria, natural...
Presentations
Bringing History to the Very Small Screen: Creating Mobile Public History Projects in a Graduate Seminar, Mobile Learning Symposium (2011)
What happens when an enthusiastic group of humanities grad students are given access to the...
mLearning Scholars Panel (with Allan Heaps, Barbara Schroeder, David Rickels, Nicole Molumby, Michal Temkin Martinez, Sam Matson, Lutana Haan, Sharon Tabor, Denice Liley, and Yu-Chang Hsu), Mobile Learning Symposium (2011)
The Spring 2011 mLearning Scholars will discuss their experience as a panel. Questions will be...
Beyond Fear 2.0: Social Media, Literacies, and the World Beyond Walls (with Laura Blankenship and Barbara Sawhill), New Media Consortium Summer Conference (2009)
Social media makes transparent the messiness of collaboration and provides opportunities for institutions to rethink...