Amy Scott

Biography

Amy L. Scott is an associate professor of history and the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies. She is the co-editor, with Kathleen Brosnan, of City Dreams, Country Schemes: Community and Identity in the American West (2011). She has authored several essays on post-1945 U.S. urban history and social movements, and edits the Urban West Series at the University of Nevada Press. Dr. Scott is currently working two book projects: City Republic of Boulder: Lifestyle Liberalism and the Politics of the Good Life and ‘Give Me A Nation of Great Mothers’: Congresswoman Alice Robertson and the Politics of Conservative Maternalism.

Teaching

• WGS 200 Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
• WGS 300 Internship in Women’s and Gender Studies
• WGS 400 Research in Women’s and Gender Studies
• HIS 201 Violence, Crime, and Punishment in U.S. History
• HIS 204 United States History Since 1877
• HIS 300 The United States Since 1945
• HIS 303 American Urban History
• HIS 304 Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• HIS 315 Social Movements in Recent U.S. History
• HIS 308 The American West
• HIS 309 The History of U.S. Law Enforcement
• HIS 350 Historical Methods
• HIS 405 Independent Reading in History
• HIS 406 Individual Study in History
• HIS 450 U.S. History Senior Research Seminar: American Journeys

Scholarship

• “’Give Me a Nation of Great Mothers’: Alice Robertson’s Conservative Maternalism,” In This Land Is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma, 1870s-2010s, eds. Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, October, 2021.
• "Suburbs, Cities, the Sunbelt, and Rural America,” In A Companion to Dwight D. Eisenhower, ed. Chester Pach. Blackwell Companion to American History Series. New York: Blackwell-Wiley, April, 2017.
• Philip VanderMeer, Desert Visions and the Making of Phoenix, 1860-2009. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010. In The New Mexico Historical Review, Volume 89, Number 2, (Spring, 2014).
• “Holding Out for a Hero: Patty Hearst and American Culture in the Seventies” in Reviews in American History (forthcoming January 2012).
• Co-edited with Kathy Brosnan: City Dreams, Country Schemes: Community and Identity in the American West (University of Nevada Press, 2011).
• “Open Space Politics in Boulder, Colorado,” City Dreams, Country Schemes: Community and Identity in the American West , eds. Kathleen A. Brosnan and Amy L. Scott. The Urban West Series. Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2011, pp. 63-87.
• "Patriots for Peace:  People-to-People Diplomacy and the Antiwar Movement" in Andrew Weist, Mary Kathryn Barbier, and Glenn Robins, eds., America and the Vietnam War: Re-examining the Culture and History of a Generation (Routledge, 2010), 121-140.
• “Remaking Urban in the American West: Urban Environmentalism, Lifestyle Liberalism, and Hip Capitalism in Boulder, Colorado, 1950-2000” in Jeff Roche, ed., The Political Legacies of the American West (University of Kansas Press, 2008).
• “National Liberal, Hometown Radical, New Populist Politician: The Life of Fred Harris,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, vol. LXXXIII, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 4-33.
• “Health Food Movement” in Immanuel Ness, ed., The Encyclopedia of American Social Movements, Vol. 3 (M.E. Sharpe Publisher, 2004), 1014-1019.
• “American Buddhism” in Immanuel Ness, ed., The Encyclopedia of American Social Movements, Vol. 3 (M.E. Sharpe Publisher, 2004), 1029-1033.
• “Cities and Suburbs” in David Farber and Beth Bailey, eds., The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s (Columbia University Press, 2001), 263-272.

Awards

• Student Engagement Excellence Award, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, 2023
• Award for Excellence in Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, 2023
• Kevin Stein and Robert Fuller Notable Publication Award, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, 2019
• Theodore C. Burgess Award for Excellence in Interdepartmental Collaboration (WGS), 2017
• Women’s History Month Award, Peoria Chapter, National Organization for Women, 2014

Service

• Robert G. Athearn Book Award Committee, Western History Association
• WGS Gender Justice Scholars Lecture Series, Organizer
• Activism Plays in Peoria Women’s & Gender Studies Lecture Series, Organizer
• Brave Space: Bradley’s LGBTQ Inclusion Training & Advocacy Team, Faculty Advisor
• Common Ground, Faculty Advisor
• Women’s and Gender Studies Committee, Chair
• AAUW Start Smart/Work Smart Salary Negotiation Training Facilitator
• Master of Ceremonies, Peoria Women’s March, January, 2017
• Criminal Justice Studies Committee
• Bradley University Gender Scholars Write-on-Site Organizer, 2017-2018
• University Strategic Planning Committee, 2017-2018
• Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council, 2015-2020
• Academic Review Board, May 2015-2017
• Intercollegiate Athletics Committee, 2015-2017
• Intellectual and Cultural Activities Committee, 2007-2017
• LAS Notable Publication Committee, 2014-2015
• Co-Director, The Body Project, Bradley University, 2011-2012