Biography - Ginette Aley

Ginette Aley

Degrees: BS Magna Cum Laude, MA, Ph.D. in History, "Westward Expansion, John Tipton, and the Emergence of the American Midwest, 1800-1839."

Career: Professor Aley is currently a Carey Fellow in History at Kansas State University as well as an adjunct at Washburn University. Prior to this she held a tenure-track position at the University of Southern Indiana and also gained college teaching experience at Virginia Tech and Drake University.

Publications and Professional Work: Professor Aley has numerous publications related to 19th-cen. westward expansion, rural life, women's history, land and Indian policy, and the Civil War including: "A Republic of Farm People: Women, Families, and Market-Minded Agrarianism in Ohio, 1820s-1830s" in Ohio History; "Bringing About the Dawn: Agriculture, Internal Improvement, Indian Policy, and Euro-American Hegemony in the Old Northwest, 1800-1846" in The Boundaries Between Us: Natives and Newcomers along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest; "Sheriff Tipton and Susan, a Woman of Color: Gender and Racial Borderlands in the Ohio Valley during the Early Republic" in North American Borderlands;"'The Disagreeablest Night I Ever Saw': John Tipton, Tippecanoe, and the Dissolution of the Middle Ground" in The Battle of Lake Erie: A Bicentennial Reassessment; "'We are all Good Scavengers Now': The Crisis in Virginia Agriculture during the Civil War," in Virginia at War: 1864; "'In the Midst of Uncertainties and Alarms': Crises Facing Women and Families on Virginia's Home Front," in Virginia at War: 1865. In addition, she has published more than 30 book reviews, more than a dozen encyclopedia articles, worked on a Civil War Virginia documentary, served in several editorial capacities, and has advised on museum exhibits, book and article manuscripts, undergraduate textbooks, and Masters theses awards.