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Cheryl Cassidy
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PhD, University of Michigan, 1988
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603Q Pray-Harrold Ypsilanti, MI 48197
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734.487.0150
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ccassidy_2000@yahoo.com
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Cheryl Cassidy joined Eastern Michigan University in 1990. Her specialties include teaching writing with first-year Honors students and upper-level students. She also teaches graduate courses in Women’s Rhetoric. Professor Cassidy serves as the Faculty Advisor to the Stoic Society, EMU’s oldest student organization.
Professor Cassidy’s research focuses on nineteenth-century British and American prose, especially examining the formation of collective identities based upon commonly held social and religious views. Her recent research examines nineteenth-century female missionary photographs and she is currently researching American missionaries in Hawaii.
Beyond her teaching and research, Professor Cassidy is involved in a number of professional associations.
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| Writing, Style and Technology |
| Freshman Composition
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| Womens Rhetoric |
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Recent Publications: |
"Bringing the 'New Woman' to the Mission Site: Louise Manning Hodgkins and the Heathen Woman's Friend." American Periodicals, 16 (2006): 172-99.
Women and Empire 1750-1930: Primary Sources on Gender and Anglo-Imperialism, India, 1830-1930. vols 1-5. London: Routledge, 2009.
Children and Empire. (History of Feminism) vols 1-4. London: Routledge. forthcoming 2011.
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